My rant about concert setlists

[amber]

Originally Posted by Jyqm

Six. They did six songs out of eighteen every night, in a set of twenty-four songs. One of which got switched up halfway through the tour, so that makes seven. Plus two more that were played no more than three times and then dropped, right? That's nine. So only half of the new album was ever played at all, but really only a third of it - and almost entirely the same third - was played with any regularity (that is to say, every night, in Mac terms).

How many songs from Rumours were played every night? Seven. Seven! Out of eleven! And three of the four which weren't played were Christine's songs.

Yeah. That rumours thing is part of the "many, varied reasons" and "beholden to promoters and the label" thing I referred to before. This is usually the thing people bring up that makes people think that they are defending FM - which is that - If you were FM, could you honestly imagine not making Rumours a pretty heavy portion of the setlist pie? Again, not saying it's right, but most defenders think it is *somewhat* understandable. It was the biggest selling album in history for years, it defined an era and a genre, it was played so much as to be part of people's collective unconscious, people loved and identified with that album so much, it catapulted FM into superstardom, it contained their only number one hit, blah blah etc.

It does suck, it's just fairly easy to understand, should you want to do so. Rumours is like the albatross around their necks, and their greatest blessing, sadly.

So...about 1/4 of the tour was (were?) new songs, a bit over 1/4 was Rumours...which leaves 2/4ths to be split between FMFM, Tusk, Mirage, and Tango, with one Stevie solo song included. They dropped gypsy, and eventually EOTW (which I like IKINW better anyway) so there goes Mirage. which was fine with me. One from Tango, 4 from Tusk...3? from FM FM...
Okay, I'm rambling. I can understand why they did it for The Dance, but touring again, twice, in a relatively short time afterwards, they really had every opportunity to pull out more rare songs then BC, Sara, IKINW....