Not only is this great news in itself, but it’s also great because of what it probably heralds — more and more old live releases from Rhino. I don’t believe it’s coincidental that Rhino has been releasing all this live Mac over the last ten years or so:

• Fourteen cuts on Fleetwood Mac Deluxe (plus four from TV)
• Eleven cuts on Rumours Deluxe
• Twenty-one cuts on Tusk Deluxe
• Fourteen cuts on Live Deluxe
• Eighteen songs on Rumours Live at the Forum

I have no idea how many live cuts from pre-1975 albums have been released. But all of this has been such a blessing and such a highlight of otherwise very meagre Fleetwood Mac years.

You and I are on the same page, buddy.

The Dreams single sounds wonderful!

When I went back to count up everything, Viv, I was amazed at the number: 78 live cuts. And I haven’t counted the pre-1975 stuff because it’s all over the place. How can you beat that? This is better than caring about which Heartbreaker joined which Fleetwood Mac when and whether you could actually hear him play above the nonstop wall of noise from 25 musicians on the back line. The only thing I would have preferred from Rhino is concerts in their entirety — this Forum show is a great start (let’s hope it’s a start). It may not be our actual favorite tour stop, but it immerses you in a single night’s performance with its rising and falling narrative and unified experience. Fleetwood Mac concerts used to tell a good tale, and their live tracks don’t really benefit by being mixed and matched. The legendary live albums in rock and jazz were almost always a single performance.

Next up, Rhino could track down and release a cleaner Trod Nossel 1975 studio/radio set. That’s the obvious follow-up to the White Album deluxe.

I totally agree. It's been a wish for longtime fans for YEARS to see live material from the vaults finally see the light of day. Most of the soundboard material that has leaked over the years have not been directly from the masters, but most likely 2+ generation cassette copies.

I'm really keeping my fingers crossed for some complete Tusk tour shows that haven't been previously released.

David - I can't remember, were the Hollywood Bowl '80 shows rumored to be captured on tape?

Definitely were. The band recorded both nights — the original plan for the live album was to release a Bowl album. The decision to do a compilation must have been made very quickly (like, days). The marketing for the Bowl concerts featured a couple of sunny Los Angeles palm trees. I always imagined a Bowl concert album with the palm trees on the cover. I think I’m tainted with nostalgia bias, but those shows are my favorite Fleetwood memory.

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A Hollywood Bowl live box set....sign me up! I really hope none of those tapes got damaged in any of the vault fires that have occurred in recent decades.

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I believe Mick wrote in his first book that those shows were his favorite too. It was a moment in time. The 80s had begun and things would never be the same.

This is what he wrote:

Three days later, in front of a sold-out audience at the Hollywood Bowl, Lindsey leaned into the mike and announced, "This is our last concert... for a long time." I'll never forget Stevie's "Landslide" that night, the way she sang about growing older in her scratchy, uncertain voice. It was an ineffable moment. After the show, we had a classic locker-room victory celebration kisses, hugs, champagne, intense feelings of relief mingled with fatigue. To me it felt like the end of an era. And it indeed turned out to be exactly that.

On another note, I can only wonder what piece of reality Christine would have to share if she were here to be asked about this project. I came to enjoy her down to earth, fresh take on things that usually were romanticized in the press.

You know for the die hard fan that I am I never bought any of these releases. I downloaded cuts from them during their initial releases. But after you wrote this list I went to youtube and listened to the live tracks from each of these that interested me and discovered I never heard that live Rhiannon from the Rumours Tour before and I like it very much.

Wow 78 live songs sounds great. But in all that time we've only gotten 3 live Rhiannon's and I need more. In fact I want every live Rhiannon from the Tusk tour from May of 1980 to August of 1980. Rhiannon live is like a drug to me. I can never get enough. Of the 3 Rhiannon's we have I was and still am blown away by the Tuscon version from August 1980. Whosever decision it was to release this is the person I want to know so I can beg him/her for MORE!!

I also want to say that when I originally downloaded The Chain demo by Stevie, it was a snippet and that's all I had for all these years until yesterday when I heard the whole thing. So that Chain demo, that live Rhiannon, that alt. Sable on Blonde from one of Stevie's deluxes and Brown Eyes with Peter Green & Lindsey are my favorite songs from all the deluxes released so far.

It’s so odd that Don’t Stop wasn’t on the set list. It’s got to be in the top 5 of MAC songs that are played in such heavy rotation even today.

I really find that hard to believe as well. How could it not be on there? :distress:

Someone who knows more will surely correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think Don’t Stop got a permanent place in the setlist until after the Tusk Tour started. It was definitely played in 1979 but I’m not sure at every show especially early on. It had that early in the set location through Tusk and Mirage and then with Chris’s solo tour and beyond was near the end/encore.

This feels correct. Mirage it was near The Chain. can't remember just after or maybe after Dreams.