European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The new a Wood Mac. Tjw band is taking Europe for the Llott time in 10 a an. Netwood Mac life after Lindsey by Wendy Bourland staff writer Fleetwood Mac has come most of the Way Back. The British american musicians recorded a successful album last year after live years away ram the studio and they re doing their first european Lour in 10 years. But they re missing a longtime member who left alter the album was released seeking escape irom super stardom to pursue Success on his own. Fleetwood Mac surfaced irom near Obs Only to record tango in he Meta an album Hal eventually went Platinum Selling in excess of two million copies. Then Lindsay Buckingham left the group saying 12 years was Long enough. Two new Singer guitarists joined. The latest version of Flo Elwood Mac a group Hal has spanned More than two decades and has undergone numerous personnel changes is on tour Wilh a show thai Singer Christine Mcvie describes As Tho band s biggest most elaborate Ever. What kept Fleetwood Mac away so Long Well we originally did a world Lour with the Tusk album and then Mirage Only incorporated the slates and Canada Mcvica a in a Telephone interview with the stars and Sli Pes irom Edinburgh Scotland. And you know thai was largely due to Lindsey nol being Loo crazy about the touring  she said Iho members of Fleetwood Mac were anxious about How the group would be received after being out of touch with its fans for so Long. We certainly knew we had a great record on our hands but we did t know if anyone would remember us live years later. Our fears were pretty much dispelled Straightaway. Not Only our old fans have remembered us. We be got a whole Bunch of new fans too apparently in England the album just went to no 1 for the second ume Here it s like a lot of 1 15-year-Olds, we be had kids As Young As 12 asking Lor  Fleetwood Mac gathered a Large number of its fans Wilh the 1977 Humours album the group s second Wilh Buckingham on Board. He and sir Tgcy Stevie Nicka joined Fleetwood Mac together in 1975 rumours was As notable for its poignant songs As Lor the fact that the marriage of Mcvie to to Lounder bassist John Mcvie. And the Buckingham Nicks relationship dissolved during us recording. Buckingham s in Cuenco on the band s sound is unmistakable. Bui Mcvie said the group will weather the change in lineup As it has Tho others. Everywhere a go we be been welcomed Wilh Success she said. The kids just really enjoyed it. And were very very forgiving and understanding about the fact that Lindsey was no longer there no unpleasantness no heckling or signs saying. Where s Lindsay Buckingham very reassuring Tor  since there Are now so Many songs to choose from playing around Buckingham in t too Dill cull for the rest of the group. We seem to have such a vast repertoire of songs it has t really  Mcvie said. All of the songs that we have singing three a is like the Chain it just does l seem to be a problem we do go your own Way. Thai s the Only song of Lindsay s that we do. We do on Well and Rattlesnake Shako and a couple of old blues songs. We actually cover the Gamut of the Fleetwood Mac history in our set so it was t essential to do too Many Lindsey  the five years Between albums were Busy ones for individual group members. Mcvie. Buckingham and Nicks All recorded Solo albums that met with varying degrees of commercial Success drummer Mick Fleetwood Farmed 3 group. Mick Fleetwood s zoo. That enjoyed critical Success. As Solo projects took of re Elwood Mac projects Ocie pushed further into the background. That was mainly the reason Why it look so Long to make an album Between w age and Tho tango  Mcvica said. Because you know. Stevie actually started making Solo records before anyone else and then Lindsey started and it seemed each project overlapped the next one. So it was tour years before we got Back in the  monday. May 23, 1988 with Buckingham s departure the band added Singer guitars is Billy Burnetto and Rick Vito Rumelle has been a personal Friend of Iho group Lor the last five or six years and has written songs with them but Vito was unknown to group members. His last stint was. With Detroit Rocker Bob Seger s band however. Mcvie said the Cho misery worked immediately. Avory very Fine Guilar player she said. I met him the Tirats Day of rehearsals. He fit right  Mcvick said the task of singing the songs Buckingham once Sang has fallen id Burnole. But his voice bears no similarities to his predecessor s. He s unique. He has a Roal real Lough voice she said. He s nol quite the same As Lindsay no. And that s Good because he s not a Lindsey clone or anything. The same with flick Vito he s nol a guitar clone either. He has his own style. Obviously he does l play totally different making Tho songs sound unrecognizable he plays around in his own  Mcvie in confident Hal she and other group members can fill in the Gap left by the departure of Iho Multi talented Buckingham who not Only Sang and played guitar but wrote songs and produced the albums. It s nol Tike we All sat around and did nothing while he was there. We All had our own contributions to make. As. We always  she said. Lindsay has been the main architect i la agree but Over the last years i be Learned quite a bit of what he did. So some of his Talent rubbed Oft on me and  Fleetwood Mac will go Inlo the studio in August. Mcvie said the band will release a greatest hits album with two or three new songs added then just carry on in the studio with a proper studio album scheduled for completion in Augustol 1989. Meanwhile she s Happy to be touring again and says the current Road show is different from previous ones. It s More of a show than we be Ever had. We be augmented the band we be a couple of background singers an amazing percussion player who actually was on the Paul Simon tour. Also we be augmented my keyboard. We re a bit More Able to reconstruct the sound of the records we re a lot More versatile now. A lol More falter and Fuller and on account of having two guitars it s got a harder Edge As  Mcvie said the show 5 two hours and five minutes Long and includes Tho songs ten i it Midnight. Everywhere. Seven wonders and Little lies from the tango album As Well As several songs irom rumours. Tusk and Mirage. The band also performs world turning from the Fleetwood Mac album Iho song Mcvie Calls Mick s big Clra Ragania Wilh a talking drum. Ten minutes or something like Hal. It s pretty  yet Mevio insists Fleetwood Mac in t going Iho Way of Many other longtime Rock groups who iry to catch up with the limes and end up drowning themselves in synthesizers. I think we tried to use a certain amount of technological wizardry Hal is available today without ii sounding too electronic. I think tango is a fairly contemporary sounding record bul i think the Mac have kept the human e Ament a priority. I Don i think we d like to use too much drum synthesizer things like that. We like to use real Drums real sounds the group is cutting Back on the number of concerns this time around to preserve Nicks fragile voice. Fleetwood Mac had to cancel ils australian tour when the Singer contracted bronchitis then a pneumonia condition. Mcvie is nol haunted by vocal problems. I think my voice is better than Ever. I seem to a one of the Lucky ones considering Hal i smoke. I think i Vegol a bit More control of my voice than i used to have and 1 can actually sing higher notes than i used to be Able to which is a bit of a mystery to  eleven years have gone by since the turbulent times that accompanied the making of the rumours album and Mcvie said the members of Fleetwood Mac Are at peace with each other. All those old wounds Are Long buried we basically have come around obviously to a More mature Way of thinking. We be Woal hered the storm and we be Dene a Complete turnaround. We re All very Good friends. In lad it actually strengthened Tho Bond in  nor in me Nita run 41 pc pm . Germany end Al 3. It Bui Yff thib Jan pc a vol Wun Jura it by euro a flown i a jul ii Oglw tub torn mum Junt ii. Nether lands. Roh