Behind The Mask Concert Tour- 1990
 

I was over at FMLegacy and was reading about the BTM tour. One the tour setlist, it had Love Is Dangerous as a song they did on this tour. This is one of my faves from the album, and I have not heard this as a song that they did on this tour. Does anyone know for sure if it was, and if so- if there is some recording of it somewhere. I think this would be a great live song, and seeing it in the setlist kind of sparked my interest, since it was something that I hadn't heard before!

Thanks,
Ethan

I'd love to see/hear a live recording of Love Is Dangerous, too -- if you track it down, Ethan, please please please share! (It's not on the Next Stop Main Road bootleg.)

Nickslive recently reprinted a review from the Dec. 1990 Behind the Mask concert in Edmonton. The writer mentioned that they did Love is Dangerous, but called it 'weak.' (Throughout the review, the writer was purely and gleefully venomous about Stevie :mad: )

http://nickslive.blogspot.com/search?q=behind+the+mask

I thought Stevie and Rick sounded great together. Aren't there video recordings of that song out there somewhere? :confused:

I don't think they did it very often on the tour. I've never got to hear it - although I've only heard one BTM bootleg. There are a good amount exsisting but they aren't shared too much.

Let the man hunt begin! :laugh:

If memory serves, and it may not seeing as it was so many years ago now, but I seem to recall that they did do "Love Is Dangerous" in Oakland, CA on that tour. I was only about 10 rows back and the Mac left me almost deaf the whole next day!!!!!! On the encore, Lindsey came out with them and they played "Go Your Own Way" with him and it was incredible!! Lindsey sang and played and it was just awesome. Damned near blew the roof off the place.

I honestly love this incarnation of FM. It was so great! A definite missed opportunity when they did not follow up BTM with another album. Although I would say that Mick is redeeming himself with his renewed association with Rick on the MFBB and Island Rumours Band. If you haven't heard "Blue Again!" I highly recommend it. That whole band ROCKS!!!!!!

Someone around here used to claim that those versions of Go Your Own Way from Oakland and then from Los Angeles on the last show where Lindsey joined were the best versions of the song ever. I don't know, I've yet to ever hear a recording of either so if anyone has them, please please let me know. Those recordings are truly about the only thing Fleetwood Mac I've wanted to attain but have had no luck in all of these years.

Lindsey also did Landslide with Stevie at these shows and I believe it is the Oakland show video that is on YouTube.

"Love Is Dangerous" was a staple of the set of the last leg.

But an even better song for Stevie Nicks performance was "Stand On the Rock." Stevie did great high-range yelling backup vocals, believe it or not.

I recall "Love Is Dangerous" just being one of the set's MANY "high points", when I saw the final show of the 1990 tour.

I think "weak" describes "Stand On The Rock" (both studio & live); never really cared for that song. And, that comment comes from one of Rick's biggest fans. :thumbsup:

(I still maintain that "Got No Home" should've been on the BTM album in it's place...and would've been a hit single had it been released as one)

I wish I could find one of those BTM demo's...I've never heard Got No Home or the original Mac demo of Intuition. :distress: I keep scanning ebay and any other sources where it might show up.

I've seen a video of Rick doing Love Is Dangerous (solo), but I sure wish I could have seen them performing it back then.

I have a concert DVD from the Behind The Mask tour but it doesnt have Love Is Dangerous on it =( I LOVE that song and would LOVE to hear/see it live.

The FMac "Intuition" sounds pretty much identical to Rick's King Of Hearts version, except the background vocals are done by Chris & Billy instead of Stevie...and of course, the rock solid Mick & John rhythm section instead of a drum machine and Rick on bass himself. But, even still, it's actually pretty tough to tell them apart until the background vocals come in.

you have to admit...some of those descriptions are just plain laughable. :laugh:

Helen Metella on Stevie Nicks:
"Swaddled in what resembled adult-sized christening coats..."

