Lazy promotion for the new FM "Hits" Tour

LukeA · #1 12-10-2008, 12:28 AM

The ad mat in the print/online averts & the TV commercials (which I saw this past weekend in Boston) are the EXACT SAME that were used in 03-04. They couldn't even bother to work up a new b-roll, or add a new-voiceover script to reference the (much-maligned) "Unleashed" tagline. I was shocked at how slapdash the production was.

So, its basically- make as much moola as possible with as minimal overhead as they can get away with, because the lure of seeing Fleetwood Mac FINALLY performing a concert that focuses on their hits!!!!! is just so totally amazing.

PenguinHead · #2 12-10-2008, 12:34 AM

Kind of sad, huh?

RockALittle250 · #3 12-10-2008, 01:47 AM

They can't use any photos or footage past 03-04 because that's Fleetwood Mac's most recent outing as a group. New promotional photos will probably surface soon since they just announced this tour last week.

LukeA · #4 12-10-2008, 04:16 AM

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Originally Posted by RockALittle250

They can't use any photos or footage past 03-04 because that's Fleetwood Mac's most recent outing as a group. New promotional photos will probably surface soon since they just announced this tour last week.

They could have posed for photos anytime in the last month or so (or ever since they signed off on the tour). It was obviously not of importance to them- or, at least, wasn't a significant thing to do, as they figured they could sell the tour using the same images/pretenses they did five years ago.

Lindsey Jr. · #5 12-10-2008, 05:18 AM

They don't even try.

louielouie2000 · #6 12-10-2008, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by LukeA

They could have posed for photos anytime in the last month or so (or ever since they signed off on the tour). It was obviously not of importance to them- or, at least, wasn't a significant thing to do, as they figured they could sell the tour using the same images/pretenses they did five years ago.

Watching Destiny Rules, it seems almost impossible to get them all together in the same place, at the same time, for anything. They didn't all want to be together the whole time they recorded Say You Will, they didn't want to all be together while mixing the tracks, they drug their @sses about tour rehearsals (it's too late, I can't do it that day, blah, blah, blah). It's disappointing, but not surprising they couldn't even get the band together for a couple new photos for this tour. I remember when I was walking out of the Greensboro Coliseum a few years back, and they all got in seperate limos and everything. I don't think these people spend a minute together that they don't have to. They've become spoiled, whiney, old, has-been rock stars. It's the only thing they've known their adult lives... so I guess I could see how they could get to that point... but I don't know. I think I'd try a bit harder, and be a bit more thankful, if I were anyone one of them.

Lindsey Jr. · #7 12-10-2008, 08:15 AM

LB has never forgiven SN for what she did, and I'm not talking about MF. JMCVIE? Well, he's just very quiet, and maybe that's a good thing for them.
I wonder how much drugs, booze and other stuff they did back in the day.

vermicious knid · #8 12-10-2008, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by louielouie2000

Watching Destiny Rules, it seems almost impossible to get them all together in the same place, at the same time, for anything. They didn't all want to be together the whole time they recorded Say You Will, they didn't want to all be together while mixing the tracks, they drug their @sses about tour rehearsals (it's too late, I can't do it that day, blah, blah, blah). It's disappointing, but not surprising they couldn't even get the band together for a couple new photos for this tour. I remember when I was walking out of the Greensboro Coliseum a few years back, and they all got in seperate limos and everything. I don't think these people spend a minute together that they don't have to. They've become spoiled, whiney, old, has-been rock stars. It's the only thing they've known their adult lives... so I guess I could see how they could get to that point... but I don't know. I think I'd try a bit harder, and be a bit more thankful, if I were anyone one of them.

It definitely was far removed from the old days when Christine and Stevie shared an apartment, or when they were all together at Le Chateau in France. I wonder if anybody at all slept in that big house they were recording in. It didn't look like it to me. I bet the bedrooms went totally unused as they drove back to their own individual houses every night.

**jbrownsjr** · #9 12-10-2008, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by LukeA

They could have posed for photos anytime in the last month or so (or ever since they signed off on the tour). It was obviously not of importance to them- or, at least, wasn't a significant thing to do, as they figured they could sell the tour using the same images/pretenses they did five years ago.

It really doesn't get any lazier than that does it Luke... I can't wait to not buy tickets for this tour...

RockALittle250 · #10 12-10-2008, 01:38 PM

I can't believe how everyone is getting their panties in a bunch over such trivial stuff. The tour was just announced, give it time. I could care less about what they do, because in my mind, they've been putting out albums fairly steadily for 33 years, so they can do whatever the heck they want to do at this stage in their lives. If you're not happy with the tour and the ticket prices, then don't buy tickets.

StandbackStevie · #11 12-11-2008, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by LukeA

They could have posed for photos anytime in the last month or so (or ever since they signed off on the tour). It was obviously not of importance to them- or, at least, wasn't a significant thing to do, as they figured they could sell the tour using the same images/pretenses they did five years ago.

i guess the new photos were not in there budget

**jbrownsjr** · #12 12-12-2008, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by StandbackStevie

i guess the new photos were not in there budget

MacMan · #13 12-10-2008, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by LukeA

The ad mat in the print/online averts & the TV commercials (which I saw this past weekend in Boston) are the EXACT SAME that were used in 03-04. They couldn't even bother to work up a new b-roll, or add a new-voiceover script to reference the (much-maligned) "Unleashed" tagline. I was shocked at how slapdash the production was.

So, its basically- make as much moola as possible with as minimal overhead as they can get away with, because the lure of seeing Fleetwood Mac FINALLY performing a concert that focuses on their hits!!!!! is just so totally amazing.

Well this isn't looking good if there's going to be a tour book!... Unless by using Great Hits Tour, that gives them the license to use old pictures from the beginning up to this day... But still... They should have a couple of shots done of the group... Maybe they'll throw in some pics from the rehearsals in January with Stevie in the dark or her back to the camera.