Chris should play Get like you used to be!
 

I can't tell how amazing it would be to hear Get like you used to Be!

Can you imagine this in the middle of the concert when the band does a string of acoustic songs like they have in the past with the song "Without You" or Linds and Stevie's rendition of SYLM. And GLYUTB is the very first song she played on stage after coming from 15 years of retirement. It would just be fitting.

What do you think?

If we were talking about the setlist before The Dance, I'd say no way. But the fact that she did it Get Like You Used to Be in Maui means that anything can happen, now. She did it there for a blues band, but if they all liked the way it sounded, she could easily do it again. Michele

I have a feeling she will no longer be rusty either.

We heard the rusty versions of Don't Stop etc..

She even sounded better on the 27th than the 25th of Sept. I think she's got nothing to lose about going for it. I think we'll see a lot more spark than we saw at the Dance.

Chicken Shack arrangement, but only Mick, John, and Christine. It'll be about THEIR history.

It'll NEVER happen. They all embrace THE MACHINE, now.:(

It's about selling out all dates. "Obscure" tunes don't help that cause.

God help us all. God help us all.:D

This will NEVER happen but I would LOVE to see the Mac OPEN THE SHOW with "Get Like You Used To Be" and then transition into "The Chain". Like Homer McVie said, they now embrace "The Machine", so I'm afraid we won't hear ANY Pre-1975 tunes. What a shame! Having Christine RETURN to the party by opening with "Get Like You Used To Be" would be a glorious statement!!!

I'd like it if The Chain was the last song in the set. It's been the second song in their set forever. So predictable, followed by Dreams. Been there, done that. Not really an inspired reinvention of the same old same old. Isn't it enough that the set has been glutted with the same songs for two decades. The least they could do is reorder them to give the illusion of freshness.

Just play the damned "usual" set BACKWARDS! OPEN with "Songbird"!!!

Songbird
Don't Stop
Go Your Own Way
World Turning
Stand Back
You Make Loving Fun
Tusk
Silver Springs
Second Hand News
Oh Daddy
Big Love
Landslide
Brown Eyes
Gypsy
Never Going Back Again
Everywhere
Gold Dust Woman
I'm So Afraid
Isn't It Midnight
Rhiannon
I Know I'm Not Wrong
Dreams
The Chain
Monday Morning
Say You Love Me

Wait what about Stevie. If it wasn't for her twirling around like a fruitcake, this band would never exist!! ;)

That is a brilliant idea!:laugh: I love it.

I always advocated for this song, especially poignant since Christine is getting back to what she used to be. In the early days,when they opened with this song, it was purely a Christine song, with just her vocals and the band. Stevie came on stage only after the song. Kind of strange. Today, if they opened a show with this song, at least Stevie would be there, banging her tambourine and adding some background vocals.

Whatever they do, I just hope they get a little creative and change it up and not open with The Chain and follow with Dreams, or have The Chain be the second song. It's so old and stale. Same songs in the same place for ****ing twenty years! They can appear elsewhere in the set. The show will appear fresh and fantastic in spite of being the same old songs. They have nothing to prove anymore.

I wholeheartedly agtree. They will be the same songs regardless of where they place them in the set. And if the fear is that the majority of the crowd won't know particular songs, they would know them a lot better than Not that Funny and they played that one on the last tour. (Not complaining, I still enjoyed it immensely =)

Amen to that!! PenguinHead always gets it right. I've been buying tickets to Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks LIVE shows for the last 37 years, and changing up the show to make it new, innovative, and fresh is NOT something these people excel at. It's almost like they're afraid to mess with "their brand", but at least Lindsey tries to take some chances. Come on MAC, through us a bone for the "On With The Show" Tour. Work up some NEW ARRANGEMENTS to familiar old tunes. How about an UNPLUGGED version of "Tusk" with all band members front and center (Chris rocking out the accordion, Stevie beating on a cowbell while the band sing the tune in harmony in a hushed vibrato)?? Continue the harmony unplugged set with "Honey Hi" and "Landslide" (with some piano). Open the show with a rocking version of "Get Like You Used To Be", with Stevie and Lindsey on harmony. Play "Hold Me" for the first time in 32 years and give it a new arrangement. The possibilities are endless. The true fans have been waiting SO LONG for something a little more exciting in the set list, but, quite frankly, attending Fleetwood Mac shows is starting to feel like a routine. Where's the spontaneity?

I LOVE to see Bruce Springsteen play live because YOU NEVER KNOW what he is going to pull out for the set list? It's often a DIFFERENT set list every night with arrangements that you'd never imagine.

Bruce and his band are the kind of band that can play anything they want, and his audience goes with them. No one complains that this or that song wasn't performed. There is no mentality of "I paid a lot of money and I expect to hear expect to hear all the hits!"

To be fair, Fleetwood Mac can't be as nimble as someone like Bruce because they don't have one front man -- they have three! So the dynamics of a set list become more of a balancing act.

