What ever happened to the US festival documentary?
 

Wasn't there talk a few years ago about the US festival documentary that was going to feature videos of Fleetwood Mac's show? Has there been any updates?

I think it was finally shelved after several years of rights issues :-(

Dude, you're one of the people that periodically asks about it:
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showth...ht=festival%22
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showth...=festival+1982

However on the facebook pages there's not been any update since last November and it was unrelated:
As heard tonight by a world class drummer.." The guitar players are empty calories the drums and bass are the meat and potatoes"
Please post your thoughts!!

Well that is pretty exciting. I see the Mirage album cover in the top right corner. I hope we finally get some good videos of unseen Mirage tour performances.

Really hope this happens. I'm tired of getting my hopes up only to have them dashed by the passage of time and no product delivered. I really got my hopes up years back when Spin did a cover and spread on outdoor festivals. As an attendee, I was contacted for quotes by the writer who got my info off an obscure website posting. He seemed positive more performance material would be coming out as interest had been building. So far all I've ever found was the compilation DVD from '83 and a few full performance CDs, which The English Beat one is quite good! Money talks, as they say... and it's clearly the issue on this one.

That's great news!!

Who cares about completion videos.Don't cheap out on it.How bout complete uncut concerts from all the artists including Stevie and FM.

I asked on their Facebook page about the Fleetwood Mac material. They answered:

Please be the full set.

I suggest anyone who has facebook to give their input as well. Only if more people ask for it we have a greater possibility to get what we want.

When asked about the 1983 edition they said:

The US Festivals one never knows what the future brings, of course - but for now, one thing at a time. this is something we wanted to do for a while, not an easy thing to set up, but we are now past the hard part. the significance of 1982 was that it truly took a vision and made it into a reality, created an awesome venue from near nothingness, and pioneered so many things as it went. more on this soon.

They are FOS."Footage" Footage is not the complete set.I'm not surprise.
Thanks for your time for doing the research.

No problem, I just activated the notifications option in the post.
I was hoping for more since last time they had said "Keep your eyes open on full performance releases for 2015!" but I guess they couldn't do more without waiting for another ten years to clear the copyright issues. However I'll be happy with whatever little footage they have for us, it's still better than nothing.

I had also asked about the full sets and here's their reply:

US Festival 1982: The US Generation Documentary well, two things, Julia - first the documentary film is "the story" of the US Festival, of which music is a huge part, but not the only part. As a documentary, it's not a concert film. Second, all the legal stuff that got resolved allowing us to post again because we know it's finally happening - there have been some changes here as a result, all good ones. That means that some of the older posts are not coming from the same voice. But hang in there - more to come soon - including info about the full music sets.

SisterNightroad, thank you so much for all the info and for inquiring so much. I know I'll be thanking you when this finally comes out.

Yes.The biggest drag is getting the music copyright clearances from all the bands and artists.I hope they work it out to make everybody happy.

You're welcome Danielle, these were things I wanted to do also for me, so I just thought "If I won't do it myself, noone will do it for me so it's better to stop waiting passively and act." It was a pleasure to share with everyone nonetheless, not to mention that the most people will want it, the most probably we will obtain it.

Yeah, I will not hold my breath but their last response leaves a bit of hope (see above).

Does anyone know who the "percussionist" is?

Looks like Mickey Hart from the Grateful Dead to me.

Any guesses on what we'll see from Fleetwood Mac in this documentary? I'm still waiting on more info, but assuming there will be at least three videos of them, my guesses are: Go Your Own Way, Dreams or Rhiannon, and You Make Loving Fun. If there's only one video of Fleetwood Mac my guesses are: The Chain and Don't Stop.

I was hoping we would get an update soon. I really hope we get some good Fleetwood Mac videos, preferably of the songs that got cut from the HBO show.

I asked specifically about the Fleetwood Mac entire footage, this has been their answer:

https://s10.postimg.io/5y95x5g8p/Scr...4_14_19_31.png

That would be pretty cool.

A joy to work with. Don't hear that often. Sounds like this will be great!

Thanks. Holy crap.Thats great news.

lol, that's both funny and pathetic. I wonder if stars still act this way nowadays.

They're probably worse... :rolleyes: