@@SERGEANTROCKSHEADBANGERSBALL What the what?!? So what?!? As someone else said here, if you already took the trouble to write a private email, what would possess you to think you need to share it with all of us here?!? The level of narcissism boggles my mind. That’s gonna happen no matter what! None of us are gonna love every song a reaction channel does or every video a UA-camr makes. That’s a given. And I have loved every video so far today. That doesn’t mean you should.
@RobSquadReactions thanks for taking the effort to get this unblocked. It’s a great song and a very nice reaction from you. I love your reactions to FM. I hope you also get to more Lindsey and Christine lead vocals. All three of them were unique and great. I just got a DVD of their concert video THE DANCE, which has them performing live at Warner Brothers Studios in front of an audience and it’s just magic.
Stevie wrote this song about her relationship with a long-time friend who passed away. The lyric "lightning strikes maybe once maybe twice" is a reference to the notion that you might get 1 or 2 truly lifetime friends if you are fortunate.
After my experiences, I know this more than most people. Being human inevitably leads to periods of suffering and the process (often lonely) shapes you into what you are. If you have one or two people you can truly depend on then you are blessed.
That's what Stevie starting saying but she wrote it in 1978-79 and meant it for her first solo album. She couldn't make it work so brought it to Lindsey and FM for Mirage in early 1981. It's about her time with Lindsey sleeping on their mattress on the floor and when she'd window shop at The Velvet Underground for things she couldn't afford. Robin was diagnosed in early 1981 with Leukemia and passed in Oct 1982.
@@michaelparsons5299 I think we have a tendency to say that about artists who aren't so "in your face" and tend to get lost in the shuffle of all the "greats". I know I overuse the term, though. We just want our fave artists to get the love and appreciation they deserve, I guess.
@@michaelparsons5299 Lindsay didn't make Louder's Top 50 list. He comes in at number 22, on Total Guitar's list. And if you want to know how subjective things can get, Lindsay doesn't even sniff Rolling Stones Top 100 list. So, taking someone to task for saying Lindsay is underrated isn't a good look for you.
@@michaelparsons5299many famous artists such as Kenny Loggins,Neil Schon and Keith Urban have come out and said Buckingham is very underrated. So does that answer your question
Mine too. Stevie's voice is just perfection. As a guitarist, I can appreciate Lindsey's astonishing guitar playing which is fabulous but so understated. This is Fleetwood Mac at their most sublime and their very best.
Mine too, I was a 12 yr old girl at a friend's house when this came out and she asked if I had heard this amazing song. We watched the video and I'll never forget seeing Stevie dance and look ethereal and like a fairy gypsy in an enchanted forest. She was the most beautiful person I'd ever seen. I was hooked and thus began my lifelong love for Fleetwood Mac. I never get tired of listening to this.
@@btgiv6009 Hang on a second - you do realise that it's very much on record, including out of her own mouth just how much of a mess she was in her world of addiction, and that SHE was the one who physically assaulted Buckingham when he announced he was leaving the band. She is literally on record saying she would have tried to KILL him if she hadn't been physically restrained. Now imagine if those words had come out of HIS mouth about her, there would have been a public outcry. So forgive me, but I absolutely will make judgment, based on what I have seen and heard with my own eyes and ears about their relationship, and I hold her more to blame than I do him.
@@fuzzluvver69 Very little of what you said is true. He was physically abusive with her, not the other way around. The final time was in front of the entire band. Lindsey was very jealous and controlling, and Stevie was sick of it. He was so verbally abusive in the studio that Mick Fleetwood several times had to tell Lindsey to cut it out or leave the band. After the breakup, Lindsey belittled her at every turn, running down her songs and throwing shade on her solo work in the press. He told her that her music was only good when he arranged it. Lindsey also had a habit of pushing off Fleetwood Mac's plans so that he could work on solo projects; that was especially galling since his solo music mainly sucks. He dipped out on the Shake the Cage tour for that very reason but then was all butthurt when the band toured without him. That's exactly what happened when he was fired; he wanted to delay going on tour with the band so that he could pursue his latest solo venture. Stevie also felt that he was once again publicly slighting her (opinions differ on whether it was a legit beef). Stevie just told the band they could either go on tour with her or him. They chose her, because as important as Lindsey is as an arranger, he is easily replaceable on the road, and Stevie isn't. Look, I'm not a Stevie devotee or anything, and I think the lot of them are/were talented but miserable, petty people. But facts are facts.
I taught at a tech school & had a student that said he was her brother. We joked for over a year since I didn’t believe him… until she showed up at his graduation. Guess he showed me! LOL.
Like a lot of Stevie's songs, this one is written about a couple things. The first part about the velvet underground, the floor that I love, and a room with some lace and paper flowers, that's about when her and Lindsey first moved in together. Velvet Underground was a store where she bought her clothes, the floor was about how their mattress sat right on the floor because they couldn't afford furniture, and the lace and paper flowers was what she used to decorate their room. This song is also about her friend Robin who was her best friend and passed away. The line about "I still see your smile" towards the end of the song is in reference to her. As well as the line "she is dancing away from you now."
