Listen to Rumours Reissue Live Tracks
 

We are now able to listen to the live tracks from the upcoming Rumours reissue on rolling stones! Listening now....what are your thoughts?
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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...miere-20130125

On January 29th, Fleetwood Mac will reissue their 1977 classic Rumours in a new edition packed with tons of unreleased material from the studio and stage. Now you can get an exclusive first listen to the 12 unreleased live tracks that will be included with the new set. Recorded during the band's 1977 world tour at concerts in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Nashville and Columbia, South Carolina, the disc features Fleetwood Mac favorites like "Rhiannon" and "World Turning," as well as plenty of Rumours highlights including a swooning rendition of "Dreams," a stomping version of "The Chain" that comes to a raucous conclusion, and the heartbreaking closer "Songbird." Fleetwood Mac will hit the road for their first tour since 2009, starting April 4th in Columbus, Ohio, with additional dates just announced.

This is amazing! just making my Friday!

Great document of a real live show without any post production overdubs and noodling. It's raw and imperfect as it should be because it's entirely it's authentic. I love it. Just wish there was more to it.

A full set list might include any number of songs: Say You Love Me, Landslide, Blue Letter, I'm So Afraid, Over My Head, Don't Let Me Down Again, Second Hand News, You Make Loving Fun, or even the few pre-rumour era songs they were still performing early in the tour, such as Oh Well.

I'm glad they used the recording of one of the intros that was the "birth of Tusk".


Obviously, you meant to type "Don't Let Me Down Again", right? ;)

Yeah, "Station Man", "Sunny Side Of Heaven", "Oh Well", "Why", "Hypnotized" & "Green Manalishi" would've been nice.

Brain fart: Yes I meant Don't Let Me Down Again. I went back and corrected it. Pretend that never happened!

And how could I forget all those other songs you mentioned?

:thumbsup:

Considering they left off those other tunes from the '75 album, even wishing that they'd put any Pre-75 material on there is even lower odds than "pipe dreaming". :nod:

And, I agree...they SHOULD'VE put "You Make Loving Fun" on there; in place of "Don't Stop". The latter song was rarely played during the '77 tour, but "You Make Loving Fun" was a concert set staple long before the Rumours album was released...they started playing it in May '76. Plus, do we NEED another live version of "Don't Stop"? Obviously, not. But, a live version of YMLF from those days has never officially been released. (yes, I know it was on The Dance)

So far these are all really good.

I'm only at Rhiannon though. Stevie taking the high part on the chorus shocked me for a second there.

I just listened to that...sounded like Christine on the high-harmony...Lindsey (surprisingly) has the lowest part. Later versions, they switched parts around. I think over the years they've each sung all three parts of the harmony on that at some point.

I think Stevie definitely is singing the highest part - there's no mistaking the vibrato. Christine is singing the middle part, and yes, Lindsey's got the lowest. Dreams was the same way.

But yeah, I've heard all of them doing it all at some point :lol: It just stood out to me here because I guess Stevie's mic is up since it's her song, so the higher harmony is really pronounced.

Edited to say that Gold Dust Woman was incredible.

That Rhiannon was incredible, Stevie's voice was simply amazing. Gold Dust Woman was also brilliant, as always.

Interesting to hear that Tusk riff at the beginning of the show... :thumbsup:

ah.. the memories..
 

just finished listening to "Dreams", "Rhiannon" and "Gold Dust Woman"..

when Stevie Nicks was good... she was very good.

I'm loving the sh!t out of this "Rumours" era live music... simply loving it..

oh fudge.. "World Turning" just started.. thanks Nailatixela for sharing the link.. made my cold snowy Friday night a little more warm.. ways...

That was the first thing I took notice of too. Very very interesting!

Yes indeed!

Kinda surprised they are putting the whole version of each song online, rather than just snippets to entice you to buy.-- well, *we* all will buy anyway, but the younger/more casual listeners won't necessarily.

I love the live stuff... It's so clear! And since they took songs from different shows, it makes me sad to think all those live shows are just sitting somewhere WAITING to be mastered properly and released. Took them 35 years to get this one out, I'll be long gone by the next one :) But... happy with this!