Demo/Live Performance Requests

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by WhiteDove1979

Enchanted Outtakes
See The World Go By (Fritz Demos)
Picking Up the Pieces
Special Kind Of Love
Enchanted Dreams
Ivory Keys
The Chill Of Love
The Song of Rhiannon (I'd soo soo soo love this one!?)
Simply Stevie
Rarities Volume 1

I didn't even know this existed! I hope someone has them to share.

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by David

Maureen traded, just like all the other fans, back in the Street Angel days. She & I & Debbie were on the phone a lot, tracking down new Street Angel shows & sending them to one another. Maureen's last name was Loftus, & she lived in Yonkers at the time.

Maureen had some sort of windfall a few years later. Someone in her family died, leaving her with a big wad of bills. She met Frank Harding, & bought dozens of hours' worth of soundboard cassette tapes of Fleetwood Mac concerts. So it's after she paid a big sum for this stuff that she started selling it on eBay & her own business site (Devilwoman).

Debbie & I were annoyed that Maureen had become so crass & venal, but we were even more annoyed by the fact that the soundboards she sold were heavily edited by her: songs were deleted, intros & outros were abruptly cut out, & stupid labels were stuck all over the original CDs, thereby rendering them unplayable after about a year. She also frequently misidentified concerts & other recordings: she originally sold the Oklahoma City 1977 soundboard as "Oakland." I posted on Usenet that it was actually Oklahoma City.

Maureen sent me the actual cassette of the March 15, 1980, gig, which is why we have that recording unedited. She had more soundboards that she never released into the fan stream, too, which is kind of irksome. She released only a few tracks of some shows, like Atlanta 1980, which is why we have only three songs ("Sisters," "Go Your Own Way," & "Songbird") from that soundboard.

One of our Ledgies here, DavidMN, also met Harding at some point, & got hold of the Mobile 1980 soundboard. But David has the scoop on that.

Thank you so much for sharing your insight! I love this whole Maureen thing. It's so fascinating to me and is almost a saga of some sorts. There is so much that has been left to the unknown and I'm really curious to find out more details.
I totally remember DavidMN. We talked a lot back in the day. Is he still around the boards? Really nice guy.

[mikebise]

BTW, the mix Maureen had on these downloads of "Sweet Girl" is FANTASTIC!!!! It makes the Enchanted mix seem dull and dead. So sparkling!!!

Also, the sound quality on "What Has Rock and Roll Ever Done For You?" is NEAR PERFECTION!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!

However...

ALL of the downloads that Dark Angel & Mark have posted of the song END/CUT OFF before the very final word of the song!!! Eeeekkkk!!!!!!

"We had a really good... ______!"

I know it's not their fault and it was on Maureen's CDs, but... The sound is PERFECT, yet I cringe not hearing the very final part of the song....

Que lastima!

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by mikebise

I have a request:

The "When I See You Again" which has Stevie singing back & forth with LB at the end. The part she edited out for the album version.

NOT the version which has an added chorus. I have that.

The one I need is the Back & Forth of Stevie & LB. (Maureen is the one who leaked this as well!)

I had a feeling this was it! I hope this is what you're referring to:
http://rapidshare.com/files/37307751...Again_Edit.m4a

[Sanne2]

I was reading an old Billboard issue from October 1986 which reports that Stevie recorded the song "A Whole Lot Of Trouble" for an upcoming Fleetwood Mac release. Does anyone have this TITN-version of WLT?

[mikebise]

Here is my favourite outtake of "How Still My Love", from the Masters:

http://www.mediafire.com/?vnnwmjojlmd

This version is so fun and Stevie's voice so wild!

BTW, I have ALL of the Masters, and this version was in the middle of 9 minutes of false starts and stuff that I edited off the ends. Here is the full song to enjoy!

[mikebise]

Also from the Masters, here's a wonderful "Gold and Braid" outtake:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ijzijxz4g5j

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by SapphireSister

I had a feeling this was it! I hope this is what you're referring to:
http://rapidshare.com/files/37307751...Again_Edit.m4a

I'm quoting myself ha! Is this different than the album version? I'm totally confusing myself.

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by mikebise

Here is my favourite outtake of "How Still My Love", from the Masters:

http://www.mediafire.com/?vnnwmjojlmd

This version is so fun and Stevie's voice so wild!

BTW, I have ALL of the Masters, and this version was in the middle of 9 minutes of false starts and stuff that I edited off the ends. Here is the full song to enjoy!

Cannot wait to dl this tonight!

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by mikebise

Also from the Masters, here's a wonderful "Gold and Braid" outtake:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ijzijxz4g5j

So funny - I grabbed a random Stevie mix cd for the way to work this a.m. and Gold and Braid was on there .

Btw guys on this random mix I grabbed there is a killer version of Dreams live which I will upload tonight. It almost brought me to tears. It's not labeled but I'm 90% sure it's from BD tour. I'll have you leave it to you experts to verify.

[seekerj]

Originally Posted by mikebise

Also from the Masters, here's a wonderful "Gold and Braid" outtake:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ijzijxz4g5j

Mike, since you were able to upload this stuff from the reels, does this mean you can now share the near-perfect "All The Beautiful Worlds"?

