A crappy Continental Arena review

[jeffs]

I was at this show and all I can say is that it was amazing and it exceeded all of my expectations. Makes you wonder what these reviewers are expecting. Everyone left the show totally amazed. The Star Ledger is NJ's largest newspaper. Just copy and paste the below link into your browser.

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[Les]

Overall, it doesn't really strike me as all that bad.

He clearly isn't a fan of the Tusk-era music. That he'd be scratching his head over the band not performing 5 or 6 of Christine's songs, or confused about the Buckingham/Nicks fronted band not sticking to "blues roots" is a little funny to me.

[rhiannon1119]

I don't know what the heck this reviewer is talking about. I was at the show on Sunday and I thought it blew Friday night's show away! Beautiful Child is one of the most amazing songs done live.. I can't understand how they would say it is bland. Stevie is hitting notes on that song that I didn't think she would ever be able to hit again! One thing I had to agree on though.. it is the Stevie and Lindsey show.. with Lindsey just slightly more in the spotlight.

Michelle

[Janet]

That review isn't bad..they just don't like Beautiful Child.

During the Dance, the reviews ( I think, if I remember correctly) were so much more scathing, most of these seem great.

[strandinthewind]

I do not think it is a bad review. He just probably had never heard of Beautiful Child, which although I cannot wait to hear/see it live, is not everyone's taste performed live as it is an obscure tune to most people.

Overall, I think the reviews I have read, including this one, are very favorable. I just wish they would stop with the CM is gone thing. Enough already!!!

[fmfreak]

Tusk is their "self-indulgent low point"!? Why I oughta .... it's people like this that make it seem as though this band has only "one good album"....I think Tusk is their finest achievement (BN era) to date..and I thought that Beautiful Child was awesome...geez, god forbid they play a song that somone doesn't know, and they should be tried for it...I mean, most of the show is already tired old classics anyway...hey, I have an idea!!! Why don't they just play all the songs from Rumours, front to back, and then they can play every single hit, and every single hit that Stevie had!! That's a great idea ...I hate casual fans ...just kidding...

fmfreak

[wondergirl9847]

You are gonna fit in here JUST FINE!! LOL Casual fans...ahh...you mean Rumours-heads. Yeah, they work my nerves too and you had better believe at my concert, there will be SCREAMING and CLAPPING for the RARE stuff...but most especially the NEW STUFF!!!!!!!!!! I don't understand this "play the hits and we'll be happy" mentality. SERIOUSLY, do YOU pay 125 (or more) bucks to see a band that you only like their HITS??!?!?! PUH-LEEZE people!! I like Madonna's and Janet Jackson's hits, but I am NOT paying BIG money to see them in concert!! Why don't those people who want Rumours songs sit in the nosebleeds and leave the *best 20%* of the arena for the HUGE FANS!!!!!!!!???

Oh, and Tusk a "low point"...HARDLY!! It's the GREATEST thing that ever happened to them!!!!!!!!!

[seteca]

Originally posted by rhiannon1119
Stevie is hitting notes on that song that I didn't think she would ever be able to hit again!

Yea I totally agree..! Both on the album AND on these live bootlegs, she has seriously surprised me! IMVHO, this is the best her voice has been for a VERY long time!

[squealy]

Fleetwood Mac concerts used to showcase the band's three distinctive frontmen (Buckingham, Nicks and Christine McVie) more or less equally. Sunday's show, though, was more like a dialogue between the manic Buckingham and the comparatively mellow Nicks.

What is his point here? Of course it's more like a dialogue between Lindsey and Stevie if Christine isn't in the band anymore. Geez.