Inside Info on RUMOURS CD/DVD Box Set [Archive]

TeenageMac

05-20-2009, 07:18 PM

Well, I don't think I have mentioned this before, but my dad works as an Executive Editor here in Connecticut at one of the biggest newspapers in the state.

It seems as though everyone (including myself) is wondering when the RUMOURS CD/DVD Box Set will be released. Well, I was able to convince my dad to contact Fleetwood Mac band management and get an answer on this through his job.

He contacted Liz Rosenberg, the Fleetwood Mac Press Contact listed on all of the recent press releases... And here was her response:

it turned out there were some legal issues which caused a huge delay.. Naturally I wasn't told about the issue until after release went out.. ON the happy side, everything has been resolved and we are hoping for an early fall release ...

So there you have it!

Dan B.

05-20-2009, 07:20 PM

Fantastic, I've been wondering when it would be out.

NicksMonsoon

05-20-2009, 07:23 PM

Thanks so much for the info! I was just wondering about this earlier today :)

Skyveris

05-20-2009, 07:27 PM

Great tidings. Thank you for sharing this info with us.

-Matt

Villavic

05-20-2009, 07:29 PM

far later from the tour. humm....

MacMan

05-20-2009, 07:32 PM

Excellent.... Progress!! I figured it was something like this... Wonder what's on it that needed clearing?

Man, would it be that hard for them to include something like this in future press releases? instead of leading people on a wild goose chase. I wonder how many people have actually tried to find this to buy based on what they've read in the press.

Thank you TeenageMac for convincing your Dad to check into it...

David

05-20-2009, 08:14 PM

Well, I don't think I have mentioned this before, but my dad works as an Executive Editor here in Connecticut at one of the biggest newspapers in the state.

It seems as though everyone (including myself) is wondering when the RUMOURS CD/DVD Box Set will be released. Well, I was able to convince my dad to contact Fleetwood Mac band management and get an answer on this through his job.

He contacted Liz Rosenberg, the Fleetwood Mac Press Contact listed on all of the recent press releases... And here was her response:

it turned out there were some legal issues which caused a huge delay.. Naturally I wasn't told about the issue until after release went out.. ON the happy side, everything has been resolved and we are hoping for an early fall release ...Tell your dad to tell Ms. Rosenberg that either she gets that package on the shelf WELL before fall 2009 ... or the fans on the Internet will take matters into their own hands & start circulating early release copies of the material -- for FREE.

It's time we fans -- who get most of this junk before it's released somehow anyway -- start lighting fires under the asses of those slugs.

Glittermoondust

05-20-2009, 08:25 PM

FALL???!!??? UGH!! I don't want to wait that long :distress:

MacMan

05-20-2009, 08:27 PM

Tell your dad to tell Ms. Rosenberg that either she gets that package on the shelf WELL before fall 2009 ... or the fans on the Internet will take matters into their own hands & start circulating early release copies of the material -- for FREE.

It's time we fans -- who get most of this junk before it's released somehow anyway -- start lighting fires under the asses of those slugs.

Feisty Stevie... Meet Feisty David :)

jbrownsjr

05-20-2009, 08:34 PM

Tell your dad to tell Ms. Rosenberg that either she gets that package on the shelf WELL before fall 2009 ... or the fans on the Internet will take matters into their own hands & start circulating early release copies of the material -- for FREE.

It's time we fans -- who get most of this junk before it's released somehow anyway -- start lighting fires under the asses of those slugs.

We'll start with Butter Cookie...

ontheEdgeof17

05-20-2009, 09:00 PM

We'll start with Butter Cookie...

Why that one? It was already released.

michelej1

05-20-2009, 09:17 PM

Tell your dad to tell Ms. Rosenberg that either she gets that package on the shelf WELL before fall 2009 ... or the fans on the Internet will take matters into their own hands & start circulating early release copies of the material -- for FREE.

It's a lot harder to leak video than audio, isn't it?

