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Originally Posted by David
Why? Who needs a lot of those songs? Say You Love Me? Go Your Own Way? Don't Stop? The Chain? Oh Well? That in your estimation is limiting classic Mac songs?
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Well, the HAVE to do SOME of the classics. But, it's not like the set was completely loaded down with the classic Mac songs. To put it another way, even though he'd been in the band for four years, and had done five albums with the band, Bob Welch was still doing "Manalishi," "Oh Well," "Rattlesnake," and "Black Magic Woman" during the 1974 tour. Furthermore, look at the sets in the 1975-1976 tour: Get Like You Used To Be, Station Man, Spare Me A Little, Why, Hypnotized, Manalishi, Tell Me All The Things You Do, Sunny Side Of Heaven, and Oh Well. The point being that they have to play some of the old songs for a certain period of time, and given the level of success of "Fleetwood Mac" and "Rumours," it would be understandable to keep a few of those songs in the set. Five at that stage is pretty minimal. It could have easily been littered with the likes of World Turning, Gold Dust Woman, Dreams, You Make Loving Fun, Hold Me, Everywhere, Monday Morning, Blue Letter, Second Hand News, I Don't Want To Know, Angel, and so on...
(And "Oh Well?" EVERYBODY who's ever been in Fleetwood Mac -save for Brunning- has had to do "Oh Well" at some point. It's a right of passage, damnit!)
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Originally Posted by David
In what Lotus Land are you now living & smoking? Great reviews? By whom? the pop/rock writers at the metro dailies? perhaps the first-string critic at Stereo Review? the staff at Vibe? You must be kidding.
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I think there was a window where country was becoming much more popular that such a paradigm shift for the band would have been welcomed by the press. With the people I would have put in the group, it would have been an album that would have come out much more along the lines of a "Highway 61..." meets "Sticky Fingers." But, in all reality, you're right, reviews would have been littered with "where's Stevie" comments and Delaney & Bonnie comparisons.
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Originally Posted by David
Mick, John, Bekka & Billy could have -- & should have -- just gone out there & played their own material, played stuff like Austin City Limits, & recorded on a small label & just tried to maintain integrity even if no more than 20,000 bought their album. There is PLENTY of work around for bands that sell only 20,000 CDs, believe it or not.
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I would have been there. And, those 20,000 would be the REAL fans. I guess it's that whole McGuinn philosophy that I've come to respect. Why sell a butt load of tickets to people who find you trendy when you could play small gigs for people who are the true fans? (The answer, for this band, of course, is MONEY!)