The lace and paper flowers was a description of a room in the basement of The Velvet Underground where Stevie would by the lace clothing she wore. The store was a consignment clothing store. The room had paper flowers on the walls
Per an interview I've seen by Stevie, after FM had so much success, Dreams, Rhianon, Sara all '76 - '79...and wherever in there the breakup w/Lindsey/blow/Klonipin, but w/all the success and things crashing personally in ways (Lindsey/substance...and props to Stevie for being so forthcoming abt things so personal...Klonipin is the best pill EVER), Stevie rented a small apartment, to take her back to the beginning when she and Lindsey didn't have much...recreated that to get away from all the fame and mansions and material things, and back to basics...and the apartment as you described...but a recreation of it in '79, and on the floor of it was when/where she wrote Gypsy, and demos were made for it to go on her solo effort Belle Donna. THEN her friend died, so Stevie allowed Gypsy to go on FM's 'Mirage' album...the song took on new meaning for Stevie AFTER the death of her friend, and dedicated it to her that point forward.
The opening lines, "So I'm back to the Velvet underground, back to to the floor that I love, etc..." refers to the time before she was famous, sleeping on the floor and shopping at the Velvet Underground in hippie-era San Francisco. There are times when life gets hectic that she wished she could go back to this simpler time, "back to the gypsy" that she was.
Rob said "everything stevie does is amazing"! Within Fleetwood Mac, it is a collective effort regardless of who the lead singer is. Lindsey's masterful production and guitar playing is just as important as mick's drumming, John's brilliant bass playing and the late Christine's keyboard playing, writing and singing!
I toured with Badfinger in the early-2000s and when we got to L.A., Joey called Stevy who promptly invited us all to stay at her mansion in the hills while we were in town!!!!!!
WoW! How cool is that? What a wonderful memory to carry through your life. Fan of Badfinger here. That must have been cool, too, Brandon. TY for sharing.
One of the best videos Fleetwood Mac ever made, with Stevie at her prime and most beautiful, and you kept your eyes closed the entire time. I've been waiting for your reaction, considering how much you claim to love Stevie. I love Stevie, too, and have so for decades. I don't think i could have ever kept my eyes closed during a Stevie Nicks video like that, ever.
I saw the also in 1975. August in Oakland. Day On The Green, Robin Trower headlined, with Dave Mason, Peter Frampton, Fleetwood Mac and Gary Dream Weaver Wright. Incredible show and lineup. The British Invasion, The British are Coming was how it was billed, By the Great late Bill Graham. Outdoor Concert. Summer of 75, a very Magical Year. I was 18, Just graduated high school 2 months before this show.
@@Fritzw75 for me it was October 12, in a student union hall at The University of Pittsburgh @ Johnstown PA. Opening band was The Amazing Rhythm Aces, and I was just 17 years old. ✌🏼😎🇺🇸
"Sara" by Fleetwood Mac is still one of my favorite songs with Stevie's vocals. Also, "You make loving fun" is my favorite song with Christine McVie's vocals.
@@michaelvielhaber9342 I noticed that. I think I prefer the album version; this one is a little chaotic sounding. I looove the original simple outro, though.
❤Stevie wrote this beautiful song. When I saw her perform this song on tour Iast year she explained that she never wants to forget the gypsy life style which is the root of her creativity and style. She put pillows and fabric on the floor as her bed. Even though she can now afford better furnisings.......she still keeps her gypsy spirit.
Always loved this one. Yes, Lindsey's guitar's playing sounds like there's more than one guitar playing. If you want to see the best example of him doing this, play his "Big Love" from their concert The Dance. It will blow you away!
Pure class, pure art, and pure talent. This is when superstars were exactly that. One had to stand head and shoulders above the rest. By 1982 Fleetwood Mac had established themselves as music industry royalty. I was 9 years old and I took the bus with my sister to downtown Dundee, Scotland. We bought the Mirage album. Here I am in my New Jersey home with it sitting on the turntable.
@@Faltor895 I would venture to say that Jay appreciates the music more when he closes his eyes and focuses on that instead of the video. Sometimes the visuals can detract from the audio. I think he's really focusing on the music and appreciating all of the different components of it this way.
@@Faltor895Me too it is my all time favorite video and I have been requesting and waiting for it for over 3 years and it tore me up to see him with his eyes closed😢
I met this legendary band back in the early 2000's, they performed at the FEDEX forum and stopped by the shop i was lucky enough to work at and grabbed some food and coffee, I was so star struck, and I knew I wouldn't meet Christine McVie only because this was during the "Say You Will" tour and she had left the band and took a break. I yelled out "Gypsy is my all time favorite video you guys ever done, Stevie turned around as she was walking out of the door and replied "It was a magical time!"
One of the best bands and one of the best songs ever written in my opinion. Stevie is a beautiful soul!. The vibe is incredible. The song is just about the free and fearless side of our personalities. When we are young we tend to be carefree and we take life in and not to let that go.
Yes, but for us, it's different for the first time in history. We are feeling things no other generation has felt or will ever again. It was almost mystical our time growing up and we didn't quite see that yet.
Ohhhhh…Boy…YOU JUST MADE ME SMILE 😃..this one of my absolute favorite Fleetwood Mac songs, especially the black and white scenes. I absolutely love the clothing during that era….and Yep…I have her dance moves memorized since my teen yrs! 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻❤️
I love how Stevie uses her ballet studies in her dancing. She is truly a gypsy in personality and as dancer. You can never go wrong with Fleetwood Mac. Christina McVie R.I.P.
You have to give LIndsey A LOT of credit for this song. The production and arrangement is ALL HIM. ANd the guitar solo at the end is BRILLIANT. Tom petty tried to produce this song on one of her solo albums and couldn't figure it out. When he heard it on the radio he tought "wow Lindsey knew exactly what to do with this song" He deserves lots of credit.
Agreed! I always say they were a perfect match. His technical proficiency and musicality blended with her poetry is sheer perfection. He is greatly under appreciated
@@Augirl78 Christine once said - unlike her Lindsey knew how to speak Stevie. Musically it was true. Petty also said that when he got stuck in the studio with Stevie he'd call Lindsey who'd come in and say do this, this and that - and he was right..