Michele

wildheart048

05-21-2009, 06:02 AM

Thank you for the info...been wondering what the heck is going on with it...fall's not too bad, although it's a shame they won't be able to 'capitalize' on the tour to promote it...

shackin'up

05-21-2009, 07:15 AM

It's a lot harder to leak video than audio, isn't it?

Michele

why?

a disc is a disc and a torrent is a torrent. It only takes more time to up- and download...
:shrug:

kathy1

05-21-2009, 07:19 AM

thanks for letting us know i can't wait til it comes out.

Dodfather

05-21-2009, 08:05 AM

What on earth could the legal issues be? There can't possibly be anything left to fight about as regards that record!

Things like that really annoy me. Especially in a band that are still together! They surely could have worked all this out loooooong ago in the early planning stages? It's not as if they're all on opposite sides of the world and never talk or anything.

macmar71

05-21-2009, 08:17 AM

with the delay in release....they will probably do a fall 2009 leg of the tour to promote it...be it here or overseas?!

jbrownsjr

05-21-2009, 10:34 AM

Why that one? It was already released.

The live B side Version, recorded from John's sailboat with Robin Anderson and Judy Wong...

Enchanted_Stevi

05-21-2009, 10:39 AM

Well, I don't think I have mentioned this before, but my dad works as an Executive Editor here in Connecticut at one of the biggest newspapers in the state.

It seems as though everyone (including myself) is wondering when the RUMOURS CD/DVD Box Set will be released. Well, I was able to convince my dad to contact Fleetwood Mac band management and get an answer on this through his job.

He contacted Liz Rosenberg, the Fleetwood Mac Press Contact listed on all of the recent press releases... And here was her response:

it turned out there were some legal issues which caused a huge delay.. Naturally I wasn't told about the issue until after release went out.. ON the happy side, everything has been resolved and we are hoping for an early fall release ...

So there you have it!

Thanks for posting this =) Good to know

michelej1

05-21-2009, 11:39 AM

why?

a disc is a disc and a torrent is a torrent. It only takes more time to up- and download...
:shrug:

Except for movies, I just never hear about leaked video.

Michele

michelej1

05-21-2009, 11:41 AM

What on earth could the legal issues be? There can't possibly be anything left to fight about as regards that record!

But if it really does contain never-before-released material, maybe there are some licensing issues that were never resolved, because it had never come up before. I would assume that FM and WB own all the songs, but maybe there are people who will be shown in the video footage who haven't signed a release yet or something like that.

Michele

jbrownsjr

05-21-2009, 04:19 PM

But if it really does contain never-before-released material, maybe there are some licensing issues that were never resolved, because it had never come up before. I would assume that FM and WB own all the songs, but maybe there are people who will be shown in the video footage who haven't signed a release yet or something like that.

Michele

My thoughts exactly.. if it were the same stuff.. then maybe something expired... but I'm hoping it was a rights issue on new stuff....

the_chain

05-21-2009, 04:46 PM

Well, I don't think I have mentioned this before, but my dad works as an Executive Editor here in Connecticut at one of the biggest newspapers in the state.

It seems as though everyone (including myself) is wondering when the RUMOURS CD/DVD Box Set will be released. Well, I was able to convince my dad to contact Fleetwood Mac band management and get an answer on this through his job.

He contacted Liz Rosenberg, the Fleetwood Mac Press Contact listed on all of the recent press releases... And here was her response:

it turned out there were some legal issues which caused a huge delay.. Naturally I wasn't told about the issue until after release went out.. ON the happy side, everything has been resolved and we are hoping for an early fall release ...

So there you have it!

The cynic in me believes the band (the guys) and WB were not happy about the timing of the release of Stevie's cd/dvd. The sales on this re-issue will not be great because it is a rehash of music already heard millions and millions of times but it will be pricey I am sure and with the economy so fragile...they most likely made the decision not to compete with Stevie's solo rehash. By rehash I am not in any way saying I won't be first in line to buy as I buy everything FM and everything by the individual members but other than hardcore fans few others will go out and spend $$ on music they already own. The never released material will not create a stampede to your local Wal-Mart or Target. I do look forward to the fall release and I am sure I will enjoy it. If this hold up was due to legal reasons I don't know but I am confident that the push back was in part due to Stevie's release, which btw was also pushed back by Reprise to cash in on the FM tour. :lol:

"Chain keep us together."

