propose 6 deep cuts - 3 SN and 3 LB - for new tour

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by Phil

After all these years, the simple fact is that the band has become lazy. There is no reason why tracks couldn't be added and subtracted on a nightly basis, but there is a continual reluctance to introduce anything new. I realise that the blame rests squarely on Stevie's shoulders as Lindsey would seem game for just about anything. However, the band as a whole ultimately agree to Stevie's whims and will only trot out what has been rehearsed to death.
Even if half a dozen rarely performed songs are included in this tour, they too will become stale within a few months. The trick would be to keep evolving and potentially running through their entire back catalogue as well attempting newly written material. Of course, this will never happen, but if this approach was adopted, even the old warhorses could be swapped out from time to time. If this were to occur, I wouldn't be resentful of Dreams, Go Your Own Way, Rhiannon, I'm So Afraid etc because there would be a chance they may not be played at the following show.
What mystifies me about Stevie's insistence upon playing "the hits" is that so many of them are continually ignored. This is more apparent with her solo shows whereby she virtually ignores many of her singles, but in regard to Fleetwood Mac, I can't believe they haven't dragged Seven Wonders out since the Tango tour. So many casual fans of the band seem to adore this track and it would also offer an upbeat alternative to the ill-judged inclusion of Stand Back in a Mac show. The same can be said for the likes of Sisters Of The Moon, Angel and That's Alright - these would all serve to energise the rather sedate offerings we've become accustomed to from Stevie. She really does need her face slapped.

This is exactly what I was trying to refute when I posted all of the set lists for the tours. It has been basically the same since "Rumours", with the same 20 songs - with roughly half being stationary and half being in rotation. I'm not sure what is so mind boggling about their set list. They do what successful bands do - build a catalog and play it for their audience. Honestly, it's not Stevie's fault either, unless you dislike the running order because she probably did "sequence" it. I would bet Lindsey would not be quite as willing to be spontaneous either at this point - ask Elle who bugged the crap out of him on his solo tour and managed to get a couple of squeaks but never what she really wanted from her requests.

So, to think they would ever be in a request taking, set juggling, or truly spontaneous forum again like they were on the White Tour would happen the day that Fleetwood Mac became so far a distant memory in the minds of music lovers everywhere that they couldn't even sell out a bar on Sunset Strip. It just ain't gonna happen.

That, my friend, is what they celebrate every.single.night with their set list -- the fact that ALL those songs are in YOUR mind and you know them and can sing them and especially that you have PURCHASED them - over and over and over again.... and that you're there AGAIN to see them after 35+ years.

Don't misunderstand me, I know it would be so super nice for the set list to be changed every night and different and man what a kick if they would pull out the deep cuts and play stuff we've never heard and prove to us they are still that phenomenal band we all fell in love with.... but they would have to have rehearsed all those songs (something they don't have time to do), they will never go out into an arena full of people and do something off the cuff because it would look unprofessional and be too "sloppy"...