Musical Journeys...

Yesterday was a crazy Friday with lots of interruptions. I'll attribute this mostly due to the full moon. Expected afternoon rains had the streets flooded and everyone in the office cleared out before 5pm. A handful of guys in the warehouse were loading trucks for a Saturday delivery and they were gone by 8 pm. I stayed late finishing a bid promised out by the end of the day.

I usually don't play music while working, but all the calculations were done, the only thing needed was to write up the cost proposal and add those numbers from a spreadsheet.

Earlier in the week, a friend and I were talking about the original 1967 lineup of the British band Fleetwood Mac. I only knew the bassist John McVie as he played with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers featuring Eric Clapton. Side note - that album was iconic as every guitarist in my circle of musicians copied Clapton's licks!

We were able to call up a few old videos where singer Stevie Nicks was a backup singer to other artists work. Fleetwood Mac like so many other bands had members join for a short stay and leave, often to follow solo careers. In 1974, singer/guitarist Lindsey Buckingham was hired on the condition his girlfriend Stevie Nicks would be hired too!
That decision was the formula for musical success and through all the ego fights, affairs, divorces, solo projects and reunions, 30 years of 'what I call' Fleetwood Mac existed.

In April on 2018 Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood had a disagreement about contract for a tour and Buckingham was dismissed. Mike Campbell (who performed with Tom Petty) and Neil Finn (from Crowded House) were hired on and Fleetwood Mac was on the road again.

One of the awesome things about hiring successful musicians is they get to play their hit songs in the current bands lineup, adding another facet to the music.

I caught a live performance (video) of Fleetwood Mac with Neil Finn that's worth a listen!

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