[face of glass]

Just shamelessly plugging my own seed:

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=66678

Fleetwood Mac:
1971-02-19
Swing Auditorium, San Bernandino, CA

Lineage: SBD? > ? > vinyl bootleg "Merely A Portmanteau" > CD-R > EAC > FLAC

01. Station Man 7.25
02. Tell Me All The Things You Do 18.29 (LONGER THAN THE EARLIER TORRENTED VERSION)

Credits: Sharksfan2000 who traded for this with me.

This is a companion torrent to 38f's seed here at Dime: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=66464
In spite of being sourced from vinyl, the sound quality is notably superior to the torrent that 38f seeded, however, unfortunately only two songs were preserved on this vinyl bootleg.

38f requested that I should combine these two tracks with his torrent, I chose not to do so because I prefer to keep these sources (since they are different) separate myself. In short, I'm just being lazy. However, if someone else wants to combine the two sources and torrent the whole thing here, do go ahead.

Fleetwood Mac fans thought for years that these two songs on the MAP vinyl bootleg were recorded at BBC sometime in 1970. However, when they got their hands on the longer (but poorer in quality) recording of San Bernandino 1971, it was noticed that the two songs on MAP actually come from that concert.

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From a post by Sharksfan2000 at the Ledge (THE Fleetwood Mac message board):

"I tried this evening to compare more carefully the San Bernadino disc and side 2 of "Merely a Portmanteau". Very interesting!

"Station Man" is almost certainly the same performance. I'm pretty sure that "Tell Me All the Things You Do" is as well, but it's harder to tell since I believe the version on the disc has been edited (aside from fading out before the end). The later parts of TMATTYD have some differences, and I was getting tired of comparing them - maybe I'll try some more tomorrow. As I say, I'm pretty sure some editing has taken place. Comparing Christine announcing the song and the beginning of the actual playing - there's more between the announcement and the band actually starting to play on "Portmanteau", but it sounds like that part's been edited out on the disc version.

The sound on "Portmanteau" is considerably better than the disc. Must have been too many poorly dubbed tapes before the show made it onto cd-r."

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For some weird reason Christine's goodbyes to the audience are found at the beginning of "Station Man", then the song itself starts as in the companion torrent. There's also a funny comment right after "Tell Me All The Things You Do" fades out, it has nothing to do with the recording itself but I just left it there because this is how I received my CD-R copy; you can edit it out if it bothers you.

If the complete set in the same quality as these two tracks ever turns up, please share it!