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Originally Posted by David
And Petty is not afraid to downplay his megastardom by playing small venues & launching tours without quite so much pomp & circumstance, which is something Fleetwood Mac would have to do if they want to approach the concert experience on entirely different terms.
You can't give it up like Cracker or the Grateful Dead if you trumpet your worldwide tour with the sort of heraldry usually reserved for royalty. If you want to play on a more elemental level & toss new ideas around, you probably need to ditch your million-dollar guarantees & your exorbitant ticket prices & all the rest of the brouhaha.
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True, David, very true. And come to think of it, even the Stones still give in to a healthy level of spontaneity in their shows. And their supporting band is even bigger than FM's. Talk about rock royalty! Their last tour was especially cool from a performance standpoint, if not from a ticket price perspective, because they did small venues too.
When I saw them in 1998 (or 99?) they were doing songs requested by fans through the Internet. Hey, they added Gimme Shelter to the regular setlist because it was always being requested. I believe the night I saw them, they played Factory Girl! Think about that! Factory Girl. That had to come from some diehard fans.
Fleetwood Mac needs spontaneity and stage courage.