First Fleetwood Mac Concert

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by chiliD

My first live Fleetwood Mac experience was August or September 1974...the taping of Don Kirshner's Rock Concert around the time that Heroes Are Hard To Find was released.

My first public Fleetwood Mac concert was a few months later in December 1974 at the Long Beach Arena. Climax Blues Band opened. It was one of the last shows of the tour, if not THE last show...and therefore, Bob Welch's last show as a member of Fleetwood Mac.

Just as a side note, the first TICKETS I ever bought for a Fleetwood Mac concert turned out to be one of the shows that WOULD'VE been the "Bogus Fleetwood Mac" that finished the Mystery To Me tour....a local DJ spread the word that the Fleetwood Mac on the road wasn't the "real" Fleetwood Mac, so I got a refund...had I known what a collector's item it would've been, I would've just eaten the cost of the ticket...but when you're 17 and money-poor, those ideas don't hit home quite so fast.

Can you tell a little bit about the show... Love to hear it..

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by chiliD

My first live Fleetwood Mac experience was August or September 1974...the taping of Don Kirshner's Rock Concert around the time that Heroes Are Hard To Find was released.

My first public Fleetwood Mac concert was a few months later in December 1974 at the Long Beach Arena. Climax Blues Band opened. It was one of the last shows of the tour, if not THE last show...and therefore, Bob Welch's last show as a member of Fleetwood Mac.

Just as a side note, the first TICKETS I ever bought for a Fleetwood Mac concert turned out to be one of the shows that WOULD'VE been the "Bogus Fleetwood Mac" that finished the Mystery To Me tour....a local DJ spread the word that the Fleetwood Mac on the road wasn't the "real" Fleetwood Mac, so I got a refund...had I known what a collector's item it would've been, I would've just eaten the cost of the ticket...but when you're 17 and money-poor, those ideas don't hit home quite so fast.

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Can you tell a little bit about the show... Love to hear it..

Well, they were pretty much similar to the Will The Real Fleetwood Mac Please Stand Up?, Live In Chicago 1974 & Live At Hempstead NY bootlegs, except they played a few more &/or different tunes.

Taking the WTRFMPSU set as the template, they also played:

Coming Home
Nightwatch
Homeward Bound
Jewel Eyed Judy
Station Man
Get Like You Used To Be
Jumping At Shadows (with Christine on vocals)

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by chiliD

Well, they were pretty much similar to the Will The Real Fleetwood Mac Please Stand Up?, Live In Chicago 1974 & Live At Hempstead NY bootlegs, except they played a few more &/or different tunes.

Taking the WTRFMPSU set as the template, they also played:

Coming Home
Nightwatch
Homeward Bound
Jewel Eyed Judy
Station Man
Get Like You Used To Be
Jumping At Shadows (with Christine on vocals)

Did you have good seats... did they have Doug Graves.. any other guitar? Was it smokin? Did Bob do his talking spells.?

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Did you have good seats... did they have Doug Graves.. any other guitar? Was it smokin? Did Bob do his talking spells.?

They had Doug Graves during the Don Kirshner's Rock Concert taping; Bobby Hunt at the December show. Bob handled all the guitar duties himself. (for "gear junkies", Bob had four or five large Morley pedals at the base of his mic stand...a wah-wah, volume, rotating speaker simulator, an echo pedal, as well as a plethora of other fx pedals...and an old Echoplex, later replaced by a Roland Space Echo)

Oh, yeah...especially during the December show (where they had a longer time slot), Bob was very "chatty", both between songs and in the middle of them (much like on the bootleg versions of "Future Games" & "Bermuda Triangle"...story after story). And, just as he did on those 1975-82 versions of "World Turning", Mick came out from behind the kit and did his African Talking Drum solo during "Nightwatch".

For the Kirshner show, which was filmed in the old Long Beach Center Theatre (adjacent to the Sports Arena) and was torn down shortly after the season of Don Kirshner shows was wrapped and a whole new "Performing Arts Center" was built in its place. I was way in the back of the theatre (but the theatre was VERY small, barely held 1,000 people, so it wasn't so bad) slightly off to the right (Bob & Doug's side of the stage)...for the December show at the LB Arena, the stage was moved forward, so that it only was about 1/2-2/3 of the arena seating instead of the full arena. I was in the risers off to the left (stage right...Christine's side) up from the floor about 4-5 rows (about even with the stage height)...about even with the soundboard on the floor. Was off center about 45 degrees. Had I been to my left one section closer to the stage, the left side PA speakers would've obstructed my view of Christine. So I was very fortunate to be where I was. I thought they were GREAT seats, and that it was a fantastic show. It wasn't more than two weeks later, I'd read a small blurb in Rolling Stone magazine about Welch leaving and "the Buckingham Nicks duo" joining Fleetwood Mac. It was really weird because I already HAD the Buckingham Nicks album (which I'd discovered while working for a local record store chain over the previous holiday season...obviously, at first, I was only attracted by the cover photo, but I enjoyed the music as well) but I just couldn't conceive of how they'd fit into Fleetwood Mac's sound.

