Rolling Stone: McVie comments on FM and Songbird

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Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

So is the point that they're both nostalgia shows? Or do the songs that are performed not count because one's fully live and one isn't?

I mean, is a fully live oldies rock concert more or less artistic than a show with five whole new songs that gives the verisimilitude of being a live show, but is largely karaoke? I think it’s kind of moot, TBH.

Is it art when someone has to leave the tour for health issues and his absence is completely unnoticeable?

Either way, I’m not going to either show.

Were In Your Dreams and 24 Karat Gold new albums at their release? IYD had a number of tunes that were written and demo'd years before 2011. In the liner notes for 24 Karat Gold, Stevie writes "these songs are not new"

When did she freely admit that she doesn't write much? She said that before IYD when she was told not to make a new album.
She said she was writing music during lockdown and she gave an interview this year where she says she just wrote one of her best songs.

Watch her 24 Karat Gold Concert video, she says it's not the same Stevie show. 5 years later in 2022, she's doing the predictable Stevie set again, but with an extra cover.

Stevie hasn’t been the one pushing the “creative visionary” narrative for over 40 years. She’s not had that level of pretension.

And? The album is over one year old. It's not "new."

Crowded House have played 39 shows and have 29 scheduled and they have been working on new music. Lindsey has played like 47 shows and has ten more scheduled. So, his album is three years older and he’s doing fewer live engagements.

Campbell's definitely the most artistic out of all the FM members.

I completely agree and I think he’s been making the best albums of the lot.

Then again, I listen to a lot of Outlaw Country on SiriusXM and they’ve been playing a lot of Dirty Knobs.

But, then again, Fleetwood Mac is just a blip in the careers of Mike and Neil.

Did you go to one of the 2021 or 2022 shows? It didn't feel that way at the ones I saw. The audience didn't seem that way either.

No. I saw him in 2018 and was put off by the prerecords (“Surrender the Rain” was especially cringeworthy). Furthermore, when I saw jbrownsjr John’s comment about the show, I decided to skip it.