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Originally Posted by BLY
I was never sure how the Dance of Fleetwood Mac would end (death of a band member, changes in the lineup ?) When Stevie chose not to record with the rest of the band on the 2017 album which would have been the new music that they would have performed on this tour was an obvious sign.
Christine is done performing live period. Kicking Lindsey out of the band is un speakable. Going out with this new lineup without new music speaks volumes. (Look at the history of the band) I will always be one of their biggest fans...I love all the music and cherish the memories of the tours I have seen. (Including all the solo stuff) I never would have thought in 1977 that I would get music from them in 2017. I dont like how this all ends but it doesnt change the way I feel when I hear this music. I hope for Lindseys return to his craft. I would welcome new studio material from any of them. I do believe the live curtain is about to close for Fleetwood Mac.
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Perfectly said with the perfect tone. Overall Greatful or as I said about a year ago half full. They have a catalogue so great from 1967-1995 just as a band, the. If you include solo stuff it just gets better, that the way Ive looked at it is anything post Dance has been gravy. I usually just go back to 2000 and think about how I thought TISL and SYW era had to be very close to the end of road. No way did I expect them to be this active at 70 plus. And I really cant emphasize enough what an absolute miracle it is to have Christine touring and recording not just music but great music again with Fleetwood Mac Again.
The band has exceeded my expectations as far as impressing me far into their geriatric years as a live band and even with new music with Lindseys 3 albums, BuckVie and In Your Dreams/24 Karat Gold from Stevie.
But while I still see things very half full with the band in general and their overall legacy, Ive also come around to admitting this final chapter in the story has been terrible. While this new version of the band has the potential to had been great as seen in rare moments like Black Magic Woman, they chose to cut all the interesting songs and insist on keeping a lot of pathetic live versions of Fleetwood Mac songs that are never pathetic. This tours Go Your Own Way is the worst And most anticlimactic song to any concert Ive ever been to. What a let down after a still epic Gold a Dust Woman.
So unless this version of the band has some great, really kick ass album to surprise us with that gets back to the bands original blues sound in the vein of Black Magic Woman but with new songs (this would be right up 4/6th of the bands alleys. And 5/6 when you count Stevies love of covering blues songs. Christine even makes the comment about loving hearing stevie sing the blues after shes done with black Magic Woman.
If this fictional album comes to fruition, then Ill consider the band alive still. But if its anything short of that, I really hope Fleetwood Mac stops after this fall. I would absolutely consider January 2018 to be the end of Fleetwood Mac if this tour is all the comes of it.
Lindsey not being in the band didnt have to mean the end of the band. But their execution of releasing him and Im reforming was terrible.
They are no longer better the sum of their parts. In fact its the exact opposite. I believe theyre all still capable of doing good work separately but not as a group at the moment. Fleetwood Mac is where all of their creativity goes to die.
And despite coming around fully to this version of the band being an embarrassment Im still not entirely against things going down as they did. The Lindsey solo shows this past fall were the best of his career and I dont see how he couldve done those shows simultaneously as the Fleetwood Mac shows. We had the rumours 5 tour in 2014/2015, Im glad Lindsey's last tour before surgery was a solo one.