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Originally Posted by SteveMacD
I'd totally see Steve Winwood. He may do the same songs, but because of the improvisational nature of his shows, there's a dynamic there that just does not exist with Fleetwood Mac anymore. In fact, I suspect such a dynamic scares the hell out of them. You don't have to wonder if it was live, or was it Memorex at a Steve Winwood show. With some songs (i.e. "Go Insane" on the current tour or "Trouble" and "Holiday Road" from Lindsey's live DVD), that's obviously not true. I don't enjoy that.
I'd go see the "current" Fleetwood Mac if they added Steve Winwood. If they put him in the band, and he made them cut out Brett, Neal, and the backing vocalists, and made it a working band that didn't sound perfectly like the records, and made them work their asses off nightly to put on a killer show, I'd totally go see that. That's what made the Mac great in the first place. My favorite bootlegs are from the '75-'76 era, when they were still hungry. They made a concious effort to own the crowds, and it paid off. Anyway, it worked out really well the last time they had a keyboard player from Birmingham.
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I saw him 3 years in a row and everytime the set list was different...
First year he opened w/ Send A Fax
Next year Different Light (About Time)
Next year Empty Pages followed by Rainmaker...
Every song has improv...
he did a version of Talking Back to the Night w/ a mandolin
he plays his own bass pedals while singing and hammering the keys of the B3
he gets up and plays electric guitar on some Blind Faith tunes...
he covers Spencer Davis...
he covers Traffic....
it's worth the errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 50 bucks for my 5th row seat (now that's something to pay money for in my opinion) not some old worn out soap opera...