It can often take many years for a great band to become popular, if they do. Don’t wait for the greats to become popular. There is an endless ocean of beautiful music for you to find, you just have to be patient and trust the deep dive process 💖💕
I do believe the caliber of talent is just not there anymore. The 80s had an incredible amount of musicians that could do it all. They were songwriters, singers and many could play instruments. The lyrics were pure poetry.
She wrote this about her best friend, Robin, who died of cancer----the Gypsy in the song is Robin. Stevie has said that the chorus "lightning strikes, maybe once, maybe twice and it lights up the night"---is about how once or twice in your life you come across a friendship that powerful.
This is my absolute favorite video. Stevie looks beautiful here. "Gypsy" was written for her long time best friend Robin who died of leukemia just days after giving birth to a son. Stevie then married the baby's father, which only lasted months. Later she also put 'Matthew' Robin's son, through college...
This might be my favorite Fleetwood Mac song. Every time I hear it I love it more and more. And this is easily one of the most beautiful videos ever made. Just such a wonderful, dreamy ambiance, especially with the Maxfield Parrish homage on the cliffside. Lovely.
Amber & Jay, here are some other good Fleetwood Mac songs to react to: "Don't Stop", "You Make Loving Fun", "Hold Me", "Big Love", and "Tango in the Night".
Yes there are so many great non Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac songs. Reactors seem focus on the Stevie songs. The interesting things is, if it wasn’t for Lindsay Buckingham insisting that Stevie (who he was dating at the time) be allowed to join the group when Mick Fleetwood was recruiting him, Stevie may never have been in the band.
To my ears, almost every Fleetwood Mac song is like a beautiful dream. Very lush sounding with gorgeous backing vocals and, when included, equally lush strings in the background. They really crafted “fairy tale-esque” sonic masterpieces.
Beautiful….one of my favourite Stevie songs…I saw Fleetwood Mac in concert once and she introduced this song with a nice story about a time when she was struggling with all the band’s and her success and she felt so badly that she just wanted to go back to her gypsy days….
This video shows how Stevie was able to do those quick turn spins of hers. Ballet dancers employ this technique they call spotting. As they pirouette, they keep their body moving at a fairly constant speed but try to fix their gaze on one “spot,” varying the speed at which they rotate their head. They hold it in place and then quickly whip it around at the end of each turn, minimizing the time their head is rotating and limiting any nystagmus. Learning to spot may offer ballet dancers an even broader benefit: a 2013 study suggests that the training might teach their brain how to suppress dizzy signals at their origin, the inner ear. You can see Stevie doing this clearly in the mirror.
One of my favourite Fleetwood Mac tracks, there are so many please play more in the future, we're so lucky to have grown up with them playing throughout our lives!
For me, this may be my favorite song by them. The beauty of each aspect of the song is unmatched. Truly one of the best. The guitar is just the cherry on top
I LOVE this song and video!! As someone described by one of my grandmoms as a gypsy, this song hits home! I love how the "thunder" in Dreams ties into the 'lightning strikes' here, love the look of the video, the costumes, the doomed romance between Stevie and Lindsay dancing together. all of it!
Hands down my favorite Stevie led Fleetwood Mac song. This would be on my deserted island disc!! ❤️❤️ To the Gypsy that remains... That faces freedom with a little fear.... I have no fear... I have only love. And if I was a child, and the child was enough.... Enough for me to love.... Enough to love!
Always loved this song and that guitar lick from Lindsey at the end is absolutely beautiful. I remember learning that part and playing it over and over because of how cool it sounds (esp. in the context of this song) and how fun it was to play. You have to react to "I'm so afraid" and "Never goind back again" by them. This showcases some of Buckingham's amazing guitar work.
You have to watch the live version from Midnight Special June 1976! One of the most feeling and awesome performances by Stevie and the whole band!! Great stuff and live!!!❤️RIP Christine!
Beautiful. It's one of a hand full of songs, that when it comes on I just take 5 minutes out of the day to stop and listen. Lindsay's guitar outro is everything!
That's all Lindsey's guitar - the wind chime sound, the xylophone sound - all guitar. Also his arrangement and production. If you hear an odd or unique sound on a Rumors 5 album it's 90% Lindsey. Stevie wrote this from 1978-79 intending it for her first solo album. There's an hour long vid on YT and you can hear all the various different versions, including a rocking one with Tom Petty. None of them compare to the magic in this one - which is why she decided to save it for Lindsey and FM.
"You can go your own way " is another great Fleetwood Mack bop. Nick, Christine, Stevie, and Lindsey are genius together. You should research the bands interesting/messy "entanglements". Love Stevie's stage presence, and gypsy vibe. 🎵🖤🖤🖤
I love the imagery in the music video..black and white old timey, the bedroom where she dances, and the fantasy mountain scape...pure 80s magic. I relate so deeply with the dancer and performer within the White Witch of Stevie! ❤
Everytime I hear this song it reminds me of grandmother who I drove nuts with Stevie and Fleetwood Mac music BUT she absolutely loved this song and would say ‘play that gypsy song again’ I hear that everytime I hear this song ❤beautiful song and beautiful video
This is 5-6 years post their break up. Then again it felt like they were breaking up for decades. They were still writing songs about each other in the 2010s!
Uriah Heep's Gypsy is also one you should get into! Their first single and one of the first heavy metal songs still rooted deep in acid rock with Ken's organ work. Live it could take up 15-20 minutes and even 55 years later it is still a part of their set.
