Fleetwood Mac Played Their Very First Gig In El Paso??

As you may know, Fleetwood Mac member Stevie Nicks spent a pretty good amount of her childhood in El Paso but not many know the bands first live gig with her was here.

Peter Green started Fleetwood Mac in the late 60's but the band really took off a few years later when Lindsey Buckingham and his girlfriend Stevie Nicks came onboard in 1974. With 3 strong songwriters now instead of 1, the band shifted from a blues based sound to a more commercial one and the hits kept coming.

Stevie's family moved to El Paso when she was about 7 and stayed for 5 years. During that time, Stevie went from 3rd - 7th grade at Loretto, Crockett and Bassett. Her family moved around quite a bit and she went to high school in the Bay area where she met Lyndsey Buckingham.

I had been playing guitar and singing pretty much totally folk-oriented stuff. So I joined the band, and within a couple of weeks we were opening for really big shows: Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin. all of a sudden I was in rock & roll. - inherownwords

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Lindsey Buckingham recently told AXS about joining Fleetwood Mac and informing Lyndsey Buckingham that it was a package deal. If they wanted him, his girlfriend Stevie was coming too. (Cue in to 4:00.)

May 15, 1975, Stevie found herself back in the 915, playing the El Paso County Coliseum in a newly formed version of Fleetwood Mac that was about to go in a new musical direction.

One that would write hit, after hit ... "Rhiannon", "Say You Love Me", "Never Going Back", "Go Your Own Way", "Don't Stop", "Sara", "Little Lies" ... and ultimately land them in the Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame.