Christine's 1984 solo tour
 

I recently pulled out my slim amount of bootlegs from her solo tour. I have to give her props for performing every song from her album (not always in the entire set). In addition she also performed these FM songs:

Spare Me A Little
Just Crazy Love
World Turning
Say You Love Me
Over My Head
Don't Stop
You Make Loving Fun
Songbird
Hold Me

One rarity is a song called Too Much Is Not Enough. She mentions that the band wrote it together but it was cut from the album for space issues. This leads me to believe that there might be a studio version that never saw the light of day. It's a rocking song with an intricate chorus vocal. Anyone know about this?

Also, another obscurity to me: a studio duet she sings with Todd Sharp called We Were Lonely. I suspect that Todd wrote it. However it's hard to tell if it was recorded during her solo sessions. I wonder if it appeared on a Todd Sharp solo album, if there is such a thing!

Too Much Is Not Enough was featured in the laserdisc documentary of the making of the 1984 album, just as an instrumental though. There isn't a copy of the actual song floating around and since the song didn't have any vocals on the laserdisc, it's my estimation that it never was finished since it wasn't going to fit on the album.

We Were Lonely was on Todd Sharp's 1986 LP Who Am I. You can download the album at the link below. I personally transferred the album from LP to digital format.

Todd Sharp - Who Am I (Features Christine and Billy)
http://www.mediafire.com/?qmz9sjjxhm0
I Want Something More
I Don't Want To Leave You
Young Man
We Were Lonely
I'm The One
I'll Never Let You Go
The House Next Door
Alone But Not Lonely
Now I'm Strong
Don't Change It

Matt

Thanks Matt! I barely remembered that there was a laserdisc! Can't say that I ever saw that. I do, though, have a murky VHS copy of the concert that was released on video...the one that featured the very funny video she made for Love Will Show Us How. How sad that these have fallen into complete obscurity, likely never to be reissued in any other format.:(

It used to be on YouTube in its entirety.

I had it posted along with the laserdisc documentary. I took them down because I didn't want another one of my YouTube accounts to be cancelled.

Matt

Saw this show and it was amazing... the tv concert was no where near the intensity of the live show in Cleveland...

Could anyone post a boot of this show?? or send a torrent this way...thanks.

Hmm, that surprises me. I knew that she and LB wrote World Turning together, but it doesn't strike me as one she would do solo. I think that's cool. Does anyone know if she did it on other tours and stuff?

Here's the tour itinerary for Christine's 1984 tour for anyone that's interested: http://www.fmlegacy.com/concertscmv.html

Matt

I wish there was a more accurate list/resource than this one, which doesn't even include all the shows that she ended up canceling (which were many).

^ Why did she cancel so many shows? Poor ticket sales?

I believe that, aside from that one solo tour, Christine never performed anywhere outside of Fleetwood Mac. Given the mostly light-weight nature of her songs from her solo album, World Turning added a much needed dimension to her show.

You mean, of course, since she joined Fleetwood Mac. She performed with Chicken Shack in the earlier days.

Did Chris ever do any "guest appearances" with any other artists? MacFan will probably know.

Once again, the Legacy can help provide answers: http://www.fmlegacy.com/CmcVguests.html

Matt

I believe she did do a guest appearance in at least 1 show with Bob Welch. There are a few pictures of her with Bob during his show in 1978.

She also did that very short tour in England with the Christine Perfect Band in late 1969.

Yes, I meant during the time she was in Fleetwood Mac. She's made numerous guest appearances too.

33 years ago today I saw Christine on her 1984 solo tour :)
I tried to find the review tour thread but could not so I am posting here.
If anyone else has tour stories, would love to hear.

Did she happen to play The Challenge? I love that song.

She played her entire album except Who's Dreaming this dream. The Challenge was early in the set. She even played a cut that did not make it to the album but was featured on MTV "Too much is not enough."
The Challenge was the name of John McVie's boat. I got to see her tour bus parked a few blocks from the theater and it was also named "The Challenge" that was artfully painted on the bus.
Eric Clapton on guitar really makes the song special.

I saw the show in Kings Dominion in Virginia. It was a great show. The band was amazing and she sounded great. The only "Mac" show in 1984. I saw the Mirage tour in 1982 and would see the Rock A Little tour in 1985.......those were the days! I always wished Mr. Buckingham would have toured for Go Insane.:cool::cool:

At Universal Amphitheatre -- middle of June 1984 -- Mick Fleetwood grabbed himself a seat up front for most of the night. No sign of the other Macsters, though.

I saw this tour as well. I loved it.

I was there with my uncle.

I remember saying hello to you and your uncle!

No, I'm only kidding. I don't remember chatting with you or your uncle.

My favorite moment of the concert was when Christine did a full cartwheel onstage. The crowd cheered wildly, held in thrall to her willowy, mysterious moves and eerily mystical presence as she danced like a dervish to the beat of an Indian raga, chiffon scarves billowing in the breeze.

Were the 1980s your 1960s, David? :laugh:

It wasn't a cartwheel. She did a backflip in her stovepipe legged pants. And then, did a line of coke off the grand piano that was placed stage left.

Funny "true" story when I saw her in Cleveland earlier in the year on that tour:

She had a glass of champagne and an ashtray on her keyboard rack and it fell off the rack onto the stage. She and George Hawkins just looked at each other and laughed.

It was right in the middle of Love Will Show Us How.