Romantic, dreamy, free, and yet wistful. One of my favorite Fleetwood Mac songs. The voices of Christine and Lindsey were a perfect backdrop to Stevie's lead vocal.
One of the few times I would say watch the video, someone had their eyes closed the whole time...Yes, great, great song, Lindsey on guitar...The Velvet Underground is a store in the bay area where Stevie wanted to shop but could not afford, when her and Lindsy were poor. Their bed was on the floor, she decorated with lace and paper flowers. A few years later, they were famous and millionaires. She could now buy the store but she never forgot how poor they were and how free they were.
Always happy to tune into a Stevie Nicks reaction. Such a lovely song! Loved your analysis of the song, Amber! And then Jay summed it all up: Stevie is Stevie. Indeed! :)))
Did y’all ever go to see Stevie Nicks & Billy Joel? Fleetwood Mac is still one of my favorites today. Saw them, Bob Welch who used to be with FM & Steve Miller Band several years ago at the Cotten Bowl in Dallas Texas. Amazing concert!!
Still and forever my favorite Fleetwood Mac song. So glad you reviewed it. Beautiful, melancholic, and powerful. I think it's Stevie's best performance.
Not a female Friday video this is a recent unblocked video
Sent you an email. Not a fan of any of today's artists. Just not my dig. I would rather be honest than leave a like and a fake comment.
Most normal people just don't watch videos they don't like and definitely don't comment. GTFO
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What the what?!? So what?!?
As someone else said here, if you already took the trouble to write a private email, what would possess you to think you need to share it with all of us here?!?
The level of narcissism boggles my mind. That’s gonna happen no matter what! None of us are gonna love every song a reaction channel does or every video a UA-camr makes. That’s a given.
And I have loved every video so far today. That doesn’t mean you should.
@RobSquadReactions thanks for taking the effort to get this unblocked. It’s a great song and a very nice reaction from you. I love your reactions to FM. I hope you also get to more Lindsey and Christine lead vocals. All three of them were unique and great. I just got a DVD of their concert video THE DANCE, which has them performing live at Warner Brothers Studios in front of an audience and it’s just magic.
Stevie wrote this song about her relationship with a long-time friend who passed away. The lyric "lightning strikes maybe once maybe twice" is a reference to the notion that you might get 1 or 2 truly lifetime friends if you are fortunate.
I love that bit of info!
It's about several things. See @teethang1's comment.
After my experiences, I know this more than most people. Being human inevitably leads to periods of suffering and the process (often lonely) shapes you into what you are. If you have one or two people you can truly depend on then you are blessed.
That's what Stevie starting saying but she wrote it in 1978-79 and meant it for her first solo album. She couldn't make it work so brought it to Lindsey and FM for Mirage in early 1981. It's about her time with Lindsey sleeping on their mattress on the floor and when she'd window shop at The Velvet Underground for things she couldn't afford. Robin was diagnosed in early 1981 with Leukemia and passed in Oct 1982.
I have four and I treasure ❤them.
Love the Lindsay Buckingham guitar work. So underrated as a guitarist.
Most def underrated.
Underrated? By who? Underrated is the most overrated word in the English language!
@@michaelparsons5299 I think we have a tendency to say that about artists who aren't so "in your face" and tend to get lost in the shuffle of all the "greats". I know I overuse the term, though. We just want our fave artists to get the love and appreciation they deserve, I guess.
@@michaelparsons5299 Lindsay didn't make Louder's Top 50 list. He comes in at number 22, on Total Guitar's list. And if you want to know how subjective things can get, Lindsay doesn't even sniff Rolling Stones Top 100 list. So, taking someone to task for saying Lindsay is underrated isn't a good look for you.
@@michaelparsons5299many famous artists such as Kenny Loggins,Neil Schon and Keith Urban have come out and said Buckingham is very underrated. So does that answer your question
You just don't realize how MUCH you miss Christine McVie's backing vocals! So smooth and harmonious! RIP... Peace to the Rob Squad!!
No… I miss Christine’s lead vocals… the best singer in Fleetwood Mac. Was their way before Stevie & Lindsey. 😊
@@Rock_Snob the old FM was just a garage blues band that never did anything till lindsey and stevie showed up and made FM the band everyone loves now.
My favorite Mac songs have Christine on lead....Say You love Me and You Make Loving Fun
@@seansimms8503me too!
My favorite Fleetwood Mac song. Stevie has rarely sung better. Buckingham’s playing is perfection. I could listen to this forever.
Mine too. Stevie's voice is just perfection. As a guitarist, I can appreciate Lindsey's astonishing guitar playing which is fabulous but so understated. This is Fleetwood Mac at their most sublime and their very best.
Mine too, I was a 12 yr old girl at a friend's house when this came out and she asked if I had heard this amazing song. We watched the video and I'll never forget seeing Stevie dance and look ethereal and like a fairy gypsy in an enchanted forest. She was the most beautiful person I'd ever seen. I was hooked and thus began my lifelong love for Fleetwood Mac. I never get tired of listening to this.
The instrumentation of this song is absolutely incredible. So beautiful.
arranged by Lindsey Buckingham who Nicks betrayed and got fired.
@@TooSkinnyKenny Yikes, well, the band did have its "differences" over the years.
@@TooSkinnyKenny Given the abusive way Lindsey treated Stevie over the years, I wouldn't be so quick to take his side.
