Concert openers.

[bethelblues]

My vote's for Tusk. I want to hear Mick use the cymbals to build suspense (they always seem to do a little percussion intro after the crickets and prior to the song starting) before launching into the pounding opening drums in the dark in the faster, 2004 version.

Originally Posted by PenguinHead

I like your encore selections!

There is something to be said for not starting the bar level at 10. Where do you go from there? Sometimes it's good to start in the middle and build up the energy from there. It's not as if Fleetwood Mac has to hype up their audience from the start. A large percent of the audience are already in that state, especially knowing that Christine is on stage.

Landslide needs to come at the end. It would be most effective in that position, when people are wondering when they will play it and may be most emotionally connected to the song. And like I said about The Chain, I just like the idea that as this group comes together again after 16 years apart that this is their final joint statement to the audience. Through thick and thin, extended periods away from the band, retirements, sicknesses, aging, the chain will keep us together.

I wonder, though, for anyone who remembers seeing Songbird, did it lose some of its potency as the final song if people were already exiting the arena? Maybe that's why Stevie never does Landslide as an encore?