The Thinking Mans Guitar Hero

I ventured into the provinces to see the classic Fleetwood Mac line up minus Christine Mc Vie last weekend.

Pissed down with rain. Despite the $250 seats, I was stuck with 50 year old pissed farmers yelling for Eagles songs and the line for booze was so long, for the first time in living memory all my neurons were focused on the music.

Well I like "the Mac". Not cool but in 1987, when I was 14 I heard Lindsey Buckingham on Tango in the Night play "Big Love". I credit this and "With or Without You" as turning a naive 14 year old away from 80's pap and onto other , darker more satisfying music. Say what you like about Rumours, but the songs and the background of emotional breakups and dependency crises produce a standout seventies masterpiece.

Anyway, the concert was more than I expected. Sound awesome, crisp, clear and the flawless rhythm section of Mc Vie and Fleetwood justifies name the band bears.

Stevie. Not a big fan. Reminds of too many girls that wanted to be her. Her singing is not what it used to be, mainly because of the whistling noise that emanates from her nose due to the large septal hole as a result of years of blow.

Buckingham is awesome. Classical technique, powerful delivery and clearly the driving force behind their classics.

Virtuoso performance below. He played this in New Plymouth. People were speechless.