So we have been in DC for a few days enjoying a mini-vacation. Hopefully we'll spend a couple of hours in NYC on our return trip home...weather cooperating of course! I will have lots of pics and video to post once we get home. Brought the laptop and cameras and Flip but forgot the cords...and my card reader! Now that I think about it, I am quite sure Kayla has my card reader and she is now living in Ohio. Grrrrrr!
I have to finish my hair and then we're headed out to board the Metro for another day in our nation's capitol.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
Unleashed!!!
I haven’t blogged in forever but last night was a night I will always remember. Mitch and I picked up the kids from school, settled them in for the evening and headed for NYC. We decided to drive the whole way in this time. Usually we park in New Rochelle and take the train in to the city. We found and ideal (cheap) parking spot on 39th and 7th and then headed for Madison Square Garden...WHERE...I...SAW...FLEETWOOD MAC!!!!
Oh my goodness! The show was fantastic. Even better than The Dance, if that can be believed! Which is hard for me to do so! They were so much more relaxed and were all about having a good time with each other and with the fans! Their new stuff is fantastic. Can’t wait to download some of it.
Ok, so about the show...let’s just say, I was completely blown away by my emotions. I couldn’t stop smiling at Bob Seger. I figured this concert would elicit the same response. Nope. The lights went down and I saw their shadows on stage and I burst into tears! Mitch was like, “WHAT IS WRONG?” All I could say was, “I am happy.” This have never happened to me before and in fact, I often make fun of the idiots that can’t control their emotions. I was not prepared for how overcome I would be by the flash of a lifetime of memories as they came flooding back. Fleetwood Mac was with me as a child, as a teenager, as an adult, every road trip I have ever taken, most poignantly is the memory of driving my much younger children back from either Old Orchard or Camden beaches and they’d be all sandy and exhausted and I play The Dance and they’d be asleep or about to be and the sun would be setting and Landslide would come on. They’ve been with me through all my good times and all my bad. All the many Saturdays or Sundays I’d spend cleaning the house with the radio blaring or laying in the sun or in the pool, counting the songs until I knew it was time to flip.
Unbelievably, they even performed Stevie’s Stand Back, which blew me away. For a long time, I sensed some resentment possibly from the band, because she had such a successful solo career, so I was so impressed that the band not only backed her up on the song, they blew it out of the water! They even sang two of the band’s more popular songs that Christine MacVie would normally sing. She isn’t on this tour and they didn’t offer up any reasons why. I personally would have probably left those two songs out, even though they were such popular Mac hits, simply out of respect for her. The Dance was about burying the hatchet, and Unleashed is about rejoicing that all this craziness happened in the first place.
It was great to see Stevie and Lindsey as old friends, (they’ve known each other since high school) and not as a tense, estranged ex-couple. They clearly have come full-circle and enlightened us on several songs what the writing process was, whether they were together and the song was happy, or breaking up and the song was a bit aggressive.
They had two encores and I was disappointed after the first because it didn’t look like they’d be playing Silver Springs. I have waited my WHOLE LIFE to hear them perform that song and I wanted nothing to mar the memory of this night. Well, they came out again and sure enough, they finished up with Silver Springs.
Mick Fleetwood had an incredible drum solo where it was just him on stage and he played with the crowd. In his thick burly voice, he’d yell, “are you with me?” He’d make noises and the crowd would yell it back and the drums were getting more intense all the time. There aren’t the right kind of words to describe his performance.
I also have to say, watching Lindsey play Big Love was a highlight of my life. Mick calls him the man with the magic fingers and you just have to watch him to understand.
What can I say about Stevie? Every song was done to perfection. She sounds exactly like she does recorded. Towards the end, you just knew her voice had to be hanging on by a thread, I know this from playing American Idol. Play Idol for a few hours and your throat feels like it is on fire and it gives you a new and different kind of respect for performers who will sing their set and come out and give one or two more. Anyway, back to the story, so just when you think man, she saved my favorite song for last and her voice isn’t going to do it justice, blah blah blah, out of no where, came these notes and this voice that sounded like it came heaven. She saved her best performance for last.
Simply the greatest night ever. The greatest show. The greatest band.
Oh my goodness! The show was fantastic. Even better than The Dance, if that can be believed! Which is hard for me to do so! They were so much more relaxed and were all about having a good time with each other and with the fans! Their new stuff is fantastic. Can’t wait to download some of it.
Ok, so about the show...let’s just say, I was completely blown away by my emotions. I couldn’t stop smiling at Bob Seger. I figured this concert would elicit the same response. Nope. The lights went down and I saw their shadows on stage and I burst into tears! Mitch was like, “WHAT IS WRONG?” All I could say was, “I am happy.” This have never happened to me before and in fact, I often make fun of the idiots that can’t control their emotions. I was not prepared for how overcome I would be by the flash of a lifetime of memories as they came flooding back. Fleetwood Mac was with me as a child, as a teenager, as an adult, every road trip I have ever taken, most poignantly is the memory of driving my much younger children back from either Old Orchard or Camden beaches and they’d be all sandy and exhausted and I play The Dance and they’d be asleep or about to be and the sun would be setting and Landslide would come on. They’ve been with me through all my good times and all my bad. All the many Saturdays or Sundays I’d spend cleaning the house with the radio blaring or laying in the sun or in the pool, counting the songs until I knew it was time to flip.
Unbelievably, they even performed Stevie’s Stand Back, which blew me away. For a long time, I sensed some resentment possibly from the band, because she had such a successful solo career, so I was so impressed that the band not only backed her up on the song, they blew it out of the water! They even sang two of the band’s more popular songs that Christine MacVie would normally sing. She isn’t on this tour and they didn’t offer up any reasons why. I personally would have probably left those two songs out, even though they were such popular Mac hits, simply out of respect for her. The Dance was about burying the hatchet, and Unleashed is about rejoicing that all this craziness happened in the first place.
It was great to see Stevie and Lindsey as old friends, (they’ve known each other since high school) and not as a tense, estranged ex-couple. They clearly have come full-circle and enlightened us on several songs what the writing process was, whether they were together and the song was happy, or breaking up and the song was a bit aggressive.
They had two encores and I was disappointed after the first because it didn’t look like they’d be playing Silver Springs. I have waited my WHOLE LIFE to hear them perform that song and I wanted nothing to mar the memory of this night. Well, they came out again and sure enough, they finished up with Silver Springs.
Mick Fleetwood had an incredible drum solo where it was just him on stage and he played with the crowd. In his thick burly voice, he’d yell, “are you with me?” He’d make noises and the crowd would yell it back and the drums were getting more intense all the time. There aren’t the right kind of words to describe his performance.
I also have to say, watching Lindsey play Big Love was a highlight of my life. Mick calls him the man with the magic fingers and you just have to watch him to understand.
What can I say about Stevie? Every song was done to perfection. She sounds exactly like she does recorded. Towards the end, you just knew her voice had to be hanging on by a thread, I know this from playing American Idol. Play Idol for a few hours and your throat feels like it is on fire and it gives you a new and different kind of respect for performers who will sing their set and come out and give one or two more. Anyway, back to the story, so just when you think man, she saved my favorite song for last and her voice isn’t going to do it justice, blah blah blah, out of no where, came these notes and this voice that sounded like it came heaven. She saved her best performance for last.
Simply the greatest night ever. The greatest show. The greatest band.
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