{"id":75,"date":"2013-10-17T04:40:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T04:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2014-09-04T17:10:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T17:10:35","slug":"oct-16-13-muse-is-making-me-post-about-fleetwood-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Oct 16 13 Muse Is Making Me Post About Fleetwood Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it not clear, once one becomes familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Green_(musician)\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Green<\/a> and the one true Fleetwood Mac, that Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham ruined a perfectly great band?\u00a0 Doubt me?\u00a0 doubt away, doubters, while listening to Fleetwood Mac play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hRu7Pt42x6Y\" target=\"_blank\">Black Magic Woman<\/a>, which is Peter Green\u2019s song.\u00a0 Though verily Santana smokes it way hotter.\u00a0 Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were something a-sprout o\u2019 the Eagles, though far less pedigreed. \u00a0Their country folk pop might have been akin to Linda Ronstadt, and it was not without artfulness. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O6ztSTls0pMhttp:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">Long Distance Winner<\/a> is probably the best example. Click on it just to see their baby faces on the cover of their debut album Buckingham Nicks . Pleasant listening.\u00a0 But Lindsey Buckingham. \u00a0He is listening to his own muse, and it\u2019s not the blues, and ultimately whether or not Mr. Buckingham is in actual fact an airhead, the move toward studio pop and away from the blues completely transformed Fleetwood Mac from music for your ear inside your brain, to, you know, the thing it became.\u00a0 I often wonder what Mick Fleetwood felt, drumming <i>Rhiannon<\/i> at a hundred dollars a clack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/fleetwood_mystf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-76\" alt=\"fleetwood_mystf\" src=\"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/fleetwood_mystf-300x150.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/fleetwood_mystf-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/fleetwood_mystf.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mystery_to_Me\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Mystery To Me<\/i><\/a> is a not to be missed record, complete with gorgeous album art, made espcially to <i>be <\/i>butterfly sleeve album art and stunning music, take a listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yy-51ZTbFishttp:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Hypnotized<\/i><\/a>.\u00a0 More attention ought to be paid, as well, to the talented Christine McVie, nee Perfect, who is an actual and factual composer musician, who was playing with a strong group that made the best of her work, until she became the less pretty other of \u00a0a pop drama.\u00a0 To her credit, Ms. McVie had no celebrity about her and played not the silly game.\u00a0 Did not and probably won\u2019t ever make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UJTrqTRSG28http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">a music video singing on a treadmill in front a fan<\/a>.\u00a0 The fall of Fleetwood Mac from music to ear candy was a canary in the coalmine foreshadowing of 80\u2019s trouble with a lot of musically intelligent popular musicians, like cough cough Stevie Wonder, and Steve Winwood, even Clapton a little bit with all the unplugged money.<\/p>\n<p>Also is the piece in the room in the gallery and why the GodShampoo <i>now<\/i> instead of next week.\u00a0 Maximal. \u00a0It shows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it not clear, once one becomes familiar with Peter Green and the one true Fleetwood Mac, that Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham ruined a perfectly great band?\u00a0 Doubt me?\u00a0 doubt away, doubters, while listening to Fleetwood Mac play Black Magic Woman, which is Peter Green\u2019s song.\u00a0 Though verily Santana smokes it way hotter.\u00a0 Lindsey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/?p=75\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oct 16 13 Muse Is Making Me Post About Fleetwood Mac<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing-blog","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}