Nicks Fix Reports Soundstage to Air in April

[John Run]

Fleetwood Mac's show is about 2.5 hours long. Less breaks it is about 2 hours 20 minutes. PBS will have about and hour 56-58 of air time for the 2 hour block. Sponsor, Intro and Outro will take up the other 2-4 minutes. What this means is about 20 minutes of the set will have to be cut. Depending on the song choices that are cut that would be 4-5 songs. No idea which ones they will be. Some other options are editing out Mick's 7 minute drum solo from World Turning, Editing some song spoken and musical intro's. Example, some of Lindsey's intro's or the percussion intro to Stand Back. I am sure a couple of Lindsey tunes will hit the cutting room floor, and I would think ending the show with Don't Stop and cutting Goodbye Baby, would be a logical option.

Don't worry if your favorite song is cut, PBS will be peddling a DVD in 5.1 during the telecast. Also that DVD will eventually be available to the public through retail for less money. Of course buying it through PBS will allow a portion of the proceeds to go to PBS.

Also do not be surprised if the songs culled from the two Boston recordings are released as a two disc live CD set at some point in the qtr of 2004.