@@btgiv6009 Hang on a second - you do realise that it's very much on record, including out of her own mouth just how much of a mess she was in her world of addiction, and that SHE was the one who physically assaulted Buckingham when he announced he was leaving the band. She is literally on record saying she would have tried to KILL him if she hadn't been physically restrained. Now imagine if those words had come out of HIS mouth about her, there would have been a public outcry. So forgive me, but I absolutely will make judgment, based on what I have seen and heard with my own eyes and ears about their relationship, and I hold her more to blame than I do him.
@@fuzzluvver69 Very little of what you said is true. He was physically abusive with her, not the other way around. The final time was in front of the entire band. Lindsey was very jealous and controlling, and Stevie was sick of it. He was so verbally abusive in the studio that Mick Fleetwood several times had to tell Lindsey to cut it out or leave the band. After the breakup, Lindsey belittled her at every turn, running down her songs and throwing shade on her solo work in the press. He told her that her music was only good when he arranged it. Lindsey also had a habit of pushing off Fleetwood Mac's plans so that he could work on solo projects; that was especially galling since his solo music mainly sucks. He dipped out on the Shake the Cage tour for that very reason but then was all butthurt when the band toured without him. That's exactly what happened when he was fired; he wanted to delay going on tour with the band so that he could pursue his latest solo venture. Stevie also felt that he was once again publicly slighting her (opinions differ on whether it was a legit beef). Stevie just told the band they could either go on tour with her or him. They chose her, because as important as Lindsey is as an arranger, he is easily replaceable on the road, and Stevie isn't. Look, I'm not a Stevie devotee or anything, and I think the lot of them are/were talented but miserable, petty people. But facts are facts.
Mick Fleetwood once said this was the best song they ever made. I agree. One of those perfect records, in the best sense. I never tire of hearing it.
Only Fleetwood Mac fans give Lindsey Buckingham the recognition he deserves. He’s a brilliant guitarist.
any live version of "I'm So Afraid" is insane...He is HIGHLY underrated
George Harrison wanted Lindsay in the Travelling Willburys.
@@geminigreywolf6655 Did he? I didn’t know that. He’d have been a great addition.
@@purplehague65 he didn’t do it because Fleetwood Mac was doing a reunion concert.
@@Murder_34 he Big Love guitar is insane
I taught at a tech school & had a student that said he was her brother. We joked for over a year since I didn’t believe him… until she showed up at his graduation. Guess he showed me! LOL.
Wow I bet you was floored she is so amazing
@@shirleybuffington6420 I was shocked. And a bit embarrassed. But they both had a good laugh.
What was his name? She has one brother.
@@dandobrowolski5818 Chris Nicks.
Like a lot of Stevie's songs, this one is written about a couple things. The first part about the velvet underground, the floor that I love, and a room with some lace and paper flowers, that's about when her and Lindsey first moved in together. Velvet Underground was a store where she bought her clothes, the floor was about how their mattress sat right on the floor because they couldn't afford furniture, and the lace and paper flowers was what she used to decorate their room. This song is also about her friend Robin who was her best friend and passed away. The line about "I still see your smile" towards the end of the song is in reference to her. As well as the line "she is dancing away from you now."
Thanks for sharing all this. It makes it make more sense
Yes, the Velvet Underground was in San Francisco. Both Janis Joplin and Grace Slick shopped there as well.
The lace and paper flowers was a description of a room in the basement of The Velvet Underground where Stevie would by the lace clothing she wore. The store was a consignment clothing store. The room had paper flowers on the walls
Per an interview I've seen by Stevie, after FM had so much success, Dreams, Rhianon, Sara all '76 - '79...and wherever in there the breakup w/Lindsey/blow/Klonipin, but w/all the success and things crashing personally in ways (Lindsey/substance...and props to Stevie for being so forthcoming abt things so personal...Klonipin is the best pill EVER), Stevie rented a small apartment, to take her back to the beginning when she and Lindsey didn't have much...recreated that to get away from all the fame and mansions and material things, and back to basics...and the apartment as you described...but a recreation of it in '79, and on the floor of it was when/where she wrote Gypsy, and demos were made for it to go on her solo effort Belle Donna. THEN her friend died, so Stevie allowed Gypsy to go on FM's 'Mirage' album...the song took on new meaning for Stevie AFTER the death of her friend, and dedicated it to her that point forward.
My fav Fleetwood Mac song. Lindsey’s guitar solo here is next level ridiculous.
Exactly this.
Lyndsey Buckingham is a tremendous guitarist.
He's so underrated. He's one of my favourite guitarists if all time.
The opening lines, "So I'm back to the Velvet underground, back to to the floor that I love, etc..." refers to the time before she was famous, sleeping on the floor and shopping at the Velvet Underground in hippie-era San Francisco. There are times when life gets hectic that she wished she could go back to this simpler time, "back to the gypsy" that she was.
Rob said "everything stevie does is amazing"! Within Fleetwood Mac, it is a collective effort regardless of who the lead singer is. Lindsey's masterful production and guitar playing is just as important as mick's drumming, John's brilliant bass playing and the late Christine's keyboard playing, writing and singing!
I toured with Badfinger in the early-2000s and when we got to L.A., Joey called Stevy who promptly invited us all to stay at her mansion in the hills while we were in town!!!!!!
Lucky! 😊
WoW! How cool is that? What a wonderful memory to carry through your life. Fan of Badfinger here. That must have been cool, too, Brandon. TY for sharing.
That’s wonderful 😊
One of the best videos Fleetwood Mac ever made, with Stevie at her prime and most beautiful, and you kept your eyes closed the entire time. I've been waiting for your reaction, considering how much you claim to love Stevie. I love Stevie, too, and have so for decades. I don't think i could have ever kept my eyes closed during a Stevie Nicks video like that, ever.
