[BklynBlue]

Spelunking down that rabbit hole once more –

As suspected, the original audio (the studio recording) on the promotional clip that the BBC used for broadcast of ‘The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)’ was replaced by Castle Communications with a live performance, taken again, from the shows at the Boston Tea Party –

However (there’s that word again, Martin) Green’s spoken intro is not the one heard on “Live at the Boston Tea Party Vol.1” On the CD he says, “This is about the Devil.”

On the video, he introduces the song by title, “This is ‘The Green Manalishi’”. Nothing more. After that, the recordings are the same.

The title only intro is the one heard on the full length version of the song (16:34 vs. 12:56) that was first released on “Roots – The Original Fleetwood Mac Live in Concert”

I would have to believe that when compiling the Tea Party tapes for release, along with any number of other edits that were made on the material, (aesthetic choices made without any input from the artists) that they chose to splice in the intro from a different performance onto the head of the song – (maybe they thought it sounded cooler?)

Much as I love the music on the three CD set, it remains a source of frustration