Posthumous releases?

Tusky · #1 03-20-2023, 08:54 AM

Hi - do you think Rhino will release any Christine material soon? What do you think it will be? I'd love a reissue of her 1984 live show on DVD and a Buckingham/McVie live show on CD

HomerMcvie · #2 03-20-2023, 10:21 AM

I doubt it. It probably wouldn't move enough copies to be (in low, husky voice) "viable product".

Just being honest...

**jbrownsjr** · #3 03-20-2023, 12:13 PM

I've actually thought about this. Depends on who has the rights.

Her death did rattle the world. It would be nice to have a box set of Fm and solo material.

aleuzzi · #4 03-20-2023, 01:34 PM

One can dream!

Though I doubt she left anything behind that she really wanted the world to hear.

FuzzyPlum · #5 03-20-2023, 02:59 PM

I doubt there’s much in the way of unreleased material out there. She largely wrote to order, so what you see is probably what you get.
A ‘Best of Fleetwood Mac: Christine McVie’ might be the best we can hope for.

Tusky · #6 03-20-2023, 03:09 PM

Didn't one of the articles mention another unreleased solo album? Post-FM, after In The Meantime?

Karlie · #7 03-20-2023, 03:36 PM

I could maybe only see something like this happening as a Record Store Day exclusive release. Those don't need to move a huge number of copies as scarcity is part of the appeal.

My unrealistic ideas for the content:

1. Recording of a 1984 live show. This seems easiest to pull off.

2. Early years best-of compilation, with selects from Chicken Shack, Christine Perfect album, and pre-1975 FM. Unlikely as it would involve getting rights from 3 different entities, and Christine seemed embarrassed of her first solo album for her whole life so she probably wouldn't have wanted more attention drawn to it.

3. 1988-1995 compilation, with all her songs from BTM and Time plus Love Shines, Heart of Stone, and ALAYF. This is one of my favorite Christine eras. So many of these songs were of the same caliber as her biggest hits but got little to no exposure because of the context they were released in.

4. In my most fantastical, least probable dreams, she left behind a bunch of secret demos for that blues album she was always talking about making, and there is someone with access to them who has the means to get them produced, pastiched into an album, and released.

Tusky · #8 03-21-2023, 04:34 PM

Oh yes found it! "Christine is currently working on new material which is planned for a forthcoming solo album which she describes as marking a return to her musical sound from the seventies." It's from 2013
https://www.fleetwoodmacnews.com/201...ng-on-new.html

**jbrownsjr** · #9 03-21-2023, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Tusky

Oh yes found it! "Christine is currently working on new material which is planned for a forthcoming solo album which she describes as marking a return to her musical sound from the seventies." It's from 2013
https://www.fleetwoodmacnews.com/201...ng-on-new.html

Ah yes, this is before her official announcement that she was coming back. What they are referring to is what turns into BuckVie songs.

God, that would have been amazing if she had 10 songs that were unreleased.

HomerMcvie · #10 03-21-2023, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Ah yes, this is before her official announcement that she was coming back. What they are referring to is what turns into BuckVie songs.

God, that would have been amazing if she had 10 songs that were unreleased.

Dan might be the only one who has heard them?

aleuzzi · #11 03-21-2023, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Ah yes, this is before her official announcement that she was coming back. What they are referring to is what turns into BuckVie songs.

God, that would have been amazing if she had 10 songs that were unreleased.

Exactly—and yes, I remember being super-pissed when those new songs she was sharing with Lindsey kept getting shelved while band politics played out. I kept thinking we’d have been better off if she’d done a project herself! I’m still not sure the duet album was preferable.

**jbrownsjr** · #12 03-22-2023, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by aleuzzi

Exactly—and yes, I remember being super-pissed when those new songs she was sharing with Lindsey kept getting shelved while band politics played out. I kept thinking we’d have been better off if she’d done a project herself! I’m still not sure the duet album was preferable.

For her journey, it's best she and Buck did the album and tour. She grabbed back her own star light in the context of what she was comfortable with. I.E. coming back AND at her age.

Utopia for us would be album tour solo. God!!!

David · #13 03-23-2023, 06:38 PM

One of those minor home video labels could release the Christine McVie Video Album, which included the Reseda Country Club concert and two MTV videos.

There is also the Making of documentary somewhere in MTV’s basement.

aleuzzi · #14 03-21-2023, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Tusky

Oh yes found it! "Christine is currently working on new material which is planned for a forthcoming solo album which she describes as marking a return to her musical sound from the seventies." It's from 2013
https://www.fleetwoodmacnews.com/201...ng-on-new.html

Oh, yeah, I remember this. She said if she didn’t get to rejoin FM, she’d put her own solo tour together. I was hoping for that! But I’m glad she ultimately rejoined. Of those songs she was working on—I’m pretty sure at least three of them carried over into the duet album with Lindsey.