Was Don't Stop a recorded track for the Inaugural Ball in 1993?

[landslide95]

Wow, never knew it was pre-recorded. Have to say though that when I first watched the inaugural ball I thought it sounded kinda bad to be honest

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by landslide95

Wow, never knew it was pre-recorded. Have to say though that when I first watched the inaugural ball I thought it sounded kinda bad to be honest

I was working nights in 1993 and did not see this on tv. I was listening to the radio at work and the talk show host was raving about the ball except Fleetwood Mac. She said something like...."they made a big deal that Fleetwood Mac reunited in over 10 years but they sounded horrible. If this is what a reunited Fleetwood Mac sounds like they should never reunite.

I had my sister record it on the VCR and watched it when I got home. It was not horrible but I thought their version in 1990 that I saw live with Billy and Rick was much better.

[landslide95]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

I had my sister record it on the VCR and watched it when I got home. It was not horrible but I thought their version in 1990 that I saw live with Billy and Rick was much better.

I agree that it wasn't horrible but they didn't sound too great either. Didn't Stevie say that she was so embarrassed when Clinton was handed her tambourine because it was silenced by tape or something?

[Macfanforever]

I thought they were singing and playing live.

Heres Pres Clinton's FM inaugural footage from YT from user Lindsey Buckingham Gems





From user Fleetwood Mac




If they were performing in last weeks Macy's Thanksgiving day parade.
They will be lip syncing to a tape or singing live to pre-recorded music.

[FuzzyPlum]

I forgot how long they strung that ending out. Way too many chorus's- to the point of being quite painful. Kick in with another guitar solo Lindsey.

[Mr Scarrott]

I can remember this being discussed on a thread years ago. There was an interview with John McVie in which he said something along the lines of "it wasn't as live as it looked" so we've known about this all the time. Still, someone tried to hide the fact that it wasn't fully live as there are a couple of amps on the stage which were presumably there just for show, unless they were there for the voices, which were live.

The proof was always there is you looked hard enough- at 3:26 on the first of Macfanfover's videos there's a piano glissando that Chris forgets to mime and from about 4:50 there's some fairly hopeless guitar miming going on from Lindsey as well.

Does it matter? Not really, I guess. I suppose this means that there were no fully live performances from just the five from 1982 to 1997 (Rick and Billy were presumably on stage with them in 1990 when Lindsey guested on GYOW and Tear it up ).

I like the Christine interviews that Macfanforever found. She's warm and self-deprecating and has an endearing tendency, which she does acknowledge, to get her years muddled up, saying for example that the Clinton gig was a catalyst for the Dance . Maybe it was, after a fashion, but she's forgetting the Bobby-in-the-shower dream sequence of the Time band...

[Macfanforever]

Originally Posted by Mr Scarrott

I can remember this being discussed on a thread years ago. There was an interview with John McVie in which he said something along the lines of "it wasn't as live as it looked" so we've known about this all the time. Still, someone tried to hide the fact that it wasn't fully live as there are a couple of amps on the stage which were presumably there just for show, unless they were there for the voices, which were live.

The proof was always there is you looked hard enough- at 3:26 on the first of Macfanfover's videos there's a piano glissando that Chris forgets to mime and from about 4:50 there's some fairly hopeless guitar miming going on from Lindsey as well.

Does it matter? Not really, I guess. I suppose this means that there were no fully live performances from just the five from 1982 to 1997 (Rick and Billy were presumably on stage with them in 1990 when Lindsey guested on GYOW and Tear it up ).

I like the Christine interviews that Macfanforever found. She's warm and self-deprecating and has an endearing tendency, which she does acknowledge, to get her years muddled up, saying for example that the Clinton gig was a catalyst for the Dance . Maybe it was, after a fashion, but she's forgetting the Bobby-in-the-shower dream sequence of the Time band...

Thanks for the input Mr Scarrott.

I wonder what was the issue on doing a complete live performance.I must of did not see why in the fine print in this thread or other threads.Time for new glasses again.
LOL.I thought all these year they played live in full there .I guess that happens by watching it on a old 19 inch TV then.No HDTV then.You can see everything now.