[elle]

Originally Posted by PenguinHead

I have empathy for your trouble with Trouble. Let's stay clear of trouble. Gift of Screws would be awesome!

yes!!

Originally Posted by vivfox

I can't speak for anyone else but me but I too have noticed all the requests for a full band version of Big Love. For several years now people have been requesting this. You are the only member that I've read so far that likes the song the way it is. I wanna hear the full band version because it has never been performed that way live. It has always been just Lindsey and his guitar and as magnificent as it is, it's just so stale in its repetitiveness.

why perform the full band version of BL, when there are so many other, more interesting Lindsey songs they can do? solo version is interesting and different, full band version is not - at least not to me.

Originally Posted by Spikey

Yeah, Linds started the acoustic "Big Love" tradition with "The Dance", where he explained things had changed so the song had to. But FM are no longer 'freshly reunited', or whatever, and the anger between members has gone, I don't see the need for an acoustic performance in a band setting, especially when he plays it that way during his solo shows.

Now don't get me wrong- I may prefer the solo version if they played a band version. It just seems weird to go through the motions of LB saying the spiel "When we were making Tango, times were hard. I was looking out for love, not looking for love. As time went on, the meaning changed, etc etc", when that was 25 years ago, it IS stale.

no. Lindsey performed acoustic versions of Big Love and Go Insane since his 1992/93 solo tour.

i'm not sure i understand completely what several people are saying - he talks about 2 different things when introducing that song:

• lyrics - looking for love vs looking out for love
• arrangement - change from full-band to solo.

you seem to be mixing these 2 things together. the lyrics would still be the same with full-band version. so the part of his intro that everybody seems to object the most would still be applicable.

also, what he says about the person being able to change i believe has a significance to him that we may or may not understand. i partly interpret it as him changing from being drugged-up angry bitter person in the late 70s and 80s, to the more mellow, accepting, and contemplative person he seems to be today.

Originally Posted by michelej1

He played it that way solo even before The Dance. Funnily enough, he has since played it's mate, Go Insane, with the band -- in his solo show.

yes.

Originally Posted by michelej1

Cory said they used to beg Lindsey for Trouble during FM sound checks for the SYW tour. Sometimes, he grudgingly obliged.

hope nobody begs him now!

Originally Posted by Spikey

Agreed back at you, which is why I think a lot of LB Mac songs (i.e. Tusk and SYW) have not been played live, too 'morose'.

that's interesting and different interpretation. i think those songs are too off the Mac's middle-of-the-road sound, which he tried to change time and again starting with Tusk, and never seems to be really happening. they are more rocking, edgier songs... not mellower mac-ish songs people seem to prefer. i was actually thinking of something very similar when i was looking at my list of Lindsey songs that i would like to hear on FM tour, that are normally not performed by them:

Originally Posted by elle

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Bleed to Love Her
That's The Way Love Goes
In Our Own Time
Walk A Thin Line
What Makes You Think You're The One
Red Rover
Murrow
Tango
Come
Deep Dense!!

look at the songs i bolded, especially Murrow, Tango and Come - they are heavy rocking songs with long guitar solos. maybe those would not be fitting for the crowd used to hear mellower Mac?

i remember reading some old reviews of SYW tour when LB performed both Come and ISA, and some people complained about having to hear those great guitar solos!?! so maybe your regular Mac audience would have a hard time with something like Murrow/Tango/Come all in the same set? (unlike LB's solo audience which is reveling in huge solos and getting to hear both Come and ISA!). although, it's feasible that next year's FM audiences will include new kids that heard FM on Glee and such, and maybe those newcomers will anjoy and appreciate stuff like those amazing guitar solos?