Concert openers.
 

Pick 3 songs that you would like to see Fleetwood Mac open with. The tunes don't have to be realistic. (Especially after you see mine. :D)

1. Child of Mine
2. I Don't Wanna Know
3. Wrong

Open with a Chris tune would be great.

1) The Chain
2) Warm Ways
3) World Turning

This is my choice at the moment....but could change for sure .

Big Love (studio version)
Tusk
Farmers Daughter

I still think The Chain is the best opener they've ever had. It starts off eerie, sets the mood, and gradually ramps up to a tour de force. It's perfect.

I think Sisters Of The Moon could really be a great opener if they made it more powerful again. And I'm not talking about Stevie pulling out a Mirage style vocal- we all know that's not possible. But juice up the electric guitar, crank up Mick's drums. Get Stevie to stop chanting "sister, sister..." and showcase the rocking music. Fleetwood Mac has never opened with a Stevie song. Maybe it's time?

Say You Love Me could be a great way to showcase that Chris is back.

Tusk could be fun.

Over and Over or Love In Store would make me very happy. But it should be a Christine song, for sure.

Over And Over or Love in Store would make me very, very happy. But it should be a Christine song, for sure.

Ken

Over and Over Live is a slow burner and might just get the crowd in a frenzy... great choice!!

I would love to hear something that they haven't opened with before. The problem is trying to think of something that would work. While I think SYLM is the one I think they will do as a way to welcome back Chris I wouldn't mind hearing Hold Me as an opener. It would certainly be a real treat and I think the audience would be pleasantly surprised.

If they broke out Over & Over as the opener I would keel over with happiness. :laugh: Though the beginning of the song is just so quiet for an opener. I'm not sure how well that would work. But it turns into such a beast later, so it could be awesome.

I was ready to discount it as well. But that ending is so sublime it might feed right into, The Chain.

^ I agree with the above comment that The Chain is probably the best opener they have had although it also fits nicely as the 2nd song of the set.

I also would love them to open with Think About Me or Say You Love Me. Not sure how You Make Loving Fun would be for an opener but it is one of my favs from Christine.

You know... thinking about it... You Make Lovin Fun wouldn't be so bad. We all know that is going to be in the set list. I'd bet my house on it

My dream opener and it should have been last tour. I Don't Wanna Know. Would be brilliant. For this tour - it will be the Chain. Don't think Chris opens. She will close with Songbird.

Say You Love Me
The Chain
Rhiannon

I listed the songs in the order of importance to the energy of the set:

1. Blue Letter (I think they should start the show with a fast number to get the audience up)
2. Second Hand News (I think after Blue Letter, they should immediately follow with this song. I liked this opening Tour 2013)
3. The Chain (This should be the third song of the set. As an opener, it's engaging but I think it's more effective when it follows a faster number like it did in 2013 (Second Hand News into The Chain)

Over and Over would be just delicious as an opener as would Think About Me, but I'm thinking they'll go with Say You Love Me as it has worked well as an opener before and people would be more familiar than TAM. I can't seem them doing a Stevie opening song, especially something she hasn't done in a while or never done. As great as I Don't Want to Know would be it's not going to happen I don't think.

Silly dreamer
 

I know this will never happen but to fit the "Christine Returns" theme,"Fireflies" would be awesome!!!!"Everyone stays close till the fire fades"-I think I would faint!:angel:

"Eyes Of The World" with Mick's crazy drum intro
"You Make Loving Fun" with like a synth effect/symbol rattling intro
"Angel", US Fest '83 style with the rock n roll style guitar intro and piano

Open with "Honey Hi," followed by "The Chain"

Get Like You Used To Be
Station Man
Spare Me A Little Of Your Love

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:nod:

Oh yes please!

It is true, isn't it? That Fleetwood Mac has never opened with a Stevie song. How about Stand Back? :]



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1. Love In Store. This song is catchy and upbeat!
2. Think About Me. A nice groovy rocker.
3. The Chain done differently;
It would start off as the Rumours Deluxe demo version up until the 2:04 mark, the lights go out and then Mick starts in with the drums and the band goes into regular album version.

Second Hand News

Monday Morning

Blue Letter

PLEASE! Anything but The Chain. Yes, it's a great opener, but so damn predictable, like seeing the same movie over and over and over again, as if there are no other options. You know what's coming. This isn't a ****ing church service.

Don't you want it to be fresh, to be surprised? Isn't it enough that we going to get the same songs they've driven into the ground, for the most part, in the last twenty years, with Dreams following The Chain, (which I always thought sucked the energy out of the room after such a rousing opener.).

A long shot for sure, but what if Christine came out with the song she performed as an opener early on when Lindsey and Stevie just joined the band - Get Like You Used to Be? (the sentiment being very appropriate considering her long absence from being in the band).

