The legendary band’s first concert date showcased the musical histories of all of its members. Fleetwood Mac expanded their songbook during their first concert…
The legendary band’s first concert date showcased the musical histories of all of its members.
Fleetwood Mac expanded their songbook during their first concert date with new members Mike Campbell and Neil Finn. The revamped band’s first show featured a surprising setlist that showcased the musical histories of all of its current members, including a tribute to Campbell’s late Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers bandmate on the one-year anniversary of his death.
Ultimate Classic Rock posted the setlist from Fleetwood Mac’s first show since the departure of longtime singer and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. The band’s tour kicked off at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with a 24-song set that included covers from Campbell’s former band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Finn’s Crowded House.
Fleetwood Mac frontman Stevie Nicks served as emcee after the band opened up the 1977 classic “The Chain.” Other Mac classics included “Dreams,” “Rhiannon,” and “Don’t Stop.” The band even performed the Buckingham-penned “Go Your Own Way.”
But Fleetwood Mac also went further back in time to pre-Buckingham songs like 1970’s “Tell Me All the Things You Do” and 1973’s “Hypnotized,” a song that founding member Mick Fleetwood dedicated to late bandmate Bob Welch.
Crowded House and Split Enz veteran Neil Finn sang lead vocals on the Fleetwood Mac classic “Second Hand News” as well as his own Split Enz song “I Got You,” and the Crowded House hit “Don’t Dream It’s Over,” which he dueted with Nicks. Nicks admitted to the crowd that she had always thought, “Boy, I’d really love to sing that song someday.”
Ahead of a concert in Chicago this Saturday, drummer Mick Fleetwood spoke about guitarist and singer Lindsey Buckingham’s exit from Fleetwood Mac and the eternally shape-shifting nature of life in the band. https://t.co/xN9NBa9u0r pic.twitter.com/gnKVHp0Gy5
— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) October 3,2018
Steve Nicks also paid tribute to her dear friend Tom Petty and Campbell’s longtime bandmate with a cover of his 1989 solo hit “Free Fallin’,” the Petty tribute came nearly one year to the day of the singer’s sudden death last October.
The full Fleetwood Mac set list included: “The Chain,” “Little Lies,” “Dreams,” “Second Hand News” (Finn on vocals), “Say You Love Me,” “Black Magic Woman,” “Everywhere,” “I Got You” (Finn on vocals), “Rhiannon,” “Tell Me All the Things You Do,” “Storms,” “World Turning,” “Hypnotized” (Finn on vocals), “Oh Well” (Campbell on vocals), “Don’t Dream It’s Over” (Finn and Nicks duet), “Landslide,” “Isn’t It Midnight,” “Monday Morning,” “You Make Loving Fun,” “Gold Dust Woman,” “Go Your Own Way,” “Free Fallin’” (Nicks on vocals), “Don’t Stop,” and “All Over Again” (Nicks and Christine McVie on vocals).
In addition, Fleetwood Mac performed at the iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Sept. 21.
Based on the set list for the first concert date, mission accomplished.
You can see Fleetwood Mac performing the Tom Petty classic ‘Free Fallin’” below.
