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Originally Posted by fleetfootmike
As this has just appeared for download on bt.easytree.org, now seems an appropriate time to ask: Which is it?  And what evidence do we have either way? |
When I first got online in 1995 or so, I hung out in the Fleetwood newsgroup. We used to argue about the King Biscuit radio broadcast all the time. One of the intelligent regs (intelligent except for the fact that he was on Prodigy) had a ticket stub from a friend of his who attended an old Mac show on November 20, 1975, at Yale University (New Haven) Coliseum (the Veterans Memorial Coliseum the band played on the Tusk Tour). The girl remembers seeing the King Biscuit mobile recording unit (a white van) at the site, recording for radio. I buy this, incidentally.
Fleetwood played the Capitol Theatre in Portchester NY on May 30, 1975. They also allegedly played the Capitol Theatre in Passaic NJ on October 17, 1975. In fact, that might be the show that
Don't Let Me Down Again off "Live" is taken from.
The November 20 date is also given as the date for a show at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, but so far, that's just fan hearsay, & fairly late in the game, at that. The tape of that show is the one with
Go Your Own Way. That NC gig may not be November 20, but the time frame seems right. Steve heard the band play GYOW on Thanksgiving, & the Billboard review of the Winterland show a few days after Thanksgiving also refers to
You Can Go Your Own Way being performed.
When asked about this in a Q&A, Ken Callait & Leo Rossi only added to the confusion by referring to a city in a neighboring county of Passaic & then by bringing up an entirely different show in Wallingford CT:
"My partner, Leo Rossi, who toured with them since 1975, just told me that the King Biscuit show was from
Union City, N.J. in 1975. I know it was a long time ago but I seem to recall it being recorded in a small radio station? No? I have many fond memories of mixing that show, fond, because if I hadn't have done it I probably wouldn't have recorded Rumours, and that probably wouldn't have met Fleetwood Mac at all! Well that was funny, Mick Fleetwood just called from Bubba Burger's in Maui, he said to say hello and he can't remember a thing about the King Biscuit show. That doesn't surprise me!"