[Hawkeye]

Like I said in my Not Too Late thread, this was easily the best Lindsey concert I had ever been to and top 5 maybe higher of all the Fleetwood Mac and various solo shows I’ve been to.

I did not enjoy the opener as much as you did aluezzi. He had a great voice and played very well and best of all I loved his sense of humor but it was just painfully slow start to finish. The first 6 songs were very enjoyable tho. Couldn’t stand the last a Capella one tho.


This set is amazing. The flow and pacing is perfect. The seeds we sow tour had incredible moments, mainly all the new songs, but there were stretches of that show that weren’t the greatest. Plus I hate the opening with an acoustic set like he did on that tour and they did on The BickVie tour. The other thing about the seeds we sow tour was my enjoyment of the Fleetwood Mac songs was not there because of how noticeable the lack of Mock and John was. Like I said in the other thread, that problem has been solved with the BuckVie Rythym section:

- Dont Look Down is an awesome opener although not nearly as good as Great Day was on the Gift of Screws tour.


- Surrender the Rain contained some of my favorite moments and least favorite of the show all in one song. It’s so subtle but whatever Lindsey’s doing on guitar during the chorus is fantastic.

Overall this song is an absolute highlight but that damned ending is so odd. His actual vocals were so good all night I don’t know why he has to add that high voiced effect to the “finale” It doesn’t even sound good that way.

- I already gave Not Too Late it’s own thread for being so fanned
Good on this tour. I’ve always considered this a very mediocre song and definitely bottom of the barrel as far as his fast finger picking songs. But adding the full band to this song took the song into maybe the best song of the night. They don’t do that much either, but particularly the suttle drums on the chorus made a huge difference. And despite it getting its own thread, it still wasn’t the actual best song , that came next.

- I was thrilled when I saw he was doing, “doing what I can” opening night and it did not disappoint. Definitely my favorite song of the night.

- trouble is much better with a full band

- I must Go was the biggest surprise of the night for me along with Not Too Late. I was thrilled he was doing Slow Dancing but not so much I Must Go. But holy sh*t, this had to be his most passionate vocal delivery of a night filled with great vocals, particularly the way he was wailing IIIIIIIIII at the end.

- There something very comforting about watching Lindsey play Big Love. Nothing special or different from the 8 other times I’ve seen him do it, except for maybe some extended oooh ahhhhing but it was by far the most excited i ever was to hear that intro.

- shut us down was another big surprise. I’ve never cared for his performance of this song live and I’ve seen him do it 3 other times. This felt drastically different. Again I think it’s that more passionate delivery I reference above.

- I was ready to dread NGBA too, but he actually did that one well.

- Slow Dancing was as great as I thought it would be.

- Tusk “sounded” the best it ever has live including with a Fleetwood Mac. Now that’s in quotations and I’m not gonna call this one of the best performances of the night because I feel that 50 percent of what made it so great is just the fact they have the prerecorded marching band blasting at the end. And while that’s sort of “cheating” it’s hard to care when I’ve never heard my favorite song of all time sound so so Sonically pleasing!

- as previously mentioned jimmy Paxon has saved I’m So Afraid. That combined with Lindsey’s solo never sounding better made this one of the best ISAs I’ve ever seen

- GYOW wasn’t bad or anything, but at least to me, incredibly anticlimactic after literally every other song in the rest of the set. Especially Imediately following Tusk and ISA.

- so happy that Down on Rodeo was played, it’s been a favorite since the bootleg GOS was out.

- Lindsey’s Band intros being so enjoyable were maybe an even bigger surprise then any song. Very entertaining. Also I guess now would be a great time to mention how great it was that Lindsey’s intersong banter was not out of control like past tours.

-Treason was a great closer. I can’t remember, is this the first time it’s
Been done full band? I feel like he did it acoustic in 08 but can’t remember. Either way I liked this song way more this tour.