Thoughts on the Fleetwood Mac Live reissue

[anusha]

Originally Posted by bwboy

I remember a recent interview where Stevie made a comment along the lines of “with Tusk, we were touring for an album some of us didn’t care for, singing songs we weren’t crazy about” or something to that effect. If she was referring to herself and Christine, then that would explain why Christine didn’t sing many songs from Tusk live for that tour. I think Stevie sang Sara, Sisters of the Moon, and Angel, and on subsequent tours she sang Storms and Beautiful Child.

I do wonder if they would have found some extra affection for all of those songs if Tusk had sold better. I love the vibe of Tango, but Family Man and Welcome to the Room Sara are not favorites of mine (and aren't as good as anything on Tusk, IMO) -- but it had 4 hit singles and sold a lot of copies, and we haven't heard a peep from anyone complaining about the non-hits. And you could make the same argument for the retro hate of SYW in some camps. Well one camp mostly.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by anusha

I do wonder if they would have found some extra affection for all of those songs if Tusk had sold better. I love the vibe of Tango, but Family Man and Welcome to the Room Sara are not favorites of mine (and aren't as good as anything on Tusk, IMO) -- but it had 4 hit singles and sold a lot of copies, and we haven't heard a peep from anyone complaining about the non-hits. And you could make the same argument for the retro hate of SYW in some camps. Well one camp mostly.

I dont think that is a fair comparison IMHO. The non-hits on Tango were still very safe and very commercial songs. Tusk had very few commercial songs. I also think they promoted the album with an incredible world tour and even a video (which was not that common in 1979). Fleetwood Mac never did much new material while promoting new albums but they did a fair share and they transformed them live extremely good (IMHO).