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Originally Posted by elle

so in 2012, before 2013 tour started, LB said she was feeling sad reading her bad reviews and he was gonna do everything in his power that those don't happen again. he was still gonna be himself on stage but change some things. listening to 2013 GDW or SOTM, i think i see what he meant. now everybody's complaining that he's holding back on her songs. for chiffs, the man can do nothing right. but at least she seems happy.

Okay, but wasn't he "toned down" on her songs long before that? I mean, the classic example is Rhiannon. The whole arrangement changed around 1990 with Fleetwood Mac (I believe the handful of times it was played in '87 still included a solo from Rick I guess after the traditional part of the song ends and before "dreams unwind...") and when they played it for The Dance it was half the song that it was in the old days. A lot had to do with Stevie's inability to do what she did in 1976 any longer, but, the vocals aside, the whole arrangement was shrunk down and mellowed out considerably. I wish someone would ask something about that in an interview - "when the hell did you think it was a good idea to take out the rocking solos in half of the damn songs?" It would be a lot better than "so what is it like after all these years to sing these songs to each other every night bla bla bla"