just 2 of them on stage acoustically for 1st few songs

elle · #1 06-17-2017, 02:33 PM

in that Sirius Town Hall Lindsey said they will be opening their Buckingham Mcvie live shows with a few acoustic numbers, just Christine and Lindsey alone on the stage.

what do we think, which songs will they do? how many?

I can think of Say You Love Me and Big Love, or Say You Love me and Never Going Back, but what others? i could see Love Is Here to Stay acoustically, but they performed it as full band on CBS show so don't think that's it.

one thing i'm sure of is that it will be balanced numbers of his and her songs since they always try to do that... maybe they surprise us with re-working some unexpected songs acoustically??

lbfan · #2 06-17-2017, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by elle

... maybe they surprise us with re-working some unexpected songs acoustically??

That would be great! Perhaps "Walk a Thin Line" and "Why." But it will probably be "Big Love" or "Never Going Back Again" and "Say You Love Me." Maybe "Game of Pretend."

Macfan4life · #3 06-17-2017, 03:44 PM

Oh God please NO Big Love
Give it a break. It was so cool during the Dance but its over. I really doubt they will do it. I don't think they will do Never Going Back Again. We will hear all these songs AGAIN during the world tour. PLEASE PLEASE give us something different.

Lola · #4 06-17-2017, 03:45 PM

Walk A Thin Line! I'll die and miss the rest of the show, lol. I listened to this show earlier and here's what I recall:

Mark Goodman was trying to drill down on which songs were demos for FM and which weren't--quite a few questions about when this, when that. It sounded like Chris said she wasn't playing at all on Lay Down For Free but Lindsey was talking at the same time. Chris was asked to characterize what he's like in the studio and she said "he's a very driven man, very focused, very concentrated, fanatical." Mark noted Lindsey playing drums, bass, keyboards. Red Sun was inspired by Chris watching the sun go down in Africa.
Mark asked if OWTS was written as a love letter to FM and Lindsey says "yeah" then explains the song was cut with John and Mick and it predated the tour in 2013 then was put on the shelf. He mentioned John has a recording studio in his house and would listen to Lindsey's stuff then comment on what he wanted to work on. Chris said she got very emotional when she heard the song "a tear went down my cheek". Lindsey talks about "playing to 3 generations of people at least."

Lola · #5 06-17-2017, 03:59 PM

Mark loves the sound of the album and Lindsey says Luke Steel from Empire of the Sun calls IMW "minimalist modern.' Mark didn't know Chris toured solo here in the states

They were asked about preparing for the shows and Chris said "it's a different band" and talked about being used to playing with Mick and John but added she's really excited. This part is just my interpretation---she sounded a little hesitant, a little tentative. Lindsey jumped in to say "it may be an adjustment for her" but he's used to these size shows and "Jimmy Paxson is killer" and he worked with the bass player during OOTC.
Asked if they'll do FM songs Lindsey replies "they'd run us out on a rail if we didn't" and then he said "we're opening up with just the 2 of us and some off the radar stuff" then doing 8 of the 10 songs from the new album. Yahoo!!!!

Lola · #6 06-17-2017, 04:17 PM

Chris was asked if Stevie has weighed in on the album and she says "you mean criticized?" then she says "I've seen Stevie socially on several occasions, we haven't talked about it at all, we talked about getting together in July." Lindsey confirms a solo release in Jan 2018 and summer Mac tour in 2018. Chris was asked about statements a few years ago about Stevie contributing and she answered "no, that was just a fantasy of mine" and Lindsey offered "we haven't ruled anything out but probably no" then Chris adds "you just never know with this band." She said she trusts Lindsey and feels safe working with him.

Almost forgot earlier in the interview Lindsey said "very seldom does everyone want the same thing at the same time--makes it disappointing to get things mobilized." No s#*t!
Please forgive me for splitting this up as I did but I had notes scratched everywhere from listening to the show. I hope this town hall becomes available for everyone. Sometimes a written transcription isn't the same as hearing the inflection in people's voice and I did my best to be accurate.

Whatever this thing will be at the start of their show sounds extra new and fresh and I'm all for it. I'm even more pumped up for these shows now.

FuzzyPlum · #7 06-17-2017, 04:30 PM

Off the radar stuff...now that sounds great. Perhaps a couple of solo songs and a couple of vaguer Fleetwood Mac numbers. Please let Why be in there somewhere. I was also thinking Honey Hi could be a good one for just the two of them (though it would really miss Stevie's vocals). Hold Me could be described as off-the-radar, though I'd prefer it to have a full band treatment.

PS, thanks Lola

jwd · #8 06-17-2017, 11:14 PM

Eyes of the World would be a great tune for them to do here. At very least it'd be a cool way for them to segue from an acoustic set to a full on band set.

nicepace · #9 06-18-2017, 12:15 PM

This is really exciting news! I'm looking forward to seeing the two of them on stage without the band. It's interesting that they are planning to start the show like this, instead of inserting an acoustic set in the middle of the show.

I really hope this means Chris will do some serious keyboard playing in those first few songs. Hopefully they will choose songs for this acoustic set that have a keyboard component, or can be arranged to have a keyboard component.

Chris' keyboard playing is one of the real strengths of this band, and they shouldn't underutilize it.