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Old 04-11-2024, 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams View Post
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.
That's a hell of a lot of SPECULATION.
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