David

05-21-2009, 04:53 PM

Except for movies, I just never hear about leaked video.There's an enormous amount of leaked video of Fleetwood Mac that fans have. Concert footage, marketing film, outtakes of commercially available products, etc.

We could compile our own DVD package of "Rumours."

michelej1

05-21-2009, 05:47 PM

There's an enormous amount of leaked video of Fleetwood Mac that fans have. Concert footage, marketing film, outtakes of commercially available products, etc.

We could compile our own DVD package of "Rumours."

Yes, I'm grateful for all our bootleg stuff. But I mean the kind of thing you were threatening Liz with, with us getting snippets of a planned DVD release before its available for sale. Like the pirates who got that X-Men movie.

Michele

David

05-22-2009, 11:11 AM

Yes, I'm grateful for all our bootleg stuff. But I mean the kind of thing you were threatening Liz with, with us getting snippets of a planned DVD release before its available for sale.You're assuming that this package is going to contain a bunch of footage that none of us has ever seen, whereas I'm assuming it's going to contain a bunch of footage that the band thinks we have never seen but that we in fact have already had for years.

michelej1

05-22-2009, 11:41 AM

You're assuming that this package is going to contain a bunch of footage that none of us has ever seen, whereas I'm assuming it's going to contain a bunch of footage that the band thinks we have never seen but that we in fact have already had for years.

Audio wise, you didn't have Mick the Screecher before, did you??

You're right about what video we might get. Even then I'd be grateful if we got first generation on a DVD, instead of the 30th generation copies I have, mostly on VHS. But the truth is the DVD won't even be long enough to contain much of what I'd really want. I guess they can only get about 4 hours on there.

Michele

David

05-22-2009, 01:25 PM

Audio wise, you didn't have Mick the Screecher before, did you??I -- didn't ... no.
Life was good, up till that point, in fact.

You're right about what video we might get. Even then I'd be grateful if we got first generation on a DVD, instead of the 30th generation copies I have, mostly on VHS. But the truth is the DVD won't even be long enough to contain much of what I'd really want. I guess they can only get about 4 hours on there.The stuff I'd want (for example, the 1978 & 1979 Landover gigs) is undoubtedly stuff that the band would be horrified to know we actually already have.

I can't imagine Stevie would be happy about the fact that we have her whole US Festival 2 show on DVD, either.

I must say, however, that I was very surprised Stevie & her team released the studio footage they did for her Crystal Visions package.

Angel69

05-23-2009, 04:38 PM

Audio wise, you didn't have Mick the Screecher before, did you??

Michele

That was a real treat! I know I waited years for a clear re-mastered version of that!

vivfox

05-24-2009, 10:51 AM

Even tho there is no sound on it, I would love to see the hand held camera video of The Day On The Green's Rhiannon from 1976. And not just the snippets we've seen but the Whole song.

soul_drifter333

05-28-2009, 03:29 PM

I believe I am the one that orginally had the footage that you are talking about and that's all there was. It is fabulous though. Maybe someone else has some different footage or maybe this is something that FM recorded, there was some different footage in Mick's video 2 sticks.

hippilil86

10-06-2009, 03:55 PM

It's now October 6th, and we've heard nothing....

I'm not sure if it's really coming out....ever

Villavic

10-06-2009, 05:01 PM

It's now October 6th, and we've heard nothing....

I'm not sure if it's really coming out....ever

What for? The momentum is gone. We as fans would buy it, no doubt. But the tour already ended in US, their biggest market. I talk in terms of business and sales. They lost the business opportunity. There are no many interviews and articles as in the tour first days or announcements. And I think the european/australian leg will not support enough the DVD sales.

daniellaaarisen

10-06-2009, 08:01 PM

Yeah, not holding my breath on this one.

hippilil86

10-06-2009, 08:23 PM

Yeah, not holding my breath on this one.

