This is a great idea. I just checked out recent set lists on the R.E.M. tour and they're pretty great. Unlike FM, they're not relying on singles and the same old tired favorites. Instead, they're picking album cuts that people really love and it's turning into the best tour of their very long career.
I just submitted my fantasy set list to the band's site and can't wait for their west coast shows.
One of FM's problems is that they turn their tours into big machines that get out of their control. I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't need to the see the band in giant arenas anymore. I'm fed up with medicore sound and annoying people who talk through shows. Instead, I wish they would play smaller venues with good sound and do a different set each night. If that means touring without Stevie, that's fine by me. It's time for this great old band to really shine and add some surprises into each night. Sometimes it would work well, other times it wouldn't - but that's what it should be about when you're an artist. Save the nostalgia shows for the has-been bands.
Fleetwood Mac has more imagination than that and I hope they learn something from what R.E.M. is doing.
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