Songs that would have been cool to hear on The Dance
 

Stevie:
Sara
That’s Alright

Christine:
Hold Me
Little Lies
Over & Over

Lindsey:
Save Me a Place
Eyes of the World
Not That Funny

Stevie:
Twisted
Straight Back

Christine:
Little Lies
Think About Me
Never Forget
Isn’t It Midnight

Lindsey:
Second Hand News
Caroline
Book of Love

Sara
Hold Me
Love in Store
Tango in the Night
Isn't it Midnight

At a minimum with Lindsey back on guitar and vocals: Isn't It Midnight and Little Lies.

Sara would have been earth shattering since it had not been done for such a long time.

Think About Me would have been a good Tusk song. An acoustic set of Landslide and Save Me a Place.

Dig even deeper for Sugar Daddy instead of Over My Head.

For the love of God NO STAND BACK :eek: and no Not That Funny (unless Christine wants to bring out her **bench** aka upright piano again)

I will be flamed for saying they should have dropped Farmers Daughter for an equally great trio harmonization of Love In Store

However, no matter what. Oh Daddy stays in the set. As Stevie said, as magic as it ever got on the stage that tour, was this song.

Isn't It Midnight has been performed on 3 Fleetwood Mac world tours yet NEVER with Lindsey Buckingham. This is sacrilegious and impossible to believe. We should sue for damages.

Think About Me should be played on every tour, every day. Even after they're dead. Holograms can play it. Same with Hold Me.

Farmer's Daughter never blew my skirt up, either. It's okay...

I'd KILL for Daddy. SUGAR DADDY. I LOVE that f*cking song. I've been working on the piano parts for it the past week(for whatever reason I dug out the White album, and began playing along). It's actually got a weird chord progression in places. "All that I want, is someone to take care of me" is A, E, Bm F#m which is pretty weird.:wavey:

I've always thought Twisted would have been PERFECT for The Dance- with the same intensity as the soundtrack version it could have been THE highlight of the concert.

Sara would also have been stunning. And yes Love in Store!

And TANGO IN THE NIGHT, when Lindsey's voice could have still handled the TANGOOOOOOOO

Sugar Daddy is probably the only song on the White album that could have been on Heroes or any early Mac album because it sounds like those early bluesy Mac albums. And the incredible part is Lindsey's guitar solo and touches he masks himself of that era quite nicely yet it has the refreshment of Lindsey's picking. So maybe only the guitar solo would stand out yet its the icing on the cake for the song.

If I ever won a 500 million Powerball lottery, I will pay Christine a cool 10 million for a concert and this will definitely be in the set. Better yet, I will have her personally dedicate Oh Daddy to you (the guy who could not reach to give her flowers during BuckVie).

It's such a great song. It's so weird that they never embraced it. It's funky!

Oh Daddy just for me? Well, even during a Christine show, I'd have to take a beer pee break some time!:p

When you win the lottery, I hope you invite me to the show.

And my roses for Christine, I was SO CLOSE to touching her toes. The stage in Nashville was so high, at least 5 feet. Armpit level for me. I was pushing them as far as I could! Like many aspects of my life, I came up a couple of inches short!:lol:

Christine would've burnt it up too. Her voice on this would've been glorious. Stevie sang this as a duet during her 1996 show. Was it with Al? Carlos?

For The Dance: I say Not That Funny, Ricky, Seven Wonders, and I Know I'm Not Wrong, and When I See You Again to close the show.

I get the feeling Lindsey doesn’t care for Isn’t It Midnight, since FM never performed it when Lindsey was touring with them. Buck/Vie also didn’t perform it.

The Dance, being a reunion of the Rumours lineup, was pretty spot on with the setlist. If they had skipped the 4 new songs, they could have added Sara, Little Lies, and Second Hand News or Eyes of the World. And if they had skipped Stand Back and Go Insane, they could have added 2 more classic FM songs, or better yet, 2 more deep cuts, like Tango in the Night or That’s Alright.

I love the Farmer’s Daughter because of the the way they performed it.

Or if they just dropped Not That Funny, they could have added 5 more songs :eek:

I love live Sara. I love the rawness of the live versions from 1979-1982. Since The Dance was very cleaned up and polished sounding, I would have loved to hear what Sara could have sounded like. Also Hold Me. While Sara is one of those songs that sounds equally amazing on the album and live, Hold Me live in 1982 just did not measure up to the album version. I would have loved to hear a very polished/fine tuned live Hold Me on the Dance. (Hopefully they would have sang Hold Me..Hold meeeEEEE instead of Hold Me..Hold Me yeahhh. I hated the yeahhh in the 1982 live version.)

This thread made me so nostalgic for The Dance.

Really hope a deluxe version hits, with the full DVD set list and audio from the tour.

FWIW, I’d have loved to have heard Little Lies on that tour.

I was in shock the Mac did not play Little Lies in 1997 with Lindsey. It was their biggest hit off Tango and uses Lindsey's vocals. I suppose they wanted a song to get Chris out from behind the keyboards and went with Everywhere.

We had to wait another 17 years to hear Little Lies with Lindsey :eek:

They had so much material that I wish they would have scrapped, Stand Back, Go Insane, NTF, and Farmers Daughter for more Mac classics

Big Love SOLO. Drop it like a hot POS. Better yet, do it with the band!

But a beer drinker does need a pee break, and Big Love was my pee song for the last two tours I saw. So I guess they could replace it with Silver Girl.;)

Or you could take a big dump if they do Oh Daddy and Silver Girl back to back :eek:

I am still in disbelief that it will be 24 years since The Dance was recorded/released. That's just not right!

