It felt fresh and exciting, so many great songs, a spectacular rhythm section and two of the greatest voices ever. "A few days later I was standing in a room playing music with Fleetwood Mac. "Two weeks ago I received a wonderful invitation to be a part of a truly great band," Finn said in a statement.
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"We know we have something new, yet it's got the unmistakable Mac sound."įinn said the group contacted him only very recently, and he was stunned to suddenly find himself a member. "We jammed with Mike and Neil and the chemistry really worked and let the band realize that this is the right combination to go forward with in Fleetwood Mac style," Mick Fleetwood, the drummer who co-founded the band in 1967, said in the statement. With Fleetwood Mac, the words from another band known for its dysfunction seem applicable: “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.Fleetwood Mac used most of the news release announcing the departure to tout its two new members. Given that he, Nicks and Christine McVie have left and come back before, the final chapter is far from written. What’s next? The question remains whether Buckingham is out for good - and what that even means for a band that has not put out a studio album with all five primary members (Nicks, Buckingham, McVie, John McVie and Fleetwood) since 1987’s Tango in the Night - or if this is a temporary split. Fleetwood told Rolling Stone last August that he and Nicks had discussed delving deeper into the band’s catalog beyond the hits. While it’s easy to imagine Finn singing Buckingham’s co-lead on “Don’t Stop,” it’s much harder to envision his taking over Buckingham-fronted “Go Your Own Way,” “Big Love” or “Tusk.” According to the statement, Fleetwood Mac, who is co-managed by Suretone’s Carl Stubner and CSM’s Sheryl Louis and booked by CAA, will announce tour dates soon, presumably for fall of this year. What does this mean for the setlist? When Christine McVie stopped touring with the band - from 1998 to 2014 - Fleetwood Mac largely dropped her songs from its live repertoire, with the exception of “Don’t Stop,” on which Nicks sang McVie’s part. After the news broke on Monday, Finn said in a statement that he was invited to join Fleetwood Mac two weeks ago - that would be March 26 - and that “a few days later, I was standing in a room playing music with Fleetwood Mac.” On April 4, guitarist Billy Burnette, who replaced Buckingham when he left Fleetwood Mac in 1987, tweeted, “Breaking news: Lindsey Buckingham is out, but I’m not in.” Burnette quickly deleted that tweet, but it’s possible that he already knew that Finn would be coming in, as Finn was already woodshedding with the band. When did this all go down? Regardless of the circumstances - whether Buckingham jumped or was shoved - his departure seems to be a very recent development.
Fleetwood told an Australian newspaper in 2016 that he was playing on Finn’s next album, referring to Finn as “a new music friend…I invited myself to play in Auckland so I am going down there first to work on his next album, as a friend.” Campbell played on Nicks and Tom Petty’s 1981 duet “Stop Dragging My Heart Around.” More recently, “I Don’t Care,” a song the guitarist co-wrote with Nicks, appeared on Nicks’ 2014 album, 24 Karat Gold: Songs From the Vault, a collection of newly recorded versions of demos that Nicks initially recorded between 19. Less obvious is the Finn connection, but drummer Mick Fleetwood and Finn have a history, if not one as deep as that of Campbell and Nicks. Why Mike Campbell and Neil Finn? Longtime friends Campbell and Stevie Nicks go back nearly 40 years. Fleetwood Mac Honored by Lorde, Miley Cyrus, Harry Styles & More at 2018 MusiCares Person of the…
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