Stevie has always been the Gypsy Witch since I first saw her on stage in 1975. I’ve been mesmerized ever since.
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I saw the also in 1975. August in Oakland. Day On The Green, Robin Trower headlined, with Dave Mason, Peter Frampton, Fleetwood Mac and Gary Dream Weaver Wright. Incredible show and lineup. The British Invasion, The British are Coming was how it was billed, By the Great late Bill Graham. Outdoor Concert. Summer of 75, a very Magical Year. I was 18, Just graduated high school 2 months before this show.
@@Fritzw75 for me it was October 12, in a student union hall at The University of Pittsburgh @ Johnstown PA.
Opening band was The Amazing Rhythm Aces, and I was just 17 years old. ✌🏼😎🇺🇸
You lucky people!
Stevie had the most haunting female voice ever. Thanks guys 👍🎸🎶
"Sara" by Fleetwood Mac is still one of my favorite songs with Stevie's vocals. Also, "You make loving fun" is my favorite song with Christine McVie's vocals.
Sara is awesome by Fleetwood Mac
Agreed. Sara is my favorite song by Fleetwood Mac. A must listen.
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@@guanyin19Same, always my favorite from Buckingham/Nicks era Fleetwood Mac.
Great video too, the one of live footage they always played on MTV.
There's an extended mix where Lindsay's solo is longer at the end. Amazing way to close the song.
This solo is also different from the album version
@@michaelvielhaber9342 I noticed that. I think I prefer the album version; this one is a little chaotic sounding. I looove the original simple outro, though.
❤Stevie wrote this beautiful song. When I saw her perform this song on tour Iast year she explained that she never wants to forget the gypsy life style which is the root of her creativity and style. She put pillows and fabric on the floor as her bed. Even though she can now afford better furnisings.......she still keeps her gypsy spirit.
I remember this song from June 82, when we first got cable tv and saw it one MTV and Hold Me too. Yes, I have one of those weird memories.
Always loved this one. Yes, Lindsey's guitar's playing sounds like there's more than one guitar playing. If you want to see the best example of him doing this, play his "Big Love" from their concert The Dance. It will blow you away!
Yes, the genius of Lindsey Buckingham's guitar playing!
Pure class, pure art, and pure talent. This is when superstars were exactly that. One had to stand head and shoulders above the rest. By 1982 Fleetwood Mac had established themselves as music industry royalty. I was 9 years old and I took the bus with my sister to downtown Dundee, Scotland. We bought the Mirage album. Here I am in my New Jersey home with it sitting on the turntable.
I saw her live two weeks ago at the ages of 76 in London, and she was AMAZING!!! She’s still got it!
For Jay loving Stevie so much, his eyes were closed for half of this video and he missed our gorgeous Gypsy Queen😢
Correction: Jays' eyes were closed for ALL of this video 😩
@@BraedensgroundYes, that drives me nuts.
@@Faltor895 I would venture to say that Jay appreciates the music more when he closes his eyes and focuses on that instead of the video. Sometimes the visuals can detract from the audio. I think he's really focusing on the music and appreciating all of the different components of it this way.
@@Faltor895Me too it is my all time favorite video and I have been requesting and waiting for it for over 3 years and it tore me up to see him with his eyes closed😢
Missed it all.
I met this legendary band back in the early 2000's, they performed at the FEDEX forum and stopped by the shop i was lucky enough to work at and grabbed some food and coffee, I was so star struck, and I knew I wouldn't meet Christine McVie only because this was during the "Say You Will" tour and she had left the band and took a break. I yelled out "Gypsy is my all time favorite video you guys ever done, Stevie turned around as she was walking out of the door and replied "It was a magical time!"
That sweet, SWEET guitar at the end. It’s never long enough…🩷
Ikr. It'd make a great ringtone.
One of the best bands and one of the best songs ever written in my opinion. Stevie is a beautiful soul!. The vibe is incredible. The song is just about the free and fearless side of our personalities. When we are young we tend to be carefree and we take life in and not to let that go.
What I love is that there are no vocal effects like they do now and with singers back then as well. It almost sounds like she’s singing live.
This was the most expensive music video at the time of its 1982 release, until "Thriller" came along.
And Jay closed his eyes and missed most of it.
Stevie Nicks and Kate Bush both have the voices and personas that just seem to come from some other world. Always so haunting and unique.
When released, the Gypsy video was one of the most expensive productions. Fleetwood Mac at their harmonious best. Great choice!
Her voice is a combination of beautiful and edgy at the same time.
She’s completely authentic with her voice and delivery
One of my favorite songs! Many of us would like to go back to the "gypsy " of our youth
Yes, but for us, it's different for the first time in history. We are feeling things no other generation has felt or will ever again. It was almost mystical our time growing up and we didn't quite see that yet.
This song was about Stevie's best friend who died of Cancer at the start of the eighties.
It's also about her and Lindsey, when they were poor.
@@stevebuckland2053I also assumed it was about her before her fame as well
@@thedogwoods5716 You are correct.
Ohhhhh…Boy…YOU JUST MADE ME SMILE 😃..this one of my absolute favorite Fleetwood Mac songs, especially the black and white scenes. I absolutely love the clothing during that era….and Yep…I have her dance moves memorized since my teen yrs! 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻❤️
Her voice gets me everytime... Stevie was my star crush thru High School in the 70s. Gorgeous lady with an equally gorgeous voice
I love how Stevie uses her ballet studies in her dancing. She is truly a gypsy in personality and as dancer. You can never go wrong with Fleetwood Mac. Christina McVie R.I.P.
