Neil Finn

And yeah, we were a bit isolated.

But I went to a crowded house concert in Dunedin here and Neil Finn stood up on stage and said, welcome to the biggest concert in the world tonight.

And it was just spot on.

Nowhere else was back to almost normal.

I would love to go to New Zealand, which I know is not Australia.

I get it, but I would love to go to New Zealand just because that's where Neil Finn is from, one of my favorite songwriters, and obviously it's where they film Lord of the Rings, and I'd love to visit the set.

Soder, how are you, brother? Thanks for the super chat.

Why focus on the defense when you have Jordan Love and are going out to put up weekly 40 burgers? Throw the damn ball.

Get that message out there with new stuff.

The other band that I saw recently, well, not band, but I saw Tim Finn, as you know, and that was a really, that was kind of, uh the opposite of the massive attack uh concert in the sense that uh this is 74 years of history of a guy who has had a pretty extraordinary career his his voice is it kind of wavers at certain points it's like he can hit really high he can do really low there somewhere there's there's a part somewhere in the middle that he slightly struggles with but he's also 74 and he's giving it a go and I don't that sounds patronizing he's giving it his all and it adds a level of fragility to the performance which I found really endearing

Yeah, I liked how you wrote that because I'd missed that.

I'd kind of, in my brain, despite the fact that I love him and they were one of my first favourite bands and all that sort of stuff, I saw some recent footage of the Split Ends gigs and I heard that Tim's voice was faltering in parts and I just sort of went, oh, no, I don't need to see that kind of thing.

It's funny, of the first four Crowded House albums, which I think are unassailable, I'd put that run up against any band's run of four albums.

But Woodface was my least favourite of the four.

And I wasn't sure that I wanted Tim Finn in the band.

It felt like he was intruding in a way.

In 2018, following the highly publicized firing of Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac made their first public appearance with their new members on daytime television.

New additions Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Neil Finn of Crowded House and Split Ends joined the band to perform The Chain and Gypsy.

In 2019, renowned session guitarist, sound engineer, and co-founder of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Mr. Jimmy Johnson, died at the age of 76.

As a central member of the studio's legendary house band, The Swampers, his work shaped the definitive rock and roll sounds of Aretha Franklin, Paul Simon, and The Rolling Stones, among many, many, many others.

Wait, what band

is this? Crowded House, Neil Finn.

The other member of Fleetwood Mac, Neil Finn.

Oh, man, this thing isn't popping out.

We're having technical difficulties.

And they said, stop singing.

Yeah, and I was like, it's a fucking Neil Finn concept.

Oh, you're not allowed to stop singing.

Yeah, it's fucking me.

making Finn look bad?

This lady goes, I can't, sorry, it's confusing.

I can't tell if Neil Finn's there or up there.

Were you doing like annoying harmonies or anything? That's perfectly in key.

You started that.

Which New Zealand artist's 1986 song, Slice of Heaven, became a hit after featuring in the Foot Rock Flat movie? Was it Dave Dobbin, Neil Finn, Shona Lang, or Jordan Luck?

I know the song, but I don't know it well enough to know who it is.

I think Dave Dobbin.

Now I'm nervous.

Say the answers again.

Dave Dobbin, Neil Finn, Shona Lang, Jordan Luck.

Neil Finn.

Right.

So to replace Buckingham on the 2018 tour, the band brought in Mike Campbell, formerly of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Neil Finn of the band Crowded House.

And they launched the An Evening With Fleetwood Mac Tour, continuing to perform their massive catalog of hits with yet another completely altered lineup.

Yeah.

I'm not saying that because, I mean, you know, probably my favorite musician ever.

Well, he's closely tied with Neil Finn.

But the thing is...

Good combination right there.