John McVie removed the top two strings from his guitar to play bass until his father bought him a pink Fender.
1. Andrew's Daily Five episode 2 of the Fleetwood Mac series counts down songs 70 to 66 of the hosts' 75 favorites, opening with 'Caroline' from the 1987 album 'Tango in the Night'.
2. Andrew and co-host Tracy work through a shared Google Doc that has already reached 18 pages, with Tracy supplying much of the research from a Fleetwood Mac book.
3. The format combines album histories, a band member spotlight, song-by-song picks with lyrics and trivia, and a 'riser and faller' segment borrowed from Andrew's series with Dave.
4. The history segment covers 'Mr. Wonderful' (August 23, 1968), recorded in four days, whose rejected titles included 'A Good Length' and 'Utter Sucker' before Mick Fleetwood posed naked on the cover, and 'Then Play On' (September 19, 1969), which reached number six on the UK Albums Chart and took its title from Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night'.
5. The spotlight on John McVie covers his move from trumpet to bass, his nine months as a tax inspector alongside work with John Mayall, and his marriage to Christine Perfect of Chicken Shack, plus Bob Welch's line that his bass lines are "almost like little songs within the song."
6. Song 70, Christine McVie's 'Homeward Bound' from 'Bare Trees' (1972), has the lyric "I want to sit at home in my rocking chair," which the hosts connect to her withdrawal from the band in 1998, and features Danny Kirwan and Bob Welch trading guitar solos.
7. Song 69, 'Big Love', was first single from 'Tango in the Night', reaching number five in the US, and was inspired by Kate Bush's 'Running Up That Hill' and its Fairlight synthesizer; the acoustic version, captured on 'The Dance', reportedly left blood on Buckingham's guitar at the O2 Arena in 2015.
8. Songs 68 to 66 include 'Station Man', which Phil Lesh says he sped up for the Grateful Dead's 'Passenger' and whose riff Pete Townshend borrowed for 'Won't Get Fooled Again'; 'Book of Love', where Buckingham's vocals were recorded to slowed tape; and Welch's 'Hypnotized', in which Fleetwood played "a human drum loop."
9. Tracy notes that Elvis, Hendrix, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, David Bowie and John Lennon were all UFO enthusiasts, and the hosts note that the glass-smooth pond in 'Hypnotized' comes from a story set in North Carolina, where both of them are from.
10. Fans of Fleetwood Mac deep cuts and music-trivia countdowns will enjoy this.
