1) LOVE this video
2) Stevie looks GORGEOUS! (i want her hair)
3) wicked pumped for the tour
4) I'm just wicked excited haha

And the more I think about it, the more troubled I get. If Lindsey said don't worry about the lack of rehearsals, because it's the same songs we've been doing for 30 years, that indicates to me that the songs will have the old, familiar arrangements too. If I was dreaming of something like the remodeled SYLM we got for The Dance, then I can kill that hope.

Thinking of their appearance, I don't think they looked old. If anything, they looked too classy. They were sedate and stately. I would like to see a few concert clips to promote the new tour that show them in action. Take the clips from Lindsey's GOS solo outing and Stevie's Soundstage. Show them moving and sweating a little. Let people who haven't seen them before know that there will be some fun and motion at this concert.

Michele

I think that may be true. I'm sure Stevie and Mick are likely to have wanted to do the hits. I bet John just wants to play his bass but I get the impression that he would be open to doing a new setlist but in the end is happy just to play at all.

Then there's Lindsey, who performed more than half of his new album on his GOS tour and there were a few new arrangements of older songs, and now he's going and doing a nostalgia tour so that's really disappointing. I just want him to do solo stuff from now on unless the Mac become a proper working band again (unlikely). Lindsey is more a band with Wally, Neal and Brett than he is with Stevie, Mick and John these days.

Yeah I get it, I just hope they don't throw in too many Christine songs. I thought World Turning and Don't Stop was just enough last time. I mean Lindsey has only had three "radio" hits with the band. I mean I can see him doing these, realistically:

I'm So Afraid
Second Hand News
Go Your Own Way
Tusk
I Know Im Not Wrong (He seems to love this one)
Never Goin Back Again
Eyes of the World
Big Love
Bleed to Love Her (Maybe, due to the popularity of the Dance)
Peacekeeper

Sadly, I completely agree. The Gift of Screws Tour was nothing short of spectacular.

Ive come up with a list that is what I EXPECT and not exactly what I WANT.

Linds:

I'm So Afraid
Second Hand News
Go Your Own Way
Tusk
I Know Im Not Wrong (He seems to love this one)
Never Goin Back Again
Eyes of the World
Big Love
Bleed to Love Her (Maybe, due to the popularity of the Dance)
Peacekeeper

Stevie:

Landslide
Rhiannon
Dreams
Gold Dust Woman
Silver Springs
Sara
Gypsy
Stand Back
Say You Will
Goodbye Baby (To close the show)

Together:

The Chain
Don't Stop
World Turning

Now thats only 23 songs, which leaves room for two more. Will they do 2 "different" songs or will they do two Christine songs?

Sometimes compromises have to be made, to eventually get what you want.

If a "Greatest Hits" tour is what it takes for the band members to reconnect and to all get on the same page about recording new material -- becoming that proper "working band" again -- then I think it's a worthwhile trade-off.

Stevie and Lindsey are gorgeous together. Thank you for putting this up. It's hard not to laugh watching the subtle nuances of the interview. Lindsey seemed to be holding back a few guffaws: when Stevie picked "Go Your Own Way," as an example of a song that "no body wanted to hear," and when Stevie stated once the new album comes out, we'll be forced to sit through and listen to a bunch of new songs we don't know. He was twisting his hands, got a twinkle in his eyes, as he just smiled. "Just this one time" we'll get to hear all the hits. I love Stevie. I really really do. Somehow Stevie blocked out The Dance tour, album and video where we heard all those same favorites they have played for the last 30 years. Macman, I agree. He was strong armed on this one. "He's the keeper of the peace" in this effort.

Completely, completely agree. His slight permagrin and constant twiddling of his thumbs showed just how thrilled he was to be there talking about this tour. Thinking about the money that's he's going to make just might be the only thing that puts him in his "happy place".

But even 'The Dance' featured four new ones that casual listeners had to "sit through." ;)

I honestly don't think Lindsey's being "strong-armed." I just think he's taking a slightly more relaxed attitude towards it all.

Stevie & Lindsey always clash over who's right and who's wrong, but maybe -- hopefully -- they're both trying to be adults this time, for the benefit of the band's future.

In the best of all possible worlds, that's going to benefit us too. Even if we do have to muddle through this "Hits" tour first!

Well I can't get the video to play. If someone could be so kind and post it in "YouTube" form that would be awseome.

But from the quotes posted in writing I'm not quite as alarmed as some of you:


Lindsey is saying they're going back and looking at their body of work, their WHOLE body of work. There's just no pressure to play new stuff. And Stevie saying they're going to "bring back songs we know and love" implies that these are songs that have actually left! Unless she has total amneisia, she has to know that Dreams, GDW, Landslide, Rhiannon etc. have never left. So when she says bring back she has to be implying something in the vein of Sisters of the Moon.

I think we're getting a little "too" worked up over the whole hits thing. Its just a marketing tool to sell tickets. In reality I think it just boils down to, for the first time since the Mirage tour, Gypsy and Sara will be allowed to coexist in the same set, and thats the extent of it. Hell just simple math implies that they HAVE to play some rarities. You just take the SYW set subtract the 6 new songs and BAM. Now the variable of them singing Christine hits throws the whole equation off and Im really hoping thats not the case.

Well, she does get total amnesia in some cases. Remember when she thought Landslide had been gone for 12 years?

Michele

LOL Stevie's (paraphrased) "You're gonna have to sit through those new songs when we make that new album." cracked me up because I'm so frustrated, I have to laugh. It shouldn't be that way. It p*sses me off that it's that way and that people get upset when they do new songs or rare stuff.

I want LB solo. I do NOT want this hits tour.[/whiney]

Well I wouldn't call that total amnesia, just slight exageration. Landslide was not in her solo set for quite some time, about 7 years. In fact I'm proud to say I was at the very last Stevie Nicks show to date to not inclue Landslide :bigthumbsup: It was Cleveland June 25th 2005. Landslide replaced I Need to Know at the next show.

The youtube vid is in this thread:
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showth...954#post787954

And I think we are all a little too worked up too. Just wait till the tour actually starts - It'll be fun reading all the gushing reviews from the same fans that complained about it in the beginning... Happens every time whether it's Stevie's tour or FM's tour...