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Originally Posted by PenguinHead

I'm really digging the live complication that reconstructs a set list from select performances from several locations. It makes me wish they did that with the Rumours deluxe. With that stingy issue we only got 12 songs.

Interesting that they start out using a Mirage tour song order. During the Tusk tour, a basic set was more along the lines of:

Monday Morning
Say You Love Me
The Chain
Dreams
Not That Funny
Rhiannon
Don't Stop
Oh Well
Sara
What Makes You Think You're The One
Over & Over (later in the tour, "Think About Me" was swapped out here)
Save Me A Place (was dropped for "Never Going Back Again" later in the tour, as well)
Landslide
Tusk
Angel
You Make Loving Fun
I'm So Afraid
World Turning
Go Your Own Way
Sisters Of The Moon
Songbird


"Blue Letter" was usually played after "Sisters Of The Moon" during 1st encore, "Songbird" was 2nd encore.

Originally Posted by WayOfTheDragon

I'm enjoying the Tusk tour live discs so much. The sound quality is so warm and crisp, it's like I'm floating on a cloud when I listen to it on headphones. It's an immersive and satisfying experience. I like the way the guitar and keyboards are mixed; the reverb on Lindsey's guitar sounds really nice. I wouldn't mind if they had included Think About Me, but I'm glad they included That's Enough for Me, which I'd previously only heard in a poor-quality audience bootleg from Rotterdam. A couple of the selected tracks might rank as my favorite performances ever of those songs (Landslide, World Turning, Songbird, to name a few). Even You Make Loving Fun is taken to another level due to Lindsey's guitar work. I feel that the band was at their peak in terms of their live sound during the Tusk tour.

In some ways, yes, but personally, I think they peaked in about August 1977. That was the last of Stevie's tour de force "Rhiannon"s, everybody was clicking on all cylinders. Everybody was still riding the crest of the Rumours wave. By the Tusk tour, I think they were kind of reeling from the discord regarding the record company reaction to the Tusk album and the cracks in stage camaraderie was starting to show publicly (culminating in the "New Zealand fiasco" & Lindsey's almost spilling the beans about the band breaking up that final night at the Hollywood Bowl).

For me, their live shows (the Fireflies, I mean) have taken an ever descending slide since those "hot August nights" of 1977. The newly added energy of Rick & Billy in both '87 & '90 kicked the band back in gear for a couple of tours. But, the energy & cohesiveness when "the five" have been together is sorely lost to the ravages of time (and that pun is unintentional). Even Christine's return, while INCREDIBLE to see & hear her onstage with Fleetwood Mac again, hasn't really brought them back. They've caved to "nostalgia" and really have lost that "fire" I hope they prove me wrong with the new material for the upcoming album...and that the creative process sparks a re-ignition of some of that old fire.