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Mick Fleetwood follows a path of art and music


Posted: Dec 09, 2014 8:40 PM PST Updated: Dec 10, 2014 8:29 AM PST

By John Hook, FOX 10 News

PHOENIX (KSAZ) - It's been 16 years since every original member of the legendary group Fleetwood Mac performed and toured together.

They are one of the greatest Rock and Roll bands of all time, selling over 100 million albums.

On Wednesday night, the band will be rocking U.S. Airways Arena, but FOX 10 caught up with drummer and founder of the band, Mick Fleetwood at a gallery in Scottsdale.

Fleetwood's other passion besides music is his photography.

For such an imposing figure, Fleetwood is 64, and he's an incredibly gentle, thoughtful, soft spoken man.

"I still have periods where I take a lot of pictures and think about it a lot, this is the sum of what I've taken," he said.

He's still following the path, in music and photography.

"And then I joined a rock and roll band many years later, and was the boring member of the band who took pictures all day long," he said. Then at night, he would take his place behind a great band and was hardly boring. "We have affected people, and people love our music that still exists."

He says the band is still relevant today for one reason; they all love making music.

"They would truly be doing music with or without the money; it was nothing about being successful," said Fleetwood.

People always ask him whether he'll release something like "Life on the Road with Fleetwood Mac." He says he doesn't think so.

In less than 24 hours from the airing of this story, he will play in front of a sold out crowd. So how does Fleetwood keep his mind on photography?

"I don't get overly thinking about it until I get to the show and get in the complete routine... you would have brought up that I suffer from stage fright, so you've actually triggered me already, I'll be drinking heavily tonight!" he said.

For the first time in 16 years, Christine McVie is back touring with the band so the lineup that produced "Rumours," one of the best selling albums of all time, is back together.

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Mick Fleetwood displays art in Scottsdale gallery
Posted: Dec 09, 2014 8:02 PM PSTUpdated: Dec 09, 2014 9:27 PM PST

By Lindsey Reiser

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (CBS5) -
You wouldn't expect to see a Rock 'n' Roll legend used to screaming fans meeting folks at a quiet art gallery in Scottsdale, but that's exactly where Mick Fleetwood, founding member of Fleetwood Mac, was Tuesday evening.

The group is scheduled to perform in downtown Phoenix Wednesday evening.

Fleetwood said displaying his art can sometimes be more nerve-wracking than performing on stage.

"I don't write songs, and I don't sing them. I play in a band and it's a lot of work one way or another, but this more personal for me," Fleetwood said.

Before he gets an arena full of people going Wednesday night, he's showing his talents go beyond the stage.

"When I became a drummer, I sort of was doing what we did as a family. We traveled all the time, and I was the boring snapshot-taker in the band," Fleetwood said.

He admits his photographs in the collection Reflections are not what people might expect. They show moments of calm, either in his birthplace of England or his new home in Maui.

"I understand they were probably expecting ladies hanging off chandeliers and things," Fleetwood said.

"The contrast in this photo between the old rusty worn-out truck, and this new burst of super green light from the leaves," said Scottsdale resident Sari Lewis, describing what drew her to the piece she purchased.

She said she's not surprised he chose the Valley as one of his first exhibitions in the states.

"Scottsdale has an awesome gallery district, and we earn and deserve a lot of great art here," Lewis said.

As for his favorite piece? Fleetwood prefers a pair of swans he photographed individually that he said remind him of his parents because swans mate for life.

"In a way, these are my babies," Fleetwood said.


If you'd like to take a look at the pieces, they'll be on display until Thursday at DeRubeis Fine Art of Metal.

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Mick Fleetwood: Going back again The drummer talks about the reunited Fleetwood Mac and the 'muscle memory' that powers his photography, on view this month in Fort Lauderdale. - See more at:

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By Phillip Valys, SouthFlorida.com 11:24 a.m. EST, December 11, 2014

Mick Fleetwood picked up his first Contax camera 20 years ago, when he realized that touring the world with Fleetwood Mac started to feel a lot like childhood. Fleetwood's father served in Britain's Royal Air Force, and his family lived "like Gypsies" all over England, southern France and the Mediterranean coast, the drummer writes in his new memoir, "Play On: Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac." Fleetwood uses a different simile in a recent phone interview, describing touring like "being in the Army, stationed everywhere." Traveling reminded him of his dad's hobby of photographing the family all over Europe. With fellow shutterbug and bassist John McVie, Fleetwood shot various countrysides during concert tours in the 1990s. "My dad was just one of those people who took loads of pictures. It was the curse of the family," Fleetwood recalls with a laugh. "So it was just muscle memory, I think, that it became a natural fit for me. It was just me trying to capture where I was going, and being in a rock 'n' roll band, it was almost like getting posted here, there and everywhere, probably even more than my dad ever was in the Forces."

Evidence of Fleetwood's trading drumbeats for camera clicks appears this month at Fort Lauderdale's Wentworth Gallery, where his show "Reflections: An Exhibition of Original Photographs by Mick Fleetwood" is on display. Fleetwood is scheduled to visit the gallery and meet buyers of his photography on Thursday, Dec. 18, the night before Fleetwood Mac's On With the Tour stop at the BB&T Center in Sunrise. The show falls halfway through the group's first tour in 16 years as the best-known iteration of Fleetwood Mac, the "Rumours"-era lineup, including the recently returned Christine McVie, who left in 1998. -

"The energy [onstage] feels so electric and so vibrant, not only because of the return of the band, but because Christine is making us all complete again," Fleetwood, 67, says. "Not to sound like an old hippie here, but it's like she never left." The "Reflections" photographs span about six years, Fleetwood says, starting with the black-and-white landscapes and long dirt roads of England he discovered while preparing to move his mother to Maui, Hawaii, where he lives. Other color photographs capture the splendor found among Hawaii's hills and mountains, including "The Jungle Takes Back," depicting a blue pickup covered in vines and a rear-windshield sticker that reads, "Keep It Hawaiian." In "Shrooms," he shoots a patch of "little green magic mushrooms" he found on a foothill, which is probably the only drug, he admits, that he hasn't taken over the decades. "I was sitting in the studio one night recording 'Rumours' when we decided to figure out how much coke I had done over the years. We figured if we laid it out end to end, it would be about 7 miles long," Fleetwood says with a laugh. "But no, there's no reference to shrooms in the book."

Fleetwood says the tour, while "grueling" when combined with his appearances and the book tour for his memoir, co-authored with Anthony Bozza, is nothing he can't handle. "Look at someone like B.B. King or Tony Bennett or Elton John, and you'll really have your hair curled as to how much they work," Fleetwood says. "Compared to their really crazy scheduling, we're in good shape. But I'm that model of a person, anyhow. I don't like sitting around, twiddling my thumbs." - See more at:


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