if you think they don’t make good music now, don’t go see them. I don’t see why people complain about groups going on tour if they still sell tickets.
Of course they are not 30 or even 40 now, but there are young kids out there who would like to see them anyway - kids that were not alive during their prime years. (BTW I’m not a kid, I was in high school in 77)
Agreed! They still fill the Tacoma Dome and love what they’re doing. Who are we to tell them to stop??!!
This is not intended as a hijack, but I’d like to suggest that FM (and quite a few other bands) should take a lesson from Cheap Trick’s Silver concert in 1999. Granted, it was a one-shot deal and not a tour, but they went out of their way to cover as much of their catalog as they could, keeping a lot of the songs as fresh as when first released. They also invited quite a few guests, including Jon Brant, their former bassist, to perform. A series of FM concerts with guests and former members on some of the songs would be something I would definitely be willing to fork out the big bucks for. Plus, there’s no pressure on the band, guests, or former members to actually get along or put out a studio album.
OK…probably a dumb idea, but that’s why I’m not in the music business.
So, your advice is, “Don’t Stop”?
in 89 the Who did a live show of the Tommy Album where they had a bunch of guests including Phil Collins, Patti Labelle and Elton John and others. You can probably figure out which song Elton did .
Acid Queen?
d&r
Hey, I am realistic, I don’t expect people not to age and change. But I have seen Stevie and Lindsey both give totally dead-ass shows in the 00-zies, and that was what made me realize I was over it. Not knowing if you were going to get them on a good or a bad night, and the same set list over and over spoiled it for me. If they aren’t into it and having fun, how are we supposed to? They, and we, are all too grown for that.
Early in their careers, when they apparently really were personally and romantically miserable, at least the fact that they loved being on stage transferred to the audience and the shows were spectacular. No fancy lighting. No expensive costumes. No stage tricks. Just them.
For example, I recall one FM show around 2003 or 04 where Stevie barely moved a foot from her mic the entire time, and the highlight of her performance was when she spread her arms while wearing the Gold Dust Woman shawl and some of the people around me swooned with happiness and cheered over that gesture like she had done a back flip and power slide. 
I was left a bit underwhelmed. I get she’s not 30 anymore, but seriously? And I could say similar things about Lindsey.
It probably has something to do with the fact that I saw them on the Tusk Tour in their heyday when the sexual tension between them was so thick you could cut it with a knife, and I saw Stevie solo on the Wild Heart Tour when she was probably the most gorgeous woman in rock at the time, this glittery, spinning, coked-out fairy princess who put electricity in the air and left us feeling like we had been communing with the High Priestess by the time it was over…
I don’t expect that kind of thing anymore, and I haven’t seen them perform in well over a decade, so maybe they have improved. But it doesn’t sound like it.
Oh yeah! (Oh well?) I knew there was a reason I used to like Fleetwood Mac.
Just for fun Fallon, Buckingham and Christine McVie.
Christine looks pretty good for 107!
Looks good, not sounding great.
Well, that’s something else crossed off my bucket list - and as usual, for the wrong reason. I haven’t been able to go out to a concert for over a decade, but have reason to hope I’ll be able to get out more in the future. If I had the opportunity, I’d have paid the hundreds necessary to see the band intact - I’m a big Lindsey fan. I’d gladly see the new band and I’m sure I’d have a blast, but without Lindsey, I can’t justify the same money. He was the big draw for me.
<sigh>
Well, that’s a lot of money saved, anyway.
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In case some of the fans in this thread haven’t seen this yet, here’s the isolated vocal for Buckingham’s “Go Your Own Way”. It. Is. Incredible. I enjoy FM’s stuff, but sometimes their songs are overproduced, and all that raw emotional singing gets buried beneath layers of pop nonsense. Listen to the little ticks in his voice, the inflection at the end of his lines. It’s crazy good.
He comments on being axed from the group: