2012 Set List?

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Originally Posted by skuncles

MOST artists mix up their sets night to night. Bruce Springsteen has like three or four sets that he rotates night after night. Billy Joel has a core set that he swaps out different songs night after night. In fact for one of his tours he let the crowd decide what the next song would be. He'd announce what the two or three choices were and based on the applause, he would do that song.
Most other artists have a set of say 25 songs that they pull from for a finished set of say 18 songs. Years ago I saw Martina McBride and she was about to do a song, but before it started she said "Hang on a minute" and turned and said something to her guitar player. She then said "We're supposed to do a song here that I just don't feel like singing it tonight, instead I want to do this one, it wasn't a hit or even a single, I just like it and it's my show so I'll do what I want!!!"
Stevie's rigidness to change comes from trying to do "Rumours" songs on stage in 1976 before the album had come out and the songs got a weak reception. What she fails to recall was that in 1976 people going to a Mac show were still wanting to hear "Oh Well", "The Green Manalishi", "Hypnotized" etc. They didn't want to have those dropped to hear something they didn't know. But that was then, this is now.
It's probably too late for Stevie to become spontanious on stage, but it would be nice. Instead her shows, as well as the Fleetwood Mac shows, are carbon copies night after night. The funny thing is Stevie says how great it is to get to perform something new. But no one is stopping her except her.

You made so many great points. Just think if in all of her solo shows she'd done tons of different songs even it not every night every couple of nights. I'll never understand why her & Mac just kept the shows the 'same' night after night--really that MUST have been boring as heck to perform that way--changing things is good--I do recall Stevie in an interview (sorry don't recall what interview it was/radio show I think?) where she stated that some songs are good on the record but NOT to be sung 'live' REALLY to me thats just wrong because if it was good enough to record it its good enough to sing it LIVE---it may not come off perfect but 'whom' says it has to be perfect note for note (which to me not necessary). Just think of all the great songs that we'll not ever hear live during those era's too. Sad very very sad.