Me either, really. The moment has come and gone. Let's hope they put out something in the next year, but not hold our breath. I'm kind of interested why it was somewhat promoted in their interviews, but nothing ever came about. Oh well.

vivfox

10-06-2009, 09:21 PM

Me either, really. The moment has come and gone. Let's hope they put out something in the next year, but not hold our breath. I'm kind of interested why it was somewhat promoted in their interviews, but nothing ever came about. Oh well.

"Cause they're Fleetwood Mac, the Band of missed oppurtunities!

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TrueFaith77

10-07-2009, 05:39 AM

"Cause they're Fleetwood Mac, the Band of missed oppurtunities!

Why is that?? Maybe it's because they, unlike most artists, have so many opportunities to fail to take advantage of.

vermicious knid

10-07-2009, 08:29 AM

Why is that?? Maybe it's because they, unlike most artists, have so many opportunities to fail to take advantage of.
I have read lots of rickety excuses in the past couple years by people on this board, but this statement just might take the cake.

Dodfather

10-07-2009, 08:31 AM

I have read lots of rickety excuses in the past couple years by people on this board, but this statement just might take the cake.

Exactly! By the way vermicious knid, I love your username! It's brilliantly random. I always preferred Chocolate Factory to Great Glass Elevator though...

Villavic

10-07-2009, 05:36 PM

Talking about long waits, I'm still "waiting" to receive mails since I registered long ago at the fleetwoodmac.com mailing list.

Maybe they are planning a big bang announcement that includes the DVD, the mailing list and the forum (it still says Forum Coming Soon!) !!! Just when the tour is over and they say see you in 2012.. :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

Spikey

10-15-2009, 04:10 PM

It'll come out when their 'one last kickass new record' comes out.

TrueFaith77

10-15-2009, 06:00 PM

It'll come out when their 'one last kickass new record' comes out.

:(

i'd much rather have the one last kickass new record

gypsy4life

10-15-2009, 06:54 PM

Is there anything we can do to revive our energy??? I'm tired of waiting too, but, SURELY there is something we can do to "get noticed" by the Mac's higher-ups!!!! It's my opinion that the artists would have hand delivered it to the shelves if they could..I mean, Stevie ALONE seems so in to her fan base...They also seemed excitied to promote it in interviews...what's the hold up in Macdom??? Any ideas on how we can get to them??? Am I being crazy by even suggesting it?:shrug:

silvasprings

10-17-2009, 01:37 AM

Is there anything we can do to revive our energy??? I'm tired of waiting too, but, SURELY there is something we can do to "get noticed" by the Mac's higher-ups!!!! It's my opinion that the artists would have hand delivered it to the shelves if they could..I mean, Stevie ALONE seems so in to her fan base...They also seemed excitied to promote it in interviews...what's the hold up in Macdom??? Any ideas on how we can get to them??? Am I being crazy by even suggesting it?:shrug:

I totally agree surely we must be able to start some sort of petition type thing or massive shirt wearing demonstration to make Fleetwood mac and their producers that their fans want to see more releases!!!!

DVD's and remastered Mirage, TITN etc...

We need some sort of "Free Mandela" style campaign to make them realise how much we want more!!!

Fleetwood Mac needs to remind the world that they really are back with a really loud voice instead of the sad little whisper their currently uttering...

StreetAngel86

10-17-2009, 04:52 AM

We need some sort of "Free Mandela" style campaign to make them realise how much we want more!!!

Fleetwood Mac needs to remind the world that they really are back with a really loud voice instead of the sad little whisper their currently uttering...

im in.
what shall we do?

CADreaming

10-17-2009, 07:54 AM

My bet is that everything is all planned out and all we can do is wait. I don't why they announced the cd/dvd release to be in conjunction with the Unleashed tour but, Stevie did have her Soundstage release during the tour and maybe that's why. Personally, I think this whole Unleashed deal was a warm up (just as Steve alluded to in an earlier interview) for what is to come...