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Originally Posted by michelej1
I agree. I'm extremely disappointed in the song selections. He said he was seeing what works. If he does another acoustic tour and hasn't made drastic changes to the setlist, it's over. It's OVER.
Michele
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When I saw the headline "Lindsey Buckingham: You Have to Take Risks..." I thought it was going to be an article about the writer taking issue with Lindsey's lack of risks in regard to the set list for his live album! Silly me.
It's one thing to perform certain songs to death in live performances, but it's another thing to rehash and sell those same songs over and over (in various versions).
He has a strong core fan base who support him, and are largely responsible for the sales of his records and concert tours. It's not unreasonable to think that they (we) probably already have several live versions of most of songs featured on his recent live album release.
Does he ever think of that? Or feel the slightest embarrassment of reselling the same songs to the same audience? Maybe the little machine can let go of the big machine songs. They will never go away, so no one is missing them!
I wonder if financial returns are at a higher rate with particular songs that get released in live form. That would explain the motivation as to why we get such an exclusively small group of songs that seem to be "must haves" in any compilation or live album.
"Have we got anymore dreams to sell?"