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Originally posted by 4Buck
Other than SAY YOU WILL and GOODBYE BABY which hardly anyone stays around and hears, why doesn't Nicks perform more cuts from the album in concert to help save it? Was RUNNING THROUGH THE GARDEN and DESTINY RULES received that badly at first performance??? The songs she sings at this concert are almost a carbon copy of what she sang during THE DANCE concert. .....I don't like to waste big money on the exact same stuff I've heard before. Then I might as well check out the plethora of oldies bands.........................
I'd like to hear more from Nicks, and not all her old stuff before 1990!!!
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Well, here's the situation...
Fleetwood Mac has several hugely famous songs. Now, outside of "I'm So Afraid" (arguably), "Go Your Own Way," "Tusk," and "Big Love," the majority of their most well-known songs belong to Christine, followed by Stevie.
You remove Christine from the equation, and the majority belongs to Stevie.
Most people probably wouldn't recognize "Monday Morning," or "Eyes Of The World," or any of the stuff off of 'Say You Will' (with the exception of "Peacekeeper" and the title-track)... so it's somewhat left up to Stevie to provide the more familiar material, in the form of "Rhiannon," "Landslide," "Dreams," "Gold Dust Woman," "Silver Springs," and "Gypsy."
So with those songs, there really isn't room for Stevie to do as many of her new songs as there is for Lindsey to do his.
Sure it seems that they could easily add a couple more, but the band
does get tired eventually, and they're already up there for over two and a half hours as it is.
Don't get me wrong... as a fan, I really wish they were doing more of Stevie's new songs, but I completely understand why the setlist is what it is.
We may bore with some of these songs being played on every tour, but we're not the only ones buying tickets to the shows... so the band tries to please everyone.
If they toured more often, we'd probably get more varied setlists... so here's hoping that the momentum from the current album and tour, will carry them quickly into another album and tour.
