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DavidMn
07-05-2007, 03:57 PM
Ok I have the Baton Rouge cd from that year and They do Sisters Of The Moon as a new song. I havent been able to find any other shows from that year where its done. does anyone know if that was the only show they did it at that year?
chiliD
07-05-2007, 04:19 PM
Being that since Baton Rouge was the final show of the Rumours tour, they might have just said "what the hell?" and played the new tune to give the audience something to look forward to. They'd just come off a two week break before their final five shows of the tour, so they could have either recorded the song or been rehearsing it during that break (or at soundchecks). They DIDN'T play it four nights earlier in Cleveland, but I can't find set lists for the two nights immediately prior to Baton Rouge...Birmingham & Atlanta...to see if they played it at either or both of those shows.
DavidMn
07-05-2007, 04:20 PM
Being that since Baton Rouge was the final show of the Rumours tour, they might have just said "what the hell?" and played the new tune to give the audience something to look forward to. They'd just come off a two week break before their final five shows of the tour, so they could have either recorded the song or been rehearsing it during that break (or at soundchecks).I love that version. It's one of my favorite live versions of SOTM:thumbsup:
Dark Angel
07-05-2007, 04:54 PM
No. It was also performed at the Saratoga and Buffalo '78 shows.
joe
07-05-2007, 05:35 PM
they also did it in philadelphia...that show was reviewed by rolling stone and the reviewer listed it as a "new" song stevie sang and also the only song of hers where she actually seemed interested in performing. the title of the article was "fleetwood clicks despite nicks." it also had a few pics from the show.
DavidMn
07-05-2007, 06:24 PM
Oh ok. Thank you for that information.:)
sasja
07-05-2007, 07:37 PM
I remember that review!!
goldie
07-05-2007, 08:12 PM
great info, joe!

Now someone just needs to post the song and we'll be all set, lol!
aleuzzi
07-06-2007, 12:00 AM
I remember that review!!

so do I! I think it was called "Mac clicks despite Nicks." And the reviewer pasted her for singing poorly. He said the only song which she sang well was her new song--thus concluding that her poor perofrmance was due to boredom, not ineptitutde.
aleuzzi
07-06-2007, 12:01 AM
Ok I have the Baton Rouge cd from that year and They do Sisters Of The Moon as a new song. I havent been able to find any other shows from that year where its done. does anyone know if that was the only show they did it at that year?

Would you, uh, be interested in posting any of those songs from that show as mp3s here, Dave?
gldstwmn
07-06-2007, 12:59 PM
Sisters Of The Moon - Baton Rouge, LA 8/30/78

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2H0F0WQO
shackin'up
07-06-2007, 05:10 PM
Sisters Of The Moon - Baton Rouge, LA 8/30/78

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2H0F0WQO

Thank you so much. It's gorgeous. And you rock. :nod:
shackin'up
07-06-2007, 05:15 PM
Have we ever heard Christine scream before or after?? :eek: :laugh:

Those guitarparts are still amazing. But so fresh and loose here. COOL!!!
aleuzzi
07-06-2007, 06:21 PM
Sisters Of The Moon - Baton Rouge, LA 8/30/78

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2H0F0WQO

Thanks a lot. This is great!
goldie
07-06-2007, 09:13 PM
Thank you so much for posting this!
joe
07-07-2007, 10:02 PM
i tried looking for the rolling stone review online but to no avail. :(

does anyone have it? the last time i saw it was like 1986 at my high school library via the reader's guide to periodical (-?) literature! this was WAY before the internet folks! i also remember finding an article around the rumours tour and i had to "order" the microfilm from the librarian! it was regarding someone stealing stevie's "Landslide" cape. This would've been early in the 1977 tour.

Microfilm, Microfiche, those were the days! And, not the days I'd want to return to!!!
joe
07-07-2007, 10:07 PM
i actually have issues with these 1978 versions of Sisters...The song just seems to be scattered and very unstructured. Stevie's vocal is all over the place. And Christine's backing seems unnecessary and out of place. I'm pretty partial to the 1979 versions so I'm biased. But, still cool to hear...

What's interesting is hearing Lindsey sing the verse "Some call her sister of the moon..." and then repeat that again in 1982.
goldie
07-08-2007, 07:15 PM
i tried looking for the rolling stone review online but to no avail. :(

does anyone have it? the last time i saw it was like 1986 at my high school library via the reader's guide to periodical (-?) literature! this was WAY before the internet folks! i also remember finding an article around the rumours tour and i had to "order" the microfilm from the librarian! it was regarding someone stealing stevie's "Landslide" cape. This would've been early in the 1977 tour.

Microfilm, Microfiche, those were the days! And, not the days I'd want to return to!!!


LOL! I would spend hours at the library looking through past issues of Rolling Stone for FM mentions ... then a few weeks later I would go back and read them again.

The vocals do sound a bit scattered but I love it anyway.
skcin
07-09-2007, 01:32 PM
i actually have issues with these 1978 versions of Sisters...The song just seems to be scattered and very unstructured. Stevie's vocal is all over the place. And Christine's backing seems unnecessary and out of place. I'm pretty partial to the 1979 versions so I'm biased. But, still cool to hear...

What's interesting is hearing Lindsey sing the verse "Some call her sister of the moon..." and then repeat that again in 1982.

I agree on all counts.
shackin'up
07-22-2007, 05:18 PM
i actually have issues with these 1978 versions of Sisters...The song just seems to be scattered and very unstructured. Stevie's vocal is all over the place. And Christine's backing seems unnecessary and out of place. I'm pretty partial to the 1979 versions so I'm biased. But, still cool to hear....

Ofcourse you're biased...we all are. But try to listen to it as a first attempt. - a very cool version, yet to be devellopped. I love those sketches... just like the early GYOW's we know. not as good as it turned out later, but raw and honest and straight from the heart. The core of the song is there. and it's GOOOOOOD!
PenguinHead
07-23-2007, 01:11 PM
It's a very rare event (almost never) that Fleetwood Mac performed a new song before it was released. Kudos to them for taking the chance, something they rarely do now.

I remember when the Mirage video came out, reviewers loved to harp of the fact that Lindsey sang a verse of Sisters of the Moon. Instead of realizing that perhaps they decided to do something different (from the album version), they interpreted as if Stevie being too exhausted to sing the verse...ignoring the fact that she belted out the rest of the song after that verse.