Songs they will keep/drop/add

[sodascouts]

"Destiny Rules" and "Running Through the Garden" were dropped from the SYW tour rather quickly.

The fact is that despite the new narrative, those who remember the interviews where Stevie talked about how it was a bad idea to add more than four songs from Rumours during the 1977 tour know that it's simply not true that she's been gung-ho about taking risks with the FM setlist, despite what she's done on her own tours.

Additional thoughts on the topic....

I believe they will indeed play "Station Man." Stevie made an effort to bring it up (although she embarrassed herself with her inaccurate pegging of it as a Christine song) and now with Danny Kirwan's death, it's especially relevant.

"Oh Well" will be there, of course, but that was there with Lindsey, despite the collective amnesia about doing old songs with him in the band.

I think they will probably do "Black Magic Woman" and maybe one more old song, but I doubt they'll do more than four. I doin't think they'll drop them. Neil Finn needs something to do that's not a Lindsey song. He brings nothing Mac-related to the table unless they do new music, which will presumably be performed.

I'm sure they'll do "Don't Dream It's Over" and "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with Mike Campbell on vocals, the latter probably preceded by several minutes of Stevie talking about how Tom Petty's death affected her personally. This speech will probably become longer and longer as the tour progresses, until it reaches the double digits.

"Stand Back" will perhaps also find its way into the setlist again. As to whether they'll do any more solo songs in addition to those two... perhaps one more, but I doubt any more than that.

It would be a pleasant surprise if she pulls out a never-before-performed Fleetwood Mac song, unless it's a song where Lindsey's part is prominent. Then, it would be lame.

They need to ditch any signature Lindsey/Stevie songs like "Silver Springs", "Gypsy", and "Landslide." Unfortunately, I fear they'll keep "Landslide" with Mike Campbell, and Stevie will do some icky kind of "cuddle Mike from behind as if he's Lindsey" thing, reinforcing the whole "I've replaced Lindsey" angle.

"World Turning" and Mick's extended drum solo, complete with him prancing about and spitting for an extended period from center stage, will no doubt be featured once more.

I'm sure there will be a shameless performance of "The Chain."

Obviously they'll do the big hits including "Go Your Own Way" despite it being a Lindsey song and of course all of Stevie and Christine's hits, including "Don't Stop."

I think "Songbird" will never be performed again.

[bwboy]

Originally Posted by sodascouts

"Destiny Rules" and "Running Through the Garden" were dropped from the SYW tour rather quickly.

The fact is that despite the new narrative, those who remember the interviews where Stevie talked about how it was a bad idea to add more than four songs from Rumours during the 1977 tour know that it's simply not true that she's been gung-ho about taking risks with the FM setlist, despite what she's done on her own tours.

Additional thoughts on the topic....

I believe they will indeed play "Station Man." Stevie made an effort to bring it up (although she embarrassed herself with her inaccurate pegging of it as a Christine song) and now with Danny Kirwan's death, it's especially relevant.

"Oh Well" will be there, of course, but that was there with Lindsey, despite the collective amnesia about doing old songs with him in the band.

I think they will probably do "Black Magic Woman" and maybe one more old song, but I doubt they'll do more than four. I doin't think they'll drop them. Neil Finn needs something to do that's not a Lindsey song. He brings nothing Mac-related to the table unless they do new music, which will presumably be performed.

I'm sure they'll do "Don't Dream It's Over" and "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with Mike Campbell on vocals, the latter probably preceded by several minutes of Stevie talking about how Tom Petty's death affected her personally. This speech will probably become longer and longer as the tour progresses, until it reaches the double digits.

"Stand Back" will perhaps also find its way into the setlist again. As to whether they'll do any more solo songs in addition to those two... perhaps one more, but I doubt any more than that.

It would be a pleasant surprise if she pulls out a never-before-performed Fleetwood Mac song, unless it's a song where Lindsey's part is prominent. Then, it would be lame.

They need to ditch any signature Lindsey/Stevie songs like "Silver Springs", "Gypsy", and "Landslide." Unfortunately, I fear they'll keep "Landslide" with Mike Campbell, and Stevie will do some icky kind of "cuddle Mike from behind as if he's Lindsey" thing, reinforcing the whole "I've replaced Lindsey" angle.

"World Turning" and Mick's extended drum solo, complete with him prancing about and spitting for an extended period from center stage, will no doubt be featured once more.

I'm sure there will be a shameless performance of "The Chain."

Obviously they'll do the big hits including "Go Your Own Way" despite it being a Lindsey song and of course all of Stevie and Christine's hits, including "Don't Stop."

I think "Songbird" will never be performed again.

This is a well written post and you make compelling points. I don't agree that Landslide and especially Gypsy are considered Stevie and Lindsey signature songs, though. Silver Springs, yes, Landslide and Gypsy, no. That's a matter of opinion, though, no wrong and no right.

I think Lindsey may not have ever wanted to do Oh Well again since the Dance, the last time he sang it was for the Mirage tour. It's a song I could do without on the set list, but I don't hate it.

Curious why you think Christine won't do Songbird? Because she isn't playing keyboards like she used to? Maybe they could use guitar instead. I would be ok without it, but it's a little hard for me to imagine she won't perform it.

I do think Stevie will pull out at least one rarely performed song, either Angel, That's Alright, or I Don't Want any to Know.

[sodascouts]

Originally Posted by bwboy

I think Lindsey may not have ever wanted to do Oh Well again since the Dance, the last time he sang it was for the Mirage tour. It's a song I could do without on the set list, but I don't hate it.

They played "Oh Well" as recently as 2009, actually.

