Fleetwood Mac and Eagles planning New York and L.A. festivals for 2017

BlanketMan · #1 07-31-2017, 12:11 AM

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Here are some pictures, videos, and tweets from the show. Of course, Harry Styles and his fashion encourage were there.

I loved the f*ck ups. That's live music for you.

My teen daughter, who attended the show with us, was heartbroken to hear Harry was there and we didn't see him! The only celebrity encounter I had was when I ran into SNL's Kyle Mooney three times strolling through our section. He's no Harry Styles!

The screw ups were tough to witness, especially when the five other acts this weekend had no such gaffes that I can recall. Still had a ball. The Eagles were amazing!

button-lip · #2 07-31-2017, 12:34 AM

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The awkwardness in the entire stadium during the two mess ups were quite embarrassing! I definitley sensed a lack of uniformity that perhaps more rehearsal could have fixed. Think About Me didn't have the punch that I thought it would; nothing like the album version.

Lindsey's little "we're a dysfunctional family that hates but still loves each other" speech I thought sounded very strategically worded. I wonder if it had anything to do with Stevie not wanting to participate in the recording that became Buckingham McVie. Or that maybe they really weren't that interested in doing these two shows?

I also sensed a lack of rehearsal. I don't know, there was a weird vibe. Lindsey wasn't the usual happy man we have been seeing in the BuckVie concerts. There was a sweet moment in Landslide but that was probably the whole interaction he had with Stevie. They kept talking, probably about the Glenn Frey dedication, and she said: "we have to talk sometimes" :P

With Christine the story was totally different. Lindsey was all smiles, trying to harmonize and play with her the whole time.

And the bows were with the same line up of the Classic West: John-Christine-Stevie-Mick-Lindsey.

I caught the moment before the bow: Stevie was avoided going to Lindsey's side. She was backtracking, waiting for Mick to hold her.

When they were entering the stage, Christine, Mick and John had to wait for Lindsey and Stevie. At one point, Christine raised her hands to Mick, like: "where are these two?" Of course we all kept wondering what had happened backstage.

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The screw ups were tough to witness, especially when the five other acts this weekend had no such gaffes that I can recall. Still had a ball. The Eagles were amazing!

Everybody around me who wasn't a FM fan, was saying that The Eagles was much better.

Maybe they rehearsed more.

All in all, it was an amazing concert. I enjoyed it very much, although nothing will top BuckVie in Phoenix

button-lip · #3 07-31-2017, 01:52 AM

Bleed to Love her

Gold Dust Woman

I'm so Afraid (Part 1). Sorry for the bad quality!

I'm so Afraid (Part 2). Better quality!

The mishap in Don't Stop:

GypsySorcerer · #4 07-31-2017, 08:12 AM

^^^^ That guy saying "You can do it!" in the Don't Stop video.

Seems like mixed reviews for FM on social media, but pretty much everyone is talking about how awful/off Journey was.

button-lip · #5 07-31-2017, 09:14 AM

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^^^^ That guy saying "You can do it!" in the Don't Stop video.

Seems like mixed reviews for FM on social media, but pretty much everyone is talking about how awful/off Journey was.

Awful? I think they had to add an unscheduled song (I'm not sure because I don't have the setlist) because of the people's response.

AND they interacted with the audience A LOT. Same with EWAF. FM not so much. Not even Stevie.

GypsySorcerer · #6 07-31-2017, 09:23 AM

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Awful? I think they had to add an unscheduled song (I'm not sure because I don't have the setlist) because of the people's response.

AND they interacted with the audience A LOT. Same with EWAF. FM not so much. Not even Stevie.

Lots of people talking about sound problems for Journey.

Tango · #7 07-31-2017, 09:26 AM

http://www.billboard.com/articles/ne...festival-recap

ami0425 · #8 07-31-2017, 09:55 AM

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Awful? I think they had to add an unscheduled song (I'm not sure because I don't have the setlist) because of the people's response.

AND they interacted with the audience A LOT. Same with EWAF. FM not so much. Not even Stevie.

