Black Magic Woman in The Song Remembers When

This week left me feeling down and completely listless. I went out to do some writing, I booked my flight to Seattle, and then I was talking to a friend who reminded me that the Fleetwood Mac concert was in less than 4 hours and I wasn’t anywhere near prepared for it… especially after all of that vodka I had consumed by noon.

It was Black Friday, I was totally allowed to drink before noon!!!

I have to be honest, I was kind of feeling harassed by having to go to the concert, and I even contemplated not going, but that’s ridiculous, I couldn’t do that. This was my 20th time seeing Stevie Nicks live, six of those were Fleetwood Mac shows. As much as I love Stevie, I was actually more excited to see Christine McVie live. The last tour, she didn’t sound too good, but she’d been out of the game for 16 years, so I was really hoping she’d have gotten used to it… thankfully, she was incredible and sounded great.

It was funny, because when I first started going to Fleetwood Mac shows, she had already retired and I just assumed I’d never get to see her or hear Little Lies or You Make Loving Fun live because they rarely did her songs without her (on one tour, Stevie did the vocals on Say You Love Me, which was cool).

In fact, Stevie did some surprising stuff on this concert. She paid tribute to Tom Petty (I was weeping and crying like cray), she took the lead when Fleetwood Mac decided to dust off Black Magic Woman for the band’s 50th anniversary, and she just generally stepped up as the leader which she only really does when Lindsey isn’t there.

It was great, and I forgot all about my troubles and just danced around like an idiot to music that has been comforting me longer than I can remember.

(By the way, forgive the videos for being poor quality, but some of the highlights are really cool… oh I didn’t post World Turning, but there’s a 12-minute drum solo if you want to take a look at that!)