Future Games/Bare Trees backing vocals

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Originally Posted by sharksfan2000

I think you also have to consider that the band didn't do much in the way of background / harmony vocals on studio tracks in their earlier years either (some on Kiln House, mostly Danny Kirwan on Jeremy Spencer's songs), so they had little history of doing it. And if I recall correctly, some of the early attempts at harmony vocals on live recordings after Christine McVie joined the band are not that great. Seems like it took them awhile to get it figured out.

Christine had trouble with her vocals live for the first two years. The harmonizing ideas on those live bootlegs were good, but she couldn't execute them with accuracy: her voice kept falling out of tune. To compare her singing on the 72 Bare Trees radio broadcast of a live show in Seattle with her live performance on Midnight Special a year and a half later is like hearing two different people. And then, a year after that, during the heroes tour, her vocals were incredible. She really pulled it together after 72--in and out of the studio.