Fleetwood Celebrates Its Musical Heritage, The New Restaurant

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - well before the success of Fleetwood Mac founder Mick Fleetwood when the group was a child in Britain to learn to play the drums, he dreamed that his restaurant. His parents believed in the garage, then 9 years with an old farmhouse where they lived, and a young man he moved to Fleetwood Speakeasy some children who called the Club, Keller. Instead of vodka, poured Coca-Cola.

"I used to earn up to Smith and chips fish and chips and stuff for other kids to come around," the bearded rocker recalled in a recent interview, his eyes sparkled at the memory. "I had my radio program and my drums and there was my world."

Today, five decades and a half later, Fleetwood is to create a new world for him and his music: he opened a restaurant in his adopted city of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui.

Fleetwood on the front of the street will open next year, and its namesake is considered the next chapter in his career: a place to satisfy your food and beverages (including his own Mick Fleetwood Private Cellar wines) playing with friends and run the whole show. His intention is to show musicians and local artists and invite the occasional famous rock star. The new facility is essentially a large scale until the exaggerated version of his former club Keller.

"I always wanted to do it," Fleetwood said a visit to the office of his manager in Beverly Hills. "I am like one of those strange creatures Chinese, where you see anything in 30 years. It is petrifying and exciting and rewarding, because ... if you stay focused, and it's something flat, but if you visualize, and visualize and see a lot is really you. "

Keller club itself can actually be lifted, said business partner Todd Fleetwood, Jonathan. "We have a choice in a smaller ground, and if we do, I swear I'll call Keller's club," Todd sai

Develop the restaurant overlooking the time of Fleetwood. He helped choose the place (a historic building dating from 1916 - the year he was born his mother), select the set and create the menu, but insists that "there is a shrine dedicated to Mick Fleetwood."

"You know, that's my place, but it's very tastefully done," 64 years, he said. "Mick Fleetwood is not a museum. This is a real job in a restaurant."

He says he will rely on "Fleetwood Mac legacy" to inform its atmosphere.

"This is a responsibility to do so properly, and selfishly responsibility for something that is very precious to me, that's what I did with Fleetwood Mac and my partner and music," he said.

Restaurant led him away from music a bit ', and expects that to continue, but it fits ". I now have a place to play when I want or need"

In addition, Fleetwood Mac, a musician, there are two other band, Mick Fleetwood Blues Band Mick Fleetwood Band, and Island Voices. With or without his band mates, Fleetwood intends to play in the restaurant often - and there is at least one of the Fleetwood Mac tour planned.

"We will release next year," he said. "We are all creatures of habit and we like what we do .... What has happened, we are together.

"The whole thing is so powerful, and all this is somehow resonates with what I'm doing with the restaurant, Fleetwood," he continued. "It can not have that filter through. And 'my place."

But as the group slowed ones ("In the next five to seven years, type of question that Fleetwood Mac is going to be extremely active"), Fleetwood said he is excited to focus on his new venture.

"That sense of who I am and what I'm turning into something," he said, "and is the perfect vehicle for me."

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