A Pair of Classic Rock Events Will Bring Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles to the Coasts.

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'As the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and the Who took the stage last fall at the Desert Trip festival in Southern California, Mick Fleetwood was in the stands, loving every minute of it.

“I was there like a stalker fan,” Mr. Fleetwood said. “And it was so cool! It was emotionally charged.”

This summer Mr. Fleetwood, the drummer and founding member of Fleetwood Mac, will have something of a classic-rock festival of his own, with a pair of two-day concerts set for Los Angeles and New York, featuring Fleetwood Mac; the Eagles; Steely Dan; the Doobie Brothers; Journey; and Earth, Wind and Fire. The first two shows, called “The Classic West,” will be held at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on July 15 and 16; the second, “The Classic East,” will be at Citi Field on July 29 and 30, with the same lineup.

“Seeing people of every age group really going at it and being supercharged, it was a trip,” Mr. Fleetwood said, calling from Maui, where he lives. “And that’s what we’ve been touching on.”'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/arts/music/classic-west-classic-east-fleetwood-mac-eagles.html?

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1. If they want Steely Dan to actually perform

they better let them close the show. Fagen and Becker are two of the biggest assholes in music.

In 1974 the were scheduled to play an outdoor concert for the University of Northern Iowa Spring celebration, Suni Daze, together with REO and the Eagles. The promoters wanted REO to open the show, and the Eagles to close, with Steely Dan in the middle position. Fagen and Becker refused to go on unless they were the closing act.

It had rained the night before, but the weather that Sunday was sunny and mild, and the crowd sat on the ground in front of the stage, either on blankets, or on the grass. Despite this, the announced reason for Steely Dan's refusal to perform was that they felt conditions were unsafe. I knew the people who put that show together and that was pure bullshit. Fagen and Becker threw a temper tantrum, pure and simple.

On the other hand, the Eagles (pre-Joe Walsh) played for nearly three hours, performing virtually every song from their three albums: "Eagles," "Desperado" and "On the Border."

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2. MR. Fleetwood?

Mick would be pissed if he read that....