Curious why you think Christine won't do Songbird? Because she isn't playing keyboards like she used to? Maybe they could use guitar instead. I would be ok without it, but it's a little hard for me to imagine she won't perform it.

When they dropped "Songbird" during the last tour, I kept hoping it was temporary and would come back when the "hand injury" healed, but it never did. It seemed to me that Christine just didn't want to do it anymore; the hand injury allowed her to break that tradition and once the tradition had been broken, she didn't want to bring it back.

Maybe Christine didn't want to do "Songbird" because of difficulty with the playing, or maybe it was because her voice is out there all alone during that song and there's no disguising any missteps. While those things can be fixed with changed arrangements, I think they'll just go the route of leaving it off entirely. I hope I'm wrong.

I do think Stevie will pull out at least one rarely performed song, either Angel, That's Alright, or I Don't Want any to Know.

Lindsey has a prominent role in the latter two; the first started out as a BN song. It would also be pretty ironic to do IDWTK since it is the only Rumours song that has not been performed live.

What would really be appropriate would be to do "No Questions Asked" or "Paper Doll" - those are strong post-Lindsey songs and they've never been done before, to my knowledge.

Regarding older songs, apparently it's a done deal that they are doing "Rattlesnake Shake." I have no idea why Stevie is down with this when she was against "Come." Does she not know what it is about?? So gross.

If I were Neil, I would be "Um, Mick, I really would rather not sing about you doing that...how about Heart Beat Like A Hammer...Loved Another Woman...Stop Messin' Round... Love That Burns... I'll even just stand over here silently and we can all play Fighting for Madge... anything but Rattlesnake Shake...."

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by sodascouts

Regarding older songs, apparently it's a done deal that they are doing "Rattlesnake Shake." I have no idea why Stevie is down with this when she was against "Come." Does she not know what it is about?? So gross.

Maybe the visual image of one of the great loves of her life spanking it doesn’t repulse her.

If I were Neil, I would be "Um, Mick, I really would rather not sing about you doing that...how about Heart Beat Like A Hammer...Loved Another Woman...Stop Messin' Round... Love That Burns... I'll even just stand over here silently and we can all play Fighting for Madge... anything but Rattlesnake Shake...."

I’m betting Mike sings it for some reason.

[Angel75]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

Maybe the visual image of one of the great loves of her life spanking it doesn’t repulse her. :shrug

Laugh out loud

[sodascouts]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

I’m betting Mike sings it for some reason.

Did he sing "Rattlesnake Shake" the last time they performed it?

Anyway, to sum up, the songs I think they will do, in no particular order:

Don't Dream It's Over
Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
Stand Back
Oh Well
Rattlesnake Shake
Station Man
Black Magic Woman
The Chain
Go Your Own Way
Don't Stop
World Turning
Dreams
Rhiannon
Sara
Sisters of the Moon
Gold Dust Woman
Say You Love Me
You Make Lovin' Fun
Everywhere
Over My Head
[I don't want it, but I fear they'll do Landslide and/or Gypsy, esp. Landslide]
[Two new songs if they release any]
[one never-before-performed-FM song or rarely performed FM song from Stevie - I would rather No Questions Asked or Paper Doll but they will probably do Angel if they do this]
[Maybe another Stevie solo song and/or Petty cover]

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by sodascouts

Did he sing "Rattlesnake Shake" the last time they performed it?

The last time Fleetwood Mac performed it, Rick Vito sang it. The only Peter Green songs I know Mike has played publicly are Oh Well (Tom with TPATH, Mike with Dirty Knobs) and Man Of The World with Neil Finn (Neil).

I just can’t imagine Neil singing it and I can’t imagine Mike not singing it.

[sodascouts]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

The last time Fleetwood Mac performed it, Rick Vito sang it. The only Peter Green songs I know Mike has played publicly are Oh Well (Tom with TPATH, Mike with Dirty Knobs) and Man Of The World with Neil Finn (Neil).

I just can’t imagine Neil singing it and I can’t imagine Mike not singing it.

Sorry, I misread your initial post as speculating that Mick would sing it. Now I understand!

[Angel75]

Originally Posted by sodascouts

Regarding older songs, apparently it's a done deal that they are doing "Rattlesnake Shake." I have no idea why Stevie is down with this when she was against "Come." Does she not know what it is about?? So gross.

I think Stevie was appalled with Come as she believed it was written about her, despite Lindsey saying it wasn't.

[dreamsunwind]

Originally Posted by Angel75

I think Stevie was appalled with Come as she believed it was written about her, despite Lindsey saying it wasn't.

I don't think she actually thought it was about her, she probably just thought it was too sexual. She doesn't like Tusk either for that same reason ('real savage like').

[AncientQueen]

Originally Posted by sodascouts

Regarding older songs, apparently it's a done deal that they are doing "Rattlesnake Shake." I have no idea why Stevie is down with this when she was against "Come." Does she not know what it is about??

They should bring Harold the Dildo back as a full member.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by AncientQueen

They should bring Harold the Dildo back as a full member.

Now there's a band member replacement I can get behind.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by AncientQueen

They should bring Harold the Dildo back as a full member.

IIRC, Harold was quite a bit more than a full member.

[Angel75]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

IIRC, Harold was quite a bit more than a full member.

I wonder if there is a photo anywhere of Harold, that may be the only thing that would could make me laugh out loud when I now see a photo of a Fleetwood Mac member

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by Angel75

I wonder if there is a photo anywhere of Harold, that may be the only thing that would could make me laugh out loud when I now see a photo of a Fleetwood Mac member

To be clear Harold was a fake member.