She briefly smiled and looked at the crowd during GYOW. She walked to either side of the stage. But other than that, not much. I would imagine it would be difficult to in a stadium since there's so many more people. How far away was the front row of the stage? I saw someone threw a bouqet of dlowers up to her.

Her bit at the end of how she will "never forget" last night I thought was cute.

button-lip · #9 08-01-2017, 06:28 AM

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She briefly smiled and looked at the crowd during GYOW. She walked to either side of the stage. But other than that, not much. I would imagine it would be difficult to in a stadium since there's so many more people. How far away was the front row of the stage? I saw someone threw a bouqet of dlowers up to her.

Her bit at the end of how she will "never forget" last night I thought was cute.

Yeah, she looked at the crowd in my section during GYOW and she waved at us. But everybody was drunk so I was probably the only one who noticed it.

The first row was probably twenty feet away from the stage, and the stage was high. I saw Lindsey picking up the bouquet and giving it at Stevie (more like throwing it at her

).

I had the "never forget" video. It was weird the use of that concept. It was a weird night.

bucklind17 · #10 07-31-2017, 09:47 AM

Hi all. Haven't posted here in ages but went to this, so thought I'd chime in!

We only went to last night's show, not Saturday. I was able to nab a single day ticket about two weeks ago on Ticketmaster, in the Field Level seats around first base for a pretty reasonable price (lower than the upper deck tickets were on StubHub!) and I was so happy with them. The incline in those seats gave us a great scope of the stage and the crowd below without feeling super distanced from the action. The only thing is that they were in the sun pretty much until the sun fully set so we ended up getting food/drinks and just listening to Earth, Wind and Fire instead of watching. People were really into it though, and they sounded fun!

I thought Journey was a lot of fun. Loved their set, was really impressed with the vocals and though there was some long moments of showing off on drums and guitar (which is fine! I just saw Queen on Friday and they did as well, and they should too!), I thought the set had a good pace and the songs went over well. It's fun hearing big songs like that in a ballpark! Though as a Giants fan, it was weird to sing along to "Lights" in a ballpark that wasn't AT&T Park.

I really enjoy Fleetwood Mac's set. As someone who became a fan via The Dance in 1997 when I was in high school (thanks MTV!), it was really, really amazing to finally hear "Bleed To Love Her" live. I felt like I was floating. Other favorites of the set were "Second Hand News," "Sara," "Gold Dust Woman" and "Say You Love Me." It was a fun show and I liked that they threw "Think About Me" in there too. It was obviously a Greatest Hits set, and likely shorter than their regular show would be (maybe? at least a little?) but I thought they did a good mix and featured all three songwriters well. A LOT of people went to pee during "I'm So Afraid" though, heh.

I'm ultimately really glad I ended up going to this! Unfortunately I'm going to be out of town for the Christine/Lindsey show at the Beacon so at least I got to see everyone and doing so at an outdoor concert full of people who all seemed to be really enjoying themselves was a lot of fun.

Macfan4life · #11 07-31-2017, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

^^^^ That guy saying "You can do it!" in the Don't Stop video.

Seems like mixed reviews for FM on social media, but pretty much everyone is talking about how awful/off Journey was.

Interesting. I pretty much watched the entire Journey set at Dodger stadium on youtube and I was surprised how good they were. I wonder what happened on the east coast.

ryan4136 · #12 07-31-2017, 05:22 PM

For all the crap they can put their loyal fans through....when the lights are on they can put on a heck of a show. One the marginal fan would be blown away with. Die hands get numb to the greatness because of the lack of variety.

HomerMcvie · #13 07-31-2017, 10:07 AM

Makes me wonder if she has new keyboards(not the organ) and doesn't KNOW how to change the sounds?

I know that sounds ridiculous, but is it possible?

At Nashville, they started Game of Pretend, and had to stop it, then restart it...and all the really changed was that the keyboard tech came out and(apparently) pushed a button on her keyboard, then they restarted the song.

Is that a possibility, that she doesn't even know how to change sounds?

I could see that being an issue for Stevie, but not Wonder Woman!