Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I wanted to do a vocal coach reacts to
the band Fleetwood Mac and I chose the song Rhiannon, one of the larger hits but
the band gosh I think they have the eighth greatest selling album of all
time, 45 million copies look up RIAA and then put their name in and you'll see
what I'm talking about, crazy stuff, phenomenally talented people but they
also were riddled with a lot of you know crazy stuff. I mean early on they you
know were quoted as saying that it was was mountains of cocaine, all the money they
could handle. They were throwing pianos out of windows of hotel rooms and just
like relationships inside the band. You know John McVie who was one of the
founding members with Mic Fleetwood was divorcing Christine McVie like you know
Stevie Nicks was having a relationship with Lindsey Buckingham, later again with
you know I mean this stuff goes on and on..Mick Fleetwood, she was having
relationship with him so but the members that we know from the band the album
Rumours was Stevie Nicks, you know Mick Fleetwood, there was Lindsey Buckingham
and Bob Welch is like a kind of a wild card, I know
they went through a lot of member changes but he had some really good
records too that he.. when he, before he left the band.. when the band became
really popular "Sentimental Lady" look that up (sings)
really beautiful song "Ebony Eyes" was another one and you know so look him up
and then and of course Peter Green you know (sings) I did a cover of that I
think I posted it if not I'll try to get that done but he also Peter Green was
awesome and you know John McVie like I said was a founding member so before I
go into too much detail I want to go ahead and do the song and will comment
along the way. Remember this is live, this is Fleetwood Mac and it is awesome. It
changed musical history, here we go.
This is the midnight special, here we go.
Yep.
Now her voice has literally shaped music history. I'm not kidding, I mean there's
so many girls we've.. fact I'll post in the description with my student and
friend Sara Loera. We did quite a few Stevie Nicks songs or Stevie Nicks and
Fleetwood Mac songs so I'll post those in the description so you can check out
how we did, how we fared out on the songs. It's funny the song's about a Welsh witch
but there's also other bands that have done this too Creepy you know write a
song about a witch but um there's I guess "Deep Purple Burned" is also I think
about a Welsh witch so I don't know if they were occluded but at the same time
they're kind of talking about the same stuff but anyway let's continue.
Right there if you look at her face, straight up, get a close-up of it, when
they talk about their drug stories and everything that they did
like I said mountains of cocaine and all the dope they wanted and you know all
the money they needed whatever, you can see drug on her face. Now do drugs make
you great for performing absolutely not so I almost wonder what would have
happened if they hadn't gone through that whole thing and just been, and they
did go on record on Rolling Stone to say hey you know through all the bad
relationships and everything that went in the band we decided to keep it
professional and everything was about being professional and not lose the
momentum. Most bands don't do that- I'm going solo, no I'm going solo, I have to
I'm going solo so they did keep it together and one of the biggest-selling
bands of- in history so we'll continue.
She looks wasted
Signature vocals though.
It's on pitch. Good stuff.
Great musicianship man.
I remember as a kid growing up, hearing this band, thinking to myself I wanted Led
Zeppelin, Aerosmith you know all the you know bands that we came to know, I came
to know and love growing up early on like in when they released their records. It
wasn't like later I got into them and this was one of those bands that at
first I was kind of like, kind of like the Eagles I hate to admit that it was
like I don't quite get it they're kind of too mellow for me or whatever
but it withstood the test of time and later I realized the genius of what they
did and their musicianship. I was fortunate enough to record in the very
recording studio where they did this album, in fact several of the records but
The Village Recorder in Santa Monica. Mike Slarve
was the..one of my managers. He manages Bill Ward from Black Sabbath and
a bunch of other guys. He has had, just sold it but one of the largest rock
touring busing companies in the world. Four Seasons leasing he just sold it
anyway um he was my manager and he worked here at the Village so I got to
interact with a lot of these guys that would go in and out of this place and
record in the very room that they recorded their song it was pretty
magical to say the least.
Now Christine McVie who's on the left in the background here. John McVie which -
her husband they were going through divorce etc I said that already. He
was the original bass player for the band um
what a great songwriter man, she was always the behind-the-scenes gal who
just did a phenomenal work and just you know bringing everybody together she
didn't need to be front and center though there were times she was
there's several songs with her on it. You know just always a great support so
that's awesome as far as band members because most band members I've got to be
in the lead, I've got to do this whatever that's what breaks up bands here we go.
Good stuff man. Not quite as good as far as the band
members I just did a local reaction to the Eagles and the Eagles were like a
little but what was so cool about this era was everyone was pushing the next
band, pushing each other to get better and better write better songs be unique,
standout and all this stuff and they are no exception like I said 45 million
records the 8th greatest selling album of all time, rock rock album of all time.
I should say rock not greatest because I think Michael Jackson and other bands
surpass them but
Oh the other thing about Lindsey Buckingham always tripped me out,
he plays with his fingers and I played with a pick and he was an inspiration
early on for me to try to understand that so when I got into flamenco by the
way guitar was my first instrument when I got into flamenco, I understood like
how cool that was and then I saw Eddie doing a lot of that and I thought wow
you know little guitars for example the Van Halen album and stuff and and I just
I put that into several of my records where I just I realized that it's not
just about playing with a pick but also all your, everything you have in your
disposal and Lindsey Buckingham was certainly doing that as well.
Okay I'm gonna go up, there's a big, long, instrumental break coming up so I just
gonna go like a minute in farther so - towards the end.
McVie throwing down good stuff.
Nice instrumental break
Stevie Nicks kind of spacing out
How could she sing that great and be that stoned I don't know man
be sober man let's get this together sober. We don't have to be that wasted to
do this stuff but let's continue.
Killer, everything's great except that part I
think has cost her a lot.
Good pitch man. Good tone.
Again right there at 4:55 whatever the whatever the time is on this, you know
it's like, she's like (sings) like awesome performer could
you imagine if she was sober doing this stuff now she has a, what's called a gelta
a goats wiggle vibrato you know caprino. and so (sounds) I use her as an example
of like people that have a really fast vibrato. Now in her case it's kind of
natural and kind of not, a lot of people gravitate towards that. In my singing
course, I have a singing course called How to Sing Better than Anyone Else, I I
try to get people out of that so they can have more of a natural vibrato but
it's her signature too so I'm not gonna diss that whatsoever I'm just Ken
Tamplin it's Stevie Nicks. She sold 45-minute million units I haven't but I
am pointing this out along the way so you guys could understand how this all
works okay here we go.
First one is a little flat second one is spot on.
Though it's flat, there's a lot of emotion, good passion.
No offense but we're not all the same and not Rhiannon and I'm not a Welsh
witch, maybe she is but I'm not anyway so killer performance. I can go to through
the end of this, I'll go a little bit farther and I'll make some closing
comments.
Cool um so did you notice that when she kicked up the energy, that the band also
had better energy so you know if you have guys that are slugs or girls that
are slugs and they're (sounds) you know there's like by the way remember I said mountains of
cocaine so she had that kind of look about her like I'm gonna you know
whatever thankfully she didn't have a heart attack but um but the point is is
that as band members push other band members and/or
bands push other bands to be better you know they've got to compete compete
compete compete and they're competing with themselves in a good way to push
themselves to be better along the way so again just a phenomenal band,
phenomenal performance. The you know wish there weren't weren't quite all the same
drugs involved but in the 70s 80s early eighties and getting in the 90s
people dying from that. I wondered like how much better they could have gotten
had they stayed sober and straight and you know kept more of a professional
profile but anyway thank you for joining me Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy again where
the proof is in the singing and until next time peace out.
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