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Originally Posted by michelej1
Take the 1980 release from Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac Live. Released as a stopgap while the band finished up their album Mirage
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The band hadn't even
begun to record MIRAGE yet.
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While they worked their magic on Mirage (which wouldn't see the light of day until 1982), a collection of music recorded on the Tusk tour was packaged for Fleetwood Mac's first live release since, I think, Fleetwood Mac In Chicago. (Anyone wishing to verify/correct this, feel free to e-mail me.)
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See above. The band didn't start recording MIRAGE until spring 1981, while LIVE was compiled in late fall 1980 & released that December.
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Many of the performances on Fleetwood Mac Live suffer from bored-sounding performances.
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Indeedy.
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Some songs, like "Monday Morning" and "Landslide," feature performances that make it sound like people like Buckingham and Nicks could perform these in their sleep. Ironically enough, they sound half-asleep on these songs.
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We're all from different planets. I've always enjoyed that MONDAY MORNING -- bouncy & spry. I remember one of the critics (Circus, maybe?) referred to this MONDAY MORNING as "all kinetic energy."
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But calling Fleetwood Mac Live a true live album is misleading.
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You could make a similar argument about virtually every live album from a rock band in that entire era -- never mind what they're doing these days! (They're not even
performing live these days.)
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Two of these songs, "Dreams" and "Don't Stop" were recorded during a sound check - c'mon, guys, you mean to tell me that you didn't get one good performance of "Don't Stop" to tape on an over 100-date tour?!?
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Those two were not recorded on that tour. Still, point taken: Why were soundchecks used, & why of performances of songs that hadn't yet undergone their "evolution" in concert that all FM songs ultimately underwent?
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The plot sickens on three other songs - "Fireflies," "One More Night" and "The Farmer's Daughter," all of which were, as the liner notes put it, "recorded at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for crew and friends." Ah - in layman's terms, a sound check?!?
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More like rehearsal for the final leg, but point taken: not "live" in concert.