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Originally Posted by David
My theory is that the members of the band (& by extension the people who work for them) don't think very highly of those concert years, so they haven't been interested in either releasing old footage themselves or allowing others to do so. When you read interviews with them these days, they all seem to have a certain amount of nostalgia for those days, but not necessarily for what Fleetwood Mac looked & sounded like in 1977 or 1980.
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exactly. it seems like they've always been self-conscious about their live sound later than the actual fact. Take the 1980 Live album for example with all of its vocal overdubs (most notably stevie rerecording about 95% of the original st.louis vocal on "sara"). They always seem to be repatching the original performance. Is it "live" or is it memorex??? So, yeah, i've never doubted their own opinion of their live performances. Lindsey has spoken about how much fuller and better the band is with extra musicians. So, it's not a shock that they're going to pan the older "emptier" live stuff. Personally, i don't like all the extra musicians and i'm ending it at that.
One of my theories is that they're still an active band today. Sales of dvds of older performances might take away from sales of current stuff. Maybe the reason that all this genesis stuff is out is because there is no more genesis (that i know of) and the hopes of a gabriel/collins genesis is pretty slim especially now that collins is losing his hearing.
So i guess maybe we just have to wait till fm stops making music and touring to get some of the classic stuff released.