A previous poster suggested Blue Letter! Great call! I always thought that would be a great opener since I saw them perform it on the Mirage tour.

How about nixing Stand Back from the set entirely, especially now, since it leaves room for Christine's songs?

I agree with you PenguinHead on both counts.


I'm not going to see FM anytime soon, but I picked The Chain for a third option and gave it a twist just in case the band decides to go with the same old stand-by. You know.... mix it up a little. Which they probably won't do. :rolleyes:

But I really hope they pick a Chris song as an opener.

In my opinion, they just shouldn't do any solo songs. I mean they have three singers again and alot of other songs to choose from.

Tusk
Tango in the Night

The only sure thing is that THEY MUST OPEN WITH A CHRISTINE MCVIE song. We have missed our English Songbird and it would really get the crowd going. My guess is that they'll open with "Say You Love Me" with the SECOND song being "The Chain". Fleetwood Mac is usually very predictable with their set lists.

I would really like to see them open with:

Over My Head
Think About Me (three part harmony)
Hold Me

I hope you could tell I wasn't serious. I 100% agree that Stand Back shouldn't be in the setlist. It's the only recognizable Stevie song I could see potentially starting a show. Gold Dust Woman has the fantastic, moody opening but usually runs too long for an opener.

My biggest suggestion a few weeks back in the setlist thread was Tusk. I loved how that song was deconstructed in the pilot of The Americans and could be a great opening song, building from instrumental only and then picking up tempo. Plus, it's never been an opener before. Second Hand News was fantastic last year and gave the beginning of the concert so much life...much more successful than Monday Morning, which isn't as exciting, as fast, nor the jolt you need to start a show.

I don't see a Christine song for the opener, as they might want to properly introduce her, welcome her back to the band before she goes into Say You Love Me as her first song.

Well, I wouldn't open with the Chain just because I don't think the first song gets full attention. That's why I like it second. During the first song the audience is just happy to see you. They're screaming and reacting, not focusing, so the first minute or so of the opening just gets swallowed up in audience enthusiasm. I'd put a song up front that I don't mind not relishing in its entirety. But it has to be exciting too. Unfortunately, Monday Morning wasn't exciting the last time it was used, so I wouldn't use that again, BUT it does fit my criteria of being a song that I can afford to be a partial "throw away."

I understand there is a reason when Letterman does his Top Ten list that he never has the best joke at #1. I've never actually heard that reason explained, but I assumed that I knew already. The audience is all set to clap at the end, no matter what he says. The segment is wrapping up and a part of them is already distracted and has stopped concentrating on the humor. So, they don't want to waste a good joke at the end when no one will fully appreciate it. That's my guess. That's how I feel about the opening song too.

Now, for the video, it's great to open with The Chain or some other really hot number on dvd, if not in real life.

Michele

she use to open her solo shows with Gold Dust Woman

I'll bet the house on Say You Love Me.

I think for the first show they should open with a Christine song, and I know this won't happen, but I'd love it to be Oh Daddy. That would really be amazing.

For the rest of the tour, I think they'll go with something fast to get the crowd going.

Monday Morning hasn't been great when they've tried that, so why not stick with last years.

1. Oh Daddy/Second Hand News
2. Say You Love Me
3. I Don't Want to Know

Basically a fast song from each writer, and also songs (minus SHN) that haven't been performed since Christine's gone.

^It would actually be great if they opened with IDWTK, but so funny. After all of the years that Lindsey and Stevie didn't do it as a duet, if they pulled it out with Christine back that would be so backwards and hilarious.

Also, it's upbeat, an energetic way to kick things off, but not a fan favorite, so it won't get wasted in the clamor of them first taking the stage, since no one would pay that much attention to it anyway.

It's just right. You know it if you have Rumours, as millions of people do, but you aren't familiar with it from the radio, so it's like something that casual and focused fans can both appreciate a bit, without being a "hit" that needs to be reserved for a special place in the set.

Michele

Ooooh, very interesting. I never considered Oh Daddy for an opener. That would be so fascinating, to start with a wonderfully atmospheric song. So many opportunities for cool staging and lighting (though Fleetwood Mac never tends to pay too much mind to that stuff, unfortunately). And then crank it up with Second Hand News or The Chain. Begin slow with a relatively short song, and then ending with a slow song, sending the audience out all mushy mushy.

Also, I should add if they chose to start that way (with an Oh Daddy type song), I don't know if the song wouldn't get full (or close to full) attention. In that case, if done correctly, it could be absolutely captivating, with the audience completely absorbed. I've seen some musicians (stars usually) do this, where they have the entire audience in their hand and raise the drama in the first number before going into a more upbeat song.

Oh Daddy to open a show? What a kill-joy that would be.

I agree. I hear those crickets and my heart is roaring. I don't want to be quieted down right off the bat.

Michele