"what explains her deliberately and wordlessly padding off-stage..."

"Nicks' ridiculously outdated wood-nymph routine..."


She must have spent weeks thinking up such metaphors and stabs.
poor gal. :distress:

They sang Love is Dangerous in Cincinnati, but I was crushed they didn't sing Save Me. I guess since the song only peaked at #36, they decided to drop it from the set list.

I saw the Farewell tour in Pittsburgh and Save Me was dropped and Say You Love Me put in the set instead.

Did anybody see Lindsey’s performance in this tour? According to Mick’s coffee table book, My twenty-five years in Fleetwood Mac, “And at the last show in Los Angeles, Lindsey mounted the stage to play some frenzied guitar, a fitting way for this edition of Fleetwood Mac to say goodbye. For now.” (The book ended here).

That goodbye must refer to what he previous told, “That summer’s series of Euro shows also saw both Chris and Stevie announce in midtour that they would be leaving the band. Both women were wealthy and famous, and neither felt like continuing the pressure and the pace that went along with life in Fleetwood Mac”.

Well, that last paragraph is far from accurate, since the real reasons (specially Stevie’s) were completely different, or so I read.

I think Michelle has written she was there for one of the final nights in LA or Oakland and commented about Lindsey. There is a video on youtube of Lindsey on the last night in Oakland.

So you're saying that MICK IS A LIAR?

Now that's shocking. About as shocking as a AAA battery in a toy.

When Mick finally hangs it up and needs money, he will auction off his prized possession like his drum suit he had for the 1987 and 1990 tour. I will buy it for you so you can hang it on your wall next Biddy's undies.

HELP ME
OH GOD
HELP ME

I bet you did not run to the concession stand then. You had tears of amazement in your eyes!

"Love is Dangerous" live from Pittsburgh November 1990 mp3
https://www.dropbox.com/s/subiobwvvl...0live.mp3?dl=0

Live fan-shot video on YouTube from a concert around that time in Albany NY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nub6VzcZP3g

Abstaining from love is also dangerous.

I was there at the Pittsburgh show!
OMG listen to Chris's keyboard playing. The recording is picking up her playing that you might not hear so much. Its insane! Its wild! Slightly psychedelic and intrancing sounding.....boop boop boop...boop boop boop

I could write a manual. Pun intended...

Thanks for posting!

According to some sources, this was the week when Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie announced they were leaving the band at the end of the 1990 tour.

Mick said the reason was "they were wealthy, famous and didn't felt like continuing the pressure and the pace that went along with life in Fleetwood Mac. The two ladies reached this decision together, although both indicated they would continue to record with the band in the future". (My Twenty-five Years in Fleetwood Mac, Mick Fleetwood 1992).

However, many believed that Nicks’ and McVie’s departures were hastened by bad blood in the wake of Fleetwood’s 1990 book.

I vaguely remember hearing that Chris was finished touring with the band an eensy-weensy bit before Stevie, but it was very close on the actual calendar. I don’t think either of them had any bad blood about the book (other than disgust with its trashiness). Remember that Stevie would frequently introduce Mick onstage as the bestselling author — whether tongue in cheek or not, she wasn’t really angry about his book. When they both decided they were done touring, my impression was that they were just very tired, especially since the band was really struggling to appeal to a radio audience and sell albums and it wasn’t working. People get tired — remember how Bob Welch got tired after a run of bad luck (a fake band, low sales, artistic stagnancy)? Stevie was battling her tranquilizer addiction and Christine missed what was left of her family. A person can sour on a band that isn’t cool anymore. It takes a lot out of you to smile in public to try to prop up the organization indefinitely.

According to some sources, today sep. 12 in 1990 Christine and Stevie announced they were leaving Fleetwood Mac.

12 Sep 1990
Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac announced they were leaving the band at the end of their current tour. At the time, some believed that Nicks’ and McVie’s departures were hastened by bad blood in the wake of Fleetwood’s memoir, Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac.

