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Originally Posted by sleepless child
I really think adding the older material was a pretty good idea. I love Hypnotized and All the things you do. It's a shame they dropped Storms and Hypnotized early into the tour. I can understand Storms being replaced by Gypsy, but what a shame they didn't stick with Hypnotized. It sounded pretty good. I wonder how those songs would have sounded with Lindsey had he toured with FM. Too me, I don't think it would have worked as well. Those are songs that were played years earlier because Lindsey and Stevie had just joined and there wasn't a lot of new material.
What really gets me though is the amount of changing they did on the setlist thru the year long tour.
Storms and Hypnotized gone after a few weeks. Gyspsy replaced Storms. A few week later they dropped I Got You and then added it back in in 2019. They ended up dropping Isn't it Midnight and adding Hold Me in late 2018. And then they dropped Tell Me All The Things You Do and All Over Again.
For the European part of the tour they added Blue Letter to a couple of shows which was a weird choice and dropped Monday Morning. Then added Man of the World. I just wonder what was going on in their heads. Did they think songs weren't working? They seemed to be floundering a bit. I had also read or heard that Stevie and Mike had a few issues and you could tell Chris's voice was having some trouble. Someone on Ivory Keys said Stevie didn't look happy to her. I think John was probably planning on this being his last tour. Maybe as they got into the tour, they realized what a mistake it was to let Lindsey go. Chris did say in an interview that she thought deep down Stevie was sorry for what happened. But who knows for sure on that one. And Irving Azoff said this was their highest grossing tour. But I don't know if I believe that one. What are some of your thoughts on this? Anyone see this tour?
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Regarding Azoff saying this was their highest grossing tour... I would be amazed if the 2018 World Tour grossed more than On With The Show. Ticket prices for the 2018 Tour were much more expensive. I did four 2018-2019 shows and all of them were packed.
So I am a Stevie fan. I get that they did pre-75 material to celebrate every lineup of FM however I think it only would have been fair that they did Behind The Mask and Say You Will songs too.
The concert itself felt exactly like a 2003-2017 Fleetwood Mac show. Crickets, Stevie's moves, the first five songs felt like the OWTS Tour but for Black Magic Woman being in there I think, Neil getting on the drum riser for GYOW, and other moments.
I think the reasons for songs being dropped was 1) everyone but Neil was in their 70s (Mike was 69) so they needed to shorten the show 2) Stevie looked in the audience and saw people not looking enthused during certain songs 3) and this is for fun: John McVie actually said during a soundcheck he hated playing Tell Me and asked for it to be dropped
I can't say that Stevie didn't look happy. She really only "let loose" during Gold Dust Woman. I think she had a lot more ump in her performance on the 2013 Tour and the GDWs on the OWTS were where she really got down with her dance moves. I felt like on the 2018 Tour Stevie really only opened up for Free Fallin'.
I've said before I think Stevie's song selection was the biggest disappointment of that 2018 Tour. Chris' was money. Stevie's was like Lindsey's song selection on the US and Euro legs of the OWTS Tour: He only did songs he did on recent tours. Storms was no surprise for me as it was done every show of the Unleashed Tour. Straight Back would have been mind-blowing.
I'm glad I went just to see them. But I did not feel satisfied. It was mostly songs I've heard dozens of times before.