I think anyone who has seen Fleetwood Mac prior to 1978 has a legitimate beef about the "set by numbers" way they pace their concerts these days...might as well be a Broadway play instead of a rock concert...it is scripted & choreographed...God forbid anything minute go wrong (other than an inadvertant string-break or guitar cord come unplugged at an inopportune moment). LONNNNNNG gone are the days we'd here a song one night, then hear something else in its place the next night.
Paraphrasing what I heard a stand-up comedian say (I forget who said it at the moment, but I THINK it was Richard Jeni), "It is easier to change the audience than it is the material". Fine, for a comedian, maybe, but rock concerts are SUPPOSED to be "spontaneous"...
in the words of Pete Townshend,
ROCK IS DEAD.
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