Fleetwood Mac live box set 1980
 

Listening and loving it. What a great collection of songs. The third disc is amazing.

I’m in love with it, although I haven’t played it for months. It’s the sort of stuff that I’ve wanted since the year those songs were performed. If I put the band’s best albums against their best concerts, with a slight edge I prefer their best concerts to their best albums. Most of all, I love the extreme contrast in discipline between the best albums and the best concerts. You have to be a very special band to give listeners the same aural experience onstage that you do on record and still make a new statement. But Fleetwood benefited from stretching out and loosening up, from 1967 to about 2003. There are performances and jams from the late 1960s and the early 1980s that put you in another place.

It’s unusual that Lindsey used to say that staying fresh on the road was difficult, compared with the studio. I think he and Mick forced the band to go crazy musically during their heyday. The others probably would have been content to reproduce the feel of the albums.

The one thing I truly loved about the FM live performances from 1975-1982 was that every song sounded nothing like their records onstage. And to this day NOTHING will ever be greater or more enjoyable than the live Rhiannon's from that time period.

Yes, their live performances were like listening to a completely different band. I was blown away when I saw them on the second leg of the Rumours tour. It’s also nice to replace “official releases” for some not so great bootleg shows.

YES, YES, and YES!
OMG YES
This is why I felt so guilty about not loving The Dance. I was of course caught up in the excitement of the 5 back together again but I was like: who neutered Fleetwood Mac?
This is why I cherish the 1980 Live album. By the time the mid to late 1990s came around technology in live sound really helped bands sound more like the studio which is what we got from the Dance and beyond.
One night with OWTS the band started Say You Love Me and Chris stopped the song. She said something like "I still have not grasped this technology yet" I interpreted that to mean she was not playing all the opening parts (that she did for decades) and it confused her.

They were fresh, inspired, intense, improv'd, and erratic and even erotic (sometimes).

Fleetwood Mac was one of the most amazing institutions that I have ever witnessed.

Watching the versions of them now is like eating a popsicle that's been in the freezer way too long. It's still has some flavor, but it's also really stale. But sales are still great because it's all that's left.

That was Chicago 2014. She missed something or started the automatic replay of something she was only pretending to play. It was weird. She stopped and turned around and sort of pretended to fiddle with some kind of speaker monitor and then carried on. It was odd.

The same thing happened in Pittsburgh. I never saw Chicago.

It's a big beautiful city in Illinois. You should visit sometime.

I've been there and it is a great city. Mid-western hospitality. Good pizza too.
The most efficient McDonalds I've ever experienced in my life. Right next to the Sears tower. 6 long lines and it worked like an assembly line. It was something to see.

THIS... should receive a Peabody Award.

It was efficient like Christine playin the organ, switchin to fender, then goin across stage to the piano for Not that Funny.

Haven't been to Chicago yet. I've always wanted to visit Grand Hotel at Mackinac Island. Though I know it's like 6 hours from Chicago, but it would be a good opportunity to tour that entire lake area.

I have THREE different friends who have witnessed murders at gas stations in Chicago.

Good luck!

Let's see if my memory serves me right. By the time the FM Live 1980 album was released I had already heard and seen several live Rhiannon's between 1978 & 1980. There was the 1976 Midnight Special version. Sin City (Las Vegas August 1977). Cotton Bowl (Dallas 1978). I feel like I'm forgetting some but the point I wanted to make is the released version completely sucked compared to the ones I mentioned. THAT Rhiannon was a real let down for me. To this day I never listen to it. Fast forward to present day and I have heard a lot of live Rhiannon's. But not enough that I will ever be fully satisfied because you know there are so many more out there I have not heard yet. My top 3 faves are Rotterdam June 1980, Chicago May 1980 and the version we got from an actual released box set that featured Rhiannon in Tucson in August 1980.The Tucson version is phenomenal and I could hear it every day and never get sick of it.