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Originally Posted by HomerMcvie
If I recall correctly, I think Mick was the only one in the band that really wanted the live album to happen.
He needed more money to blow through(pun intended).
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Mick actually wanted to release a live album between
Rumours &
Tusk to buy time because
Tusk was taking so long (in the eyes of the record company). In retrospect, that might've not been a bad idea*. It would've been more "timely" in regards to the trend of releasing two-LP live albums...by 1980, the trend was starting to wane. Also, after
Tusk raised the going rate for double albums, the
Live album wasn't all that much of a bargain as it would've been had it been released a year & half earlier.
*But, on the other hand, the live album would've been mostly the "white album" and
Rumours tunes on the heels of those two albums' success would've just been a live redundancy. (which is probably what Lindsey's argument against a live album, at that point, would have been)