By ROBERT HILBURN
Los Angeles News Service
MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1977
Linda Ronstadt at the Universal Amphitheater, Sept. 20 — Success doesn’t always wear well on pop performers. Sales and applause can often cause them to let their standards dip or to adopt the conservative practice of simply redoing the old hits. But Ronstadt — never hotter commercially — was never better. With her most aggressive and tasteful band, she treated each of the 19 songs in her 100-minute set as if it would be the performance by which she would ultimately be measured. From the Rolling Stones’ rowdy “Tumbling dice” to Roy Orbison‘s nostalgic “Blue Bayou,” she was ideal.
Fleetwood Mac at the Inglewood Forum, Aug. 31 — There isn’t much flash to Fleetwood’s shows, but the music is far more biting live than it is on record. There’s a harder edge to both Lindsey Buckingham’s guitar work and Mick Fleetwood’s drumming. If they ever capture the sound fully on a live LP, it should even outsell this year’s phenomenal “Rumours.” Even if the latter has got an eight million head start.
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