Fleetwood Mac live box set 1980

[BLY]

Listening and loving it. What a great collection of songs. The third disc is amazing.

[David]

Originally Posted by BLY

Listening and loving it. What a great collection of songs. The third disc is amazing.

I’m in love with it, although I haven’t played it for months. It’s the sort of stuff that I’ve wanted since the year those songs were performed. If I put the band’s best albums against their best concerts, with a slight edge I prefer their best concerts to their best albums. Most of all, I love the extreme contrast in discipline between the best albums and the best concerts. You have to be a very special band to give listeners the same aural experience onstage that you do on record and still make a new statement. But Fleetwood benefited from stretching out and loosening up, from 1967 to about 2003. There are performances and jams from the late 1960s and the early 1980s that put you in another place.

It’s unusual that Lindsey used to say that staying fresh on the road was difficult, compared with the studio. I think he and Mick forced the band to go crazy musically during their heyday. The others probably would have been content to reproduce the feel of the albums.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by David

It’s unusual that Lindsey used to say that staying fresh on the road was difficult, compared with the studio. I think he and Mick forced the band to go crazy musically during their heyday. The others probably would have been content to reproduce the feel of the albums.

The one thing I truly loved about the FM live performances from 1975-1982 was that every song sounded nothing like their records onstage. And to this day NOTHING will ever be greater or more enjoyable than the live Rhiannon's from that time period.

[BLY]

Originally Posted by vivfox

The one thing I truly loved about the FM live performances from 1975-1982 was that every song sounded nothing like their records onstage. And to this day NOTHING will ever be greater or more enjoyable than the live Rhiannon's from that time period.

Yes, their live performances were like listening to a completely different band. I was blown away when I saw them on the second leg of the Rumours tour. It’s also nice to replace “official releases” for some not so great bootleg shows.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by vivfox

The one thing I truly loved about the FM live performances from 1975-1982 was that every song sounded nothing like their records onstage. And to this day NOTHING will ever be greater or more enjoyable than the live Rhiannon's from that time period.

YES, YES, and YES!
OMG YES
This is why I felt so guilty about not loving The Dance. I was of course caught up in the excitement of the 5 back together again but I was like: who neutered Fleetwood Mac?
This is why I cherish the 1980 Live album. By the time the mid to late 1990s came around technology in live sound really helped bands sound more like the studio which is what we got from the Dance and beyond.
One night with OWTS the band started Say You Love Me and Chris stopped the song. She said something like "I still have not grasped this technology yet" I interpreted that to mean she was not playing all the opening parts (that she did for decades) and it confused her.

[AnthonyMI]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

YES, YES, and YES!
OMG YES
This is why I felt so guilty about not loving The Dance. I was of course caught up in the excitement of the 5 back together again but I was like: who neutered Fleetwood Mac?
This is why I cherish the 1980 Live album. By the time the mid to late 1990s came around technology in live sound really helped bands sound more like the studio which is what we got from the Dance and beyond.
One night with OWTS the band started Say You Love Me and Chris stopped the song. She said something like "I still have not grasped this technology yet" I interpreted that to mean she was not playing all the opening parts (that she did for decades) and it confused her.

That was Chicago 2014. She missed something or started the automatic replay of something she was only pretending to play. It was weird. She stopped and turned around and sort of pretended to fiddle with some kind of speaker monitor and then carried on. It was odd.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by AnthonyMI

That was Chicago 2014. She missed something or started the automatic replay of something she was only pretending to play. It was weird. She stopped and turned around and sort of pretended to fiddle with some kind of speaker monitor and then carried on. It was odd.

The same thing happened in Pittsburgh. I never saw Chicago.

[Steviegirl]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

YES, YES, and YES!
OMG YES
This is why I felt so guilty about not loving The Dance. I was of course caught up in the excitement of the 5 back together again but I was like: who neutered Fleetwood Mac?
This is why I cherish the 1980 Live album. By the time the mid to late 1990s came around technology in live sound really helped bands sound more like the studio which is what we got from the Dance and beyond.
One night with OWTS the band started Say You Love Me and Chris stopped the song. She said something like "I still have not grasped this technology yet" I interpreted that to mean she was not playing all the opening parts (that she did for decades) and it confused her.

THIS... should receive a Peabody Award.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by vivfox

The one thing I truly loved about the FM live performances from 1975-1982 was that every song sounded nothing like their records onstage. And to this day NOTHING will ever be greater or more enjoyable than the live Rhiannon's from that time period.

They were fresh, inspired, intense, improv'd, and erratic and even erotic (sometimes).

Fleetwood Mac was one of the most amazing institutions that I have ever witnessed.

Watching the versions of them now is like eating a popsicle that's been in the freezer way too long. It's still has some flavor, but it's also really stale. But sales are still great because it's all that's left.

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Watching the versions of them now is like eating a popsicle that's been in the freezer way too long. It's still has some flavor, but it's also really stale. But sales are still great because it's all that's left.

Watching them in 2014 was great, specially because of Christine's return. But their voices, were not the same anymore; Especially Lindsey's, I don't know if it was that night or a permanent condition, but it was much lower that when I saw them in 2009. That's when I said This is the last time to me. Even if Lindsey had continued in the band, I chose to keep those good memories.