Buy Fleetwood Mac tickets at Vivid Seats. 100% Buyer Guarantee for all Fleetwood Mac ticket-buyers. Find cheap tickets for all upcoming 2018 Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood Mac has toured off and on again over the years, but for the latest tour, the band has replaced Lindsey Buckingham. Fleetwood Mac Tour 2018.

CLEVELAND, Ohio - In 2015, Christine McVie returned to the fold and it made a mountain of difference. Two years earlier, the band had visited without her and it was, in a word, disappointing.

As I noted in, Stevie Nicks' smoky but limited range suffered from having to try to carry the female part of the music: 'But Fleetwood Mac has always been about the vocals, and as the saying goes, therein lies the rub,' I wrote in that review. 'Nicks still LOOKS 25, but she's 65 now, and her already limited range is even more limited.

Not that much, you understand, but enough to make a difference. To use a sports analogy, it's like a home run hitter who's lost a few mph off his swing; balls that used to reach the bleachers are now warning-track outs.' When after 16 YEARS away, drummer Mick Fleetwood told the rightfully fawning sellout crowd, 'Making all this complete! Our songbird has returned!' Fleetwood Mac fired guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and is replacing him for this tour, which stops at Quicken Loans Arena on Friday, Oct.

26, with Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Neil Finn of Split Enz. Gus Chan / The Plain Dealer But 'complete' was a passing thing, apparently. Earlier this year, the band fired guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, apparently because everyone else wanted to go out on tour and he didn't. He's suing for $12 million in lost tour wages, so we will have to see how that goes.

It's not the first time Fleetwood Mac has shifted guitarists, but we will have to see how THIS version of an incomplete Fleetwood Mac goes. Something tells me it could be bad, as it has taken TWO people to replace Buckingham, guitarists Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Neil Finn of Crowded House and Split Enz. In another excerpt from that 2013 review, I wrote this about Buckingham's performance, which really was the lone bright spot in the show: 'And then there's Buckingham's guitar. In a word, WOW.

His finger-picking style on his beloved Turner Model One guitar really is the stuff of legends. Multiple big-screen close-ups showed that he was able to bend strings from here to Toledo and pull sounds out of a guitar that most people wouldn't think possible, especially on 'I'm So Afraid' and 'The Chain.' ' And apparently, I'm not the only one concerned. Unlike that full-band show in 2016, this one is not a sellout. A group with Fleetwood Mac's pedigree normally would almost be able to guarantee there wouldn't be an empty seat in the house, especially in a town as devoted to rock 'n' roll history as Cleveland.

Certainly that was the case most recently for the Eagles and Phil Collins, acts with equal resumes. And they were able to fill the house despite having to deal with what could have been show-crushing circumstances: Collins' health issues, which prevented him from playing drums and forced him to perform the entire show seated, and the absence of the late Eagles co-founder, Glenn Frey, who was replaced (sort of) by his own son, Deacon, and country superstar Vince Gill. The Mac show might still sell out, based on reputation alone, plus neither Campbell, himself a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, as a Heartbreaker, nor Finn is a slouch on guitar. But if it does, it will be a surprise.