As a fan primarily of Christine, I love the 'Buckingham McVie' album. "Game of Pretend," "Carnival Begin," and "On With the Show" rank way up high on my list of FM favorites.
There is more than one obvious difference between it and 'Say You Will.' Besides one of the FM women being missing from each of them, the SYW album is way, way too long, and the BMcV album is just about the right length or even a little bit too short.
When I saw the BMcV tour in Boston, I was really happy they played most of the album, and ending with "Game Of Pretend" was just perfect (no pun intended). It was a song enough like "Songbird" to leave the audience with a familiar contented feeling, but also allowed Chris and Lindsey to make a statement: this ISN'T Fleetwood Mac, and we're not playing by the usual formula.
I do agree with the poster who said playing the Buckingham solo songs to start the show was unnecessary. More FM obscurities or a solo Christine song would have been welcome.
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-Joanne (from Cape Cod)
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