Let's be thankful - Page 2

Villavic · #16 02-09-2006, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by chiliD

the five of them were not really reuniting to do something new, they were trying to RECREATE something that couldn't be recreated. (Point #1 to why the Beatles never reunited when they could have...you can't repeat something that is a one-time phenomenon).
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were they recreating something?? I guess they just reunited to have fun, make money, and sing and play very good for their fans. I think they did it, and did it well.

The magic will never be the same, I know. And that's why Beatles, Thompson Twins, Abba and Police never reunited again (as I read exactly from those bands), not even for a "The Dance"-type show/tour. They just don't want. But Fleetwood Mac did want. So I enjoyed it.

If I compare TD with other past shows, sure The Dance looses. Stevie can't sing Rhiannon with the same energy as in the LIVE album, impossible in her fifties (just an example). But I think that wasn't the point. They didn't want to say.. Hey, the Mac is back like in 1979!!. The phenomenom is back!

Did you guys expected a phenomenom? I didn't. (I wished it, but didn't expect it).

No, I guess it was just.. "The Mac is back for a while, enjoy it!"

Agnetha doesn't want to reunite not even for few shows, she said it wouldn't be like in the 70s so we would be dissapointed. Believe me, I WOULDN'T BE DISSAPOINTED!!! And what would I pay to see Sting wth Police again!!

So at the end. Yes, I'M GRATEFUL

chiliD · #17 02-09-2006, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

you know what? I didn't even think about that til you just said it, but I think you're right! Remove the 2 central figures of the band and replace them with 3 sorta kinda unknowns...

Dave Mason? Unknown? You're full o' ****.
Billy Burnette? Unknown? He'd already been in the band for 7 years at that point.

I'll give ya Bekka Bramlett, she was an "unknown"...but, talk about "unknowns"...who the F*** were Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks in 1975? F***ing unknowns, that's who.

JazmenFlowers · #18 02-09-2006, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Villavic

Agnetha doesn't want to reunite not even for few shows, she said it wouldn't be like in the 70s so we would be dissapointed. Believe me, I WOULDN'T BE DISSAPOINTED!!!

So at the end. Yes, I'M GRATEFUL

great example. I've heard rumors of what they've been offered to perform and it's outrageous. I'd love to see them...and think of all the fans that would love to see them. Such a shame to waste ALL these years not giving those fans something. At least FM tries, good or bad...in the end, they did try.

JazmenFlowers · #19 02-09-2006, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by chiliD

Dave Mason? Unknown? You're full o' ****.
Billy Burnette? Unknown? He'd already been in the band for 7 years at that point.

I'll give ya Bekka Bramlett, she was an "unknown"...but, talk about "unknowns"...who the F*** were Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks in 1975? F***ing unknowns, that's who.

maybe so. and I don't believe saying I'm full of **** is exactly within the rules, but ok.

of course they were nobodys...everyone is/was at some point, I mean, hello?

ask 10 people on the street who Dave Mason or Billy Burnette is and then ask them who Lindsey Buckingham or Stevie Nicks is...therein lies the flaw in your hostility

Villavic · #20 02-09-2006, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

great example. I've heard rumors of what they've been offered to perform and it's outrageous. I'd love to see them....

ABBA?
I read at CNN they refused 1 million dollar per show, each one, to sing together again!!

JazmenFlowers · #21 02-09-2006, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Villavic

ABBA?
I read at CNN they refused 1 million dollar per show, each one, to sing together again!!

that's similar to what I heard...this was from Agnetha's mouth too - to play at some rich king's party was around 1 million each too

Richard B · #22 02-09-2006, 06:00 PM

I loved 'Farmer's Daughter' on The Dance tour. Loved it.

Jyqm · #23 02-09-2006, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by mylittledemon

Interesting. I didnt know that. Regardless...even that song aside, there was much to "The Dance" that allowed it to climb higher than nostalgia package. As far as I'm concerned...the "Time" era of the group was more that than the Dance era. *prepares himself for unholy wrath of Chili*

The Time line-up was a number of things, but a nostalgia package? What's your reasoning here?

Villavic · #24 02-09-2006, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Richard B

I loved 'Farmer's Daughter' on The Dance tour. Loved it.

Not only loved it, but was a surprise to me!! I wish they sing again those songs from LIVE album.. Fireflies and One more night.. again.

Brwn_eyes0511 · #25 02-09-2006, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Jyqm

The Time line-up was a number of things, but a nostalgia package? What's your reasoning here?

hmmm...yea this statement left me a little

as well...

JazmenFlowers · #26 02-09-2006, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Richard B

I loved 'Farmer's Daughter' on The Dance tour. Loved it.

oh me too. I wish I could find a copy of the concert from Memphis. It was really great. That was cool of them to throw that in there.

DavidMn · #27 02-09-2006, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by chiliD

Ok, then, that just proves my point of Fleetwood Mac being a nostalgia act. Sure, you saw Mick, John, Lindsey, Stevie & Christine together, but, you didn't see them in "their prime"...the five of them were not really reuniting to do something new, they were trying to RECREATE something that couldn't be recreated. (Point #1 to why the Beatles never reunited when they could have...you can't repeat something that is a one-time phenomenon).

It is the same thing with me & Cream. I didn't see them the first time around back in the '60's. Was I dying that they reunited? Yes. Did I want to see them? Yes. Were they doing anything beyond being a nostalgia act? No. But, I knew that going in. I wasn't led on with any allusions that they just might be doing something new. (as I was with The Dance) Did they present their songs in new & different ways? A couple of songs, yes; mostly, no (other than they were considerably shorter and played at a significantly lower volume). Did they rake in cash? Yep...and for good causes, too. Jack Bruce was hurting for cash due to his illness and Eric still has to fund his Crossroads drug rehab center. Didn't hear of Fleetwood Mac funnelling a portion of their profits into charitable causes other than "family income".

What you say is all true. You just remember you're coming from an angle of having had seen them in their prime and myelf having had to wait all those years, that's all. You make very good points though.

I never got into the older Fleetwood Mac stuff too until around the early 90's. I was like all the others in that I thought the world began in 1975, so there's hope for me still!

DavidMn · #28 02-09-2006, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Richard B

I loved 'Farmer's Daughter' on The Dance tour. Loved it.

I will say this; I found it VERY bizarre that they followed songbird with that. There's no way anything other than Songbird shouldve closed the set.

Villavic · #29 02-09-2006, 06:17 PM

Farmer's daughter

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Originally Posted by DavidMn

I will say this; I found it VERY bizarre that they followed songbird with that. There's no way anything other than Songbird shouldve closed the set.

Well, at first I didn't find it bizarre but... weird. Songbird was always the last song. A very good song to end. But I guess they wanted to show us the 5 members together ending the show. Maybe they already knew it was the last time the 5 will play together live.

DavidMn · #30 02-09-2006, 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Villavic

Farmer's daughter

Well, at first I didn't find it bizarre but... weird. Songbird was always the last song. A very good song to end. But I guess they wanted to show us the 5 members together ending the show. Maybe they already knew it was the last time the 5 will play together live.

Ok that's a good point. I hadnt thought of it that way. I still think it mightve been better earlier in the show.