Anatomy of a Setlist

[Ulpian]

Pretty sure they did Over My Head on the 1990 tour.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

Huh? She did it the entire Unleashed Tour - remember that was her go to storytime.

Yeah, I think she got that out of her system. But I'd love the acoustic that everyone has been asking for since AHI. Michele

[elle]

Originally Posted by RavenOfRhiannon

I chose my words poorly. It's a Mac Concert staple. Just as much as Go Your Own Way is a Lindsey Buckingham Concert staple, live or solo. There are a select few songs that are so identified with Stevie and Lindsey that they are expected at a show regardless of the fact that it's a solo or Mac show. If Christine McVie toured solo more in the '80s, she'd be identified with Don't Stop or Say You Love Me.

i understand your opinion, but disagree it's a "mac staple". same as Go Insane is not a mac staple. but then again i've never seen Mac live.

i think the song that's most identified with Stevie is EO17. she doesn't perform it with Mac, and i think that's a good choice. Lindsey doesn't perform Holiday Road (solo or with Mac!), or Trouble, and he shouldn't.

we discussed that here, maybe you can add your 0.02?

http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=51402
as well as here
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=51399

[RavenOfRhiannon]

Originally Posted by elle

i understand your opinion, but disagree it's a "mac staple". same as Go Insane is not a mac staple. but then again i've never seen Mac live.

i think the song that's most identified with Stevie is EO17. she doesn't perform it with Mac, and i think that's a good choice. Lindsey doesn't perform Holiday Road (solo or with Mac!), or Trouble, and he shouldn't.

we discussed that here, maybe you can add your 0.02?

http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=51402
as well as here
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=51399

Thanks for the invite, but I'd just be regurgitating what I've already said. No point in saying the same things over and over trying to change someone's mind on the internet. It never works.
I was just pointing out that the song has been done on every single Mac tour since 1988, so it's a defacto live staple, regardless of who's album it was released on. In a perfect world, I'm all for scrapping every single song and starting fresh on this tour, but we all know the Rhiannon film will happen before we see a significant set list revamp.

[elle]

Originally Posted by RavenOfRhiannon

Thanks for the invite, but I'd just be regurgitating what I've already said. No point in saying the same things over and over trying to change someone's mind on the internet. It never works.

anytime!

i don't know, i definitely changed my mind about a few songs after i went through the list that CAD put together. facts can change [at least some] people's minds.

[SorcererJP]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

This was really informative. Thanks for compiling it and sharing.

The more I think about it, the more I think they should replace Stand Back with something like Seven Wonders. Tango is always underrepresented and I think that's a "fun" enough song that they could get away with the swap.

That should be fun. But then again, I always Like a good solid Stand Back.

I,remember back in 2009 I was in Antwerpen as wel as Rotterdam and the veneus were packed with aversie 'fans' or at least people who wanted To see The Mac once again and SB didn't got Munch recognition...you could easily pick the die hard Stevie chiffonheads...

[WatchChain]

Originally Posted by michelej1

No, Don't Let Me Down Again was sometimes played in 1987 without Lindsey.

Very comprehensive compilation. Good reference point.

Michele

I was at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas in December 1987. This show was near the end of the TITN Tour. It had been cancelled due to Stevie's illness and rescheduled near the end. I was very suprised to hear Fleetwood Mac break into "Don't Let Me Down Again" with Billy Burnett and Rick Vito on guitar/vocals.......just never expected that......

[KarmaContestant]

I feel the biggest obstacle to a setlist revamp is the utter lack of material to chose from. Let's be realistic here - the Rumours lineup (minus Christine) of Fleetwood Mac has ONE album of studio material since Tango In The Night.

One album in 26 years. To be fair, we can take out the time Lindsey was gone. 16 years with one album. It's shameful, really. So to exclude solo material means they have to stick with the songs many of us are tired of hearing, or dominate the setlist with songs they've never done on any tour, which would be fine with me, but just isn't likely. At all. What *is* likely is a new song or three, dropped after the first four shows unless it's one of Lindsey's.