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[MikeVielhaber]

Originally Posted by KarmaContestant

I disagree with you both, and think you're drinking the Stand Back koolaid. They don't need that song to bring energy to their shows. It's just a caveat to keep Stevie there. Any of the songs I listed could bring a ton of energy - I mean, my goodness, look at I'm So Afraid and Gold Dust Woman, probably some of the most spectacular moments of the show, and no synthy beats.

I agree that it's dancy, but any song could be dancy if reimagined and performed that way. For that matter, they might as well perform the Deep Dish version of Dreams.

I love Stand Back, and don't mind hearing it. I'm just playing devil's advocate, which comes naturally to me, due to my Libra Moon.

I think you're vastly underestimating the importance of song recognition. Those other songs wouldn't work because most of the fans don't know them. There maybe be other songs they could use in that slot, I don't know, but those aren't it.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by MikeVielhaber

I think you're vastly underestimating the importance of song recognition. Those other songs wouldn't work because most of the fans don't know them. There maybe be other songs they could use in that slot, I don't know, but those aren't it.

That is true. For instance, I'd love to have EFO in the set and I think it's dancy, but I know no one knows it. That is why it's never going to get the same reaction as Stand Back. People jump up off their seats when they hear the opening SB beat. No stadium-filling band wants to lose a song like that.

Michele

[KarmaContestant]

Originally Posted by MikeVielhaber

I think you're vastly underestimating the importance of song recognition. Those other songs wouldn't work because most of the fans don't know them.

I suppose that's an inevitable side-effect of people not buying albums. If everyone who went to see FM live owned all the material, they'd know all the songs.

I'm in the wrong for assuming other people at the show are the same caliber of fan that I am, or you are. Even though it makes perfect sense, it *seems* ludicrous to me that every person in the audience wouldn't know Everybody Finds Out or Seven Wonders, or Walk A Thin Line or Tango In The Night.

I don't go to concerts unless it's a band I *love*. I'm not one who pays to see someone if I'm a casual fan. I'd never, for instance, go to see the Steve Miller Band - I love the songs on the radio, but I would never pay to see them. I own none of their material...so I guess that's the same perspective that probably 99.5% of the audience at a Fleetwod Mac show has, which I need to remember.

[mitzo]

Stand Back may be uptempo but Holy Moses, is it a cringeworthy hot mess live.