On With the Show Rehearsals

[bethelblues]

Originally Posted by Wdm6789

I really hope they keep Sara in the set list. I really want to see it live with Christine on the piano. Christine's piano riff is what makes that song so amazing.

So does Lindsey's incredible guitar work, as he used to do it (hasn't come close in the recent tours):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IVCtdQke-w

[Wdm6789]

Originally Posted by bethelblues

So does Lindsey's incredible guitar work, as he used to do it (hasn't come close in the recent tours):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IVCtdQke-w

The first 2.5 minutes of that video are amazing. Well the whole video is, but the first 2.5 minutes are really amazing. John's bass is amazing also.

[bethelblues]

Originally Posted by Wdm6789

The first 2.5 minutes of that video are amazing. Well the whole video is, but the first 2.5 minutes are really amazing. John's bass is amazing also.

The only live version of Sara besides that one I can listen to is from the Live album (1980). It's just incredible, how they used to do that song. Really, it was amazing because it featured all of the elements of the band at their best...the rhythm section, the guitarwork by Lindsey working to enhance the song, the piano/keyboards, and Stevie's voice at that time (the end is just ethereal).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_(Fleetwood_Mac_album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abhga4JexYs

[michelej1]

And when they do the DVD, I hope they put all the songs on the tour on the dvd. I hate it when they leave off songs and we never have an official live version of them.

Michele

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by michelej1

And when they do the DVD, I hope they put all the songs on the tour on the dvd. I hate it when they leave off songs and we never have an official live version of them.

Michele

It's so annoying. And the live cd they dropped Songbird. i had to buy the import with Over My Head and Songbird to complete the live CD set of the Dance.

[gssmith]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

It's so annoying. And the live cd they dropped Songbird. i had to buy the import with Over My Head and Songbird to complete the live CD set of the Dance.

How do you get an import album? From amazon.com.uk? Does it have gold dust woman, gypsy, and go insane too?

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by gssmith

How do you get an import album? From amazon.com.uk? Does it have gold dust woman, gypsy, and go insane too?

They are all featured as bonus tracks on the CD singles.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by gssmith

How do you get an import album? From amazon.com.uk? Does it have gold dust woman, gypsy, and go insane too?

What Penguinhead said.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by michelej1

And when they do the DVD, I hope they put all the songs on the tour on the dvd. I hate it when they leave off songs and we never have an official live version of them.

Michele

and yet we have 55 million official live versions of other songs.

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by michelej1

And when they do the DVD, I hope they put all the songs on the tour on the dvd. I hate it when they leave off songs and we never have an official live version of them.

Michele

That frustrates me so much. Most other artists put the entire show on the CD/DVD.

[BigAl84]

Originally Posted by Wdm6789

The first 2.5 minutes of that video are amazing. Well the whole video is, but the first 2.5 minutes are really amazing. John's bass is amazing also.

THANK YOU! lindsey has not done those beautiful arpeggio parts since Sara's return in 2004. To me, it just makes the song. Not the same at all when he just does more of the rhythm riff.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by BigAl84

THANK YOU! lindsey has not done those beautiful arpeggio parts since Sara's return in 2004. To me, it just makes the song. Not the same at all when he just does more of the rhythm riff.

They need to go back to improv'ing a little more as instrumentalists. They did back in the day and some wonderful things came out.

I don't need The Dance II

No wonder Christine was so bored.

[bethelblues]

Thank you! I thought I was the only one who noticed that Sara was so much more interesting in the past. It's like they forgot how they used to play it, chiefly Lindsey. No wonder Sisters of the Moon had such an uninspired arrangement.

[louielouie2000]

I like modern Sara. I think it solved the pacing issue the song had in it's earlier days. It's one of the few songs I can think of that the Mac performs better now than they did during their heyday. Different strokes, I guess.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

No wonder Christine was so bored.

That reminds me of how she said she was going to enjoy herself this time and not stay cooped up in her hotel room while on tour. She's going to go out and do things in the cities they travel in, so maybe we'll get some pictures of her out and about.

Michele