Less than six months ago, the situation looked quite serious for a couple of young musicians called Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. Although the duo had released an album, the namesake of Buckingham Nicks, who were still paying off the fees of study - doing housework with Nicks and Buckingham contributing session work in Los Angeles' Sound City Studios.
It was at Sound City that everything changed. Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood was reviewing studies for the next project of his band and guitarist Buckingham was chosen to demonstrate the sonorous sound Capabilities City. When the current Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Welch left abruptly in late 1974, he remembered Buckingham Fleetwood and asked him to join.
"He was standing there, grooving to this scorching guitar solo and needed a guitarist," Buckingham later told Uncut. "That was for what your thinking was. I had to explain that came as a duo. I stupid, huh?"
With a little scary (especially since Fleetwood was worried that Christine McVie not touched another woman in the band), Fleetwood extended the offer to the two musicians, who quickly went from duties with bassist John McVie and keyboardist Christine. They made it official last day of 1974.
The new, five members of Fleetwood Mac went to work quickly in 1975, recording the classic album of Fleetwood Mac in about 10 days at Sound City. Songwriting duties were split between Buckingham and Nicks (who was based on the remains of his former group, as well as songs for a possible second LP) and Christine McVie. Among the songs that became classics, "Over My Head", "Monday Morning" and "Rhiannon" - that most often prove to be the show-stopper during the 1975 concerts of the band.
The other four members begin playing before Nicks appear on stage in a black hat or flowing capes drink and announce "This is a song about a witch of Wales." That might be the way the tenth (and most successful) incarnation of Fleetwood Mac introduced themselves when they played their first show as a unit in El Paso on May 15th. 1975
No matter how you started the show, I had to be a somewhat strange experience for those who attended. Not only was the new album a couple of months away from release, this new version of Fleetwood Mac marked a radical change of the Macs of the past (Peter Green on). Nicks remember working very hard to make an impression. "We played everywhere and sold that record," he said. "We started the album in the ass."
Fleetwood Mac tour incessantly from May 1975 until the autumn of next year, when, 15 months after it was launched for the first time, Fleetwood Mac hit No. 1.
"He was standing there, grooving to this scorching guitar solo and needed a guitarist," Buckingham later told Uncut. "That was for what your thinking was. I had to explain that came as a duo. I stupid, huh?"
With a little scary (especially since Fleetwood was worried that Christine McVie not touched another woman in the band), Fleetwood extended the offer to the two musicians, who quickly went from duties with bassist John McVie and keyboardist Christine. They made it official last day of 1974.
The new, five members of Fleetwood Mac went to work quickly in 1975, recording the classic album of Fleetwood Mac in about 10 days at Sound City. Songwriting duties were split between Buckingham and Nicks (who was based on the remains of his former group, as well as songs for a possible second LP) and Christine McVie. Among the songs that became classics, "Over My Head", "Monday Morning" and "Rhiannon" - that most often prove to be the show-stopper during the 1975 concerts of the band.
The other four members begin playing before Nicks appear on stage in a black hat or flowing capes drink and announce "This is a song about a witch of Wales." That might be the way the tenth (and most successful) incarnation of Fleetwood Mac introduced themselves when they played their first show as a unit in El Paso on May 15th. 1975
No matter how you started the show, I had to be a somewhat strange experience for those who attended. Not only was the new album a couple of months away from release, this new version of Fleetwood Mac marked a radical change of the Macs of the past (Peter Green on). Nicks remember working very hard to make an impression. "We played everywhere and sold that record," he said. "We started the album in the ass."
Fleetwood Mac tour incessantly from May 1975 until the autumn of next year, when, 15 months after it was launched for the first time, Fleetwood Mac hit No. 1.
