Question about the live albums

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by elle

lol. they've been playing Songs From The Small Machine Live In LA regularly on Palladia. even as a non-guitarist who doesn't work for any legendary band i can see there are 4 people on stage there, not one man and a guitar.

and also, even as a non-guitarist i can hear there's no Rodeo there.

You know, it all blends together for me -Palladia, YouTube, etc- so I'm not going to d*ck around with what was on what because, whatever the case, I end up reaching the same conclusion: Whether he's with the band or is playing a one man show, Lindsey has been using canned tracks, and that's the musical equivalent of glorified karaoke. I think it's crap. It's the easy way of doing things. It's the coward's way of putting on a show. It sickens me that it spilled into Fleetwood Mac shows.

The last Fleetwood Mac-related show I've seen to date was Lindsey in Cincinnati in 2006. I remember the canned tracks at that show, too. That and the psychobabble ("I wrote this song when I realized a dream I had wasn't going to come true, and that I had to give myself time to mourn the loss of that dream") are the reasons I quit going to his shows. It's not art, it's not intellectual, it's not interesting, and it's not entertaining. The best moment of the night was a somewhat sloppy version of "Bwana", which was just a one-off.

please feel free to jump in there (if you ever consider worthy taking some of your precious time to take a listen to any of them ).

Not that my time's precious, it's just that I've moved on. I'm simply not interested in listen to a "live" show that's not really live. And, judging by some of what I've heard about half full venues, I'm apparently not alone. I know a lot of those venues from touring. It's sad when the guy who wrote "Go Your Own Way", "Tusk", "Trouble", "Go Insane", and "Big Love" and is still a member of a legendary band can't sell-out small venues.