#fleetwood mac

[orpheuslament]

i SAID that if you dont love me NOW you will never love me AGAIN

[m-b-w]

#1 thing for someone being haunted to say

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Stevie Nicks (1977)

[transjudas]

I love psychological warfare live on stage! (1982 + 1997)

[heavensghost]

I know I could have loved you but you would not let me

[70sgroovy]

stevie nicks onstage in 1978

[sophsun1]

Fleetwood Mac | Silver Springs Live (1997)

During a taping of a Fleetwood Mac reunion show later released as The Dance, shit once again got very real. Midway through the bridge of a non-album rarity called “Silver Springs,” Nicks turned and faced her former flame as she sang the song’s rueful bridge: “Time cast a spell on you, but you won’t forget me/ I know I could have loved you but you would not let me.” The pair locked eyes, and Nicks gradually built to a cathartic howl – “I’ll follow you down ’til the sound of my voice will haunt you/ You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you” indicating that, for her at least, resolution had never really come.

Suddenly, “Silver Springs,” a song written for Rumours but left off the finished album and relegated to B-side status, seemed like the key to the entire messy and enthralling saga of Fleetwood Mac’s most beloved lineup. 

Rumours became a theatrical affair, with the exes addressing one another’s faults, their own pain and a storm of other topics related to their respective heartbreaks. “Silver Springs” was Nicks’ tribute to the fairy-tale ending that never was. The title came from Silver Spring, Maryland: While passing through the town on tour, Nicks romanticised the name. “It sounded like a pretty fabulous place to me, it’s a whole symbolic thing of what [Lindsey] could have been to me.”

The track’s primary exposure was as a B side to “Go Your Own Way” Buckingham’s own expression of anger and revenge against Nicks, where he claimed that “packin’ up, shackin’ up is all you wanna do.”

"He knew it wasn’t true. It was just an angry thing that he said,” Nicks told of the “packin’ up, shackin’ up” line. “Every time those words would come onstage, I wanted to go over and kill him. He knew it. He really pushed my buttons through that. It was like, ‘I’ll make you suffer for leaving me.’ And I did.”

Of course, Nicks had the exact same motivation when she wrote “Silver Springs.” She explained the song’s message as “I’m so angry with you. You will listen to me on the radio for the rest of your life, and it will bug you. I hope it bugs you.”