As the music industry became increasingly more corporatized, with higher touring costs and ticket prices, artistic expression was sacrificed in the name of commercialism. Bands lucky enough to have a string of hits and well known songs bowed to the pressure to restrict their sets to those songs --the ones the market demanded.

Any set list that strayed too far from the familiar was deemed too radical, alienating the general public --an offensive disappointment to audience members who are subjected to songs they don't recognize!:(

Fleetwood Mac aren't too adventurous, but at least they have surprised us with a few unexpected songs here and there. What's surprising is the "me' factor" of demanding expectation: "They have to play this song." "They have to open with The Chain." They have to close with "Songbird." "If they don't play this song I'm going to be so disappointed." It sucks they didn't do this."

Of course, just like everyone else, I'll have opinions and find something to bitch about that doesn't fit my ideal. But ultimately, I'm grateful Fleetwood Mac is still alive and doing whatever it is that they do.

Their problem is they don't listen to the fans or voices outside of their team. Even the Rolling Stones take fan requests. Just curious, how can Bruce command an audience like that and get away with playing anything, even non hits that they don't recognize? I know Dave Matthews does it too. Bob Dylan as well...doing shows without Like a Rolling Stone or The Times They Are a' Changin. I guess the audience is just happy to be there...and they know going in that Bruce will do what Bruce wants to do. Just respect, plus artists who don't want to be bored sick of playing the same songs night after night. FM must've been really shaken by that show Mick always references from 1976-77.

i have no idea which bands other than FM you or other people here go see live, but from my experience this is completely untrue. many bands have at least as many hits as FM does, and they don't do all of them every tour and definitely not every evening, and they alternate their setlists and do tons of deep cuts.

i do agree that with FM the problem may be that there are 3 songwriters (and at least 2 of them are fiercely competitive so they want the balance between them) so it's very possible that plays into their unbelievably conservative and stale set choices. but there is no excuse - other than laziness to rehearse extra songs or complete insecurity in their abilities - for not changing setlists from date to date.

every single band or solo performer i've seen in the last 2 years (and i've seen quite a few) varies their setlists from date to date; whether they are old legendary bands or young ones. people who say it's just Bruce must not go to see many different bands, i suppose. because it's not just Bruce (or Grateful Dead).

:nod: like i said, tons of other bands do it.

What show is that?

The show they played all the new Rumours songs and nobody knew them. The reaction was dead...pretty funny in hindsight when we all know what eventually happened with that album. He mentions it in many interviews...I think Behind the Music and the press junket for the 2013 tour. Speaking of press junket, shouldn't they be starting to promote this next tour? Also, will we actually hear how Christine sounds anywhere before the tour begins?

Thanks! Hadn't read that before. Pretty hard to believe people not responding to GYOW, etc. And to be the first to hear it, that'd be awesome.

I think Chili here has written about hearing it, but it was missing something, so I don't know how impressed he was with it.

Michele

This will be a surprise if she will play the tune.I agree with PenguinHead about FM will focus on market demand popular tunes that the public knows.I love to see them do true fan shows where they play non hit tunes but there is no money in doing that.

I hope the tour will be more focused on Chris since we missed her so much.Its time to shine the spotlight on her.

They should do a Rolling Stones-type show in NYC's Beacon Theater, maybe when it gets close to the 50th anniversary year of the band. A small intimate setting filmed by a great director like Martin Scorsese or Jonathan Demme, who have done many distinguished music films. A taped concert with hits, but also the essential songs in the catalogue that they're leaving off for their tours: Black Magic Woman, Albatross, Oh Well, Why, Get Like You Used to Be, Think About Me, Little Lies, Isn't It Midnight, Beautiful Child, etc.

In Your Dreams! pun intended. :lol:

Yeah, heard GYOW a few times well before Rumours was released. (the first time was Nov '75) It wasn't close to the version we've come to know & love, but it was still really good. They also debuted "You Make Loving Fun" at the Universal Amphitheatre in mid-summer 1976. It was more like the alternate verson on this latest Rumours deluxe set. They even did "Silver Springs" at a couple of shows. I don't think they ever did a show where they played the entire album, but from March '77 onwards, they were playing a majority of the album. (Every show I saw them do during that spring/summer the new songs were extremely well-received). By August of '77, they were playing everything from Rumours except "Don't Stop" & "I Don't Want To Know"...and the crowds were rabid. (yes, I typed "rabid").

That is something they should seriously consider. The shows with air time on HBO and Showtime, following their release, have done huge business. I see The History of the Eagles on every week. Plus, FM has never done an exceptional concert film.

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i do agree that with FM the problem may be that there are 3 songwriters (and at least 2 of them are fiercely competitive so they want the balance between them) so it's very possible that plays into their unbelievably conservative and stale set choices. but there is no excuse - other than laziness to rehearse extra songs or complete insecurity in their abilities - for not changing setlists from date to date.
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Perhaps I was overstating a generalization --speaking more about how big corporations have taken over and how the demands and costs of touring has changed the landscape, and the experience of going to a big show is different now, especially the cost of tickets!

This is a fantastic idea, and I would love it.