Little Lies
Sara
Second Hand News (on the album, I know it was added to the setlist at the second concert of the tour)
Isn't it Midnight
Hold Me
Sisters of the Moon
I Don't Want to Know
Never Going Back Again
Monday Morning

Of course everything Rumours is overplayed, but at that time, I think doing the entire album as part of The Dance would have been very interesting. Add in the two songs they missed, with the addition of Silver Springs, and do it as either the first or second half of the show.

A few other thoughts:
*I thought I've read here before that they did rehearse Little Lies but apparently it didn't work out right or they couldn't fit it in?
*Do we have any idea what songs were rehearsed aside from what ended up on stage at Burbank or during the tour?
*I could live without most of the new songs but I suppose they felt (just like Eagles did with Hell Freezes Over) that they needed some new material at the time
*Even so, cut My Little Demon (Bleed to Love Her is one of my favorites) and Sweet Girl and replace with Twisted - they still each get a new song
*That boring version of Over My Head on the DVD could go away forever
*Not That Funny is just not that good - and some of those versions during the tour went way too long and took up way too much time
*I don't get why we got Go Insane? Lindsey already had Big Love with the whole one man and a guitar thing going on. And at the time, it wasn't worn out yet. But why did we need both of those songs back to back?
*Speaking of solo, STAND BACK. How'd that come to be? I vaguely recall during that 4 part MTV interview that is on YouTube that (was it Kurt Loder?) Stevie was asked about her solo material and she said no it wasn't being considered for the set. So at some point before opening night, somebody's mind was changed. Were they planning another of her Mac songs that just didn't work out?

But then Mick wouldn't have had the opportunity to get to the front of the stage and feel himself up? :eek:

So in an alternative reality, I feel like a Tango in the Night tour with Lindsey in 1987 would have been incredible if the show opened with the song Tango in the Night.

Stevie probably did a quarter ounce every night during that song :eek:

:mad::mad::mad:
What kind of TRASH do you think I am?

I wouldn't go #2 in a public restroom for 10K!:wavey::lol::wavey:


Silver Girl does make stuff want to come out the top end, though.

I've always wondered if ANY audience member actually enjoyed Mick's vesturbation solo. "Hey, Imma celebrity, too!"

As we all saw with his phenomenal solo success!:lol:

Who does #2 at a Fleetwood Mac show? Other than Mick at 2015 Lincoln Nebraska:laugh:

I thought that was the norm for people from Indiana

At least we speak proper English here. Don't make me go all red on you....wait, what does that mean again?:lol:

Speaking of which, who else thinks Mick is probably a nasty, dirty person? Probably thinks his own BO smells good.

You didn't do the 2013 Meet and Greet where you can get your picture taken on his commode?!

No, I missed that one! Thank god!!!! I don't want to get anywhere near Mick's commode! :lol:

But were you not interested in him selling his feces in a jar in another thread hoping for appreciation in 20 years time?

You’re right that there was an interview at the time when I recall Christine saying they tried Little Lies and it didn’t work, or something like that.

I thought I remembered reading that they rehearsed Brown Eyes.

There’s definitely a thread on here from aeons ago saying what they played together before the concert. I will see if I can find out.

** what do you know... apparently years ago I started a thread! http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=52106

I don’t have an answer, but that’s how he opened his 1993 solo shows.

I just assumed it was because they needed something more uptempo towards the end of the set.

Lordy did you send me down a few wormholes with that link. Within that 2013 post is a reference to a 2004 post which I had to do a little searching to get to, which then had a reference to an alt.music.fleetwood-mac post from 1997. After taking a nap, that was about a perfect task for a Sunday during a pandemic!

Can you still find stuff on Usenet? Especially from 24 years ago?

I mean, I know Usenet still exists(I think, lol), but most ISPs stopped carrying it as a freebie, years ago. I can't remember when it disappeared from mine, but I wanna say it was the early 2000's.

I just go through Google groups. I don't know exactly what happened but I think they took over all those groups and the old posts are still there. Here's one of the posts I found while perusing today..

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.musi...m/u5KLZ4CKPAwJ

Two of those posters are regular Ledgies here. I'll leave it to them to say who they are, although the one is obvious by name.

Ha, yes, one is pretty obvious! :thumbsup:

And when I hit conversations, it's like a trip down memory lane. "David" is there, as is also "Bill Gamelson", $tevie's infamous stalker.

It's really odd, because just a few days ago, "Bill" popped into my head, and I found him on FB. His posts were really sad. Some were "F the world....F everybody". On nearly every post, there were no friends commenting, no likes, no anything. What a sad man...

I believe at one point $tevie's people threatened him with legal action if he didn't leave her alone. 20 years ago there was a pic of him skydiving, and he had a Stevie license plate he was holding as he descended.

Edit - I have a 1000 FM pics in an old folder, and look what I found.

Stevie probably has a couple stalkers.
Dick's got his biggest fan in you:laugh:

I've done dozens of Edge walks and there are some cats as one might say

Bill Gamelson - what a strange creepy bird and unfortunately it sounds like not much has changed in all these years.

On one of those old threads I was stumbling through today, I also came across a post or two from gldustwmn or whatever it was. There have been some interesting characters in the online FM community over the years!

Yeah, it was weird reading his fb(which is open for anyone). When you realize they have no friends, it makes you wonder what they might be capable of...hopefully nothing!

Is the gldustwmn the one who used to be a moderator here? She could be okay sometimes, but most of her posts were in the middle of the night, and often off the deep end, and we all suspected she was drunk. She finally blew up and I think she got banned. Not often that a mod gets banned!:lol: