Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Another Burt Sugarman's Midnight Special show -- Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac performing Rhiannon -- Stevie in all her besleeved glory. The music is a fun flashback, but these videos are really about the fashion maaan, like wow, groovy. We have, for instance, another man in a kung-fu/kimono-inspired shirt -- just awesome. The Wife is threatening to make me one now. Frankly, I don't think I have the hair to pull it off:



Enjoy the stylings-that-were,

Bp

6 comments:

Stu Farnham said...

Young feller, I have to take you to task. By the time of this song, use of phrases such as "maaan, like wow, groovy" was limited to hard core stoners and Cheech and Chong movies. Popular use of the term in any but a comedic sense peacked somewhere around 7 years prior to the release of the eponymously titled album 'Fleetwood Mac' on which this song appears.

We interrupt this program to bring you a flash from the dusty corners of my brain: the band Fleetwood Mac got its start as a British Blues band. Mick Fleetwood and John McVie were originally the rhythm section for John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, perfroming on Mayall's brilliant 'Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton' (which still gets my vote for having some of Claptons best guitar work on record).
We now return you to the point of this comment.

What I started out to say, before my AADD took over, was this:

In my salad days I was into drama, and played the title role in a not-even-good-enough-to-be-called-amateur production of Macbeth. Part of my costume was a silk shirt, very blousy in cut, with a V neck open to about my solar plexus, and long, pouffy sleeves (warning for the faint of heart: imagine the present-day Estu in such a ggetup at your own risk).

After the production ended, this became my favorite shirt until it disintegrated from overwear.

Around the same time I had a summer job in the mailroom at a bank. Incredibly, I had a ponytail and a full head of hair (no beard yet, it was too sparse. Scalp and beard were later to reverse roles).

My favorite outfit for work consisted of (bottom to top) rough-out (think suede) cowboy bttos, bell bottom blue and white railroad striped bell bottoms, a long-sleeved pink oxfor shirt, aa w-di-d-e necktie, mostly orange in a wild floral pattern, topped off with a light blue USAF uniform jacket.

Enjoy your trip down my memory lane, such as it is.

Katye said...

I would pay SO MUCH MONEY to see a photo of THAT gettup!

/swoon

Bpaul said...

"Popular use of the term in any but a comedic sense"

surely this wasn't a comedic post, so I'm duly chastized

*smirk*

As for your fashion confessions -- wow.

Wife -- down girl LOL.

A.Stock said...

The music is a fun flashback, but these videos are really about the fashion

While this may be true for you, it is as much about the music to me as it is the fashion.

I absolutely LOVE to hear renditions of songs as they were played live as opposed to the final cut recording that has been fed to us all the years since.

Case in point: listen to this song and compare it to the original.

As always, thanks for the flashback in fashion and in music.

Bpaul said...

Ok you got me Mr. Stock -- it's not all about the fashion.

Ms. Nicks is a hottie too!

I kid, I liked this rendition as well sir.

Catherine Just said...

first off, I want to make out with her. She's hot.
Secondly - I think KT SHOULD make you the kung fu/ kimono inpired shirt blouse thing. You could pull it off. No one else but you could pull it off.
DO IT KT!