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Originally Posted by MikeVielhaber
I think you're vastly underestimating the importance of song recognition. Those other songs wouldn't work because most of the fans don't know them.
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I suppose that's an inevitable side-effect of people not buying albums. If everyone who went to see FM live owned all the material, they'd know all the songs.
I'm in the wrong for assuming other people at the show are the same caliber of fan that I am, or you are. Even though it makes perfect sense, it *seems* ludicrous to me that every person in the audience wouldn't know Everybody Finds Out or Seven Wonders, or Walk A Thin Line or Tango In The Night.
I don't go to concerts unless it's a band I *love*. I'm not one who pays to see someone if I'm a casual fan. I'd never, for instance, go to see the Steve Miller Band - I love the songs on the radio, but I would never pay to see them. I own none of their material...so I guess that's the same perspective that probably 99.5% of the audience at a Fleetwod Mac show has, which I need to remember.