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Originally Posted by Macfan4life
You are preaching to the choir. No one here is going to disagree with you. This has been discussed here for years. We can only speculate. Hold Me was the biggest hit from Mirage yet was axed for the HBO concert. It also was not included in the extended VHS/laser disc show. Even when they released the Mirage deluxe live CD, it was missing.
Everyone's speculation could be different. Hold Me is a hard song to do live because its studio track has tough elements to pull off live. I think the band or someone thought they would be flamed for its different sound? They thought people would flame them for allegedly butchering it? It was not done on the Tango, BTM, Dance, OWTH tour either which tells you the band did not like the live sound.
That is only speculation because why else would a band ignore one of their biggest hits in concert? IMHO I thought Chris's solo band and the Buck/Vie versions in concert are really good.
Its a mystery to me.
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I thought Hold Me sounded good on all the tours they did it on. I was just not a fan of the added “yeaahhh” when they sang it on the Mirage tour. It was unnecessary. Hold me.. hold meeeeEEEE sounded much better. It sounded good on the Buckingham McVie tour and it sounded good on the 2018-2019 tour, but it’s a shame Lindsey was not there for that one. It’s also a shame Lindsey was not there for the Tango tour because they probably would have had Hold Me on the set for that tour if he was there.