What a fun take on the sessions. I imagine there is a certain authenticity in his accounts because he was working as an engineer and was not as bound up by inner-band tensions and jockeying for control. He could remember things with some detachment.
A couple of comments: I have always preferred the McVie bass line on the alternate take to SHN. It really gives the song a force I don't hear in the album take--save Mick's drums and Lindsey's guitar.
I agree with Ken that YMLF has the best sound on the record. It's really a great song because it has all the energy of a live performance with all these amazing studio touches.
With re: to IDWK being chosen over SS, I still don't buy the excuse for length. Even if SS was too long, it might have been cut down a bit more. Or the fade out to GDW could have been shortened to accommodate the overall running time. I still think IDWK was chosen over SS because IDWK is a duet vocal that allows Lindsey some presence on side two. Without that duet, the majority of the second side would have been Stevie and Christine--and this would have offset the vocal balance of the voices.
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