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The “covers” are songs from the new guys’ past works. But, really, look at some of the early 1975 set: a Chicken Shack cover, a Duster Bennet cover, two Buckingham Nicks covers, and a Curtis Brothers cover.
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In Fleetwood Mac, they're covers, not covers with quotation marks (just as Jumping at Shadows was a cover).
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The new stuff—Black Magic Woman, I Got You, Tell Me All the Things You Do, Don't Dream It's Over, Free Fallin', All Over Again—was mildly refreshing. But it was obviously presented as addenda to the old set, not a substitute. The 2018 set was created because it was familiar to audiences, not because it was new to them. Bands don't just exist onstage, too. What's with the latest CD anthology? Actually, Lindsey's anthology is also stale (but less so because his material is less familiar). I don't see the point in these things. They're repackagings and they serve a marketing purpose, not an aesthetic purpose. How many years does one need to rehash one's own contributions to pop culture before one is satisfied? After casting off an iconic member and hiring two new members, Fleetwood Mac had every good reason to reinvent itself. It did not. It's merely pretending to be what it has been for forty years already. With this band mindset, we'll see whether a new album comes out of all this—new albums generally come out of a collective desire to forge ahead down some other road, the road less traveled.
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You can't tell me it's not a sad statement when people say highlights of a Fleetwood Mac show are Free Fallin' and Don't Dream It's Over.
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If Lindsey was still in FM, I would have loved to see them in a more intimate venue, with the deep cuts we'd all die to hear, like Brown Eyes, Over and Over, Save Me a Place, Storms, That's Alright, Mystified, Crystal, I Don't Want to Know, That's All For Everyone, etc. These songs wouldn't go over well in a big venue, as we could see by how Storms was received on this tour. But to expect ANY lineup of FM to tour arenas and NOT sing the hits is unrealistic. |
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AncientQueen and sodascouts, I see your point, but the way I see it, a powerful performance is a powerful performance, regardless of who wrote the song. And those two performances were powerful and beautiful. What's interesting to me about that is I've always loved Don't Dream It's Over and always disliked Free Falling, especially the recorded version by Stevie. Neil singing DDIO and then Stevie coming in halfway and singing it with him was beautiful and genius. Those songs were highlights to me because they were so unexpected. They were highlights, but not the only highlights.
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That said, not having Lindsey in the band obviously lowered the number of core songs in the set. Not nearly enough. I would be just as happy that MM and SHN get dropped (GYOW isn’t going anywhere). But the new stuff was worth it to me, especially TMATTYD, BMW, Hypnotized, AAA, and DDIO. I absolutely loved hearing Christine do some soloing and playing off Mike. Stevie was probably the most invested/engaged in the performances I saw than I’ve ever seen from her before. And, I still got to hear Lindsey’s core songs at his show. Nobody died and the songs still got played. Quote:
I agree that there could/should have been more reinvention, especially with the caliber of talent they brought in. However, I’m not sure it would have been that good right out of the gate. For example, Neil and Mike seemed to have developed a chemistry on the tour that wasn’t there initially. I’m still curious to see where it goes.
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Or, if nothing comes from Fleetwood Mac, maybe the New Hearbreakers...
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