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Hello! I'm Really Curious To Know Something More About "Fireflies"! It Was Recorded Especially For The

Hello! I'm really curious to know something more about "Fireflies"! It was recorded especially for the Live album, right? And these lines "and you believe in the five/to survive the distance" I think they were written about the band... That's all I know! Anyways, thank you so much for this wonderful blog! :D

Fireflies was a leftover from the Tusk sessions, the version from the Live album was recorded at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for crew and friends. In my opinion the song is about the band and how they stick together through all the drama. It’s a great song and they should bring it back for the next tour with Christine!

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7 months ago

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Hi, do you have any outtakes from her album/single cover shoots? Particularly Rock A Little and The Other Side Of The Mirror, I really like those sessions. 

Thanks!!

Hi, I’m so sorry I didn’t reply sooner I was gone for almost a week and for some reason I didn’t receive any notifications? Stupid tumblr. Anyway, yes there are several outtakes from those shoots. The Rock A Little outtakes are a confusing story tho, because there are multiple, different Herbert Worthington photoshoots with the black rocking char and cradle and yet the actual album cover was photographed by Tony McGee in London, but most people consider all those pics RAL-outtakes:

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9

Pics from the OSOTM album photoshoot:

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9

For some reason there are only a few Wild Heart album cover outtakes:

1 - 2 - 3

Bella Donna album cover outtakes:

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

You can search my blog by year and by album title for photoshoots from any era.

7 months ago
Rewind: Buckingham Nicks - Buckingham Nicks (1973)

Rewind: Buckingham Nicks - Buckingham Nicks (1973)

A long, long time ago, back when Fleetwood Mac was still a (mostly) all-British, blues-based band struggling to find an audience, there was an all-American duo named Buckingham Nicks also struggling to find an audience.

There was no chiffon and there was no Welsh witch called “Rhiannon.” There was no half-twisted, proto-punk rock and a “Blue Letter” had yet to be written.

(Lindsey) Buckingham (and Stevie) Nicks were life and musical partners in 1973 when they released their eponymous debut record that almost no one heard. One guy who did hear - and love - Buckingham Nicks was a fellow by the name of Mick Fleetwood who was looking to plug a hole in his band created by the departure of Bob Welch.

But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

Buckingham Nicks is a country-rock record featuring 10 songs - nine originals and the John Lewis instrumental “Django” - that finds the future mad producer and his soon-to-be ex-partner and spinning gypsy-in-waiting groping their way toward a career they probably never imagined.

It’s dedicated to A.J. Nicks - “the grandfather of country music” - and includes an impressive number of bold-face names in the credits. These include producer Keith Olsen, who went on to work with Mac and the Grateful Dead among others; drummers Jim Keltner and Ronnie Tutt (Elvis Presley, Jerry Garcia Band); bassist Jerry Scheff (Presley and father of Chicago bassist Jason); and mononym guitarist “Waddy” (Wachtel), who co-wrote “Werewolves of London” with Warren Zevon and still works with Nicks today. And of course, the multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Lindsey Buckingham and the singer Stevie Nicks.

Forty-seven years after its initial release, Buckingham Nicks still hasn’t been issued on CD or been made available for streaming. This is inexplicable, not least because Buckingham and Nicks are among the most successful and popular songwriters of the 1970s and the album has a built-in audience.

But beyond that, the album stands the test of time and would be worth seeking out even if the namesake artists hadn’t gone on to join one of rock’s all-time most successful bands, which made two BN songs, “Crystal,” and “Don’t Let Me Down Again” their own by re-recording and re-releasing them on Fleetwood Mac (1975) and Live (1980), respectively. Buckingham performed his lovely instrumental “Stephanie” on his solo-acoustic tour in 2012, and “Without You,” an oft-bootlegged outtake from the sessions, was finally released on FM’s digital-only Extended Play in 2013.

But most of the songs are known only to super-Fleetwood Mac freaks and those of us who still have turntables, which is a musical sin.

To this day, “Long Distance Winner” is among Sound Bites’ favorite Nicks compositions, and tracks such as “Without a Leg to Stand On,” “Races are Run” and “Frozen Love” reveal a vocal blend that she and Buckingham never fully recaptured in Fleetwood Mac.

Had Fleetwood not come calling, Buckingham Nicks would be even more of a curiosity than it is and would have left listeners to wonder what happened to the duo with the boy named for a girl and the girl named for a boy who happened to be lovers.

As it goes, Buckingham Nicks is a curiosity that leaves listeners to wonder what might have become of their musical and personal partnership if the whole mega-stardom thing hadn’t worked out. And more than that - it’s 36 minutes of finely composed and constructed, acoustic-based music.

Grade card: Buckingham Nicks - Buckingham Nicks - B+

10/11/20

7 months ago

In the famous Wild Heart video, do you know why she's singing along to an instrumental extremely similar to what ended up on Can't Go Back? Was it originally one of her demos and then she gave it to the band and Lindsey ended up using it? If so why doesn't she have credit for it?

No I believe it was always Lindsey’s demo. They had started work on Mirage, this was after the recording sessions in France. I guess they exchanged tapes with some demos. But Stevie was also already working on some songs for The Wild Heart album, I assume she had the lyrics for Wild Heart and was just messing around a bit with the melody and used Lindsey’s demo. During the photoshoot from that same video she sings along to demos for That’s Alright, Only Over You, but also Enchanted., you can watch the videos here.

7 months ago

"I have often said to myself, 'This may be the most important thing I ever do.' To stand up for the women of the United States and their daughters and granddaughters — and the men that love them. This is an anthem."

7 months ago

the best thing about her long jam sessions from the early 80s is that one for 24 karat gold where lindsey's randomly there and she tells him to shut up for the picture and there's all these people shouting

Oh I don’t remember that one (and I don’t feel like listen to all of them) but I do love the recordings with studio banter: Stevie talking to the producer, Stevie talking to Sharon, Stevie talking to herself, Stevie talking to imaginary Lindsey.