How about "A Gift of Gripes" ?

The Crystal Visions tour book was a new low. High School year books, as bad as they are, look better. Of course Priest of Nothing aka Chris Nicks was responsible for that. Overall, Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks haven't had a decent graphic design team in a long time. I feel they really don't care that much about that aspect of their released material, nor do they have the insight to see that the quality level is so low.

I've been recently mulling over the Enchanted box set. Chris Nicks was in charge of "art direction." Though it could have been really bad, it was passable at best, which is just about his best. In the hands of an inspirational, capable designer, it could have been so much better.

Being a huge collector of music media, as well as a former graphic designer, it is painfully obvious to me to see that the design standard of Fleetwood Mac related product is so sub par in comparison other bands of equal stature and even of those of lesser stature.

I was wondering if there was going to be a tourbook for this tour as well, when I asked the (merchandice asst?) why they were not selling one, I got the response that the band was spending more on damages and shipping? I think my biggest gripe was that the Sacremento show was canceled, thankfully they did Oakland and San Jose!

Doesnt anyone have a strong desire to hear a live version of 'Afairs of The Heart'????
Seriously though, I would have liked to maybe hear her make an attempt at 'Thrown Down'.

Yes, and as a duet with LB. She could sing "One set of doors was the color of honey" he could sing "one set of doors was pink and grey" Then they both sing "I wonder which set is mine said she" and then she could sing "as she walked down the long hallway"

Affairs is a cool song that suffered from the Klonopin and the IMO lackluster production of BTM - it still shines a little though.

Every last freakin' one of us has a strong desire to hear a live version of every song she has that she's never performed live before. Hell I'd even be happy if she sang Jane, you know that stupid song about monkey's.

you think? I've never considered it as anything other than a Klonopin throwaway, I'll try to visualize it as something else. Maybe if the tempo was slowed down a bit...

There's a demo floating around that is better.

But, I do like the song and I liked it when it came out. To me, the production of BTM is mundane sounding and trite. That is sad because the talent in the players was clearly there.

And - to each their own. I like Jane, to the horror of others :laugh:

I like Jane too! I mean, I don't love it as my favorite Stevie song of all time, but it has some good parts to it. When she sings "there are angels here...angels, angels sent from God...", oh I love that. I love when she sings about angels, actually.

Me too!

Plus, I think Jane was the first time since the song Bella Donna that she did that cool harmony thing with the girls. She does it at the end of the song, which I think is cool. There is a cool demo of Jane out there somewhere.

I had that Jane demo, on a cassette. Lost all my demos and rarities years ago during one of my moves. But I remember the Jane demo. I like to joke about the 'chimpanzee' line, but again I like the angels chorus and yes, I agree the ending is lovely.

So, so true. I would love nothing more than for Stevie to be a little more adventurous in her set lists... adding one previously unpreformed ballad to each new tour is not enough.