Thanks
My absolute favorite FWM SONG. I have always identified with this song. It’s my soul.
You have to give LIndsey A LOT of credit for this song. The production and arrangement is ALL HIM. ANd the guitar solo at the end is BRILLIANT. Tom petty tried to produce this song on one of her solo albums and couldn't figure it out. When he heard it on the radio he tought "wow Lindsey knew exactly what to do with this song" He deserves lots of credit.
I agree. You can always hear a Lindsey Buckingham touch all over any song that he had a heavy hand in making. Very distinctive style.
Agreed! I always say they were a perfect match. His technical proficiency and musicality blended with her poetry is sheer perfection. He is greatly under appreciated
@@Augirl78 Christine once said - unlike her Lindsey knew how to speak Stevie. Musically it was true. Petty also said that when he got stuck in the studio with Stevie he'd call Lindsey who'd come in and say do this, this and that - and he was right..
Why can't we have beautiful music be popular like this nowadays??
There are beautiful songs just not as much. Try Lucy Rose ‘ Over When it’s Over’ just beautiful.
It can often take many years for a great band to become popular, if they do. Don’t wait for the greats to become popular. There is an endless ocean of beautiful music for you to find, you just have to be patient and trust the deep dive process 💖💕
I do believe the caliber of talent is just not there anymore. The 80s had an incredible amount of musicians that could do it all. They were songwriters, singers and many could play instruments. The lyrics were pure poetry.
Because gypsy is a derogatory term nowadays.
Released in 1982 written by Stevie Nicks around 1979.
This song is my favorite of all there songs! It’s instrumental choreography is amazing ! I’ve listened to it for 40 yrs and never grow tired of it!!!
“The gypsy still remains!” ❤️
She wrote this about her best friend, Robin, who died of cancer----the Gypsy in the song is Robin. Stevie has said that the chorus "lightning strikes, maybe once, maybe twice and it lights up the night"---is about how once or twice in your life you come across a friendship that powerful.
This is my absolute favorite video. Stevie looks beautiful here.
"Gypsy" was written for her long time best friend Robin who died of leukemia just days after giving birth to a son. Stevie then married the baby's father, which only lasted months. Later she also put 'Matthew' Robin's son, through college...
This might be my favorite Fleetwood Mac song. Every time I hear it I love it more and more. And this is easily one of the most beautiful videos ever made. Just such a wonderful, dreamy ambiance, especially with the Maxfield Parrish homage on the cliffside. Lovely.
Can I just say, Stevie looks absolutely gorgeous in the music video to Gypsy 🥰
Amber & Jay, here are some other good Fleetwood Mac songs to react to: "Don't Stop", "You Make Loving Fun", "Hold Me", "Big Love", and "Tango in the Night".
Yes there are so many great non Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac songs. Reactors seem focus on the Stevie songs.
The interesting things is, if it wasn’t for Lindsay Buckingham insisting that Stevie (who he was dating at the time) be allowed to join the group when Mick Fleetwood was recruiting him, Stevie may never have been in the band.
What about,"Albatross". That would shake them.🤣
I use a clip from Lindsay's live solo version of "Big Love" as one of my alarms!
To my ears, almost every Fleetwood Mac song is like a beautiful dream. Very lush sounding with gorgeous backing vocals and, when included, equally lush strings in the background. They really crafted “fairy tale-esque” sonic masterpieces.
I still love her.No other female artist like her. Beautiful look, beautiful voice.
One of my favorite bands and songs by them. Also Stevie Nicks is top 3 favorite female rock lead singer and I'm only 40
Beautiful….one of my favourite Stevie songs…I saw Fleetwood Mac in concert once and she introduced this song with a nice story about a time when she was struggling with all the band’s and her success and she felt so badly that she just wanted to go back to her gypsy days….
This video shows how Stevie was able to do those quick turn spins of hers. Ballet dancers employ this technique they call spotting. As they pirouette, they keep their body moving at a fairly constant speed but try to fix their gaze on one “spot,” varying the speed at which they rotate their head. They hold it in place and then quickly whip it around at the end of each turn, minimizing the time their head is rotating and limiting any nystagmus. Learning to spot may offer ballet dancers an even broader benefit: a 2013 study suggests that the training might teach their brain how to suppress dizzy signals at their origin, the inner ear.
You can see Stevie doing this clearly in the mirror.
My sister put Rumours on the stereo in 77 and ive been a fan ever since
One of my favourite Fleetwood Mac tracks, there are so many please play more in the future, we're so lucky to have grown up with them playing throughout our lives!
For me, this may be my favorite song by them. The beauty of each aspect of the song is unmatched. Truly one of the best. The guitar is just the cherry on top
I LOVE this song and video!! As someone described by one of my grandmoms as a gypsy, this song hits home! I love how the "thunder" in Dreams ties into the 'lightning strikes' here, love the look of the video, the costumes, the doomed romance between Stevie and Lindsay dancing together. all of it!
Hands down my favorite Stevie led Fleetwood Mac song.
This would be on my deserted island disc!! ❤️❤️
To the Gypsy that remains... That faces freedom with a little fear.... I have no fear... I have only love. And if I was a child, and the child was enough.... Enough for me to love.... Enough to love!
Always loved this song and that guitar lick from Lindsey at the end is absolutely beautiful. I remember learning that part and playing it over and over because of how cool it sounds (esp. in the context of this song) and how fun it was to play. You have to react to "I'm so afraid" and "Never goind back again" by them. This showcases some of Buckingham's amazing guitar work.