[wheart]

Originally Posted by mikebise

No, she definitely shared them. Actually, mostly she sold them on CDs in the Late 1990s. Maureen & I were Internet Stevie friends, so she gave me all her stuff, but I was slow about uploading them to my computer before I moved in 2006 and lost the CDs.

Maureen had several inside sources. One was a guy working with Mick on a FM Boxed Set for the 30th Anniversary of FM, but that project never materialized. That's where all the Mirage outtakes came from, this guy giving them to Maureen. He also gave her copies of all kinds of stuff being considered for the never-to-be boxed set.

A different guy, close to Chris Nicks, gave her so many of the solo Stevie rarities. Maureen was the first to ever release "China Doll" back in 1998, and many, many others no one else was sharing, like "One More Tomorrow", "Night Gallery", the "Violet and Blue" outtake, "Rock A Bye Baby" and so many more.

Of course, as her bag of Stevie Goodies started emptying, Maureen started selling her newer CDs with only a few new Stevie rarities and then filled them up with stuff she'd already released in different CDs. I think that's where people got pissed. I wasn't paying, so I didn't care. Her nephew helped her with all this, and made some Stevie contacts of his own, and that's how even more Stevie songs were obtained.

One day in 1999, Maureen decided she didn't like me anymore and that was the last I heard from her. She still sold Stevie CDs but not for much longer. Maybe her Well of Stevie-Ness dried up then.

Anyway, a HUGE amount of the Stevie outtakes and demos we have today come from the efforts of Maureen, no matter what some may think of her. Most of the versions of songs she released had NEVER been heard by the masses before.

Interesting stuff! I've always wondered how many of these unreleased songs found their way out of the Stevie vault. I know some of her songs were "stolen" way back when, but it seemed improbable to me that so many were stolen. This clears things up. Thanks!!

[mikebise]

Originally Posted by SapphireSister

I'm quoting myself ha! Is this different than the album version? I'm totally confusing myself.

This is the same as the album. The version I meant was the ending has Stevie & LB singing the lyrics back and forth. In 1987, Stevie gave an interview to Creem magazine, in which she stated that when they recorded "When I See You Again" for Tango In The Night, Stevie & LB recorded it together, singing it back and forth. Later, Stevie removed her vocals from the ending, played it for the rest of the band, and they voted to keep it the way Stevie wanted.

The version (I used to have, leaked by Maureen) is that original ending, with Stevie & LB singing the ending part back and forth.

Stevie: "How do you like my slow song with Lindsey singing at the end (‘When I See You Again’)? That’s one of my favorite things…I made him sing with me; I said, ‘Lindsey, you’re gonna sing on all my songs whether you like it or not-you have to sing this with me.’ So we went out and sang ‘If I see you again, will it be over?’ - we sang it in unison, then I snuck in and took my voice off. Otherwise, I’d have never gotten him to do it - see, Lindsey’s pretty shy and he’s singing differently there than he is on anything else on the record. He wouldn’t think to do that: to sing on my song at the end. He would think to sing with me, but he wouldn’t want to end it. But that’s what I wanted, to leave people feeling they are really talking to each other."
http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.ph...v2&id=785&c=18

[mikebise]

Originally Posted by seekerj

Mike, since you were able to upload this stuff from the reels, does this mean you can now share the near-perfect "All The Beautiful Worlds"?

I forgot to queue it up before I left for work. The next two songs I will keep in suspense, but "All The Beautiful Worlds" with be third, this evening.

Remember, this one is not from the Masters ~ there are NO Masters from The Wild Heart (that are in any kind of circulation amongst us fans and there sure weren't any in the Masters Project 2001-2005). But the sound quality is close enough!

Did anyone like these "How Still My Love" and "Gold and Braid"? I thought they were pretty cool, rare versions.

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by mikebise

This is the same as the album. The version I meant was the ending has Stevie & LB singing the lyrics back and forth. In 1987, Stevie gave an interview to Creem magazine, in which she stated that when they recorded "When I See You Again" for Tango In The Night, Stevie & LB recorded it together, singing it back and forth. Later, Stevie removed her vocals from the ending, played it for the rest of the band, and they voted to keep it the way Stevie wanted.

The version (I used to have, leaked by Maureen) is that original ending, with Stevie & LB singing the ending part back and forth.

Stevie: "How do you like my slow song with Lindsey singing at the end (‘When I See You Again’)? That’s one of my favorite things…I made him sing with me; I said, ‘Lindsey, you’re gonna sing on all my songs whether you like it or not-you have to sing this with me.’ So we went out and sang ‘If I see you again, will it be over?’ - we sang it in unison, then I snuck in and took my voice off. Otherwise, I’d have never gotten him to do it - see, Lindsey’s pretty shy and he’s singing differently there than he is on anything else on the record. He wouldn’t think to do that: to sing on my song at the end. He would think to sing with me, but he wouldn’t want to end it. But that’s what I wanted, to leave people feeling they are really talking to each other."
http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.ph...v2&id=785&c=18

Yeah, after I listened I thought it sounded the same as the album version. Sorry, I wish I had what you were looking for!