Solo songs
 

So Fleetwood Mac played live Go Insane and Stand Back.

What other solo songs did you wish they had played live?

I'd choose Christine's You are, and Lindsey's Trouble.

They did Has Anyone Ever...

And though it was only singing, Stevie did snippets of New Orleans in 2009 and 2013.

I wish they did Soldier's Angel on LIVE 2013. They planned to do but it didn't come through.

Leather and Lace at one Southern CA concern in 1982. They sort of made up their own chords.

The latter-day Fleetwood Mac & Friends could easily do Think About Me or The Highwayman or The Challenge or The Smile I Live For, galloping mid-tempo little ballads or slow burners.

^The Challenge! I’ve been digging on that one lately after re-listening to the album.

It really grows on you. :wavey:

Christine

• Crazy ‘Bout You, Baby

• I’d Rather Go Blind

• Get Like You Used To Be

Billy

• The Bigger The Love

Dave Mason

• We Just Disagree

• Only You Know & I Know

• Feelin’ Alright

• Dear Mr. Fantasy

Neil

• I Got You

• Don’t Dream It’s Over

I’d argue that “Free Fallin’” counts as Stevie solo, even though Mike also played on that. They also did Bluesbreakers, Buckingham Nicks, and Zoo songs, but hard to consider those solo. And, who knows if they did anything from Jeremy’s solo album or any Savoy Brown songs?

Interesting. So would you say "Free Fallin" is a Tom Petty song and a Stevie Nicks song?
Would you say "Rock and Roll" is a Led Zep song and Stevie Nicks song?
Just interested.
I consider First Cut is the Deepest a Cat Stevens and Rod Stewart song

Obviously it’s a Tom Petty song. However, Stevie recorded her own version back in 1996 for the “Party of Five” soundtrack.

And, the Cat Steven’s FCITD is by far the superior version.

It's not obvious to me when I read you'd argue it's Stevie solo:laugh:

If Mac did "At Last" on their next tour, would you argue it's Stevie solo?

Just interested in the reasoning!

I prefer the PP Arnold version of Cat Steven’s song FCITD

I have a bootleg of Christine singing I'd Rather Go Blind, in San Bernardino.
Fantastic.

'If I Could Swim the Mountain' apparently at The Aquae Sulis Incident festival in 1970. They had the plug pulled for playing past the set time.
To what extent it was a Fleetwood Mac performance, I'm not sure. I can imagine Jeremy standing on stage on his own warbling this to himself.

Would love for them to have played No Road is the Right Road or Got a Hold on Me.

I am still peeved that Lindsey did not FORCE Christine to play at least one or two of her solo songs on the BuckVie tour. They did the Mac tunes, Lindsey tunes, and tons of the new material but Lindsey should have put his foot down. I know Chris is not a self fan of her solo career. This is why she needs forced.

Having said that, I am not a fan of Fleetwood Mac doing solo songs in their set. There is enough deep cuts to do. I was watching the Eagles last tour on yourtube and holy moly did they do solo songs of Don. He did like 5 solo songs in the Eagles set.

But I would take Loving Cup in any set I could hear it in (Lindsey solo or Mac)

I would much prefer to hear Nights in Estoril than any Chris solo song. That song would be killer live

Have you seen them since Glenn died? I went to both of their Nashville shows, and I was shocked that they didn't do ANY Don solo songs.

No
I was watching the last tour with Glenn. They did Boys of Summer, Sunset Grill, Dirty Laundry, All She Wants to do is dance, and New York Minute.

It’s a song she released in her solo portfolio.

ETA: Much the same way “I’d Rather Go Blind” was part of Christine’s Chicken Shack portfolio.

ETA 2: If Lindsey played “Blue Letter” during a solo show, would you think of it as a Fleetwood Mac song or a Curtis Bros. song?

ETA 3: And, if Fleetwood Mac did “At Last,” I would think of Stevie solo. Would you refer to it as an Etta James song? The first recording of the song was by the Glen Miller Orchestra in 1942, eighteen years before Etta, and was sung by a man.

Calling Blue Letter a Fleetwood Mac song is the same as me calling Talk to Me a Stevie song.

I don't agree that Free Fallin in the 2018 setlist was a Stevie solo song. Tom's was the hit and the iconic one. Tom was in every photo on the screen behind her during the performance too. Same thing for Not Fade Away, Circle Dance, Rock and Roll, She Smiled Sweetly, I Am Waiting. Not Lindsey or Stevie's songs; they're covers.

The Curtis Bros. released it on an album (I have a copy).

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So it’s a matter of scale, then?

Yep. And Free Falling is a song Stevie recorded and released as a solo artist, thus it’s something I can list as a solo song for her.

What year was that Curtis Brothers album released?

For me, it's who recorded it first. Carole wrote Natural Woman but I believe it's an Aretha song.

So you would list Go Insane and Stand Back as FM songs, right?

Big difference. Carole King was a staff songwriter who later became a solo artist.

The Curtis Bros. didn’t write “Blue Letter” for Buckingham Nicks or Fleetwood Mac. They wrote it for their band and always intended to release their own version. They happened to be recording at Sound City and Fleetwood Mac liked the song.

Would you say the version of “Stand Back” that appears on The Chain was by Stevie Nicks or Fleetwood Mac?

You’re making way too much of this. Stevie’s cover of Free Fallin’ was part of her solo portfolio. She recorded and released it. End of discussion for me.

Fleetwood Mac did release their recording before Curtis Brothers did. Hence to me, it's a Fleetwood Mac song. End of discussion.


I would say it's a Stevie Nicks song. Stand Back is on Lead Vocalist by Rod Stewart. It's not a Rod Stewart solo song, it's a Stevie Nicks song

By the way, if these replies bother you, please don't feel you have to respond!

Out of morbid curiosity, what would you say about “Black Magic Woman” or “Feelin’ Alright.”

Speaking of Joe Cocker, if he had ever joined Fleetwood Mac, would “With A Little Help From My Friends” been a Beatles cover or something from Joe Cocker’s career outside of Fleetwood Mac?

I regularly watch Farewell I, and History OTE. They've practically displaced FM in my regular ~watching~ of music. I never lived and breathed their every breath like FM, but their live releases easily outpaced FM.

FWIW, I ALWAYS enjoy our exchanges. :xoxo:

Sure, I'm willing to assist your morbid curiosity:angel:
I believe BMW is a Fleetwood Mac song that Santana covered. I believe Feelin Alright is a Traffic song.

If Cocker was in the 2018 lineup of FM, and FM played With a Little Help, they'd be covering a Beatles song. And I believe that if they played the Cocker sounding one, it's still a Beatles cover and not a Joe Cocker song.

Now, how does the fact that Dave Mason plays the Joe Cocker version, not the Traffic version, play into this? Is it Dave Mason covering Joe Cocker covering Dave Mason? Did Dave enter some weird dimension where he somehow ended up covering himself?

Now why are you acting like this? I've been very respectful in this conversation.

Does Joe Cocker have any songwriting credit for Feelin Alright? I don't know if he does.

To me, Dave Mason would be singing his song. Just a different sounding one than the original

it's similar (although much earlier and different musical genre) as I Will Always Love You - a Dolly Parton song that Whitney Houston's version took to stratosphere.

and on much smaller scale what Dixie Chicks did with Landslide. in that case, Stevie took Landslide back, after it became big.