6 Daily Tat Heel .'Friday. March 18. 1977
'Rumours ' spreads talen i thin
By ELLIOTT POTTER
City and Stale Editor
1 1 has been two years since the new wave of
Fleetwood Mac fanaticism was aroused by
the group's platinum album Fleetwood Mac.
The devotees don't seem to be disappointed
in the British-American group's newest
effort. Rumours. . .
Warner Brothers claims it is shipping
more copies of Rumours than any other
album it has ever marketed such are the
tastes of the nondiscriminating American
customer.
Fleetwood Mac has said most of the cuts
from the album were written about lovers'
quarrels between group members Stevie
Nicks and 'Lindsey Buckingham, and
Christine and John McVie. Their problems
have leaked into the recording studio.
The group's strengths long have been the
bass work of John McVie, the percussions of
Mick Fleetwood, and harmonies of assorted
journeymen vocalists.
McVie's bass makes "The Chain" a success
and Fleetwood's percussions are particularly
sparking in an otherwise lackluster "Gold
Dust Woman." The harmonies make "Go
Your Own Way" a rarity among rock
songs a "Top 40" hit that also may be the
best song on the album.
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Rumours would be a success if the group
relied more on these qualities and the golden
throat of Christine McVie instead of
spreading solo performances among group
members.
The voices of Nicks and Buckingham
rarely can be depended on to carry the lead
successfully through an entire cut, and
therein lies the fault of many of the songs on
the album.
There are exceptions to these
shortcomings Nicks does a commendable
job on "Dreams." Her performance of
"Rhiannon" on Fleetwood Mac is awesome,
and her concert version of the song is
bewitching.
The exceptions in Buckingham's case are
. less apparent. His voice suffers from a lack of
distinction a quality Nicks' voice has in
excess. v
The only good aspect of "Second Hand
News" is brevity. (It lasts a painful 2 minutes
and 43 seconds.) Throughout the song,
Buckingham rattles off a string of syllables
that sound quite similar to imitations of
machine guns frequently heard on
kindergarten playgrounds. Silence would
have been a successful replacement.
Rumours does not hu:. of commercialism.
Both the lyrics and performances seem
genuine Fleetwood Mac has not lost that
quality. When the group features Rumours'
cuts in their performance in Greensboro
Saturday night, the crowd should love every
song. Their concert performances are
dependably brilliant.
In "Dreams," Nicks writes, "And what
you lost And what you had And what you
lost." Fleetwood Mac may have lost
something in Rumours but they had more
than most groups and they've got some
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"WHY DO THE HEATHEN
Psalms 2 and Acts 4:25
"FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH: BUT THE GIFT OF
GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR
LORD!" Romans 6:23.
"AND MUCH STUDY IS A WEARINESS OF THE FLESH.
LET US HEAR THE CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE
MATTER: FEAR GOD, AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS:
FOR THIS IS THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN. FOR GOD
SHALL BRING EVERY WORK INTO JUDGEMENT, WITH
EVERY SECRET THING, WHETHER IT BE GOOD, OR
WHETHER IT BE EVIL! Eccleslastes 12:12-14.
Whoever shall undertake to write a history of the families
that fear not God not regard the duties they owe to man, but
live and riot on the miseries of their kind, will portray to the
world an awfully instructive chapter of the retributive justice
of God. Many a family started out in life and formed a family
connection under the most auspicious circumstances. They
were industrious, enterprising, frugal and seem to have
started fair for domestic peace and a happy competence. Yet
in an evil hour they yielded to the delusive bait of temptation
they were in haste to be rich. They turned aside from the
quiet paths of a honest industry and domestic tranquility and
plunged into a dissipating and iniquitious business, which,
while it seemed to promise wealth and future independence,
it was but the sure precursor to ruin and disgrace; or the
same ruinous result was arrived at no less effectively by the
violation of The Holy Day! How awfully, in the history of
families, is the truth sometimes Illustrated that God will
"POUR OUT HIS FURY UPON THE FAMILIES THAT CALL
NOT ON HIS NAME." "THEY THAT DESPISE ME SHALL BE
LIGHTLY ESTEEMED." Examples crowd upon us from every
quarter: Every neighborhood furnishes them!"
