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The band (or its label) went back and forth about what to release. The earlier intention—advertised in Patrick Goldstein's Pop Eye column in the L.A. Times—was to record the then-upcoming Hollywood Bowl concerts for a live album. But minds must have changed. The last Bowl show was Sept. 1 and the album was released Dec. 8, so the group must have recorded the show still believing it was going to be for the album. I think the final live album was a rush job—the time frame of no more than two months lends credence to that. I have the impression of Mick, Lindsey, and Christine (Stevie was in South America learning to stand on her own) sitting in a studio while some other cats play them various cuts of their own concerts from 1975 to 1980, and just randomly picking what sounded good (or odd) to them. There's such a mishmash of different years on the album, I'd bet things weren't even labeled well. And then, of course, there's cocaine. I think if anyone involved was doing any thinking about this whatsoever, it was Lindsey, and he probably wanted to make a second Tusk statement—idiosyncrasy, explosive energy, incoherence, etc. LIVE is a postmodern live album avant la lettre.
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Overall I really like the Live album.
Obviously the omission of The Chain is curious but aside from that I'm very happy with it. The Farmers daughter, One More Lonely Night and Fireflies are all lovely (I usually hate the word lovely but I cant think of an alternative that is as fitting). It does a pretty damned good job of representing their live show at that time. Quite like the cover too. |
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I'd like to have SOTM and Angel from the Tusk documentary. Lets remove Dreams and Sara. I'd replace Over & Over with Think About Me. Not That Funny and NGBA I'd replace with Silver Springs and Tusk.
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I didn't realize Santana's version was from the 1970. It was a radio staple throughout the 70's!
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I have read before that "Rhiannon" was from the Rumours tour. But I hadn't heard that about "Dreams" on Live as well. I had been kind of surprised she could still hit some of those notes circa 1980.
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The Hollywood Bowl wasn't professionally recorded.
The list of songs and their origins are listed on Wikipedia: Side one "Monday Morning" (Buckingham) – recorded at Tokyo – 3:51 "Say You Love Me" (McVie) – recorded at Wichita – 4:18 "Dreams" (Nicks) – recorded at Paris sound check – 4:18 "Oh Well" (Green) – recorded at St. Louis – 3:23 "Over & Over" (McVie) – recorded at Oklahoma City – 5:01 Side two "Sara" (Nicks) – recorded at St. Louis – 7:23 "Not That Funny" (Buckingham) – recorded at Cleveland – 9:04 "Never Going Back Again" (Buckingham) – recorded at Tucson – 4:13 "Landslide" (Nicks) – recorded at London – 4:33 Side three "Fireflies" (Nicks) – recorded at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for crew and friends – 4:37 "Over My Head" (McVie) – recorded at Kansas City – 3:27 "Rhiannon" (Nicks) – recorded at London – 7:43 "Don't Let Me Down Again" (Buckingham) – recorded at Passaic – 3:57 "One More Night" (McVie) – recorded at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for crew and friends – 3:43 Side four "Go Your Own Way" (Buckingham) – recorded at Cleveland – 5:44 "Don't Stop" (McVie) – recorded at Paris sound check – 4:05 "I'm So Afraid" (Buckingham) – recorded at Cleveland – 8:28 "The Farmer's Daughter" (Wilson, Love) – recorded at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for crew and friends – 2:25 |
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what the hell? Fireflies is amazing. They should be performing it on the current tour - it's all about the Five being back together
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Nobody's ever been able to figure out where Stevie's post-recorded vocal on "Sara" came from—or why it sounds so beautifully gin-soaked in 1980, exactly like a 1982 rendition.
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I assume this was the case, because Christine & Lindsey do some backing vocal parts that are completely different to the way they usually performed it on tour.
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Nobody's ever been able to figure out where Stevie's post-recorded vocal on "Sara" came from—or why it sounds so beautifully gin-soaked in 1980, exactly like a 1982 rendition.[/QUOTE] but why why why replace that original vocal? there was nothing wrong with that st louis performance - vocally or otherwise. |
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However, I brought this topic up as I do think the live album was also a means for Lindsey to assert himself as the important player that he was in the band's success. Truly, it is his album. He has the most live cuts and they go on the longest due to massive guitar solos. I can imagine that by the time 1980 rolled around and the general public had pretty much identified Fleetwood Mac with Stevie Nicks, this would have had to have some less than positive reactions from the band. In the case of Lindsey, he must have felt some frustration with the fact that it was essentially his production that brought the band to its height of popularity (in addition to the songs of all three, of course). I think that "Live" was in some ways a statement to the public that when you take away the theatrics that Stevie added to a show, it was essentially Lindsey guiding the energy (I would argue that this is still the case). "Live" certainly proves this. However, this does, of course, come at the expense of the others. It would have been great if Christine got at least one other live cut ("You Make Loving Fun" would have been nice, or, if they wanted more album tracks, "Oh Daddy" / "Songbird"). I do enjoy the album considerably as is. However, much like "Tusk", there are moments of the record where in fact we are listening to the Lindsey Buckingham show.
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