Unpopular Opinion...

[cbBen]

Originally Posted by BigAl84

- Shot the video in '77
- Video was used in the promo of Rumours
- Flash forward to '80 - they pull the audio from the performance, doctor it up and add it to the live album.
- Between '80-2020 something - we always heard the '77 version with the '77 audio.
- Somebody more recently replaced the '77 audio with the '80 doctored up version of the '77 audio on the film itself.

Thats my best guess of what happened.

So when they released the video in 1977, did they use the audio from the studio version or from a live version? Thanks.

[moon]

Hi! The whole Live album is a masterpiece, so this song is great too!
I think it captures a great atmosphere only available live, as many of the versions sound great and even better than the studio ones, starting of course from I'm So Afraid...
I like Nicks' vocals there, she sounds so sweet and very harmonized, as Chris and Lindsey made a good work at backing vocals too, but the guitar, the sound of the main voice...everything was great!
I'm not a fan of the original version, so some live ones I think sound better, because of the live atmosphere, the voices or just the "live" sound that creates a nice and fresh feeling!

[Villavic]

Live was the first Fleetwood Mac album I bought. Somehow it was one of the reasons I becamen a Mac fan. Listening to some songs live for the first time, before the original studio version (Say You Love Me, Over My Head, Rhiannon, etc.), was an interesting experience.

But at first I didn't like when I read the inner sleeve and learned the album wasn't from just an only night. It was a collage of different dates. I thought live albums were always recorded in one show, or so I thought based on previous albums I had bought; Donna Summer's Live and More and Supertramp's Paris. I knew later that wasn't always the rule. Frampton Comes Alive! collect songs from different shows. So I thought Well if they chose the best performances from the Tusk tour (then I didn't knew there were tracks wrong dated and actually from previous years) then that's ok, it's a smart decision. But to this day I'm still not convinced about choosing soundchecks (Dreams and Don't Stop). Though they sound good, it takes away the authenticity of the term "live".

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Villavic

Live was the first Fleetwood Mac album I bought. Somehow it was one of the reasons I becamen a Mac fan. Listening to some songs live for the first time, before the original studio version (Say You Love Me, Over My Head, Rhiannon, etc.), was an interesting experience.

But at first I didn't like when I read the inner sleeve and learned the album wasn't from just an only night. It was a collage of different dates. I thought live albums were always recorded in one show, or so I thought based on previous albums I had bought; Donna Summer's Live and More and Supertramp's Paris. I knew later that wasn't always the rule. Frampton Comes Alive! collect songs from different shows. So I thought Well if they chose the best performances from the Tusk tour (then I didn't knew there were tracks wrong dated and actually from previous years) then that's ok, it's a smart decision. But to this day I'm still not convinced about choosing soundchecks (Dreams and Don't Stop). Though they sound good, it takes away the authenticity of the term "live".

I remember the day I bought Live. At K-Mart. Walking through the parking lot, and I couldn't get the shrink wrap off quickly enough! God, I miss getting that excited about things. And that was the first time(that I remembered) hearing Oh Well(I'd actually heard it on the Tusk tour, but didn't know the song, so I didn't remember it). I never understood why Live didn't sell better. I was at the height of my fandom, and I thought the whole thing was FANTASTIC.

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

I remember the day I bought Live. At K-Mart. Walking through the parking lot, and I couldn't get the shrink wrap off quickly enough! God, I miss getting that excited about things. And that was the first time(that I remembered) hearing Oh Well(I'd actually heard it on the Tusk tour, but didn't know the song, so I didn't remember it). I never understood why Live didn't sell better. I was at the height of my fandom, and I thought the whole thing was FANTASTIC.

I remember buying LIVE in 1983, a couple years after it was released. Other than the HBO special, I had never seen or heard FM live. It was a shock. I thought the album was noisy, messy, and generally poorly-played. Years later, I listened to it again and had a VERY different reaction. I though some of the material was great. And where it wasn't great it was at least engaging. But a live album without YMLF or "The Chain" is strange to me. To this day, the songs I listen to the most on it are the five you can't hear elsewhere from this iteration of the band.

For me, the recorded performances of the live shows for the 75-76 tour hold a distinct edge over anything recorded in 79 and 80.