I don't think chris had any bad feelings about the book...? i mean, mick painted her in a very good light.. (better than anyone else, imo!) and i don't think stevie was too upset either after she got over the initial revelation of the affair bit.

I tend to believe that they were just tired, and less than enthused. The early-mid 90s were not kind to FM, they were sort of fading at that time... they probably figured the band were on their way to an eventual 'end point' anyway.


--Lis

Grunge killed off the classic rock stars, at least for a few years. Look and Lindsey's opus, OOTC. He couldn't get arrested with it.

Grunge is when I turned to country music. I need HARMONY and MELODY, and country groups were FAR closer to FM and The Eagles than grunge could ever be....

Freeeeeeezin'.........Shut the actual FUKC up, Eddie. Just STFU...

Me too…..I couldn’t agree more. My new #1 band has been Little Big Town. “ The Country Fleetwood Mac “ ( per Kelly Clarkson) Every album they release is better than the last one (IMO)

But he did make Stevie seem like an idiot a few times outing her for falling off the stage on the RAL tour and taking microdot acid and could not stop laughing trying to find Mick and the airport, and threatening the band making Tango about going to Rolling Stone. True the affair was the most revealing but Stevie got spooked at the book because she asked Mick directly "what's in it?" She knew that he could of had the greatest tell all of all time. He just leaked a few juicy ones. She threatened to sue him.

That would make sense with the timing. The tour was just about to resume back in the states after Chris needed time off and some added European dates. My July concert had been cancelled but they made up the date in November. It was sad seeing things come to an end (supposedly). They even renamed the tour the "Farewell Tour" based on this press release.

Neil Young would beg to differ.

A southern man don't need him around, any how...


I actually met him(at sound check) working security at one of his concerts. I was 19. He walked up and started talking to me, and I was having a heart attack, that Neil Young was having a conversation with me(talking about how bad the acoustics are, at Indiana University's Assembly Hall). He was very nice.

No one will ever replace FM in my life, ALTHOUGH the Eagles have always been neck and neck with them(but I didn't follow their personalities- because Don and Glenn have none, like I did with FM).

Diamond Rio has always been my favorite. Fantastic harmonies, and top notch musicianship.

By the mid 90s I also read—though I don't recall where—that Christine and Stevie stepped away from touring but would still agree to collaborate on Mac albums. However, when Mick (supposedly) wouldn't let Stevie include Silver Springs on Timespace, that was the "last straw" for her, and at that moment she wanted nothing more to do with Fleetwood Mac. That’s how the Time lineup came to be formed later on.

I say "supposedly" because I also read somewhere that it was actually Warner that didn't authorize Silver Springs to appear on a Modern Records release. And Mick couldn´t do anything. Don´t know if that was true.

I read an unauthorized Eagles bio (don't worry it wasn't written by Mick) long ago, late 90s I guess. I don´t remember so much about it, but I do remember that's how I learned Linda Ronstadt helped them in their first days.

But the documentary that used to be in Netflix was much more interesting. I watched it lot of times.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/...yOQ@@._V1_.jpg

[QUOTE=HomerMcvie;1306597]No one will ever replace FM in my life, ALTHOUGH the Eagles have always been neck and neck with them(but I didn't follow their personalities- because Don and Glenn have none, like I did with FM).

Fleetwood Mac will always be my # 1 but LBT is happening!

But just blaming mick without telling the whole truth about the record company's refusal to authorize it would be so out of character for stevie..!

:rolleyes:

--Lis

Oh, she's so dramatic. He's allowed to have a chuckle at some of her little screw ups. and i'm sure he had tons more he could have put in the book that he left out... but that's why he didn't want to let anyone see the book before it came out-- because everyone would have little tidbits they might object to and get ticked off about.

--Lis

Are you talking about Felder's book? I have it, and even won a second copy of it on an Eagles fan page(and turned around and sold the second copy- since it was no longer available).