In Numbers 32:23 God says: "BE SURE YOUR SINS WILL
FIND YOU OUT!" In Deuteronomy 32:29 God says: "O THAT
THEY WOULD CONSIDER THEIR LATTER END!" "Sin is
any want of conformity unto, or transgression of The Law of
God!" We now quote God's Second Commandment as found
in Exodus 20:4-6:
"THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN
IMAGE, OR ANY LIKENESS OF ANYTHING THAT IS IN
THE HEAVEN ABOVE, OR THAT IS IN THE EARTH
BENEATH, OR THAT IS IN THE WATER UNDER THE
EARTH: THOU SHALT NOT BOW DOWN THYSELF TO
THEM. NOR SERVE THEM: FOR I THE LORD THY GOD AM
A JEALOUS GOD, VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE
FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN UNTO THE THIRD AND
FOURTH GENERATION OF THEM THAT HATE ME: AND
SHOWING MERCY UNTO THOUSANDS OF THEM THAT
LOVE ME, AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS."
Yes, The God of The Old Testament is JEALOUS GOD!
Says So Himself In this Commandment! Also in Exodus
34:14: "FOR THOU SHALT WORSHIP NO OTHER GOD:
FOR THE LORD, WHOSE NAME IS JEALOUS, IS A
JEALOUS GOD." AND AGAIN IN DEUTERONOMY 4:24:
"FOR THE LORD THY GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE, EVEN
A JEALOUS GOD!"
Yes, The God of The New Testament is a JEALOUS GOD!
Jesus Christ said: "I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE!" And
"BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM!" Even the same as God
revealed Himself to Moses at The Burning Bush. In Malachi
3:6 God says: "I CHANGE NOT!" Don't stay in His Church
and try to change Him! It were better that a mill stone were
hung about your neck and you were drowned in the sea! Do
not expect the parties to agree who strive to preserve the
lives of murderers, rapists, traitors, etc., etc. "BE SURE
YOUR SIN WILL FIND YOU OUT O.THATTHEY WOULD
CONSIDER THEIR LATTER END!"
Often indeed is the peace and comfort of families blighted,
children prove profligate and prodigal, and a series of un
toward circumstances blast their prosperity; when if you
were permitted to read their history, you would find that sin
lay at the door some conjugal unfaithfulness some
previous marriage contract unfilled some plighted faith
violated some youthful trifling with affections some
grievlous Indiscretion and guilt to be atoned for. The his
tories of families not frequently furnish the most melancholy
Illustrations that family sins are visited by family afflictions,
defections in parental restraint, by the insubordination and
licentiousness of children, and extravagance, Intemperance,
or skepticism of parents; by immorality and profligacy in
children. . . ,
Surely by this time those who read this Column have
learned the "heathen" are those who set themselves against
the Commandments of God Almighty and His Anointed, The
Lord Jesus Christ; and that all the heathen are not in the far
away places and Jungles. Several times friends with the
desire to be helpful have suggested a change in the name of
this Column. Wonder If unconsciously they too result the
negative of God s "THOU SHALT NOT!" What use have you
for a servant that won't carry out orders? "WHY CALL YE ME
LORD, LORD, AND DO NOT THE THINGS WHICH 1 SAY"
Luke 6:46. True Faith follows after Perfect Obedience.
Friday
1 1 a.m.
noon
1 p.m.
2 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
4:30 p.m
5 p.m.
8 p.m
Fiije Arts
festival
William Burroughs 202-204 Carolina Union
discussion
Carolina Clowns ' various sites on campus
Michael Smith comedy Great Hall, Carolina Union
Allen Ginsberg discussion202-204 Carolina Union
Marth Wilson N.C. Memorial Hospital -
art performance cafeteria
MatrMullican discussion 207 Carolina Union
Workshop for artists 202-204 Carolina Union
Great Hall, Carolina Union
Room 1A, Swain Hall
Jim Roche dialogue
Michael Harvey
films and videotapes
Lee Baxandall lecture
Ackland A.1 Center auditorium
Concord String Quartet Memorial Hall
Saturday
9 a.m. Mask and puppet
workshop for children
1 1 a.m. Concord String Quartet
workshop
2 p.m. Dance workshop
6 p.m. Roger Bruce lecture
on photography
8 p.m. Carolina Dancers
Sunday
9 a.m.- The Bread and Puppet
5 p.m. Theatre '
2 p.m. John Cage
and Grete Sultan
4 p.m. Roger Bruce
photography workshop
Meredith Monk
dance workshop
7 p.m.- Renaissance Feast
1 1 p.m. and Festival
Great Hall, Carolina Union
Hill Hall Rehearsal
Hall .
Location to be announced
101 Greenlaw
Memorial Hall
Great Hall,
Carolina Union
Hill Hall
Location to be announced
Woollen Gym
The Ranch House
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