I was in love with Stevie Nicks growing up watching her sing and move so gracefully. Her eyes that gorgeous blonde hair. That voice 🤩 beautiful ❤
This song is one of my favorite Fleetwood Mac-Stevie songs. It never gets old and has the best vocals in my opinion. Now you need to listen to Sara!!
Stevie Nicks is a Gypsy Goddess. I've loved her for almost 50 years.
SO HERE YA GO JAY & AMBER, HERE'S ( 3 ) FROM THE 75 ALBUM ( FLEETWOOD MAC )😊 OVER MY HEAD, WORLD TURNING, I'M SO AFRAID 👍NICE THAT THIS WAS RELEASED!💯
Gypsy is probably my favorite FM song. The melody, Stevie's writing and her vocals are just...magic!
Christy’s backing vocals are Amazing as well !❤️
Oh I love Stevie Nicks!
Fleetwood Mac! Thankyou you have made my week!❤️👍
This is stevie nicks displaying her phenomenal vocal talent and the musical arrangement is superb as well.
You have to watch the live version from Midnight Special June 1976! One of the most feeling and awesome performances by Stevie and the whole band!! Great stuff and live!!!❤️RIP Christine!
Beautiful. It's one of a hand full of songs, that when it comes on I just take 5 minutes out of the day to stop and listen. Lindsay's guitar outro is everything!
That's all Lindsey's guitar - the wind chime sound, the xylophone sound - all guitar. Also his arrangement and production. If you hear an odd or unique sound on a Rumors 5 album it's 90% Lindsey. Stevie wrote this from 1978-79 intending it for her first solo album. There's an hour long vid on YT and you can hear all the various different versions, including a rocking one with Tom Petty. None of them compare to the magic in this one - which is why she decided to save it for Lindsey and FM.
"You can go your own way " is another great Fleetwood Mack bop. Nick, Christine, Stevie, and Lindsey are genius together. You should research the bands interesting/messy "entanglements". Love Stevie's stage presence, and gypsy vibe. 🎵🖤🖤🖤
This video captures the aura of the lead singer/character like no other. She is fascinating!
I love the imagery in the music video..black and white old timey, the bedroom where she dances, and the fantasy mountain scape...pure 80s magic. I relate so deeply with the dancer and performer within the White Witch of Stevie! ❤
I read somewhere that they actually shot a Civil War type vignette, but Stevie felt the costumes didn't flatter her.
Everytime I hear this song it reminds me of grandmother who I drove nuts with Stevie and Fleetwood Mac music BUT she absolutely loved this song and would say ‘play that gypsy song again’ I hear that everytime I hear this song ❤beautiful song and beautiful video
One of my favorites by Fleetwood Mac. Love Stevie Nicks voice! ❤❤❤❤
Getting back to the gypsy that I was…. I still see your bright eyes… You can’t go wrong with Stevie or FM!! 🖤🕊️🎩🔮
Love Fleetwood Mac, one of my favorite bands of all time! Stevie Nicks is my favorite female vocalist of all time!! ✌️❤️🎶
This video was shot whilst Stevie & Lindsey were going through their bitter break up which makes those dance scenes even more amazing!
This is 5-6 years post their break up. Then again it felt like they were breaking up for decades. They were still writing songs about each other in the 2010s!
Yes!!! One of my All Time favorite songs by my All Time favorite band!
Uriah Heep's Gypsy is also one you should get into! Their first single and one of the first heavy metal songs still rooted deep in acid rock with Ken's organ work. Live it could take up 15-20 minutes and even 55 years later it is still a part of their set.
Romantic, dreamy, free, and yet wistful. One of my favorite Fleetwood Mac songs. The voices of Christine and Lindsey were a perfect backdrop to Stevie's lead vocal.
The legendary miss Stevie Nicks, saw her 2 weeks ago in concert. She was still amazing. Sang this song also
One of the few times I would say watch the video, someone had their eyes closed the whole time...Yes, great, great song, Lindsey on guitar...The Velvet Underground is a store in the bay area where Stevie wanted to shop but could not afford, when her and Lindsy were poor. Their bed was on the floor, she decorated with lace and paper flowers. A few years later, they were famous and millionaires. She could now buy the store but she never forgot how poor they were and how free they were.
BTW, the other members of the band, Christine, John and Mick are all through this fantastic video.
Stevie is the absolute queen!!!
Always happy to tune into a Stevie Nicks reaction. Such a lovely song! Loved your analysis of the song, Amber! And then Jay summed it all up: Stevie is Stevie. Indeed! :)))
Simply Mesmerizing Stevie Nicks Beautiful voice and Buckingham's finger picking style create a magic moment.....Thanks so much
Cher's was "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves." Great song as is this one. Fleetwood Mac was fire in the 70's and 80's, they still are.
Her voice is everything!!!!❤
It is truly a beautiful song. it feels like it sets your spirit free .❤
Without a doubt one of the best voices and songs in the entire world.
Did y’all ever go to see Stevie Nicks & Billy Joel? Fleetwood Mac is still one of my favorites today. Saw them, Bob Welch who used to be with FM & Steve Miller Band several years ago at the Cotten Bowl in Dallas Texas. Amazing concert!!
The guitar work by Lindsey at the end makes this song
Still and forever my favorite Fleetwood Mac song. So glad you reviewed it. Beautiful, melancholic, and powerful. I think it's Stevie's best performance.
I love when you guys do FM and Stevie .. you still have so much in their combined work
lindsay buckingham made stevie mcnicks
thin vocals propelled by awesome guitar and arrangement
thank god for christine as background weight
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