1980 Live album
 

Does anyone know the date the live tracks were recorded for the 1980 live album? I did read that most were from the Tusk tour, but that a few tracks were from the 1977 tour. I think Monday morning was recorded in Tokyo, and I'm guessing this was from 1977. I did see them on the Tusk tour (Stafford Bingley Hall, June '80) and they didn't perform Oh well or Don't let me down again, so I'm not sure if these live versions are from the Rumours tour. Does anyone know any more? Thanks, Richard.

It gives the venues on the sleeve/booklet with the album/cd , but not the dates unfortunately.

They're here on the discography part of this site: http://discog.fleetwoodmac.net/discog.php?pid=37

I LOVE the 1980 Live album. So glad Mick got his way with doing it because the band and Warner Brothers did not want to do it. They just did a 2 disc Tusk that did not sell up to expectations. The Live album was considered a flop and everyone pointed fingers at Mick and was like "told you so." But looking back its wonderful Mick got his way.
There were a few odd choices like the guitar string breaking during Don't Stop. Why would you include that live version? OMG the beautiful Over and Over which is really another song live. I never cared for Dreams. The live version recorded at sound check in France was recorded before Dreams was a hit in 1977. I think it was just released. IMHO Stevie is finding her footing in the song and trying too hard. I think that is the reason it sounds so different than all other live versions of Dreams.
I love the photos inside the album. Boy the hours I spent looking at the inside of that album ;)

Thanks for the link! So only 11 of the 18 tracks are from the Tusk tour, and 6 from 1977. I didn't know Don't let me down again was from the '75 tour. Would I be right in thinking this was the only tour where they performed this? I think Frozen love was also on this tour. I'd love to hear Mac's live version of this. Best tracks on the 1980 live album IMO are Rhiannon and Go your own way. Rich.

Stevie & Billy also performed it on the '87-'88 Tango tour.

On the Sirus Mac channel they played the live album Don't let me down again many times. Its a great song live. Chris has a funky catching hook on keyboards.
One thing that drives me nuts about the song. It sounds like Stevie is singing WONT You let me down again. The Whhhhh is so profound IMHO. I heard it in 1983 when I first bought the album and still hear it today.
Does anyone here Wont you let me down again?

The weird thing about LIVE is how a song like Fireflies was a studio demo that was added an echo and reverb and layered and labeled “live”. It was not from a sound test or a concert.

Then Sara is NOT the same as the Actual performance. I think the I To is but then the rest is dubbed. Many of the tracks are also overdubbed with backing vocals.

It was not till the Tusk box set that we got the real live recordings of some of those performances. You can also find the original soundboard of the Asia t Louis show and compare thosr

Frozen Love has never been performed live.

Yes it was. On the first tour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIDO7XJvi5c

Don't let me down again was played also in 1987 on the Shake the cage tour.
There are two bootleg performances of Frozen Love by Fleetwood Mac circulating, one from the 1975 Oakland bootleg whose Youtube link dreamsunwind posted below, and the other one from the South Orange bootleg that I unfortunately lost.

It's here if you want to download it.

Thanks for the link. I've now been able to hear Mac's live version of Frozen love. While I've always thought Crystal was a really nice track, I've always wished Mac had re-recorded Frozen love for the '75 album instead. It's the best track on the Buckingham Nicks album IMO.

Thanks!!!!!!

Thanks very much Danielle, you're always a peach.

Just love this album. It has my favorite version of Rhiannon because it has both taken by the wind and taken by the sky versus instead of just wind like the recorded version, or sky like in most later concerts. Also love these versions of One More Night, Over My Head, Over & Over, Sara, Fireflies and I’m So Afraid.

The mystery of Sara is an ongoing mystery. How did they rerecord a lead vocal in 1980 and make it sound like the Mirage tour vocal?

There was a Pop Eye (Patrick Goldstein) article in the Times in the weeks before the end of the tour in L.A. It said that the band was going to record the final two shows for a live album. I guess the band didn't like what they heard, and decided to make the album a cobbling together of different times and places. We've all talked before about whether we would have preferred a single unified warts-and-all recording from one night.

I haven't listened to it in years but I think the Hollywood Bowl bootleg (I guess this would've been the last concert of the tour) was pretty good but from what I recall, they were pretty rough by then.

I've loved the Live 1980 album for years but quite honestly, some of what came out on the Tusk Deluxe release is far superior or good in their own right. Sara and Rhiannon were from late in the tour and they sound great despite not being "peak" and some of the stuff from that Wembley 6/22/80 show is phenomenal. It was nice to finally get an official release of so many of the Tusk songs that the Live 1980 album ignored. I'll never get how they ignored Tusk, Sisters, You Make Loving Fun, or the freaking Chain on that album!?

Can't understand why The Chain was not included in this álbum.

You got that right!!!!!!!
Amen!
As wonderful as the Live album is, it could have been so much better. I would sacrifice Fireflies, One more lonely night, and Farmers Daughter for a 1980 Live Chain and Sisters.

The live album has probably the best live version of I'm So Afraid. Even though Sara is touched, you would never know it and its beautiful.
Over My Head rocks too. I wish they would play it like that today.

The one from the live album is good but my all time favorite Sara is the Tuscon Tusk tour one. The last 2 minutes or so of that give me goosebumps. Stevie did a wonderful fade out and the guitar performance that follows is probably one of the most breathtaking things I've ever heard, especially coupled with Christine's playing.

There were enough tracks left off the Live album to have had an alternative double live album in 1980!
Blue letter
World turning
Frozen love
Why
Station man
Hypnotised
Green Manalishi
Secondhand news
You make loving fun
The Chain (my fave track!)
Songbird
Oh daddy
Gold dust woman
Silver springs (they performed this in '77)
Think about me
Sisters of the moon
Tusk
Angel


I wish some of these had made the real album!

Instead, we got painfully long versions of NGBA, Landslide, O&O, NTF, etc.

OMG
Over and Over making the album was the best decision ever. The song is unleashed to something so much better than the album version. Those harmonies! The hypnotic guitar rhythm at the end. Its the best part of the live album IMHO.

No doubt they could have fit some amazing songs dropping Not That Funny and the unleased songs. The Chain would have been so good.
I like this album so much better than The Dance. The Mac sounds like a rock band on the 1980 Live album.