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Fleetwood Mac
JFK Stadium
Philadelphia, PA

July 30, 1978

The Stonecutter Collection 111

Recorded by Rich's brothers friend Mitch.

Source: 2 mics > unknown recorder > 1st generation cassette (Sony CHF 90)

Transfer: Sony TC-WE 475 > gold tipped cables > JVC XL-R2010 CD-RW (44.1)

Editing: Soundforge > Wav > TLH [SB's aligned] Flac Level 8

Traders Den 3/7/16

kingrue upload 725

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Fleetwood Mac played 2 consecutive days at JFK stadium. This recording is from the 2nd day.

With an attendance of over 73,000 fans, the show started at high noon on Sunday, along with co-headliner The Steve Miller Band.

Opening act was ex-Fleetwood Mac member Bob Welch's the Sanford-Townsend Band.

Here is a pre-show write up from The Philadelphia Daily News.

http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.ph...ndex_v2&id=524

Post-show review in Rolling Stones from a lousy critic.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...nicks-19781005


Even though this is a newly surfaced recording from a 1st gen, this is average to fair quality at best.

This becomes more distorted as it progresses, most likely due to a weakened battery.

One of the good things I noticed was that the crowd noise isn't over bearing. It's actually way quieter than I expected.

In my opinion the taper might have been some where away from any crazed fans.


Recording Notes.

Track 6 'Oh Daddy' has 2 drop outs @ 3:17 & 3:33.

At the end of that song, there was a barely noticeable tape cut.

Then I'm assuming that the tape is missing the following 4 songs.

Never Going Back Again
Landslide
Say You Love Me
Gold Dust Woman


I can't prove anything is missing because I can't find a legit set list anywhere.

You can't believe setlist.fm every time, or etree for that matter.

Also considering the fact that there were Fleetwood and Steve Miller, 2 major acts playing this day,

It's plausible that Mac would have performed a shorter show. I now believe this might be the whole show.

Track 8 has some issues. There are 2 quick drop outs at the 0:20 mark right as Lindsey is getting ready to start the song.

Followed by something that seems like a power outage @ 1:04. It's kind of strange, I don't know what really happened there.

Later in the middle of the song there are 2 more tape cuts @ 2:15 and 3:10.

After those cuts the volume had dropped dramatically. I had to raise and balance the volume to match the rest of the song.

After track 8 there was the tape flip and I was able to seamlessly piece it together with no noticeable break.

At the end of track 11 'Blue Letter', there is a tape stop, sounds like the batteries are dying.

Track 12 'Gold Dust Woman' has a tape cut @ 6:04.

I would consider this for the die-hard collectors who are looking to fill a missing gap in their collection.

Regardless of the quality and possible missing songs, this is a brand new recording source that has never been circulated or posted.

Thanks to Mitch for taping and thanks to Rich for the 1st gen cassette.

I've added a scan of the j-card and cassette and a few additional photos inside the torrent.

I'm left with 2 questions:

With over 73k in attendance, why hasn't there been any other audience recordings to surface?

Why wasn't this recorded and broadcast for the radio?

Samples Provided.


01 Monday Morning
02 The Chain
03 Dreams
04 Oh Well
05 Rhiannon
06 Oh Daddy
07 You Make Loving Fun
08 I'm So Afraid
09 World Turning
10 Go Your Own Way
11 Blue Letter
12 Sisters Of The Moon
13 Second Hand News

Total Time = 74:38 min

Enjoy

George