Keeping myself honest

Last night I saw Fleetwood Mac in concert in my continuing series of concerts by bands that were popular before my parents were married. I’m going to try to keep this short as I’m not good at the short concise blog post and should try to get better at it because it would probably lead to me blogging more often.

First, no matter what anyone tells you Scotiabank place is a pain in the ass to get too and any traffic problems that would have been caused by it being inside the city would be moot, as I could have walked downtown in the amount of time that I was sitting in my car not moving and getting parked (and this doesn’t include the commute out there).  Great now I just started ranting and took up three (now 4) perfectly good lines that could have been used to actually say something, oops.

The show itself was great, for fans of the band it was everything you could have asked for with no opening band to get you right in the action followed by two and a half hours of music (including two encores). The inclusion of Stevie Nicks’ solo song Stand Back right after Go Your Own Way was a pleasant surprise and even though the band has aged to varying degrees (I still don’t know how Stevie Nicks looks that good at 60) they were still able to rock out as hard as any band I’ve ever seen with Lindsey Buckingham doing a guitar solo that must have lasted over three minutes and Mic Fleetwood is still able to set a furious pace with the drums.

It was interesting to see how Nicks and Buckingham each dealt different with the lose of their higher vocal range. While Nicks tended to change her line or move to harmony Buckingham would always go for whatever note he was feeling at the time. Both these attitudes could also be seen with their on stage performance with Nicks being very deliberate with her actions and costume changes and Buckinham running all over just having a good time rocking out.

I found myself taking one of their final songs to heart more than I normally would as I realized how much it applies to my current situation. I sit here in an interesting point in my life where I’m as stable (or possibly more so) than ever before and still everything is moving at break neck speeds around me even when I might want to find somewhere to settle in. I have a wedding of two close friends to go to in a few days as well another in the summer, friends of mine are still getting engaged left, right and center, people all over work are having kids and my small list of university friends still living in this city is dwindling day by day.

As the song says “Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow, It’ll soon be here better than before. Yesterday’s gone, don’t you look back”

—- Dammit still at 500 words and 30 minutes longer than I wanted, guess I have to work on this

Scotty B Personal