Two gripes about this tour.

[skuncles]

Originally Posted by Nikolaj

sk..wrote:
I thought the shows I saw (both Mohegan Sun shows) were the best Mac shows I've ever seen (previous tours were 1990, 1997 and 2004). Wouldn't have changed a thing.

I can respect your being a big fan and entitled to your own opinion, my fellow-CT rain-dweller. I disagree though I thought both the '97 & '03-04 tours were much better in that there was some new material, though to my taste, not the right new material performed on the SYW tour. I enjoyed the MoSun concert this spring, but I think it's an attitude of 'settling' and just being glad to see Fleetwood Mac do anything that lets them get away with performing material solely from '75 to '87 and really only "Big Love" represents '87, so for the most part, we have songs from '75 to '82 , which, to me, is unacceptable.
There's a ton about the Unleashed tour that could be a lot better, and it wouldn't be that hard to turn it into a hits-themed show that it is now but at the same time find new life breathing in the material-- the running order is too, too, predictable, and predictable isn't what we want from a band we respect, is it, really?[/QUOTE]

Well here's the thing, I'm looking at the tour for what it is, a hits tour. And as far as that goes it's fine. I'm not at all surprised that Stevie didn't doing any Mac songs beyond 1982, outside of "Seven Wonders" there's not much to really get into of her Mac output post "Mirage". I agree it could have been interesting to switch things up a bit, but Fleetwood Mac never switches it up live, why would they start now? The only time things change is when new members come along. The Unleashed tour was designed for the mass public, those who haven't bought a new Mac album since "Mirage". If it were up to me, yeah I would have thrown different things in there. Every song from "Rumours" has been done live except "I Don't Want To Know" what better tour to do this on? "Angel" hasn't been done in years, trade "Landslide" for it. Yeah, move "Dreams" to later in the set, why is it ALWAYS done within the first three or four songs?
I liked the tour for what it was. I don't expect any surprises from the Mac or Stevie, and I know of a lot of people who had never seen the Mac until this tour and they loved every second of it. At the end of the day isn't that what the band was looking for?