[skuncles]

My first Mac show was November of 1990, the "Behind The Mask" tour. The show was supposed to have been in July of that year, but Christine's father died and they postponed the shows. By the time it resumed Stevie and Christine announced they would be leaving the band at the end of the tour. I had a nightmare prior to the show that the whole thing was cancelled and all they did was talk about Greenpeace. Imagine my surprise when at the end of the show they DID talk about Greenpeace!!!!
I have to say though that the show that night in Hartford, CT was a GREAT show. A very mixed set list and great interaction, although Stevie seemed very out of it or pissed (or both!).

[vivfox]

[QUOTE=skuncles;844891]My first Mac show was November of 1990, the "Behind The Mask" tour.
I have to say though that the show that night in Hartford, CT was a GREAT show. A very mixed set list and great interaction, although Stevie seemed very out of it or pissed (or both!).[/QUOTE]

Yeah I was there too. She looked bored ****less through the whole show until the encores in which she came alive and had tons of happy energy for the last three numbers. In those days when she was mad at Mick or whomever she took it out on the audiences.

[Musicman408]

Originally Posted by skuncles

My first Mac show was November of 1990, the "Behind The Mask" tour. The show was supposed to have been in July of that year, but Christine's father died and they postponed the shows. By the time it resumed Stevie and Christine announced they would be leaving the band at the end of the tour. I had a nightmare prior to the show that the whole thing was cancelled and all they did was talk about Greenpeace. Imagine my surprise when at the end of the show they DID talk about Greenpeace!!!!
I have to say though that the show that night in Hartford, CT was a GREAT show. A very mixed set list and great interaction, although Stevie seemed very out of it or pissed (or both!).

Definitely did not realize that they both knew they were leaving the band DURING this tour. How awkward would that have been??

[momst1]

Originally Posted by chiliD

They had Doug Graves during the Don Kirshner's Rock Concert taping; Bobby Hunt at the December show. Bob handled all the guitar duties himself. (for "gear junkies", Bob had four or five large Morley pedals at the base of his mic stand...a wah-wah, volume, rotating speaker simulator, an echo pedal, as well as a plethora of other fx pedals...and an old Echoplex, later replaced by a Roland Space Echo)

Oh, yeah...especially during the December show (where they had a longer time slot), Bob was very "chatty", both between songs and in the middle of them (much like on the bootleg versions of "Future Games" & "Bermuda Triangle"...story after story). And, just as he did on those 1975-82 versions of "World Turning", Mick came out from behind the kit and did his African Talking Drum solo during "Nightwatch".

For the Kirshner show, which was filmed in the old Long Beach Center Theatre (adjacent to the Sports Arena) and was torn down shortly after the season of Don Kirshner shows was wrapped and a whole new "Performing Arts Center" was built in its place. I was way in the back of the theatre (but the theatre was VERY small, barely held 1,000 people, so it wasn't so bad) slightly off to the right (Bob & Doug's side of the stage)...for the December show at the LB Arena, the stage was moved forward, so that it only was about 1/2-2/3 of the arena seating instead of the full arena. I was in the risers off to the left (stage right...Christine's side) up from the floor about 4-5 rows (about even with the stage height)...about even with the soundboard on the floor. Was off center about 45 degrees. Had I been to my left one section closer to the stage, the left side PA speakers would've obstructed my view of Christine. So I was very fortunate to be where I was. I thought they were GREAT seats, and that it was a fantastic show. It wasn't more than two weeks later, I'd read a small blurb in Rolling Stone magazine about Welch leaving and "the Buckingham Nicks duo" joining Fleetwood Mac. It was really weird because I already HAD the Buckingham Nicks album (which I'd discovered while working for a local record store chain over the previous holiday season...obviously, at first, I was only attracted by the cover photo, but I enjoyed the music as well) but I just couldn't conceive of how they'd fit into Fleetwood Mac's sound.

That experience is nothing but cool.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by chiliD

They had Doug Graves during the Don Kirshner's Rock Concert taping; Bobby Hunt at the December show. Bob handled all the guitar duties himself. (for "gear junkies", Bob had four or five large Morley pedals at the base of his mic stand...a wah-wah, volume, rotating speaker simulator, an echo pedal, as well as a plethora of other fx pedals...and an old Echoplex, later replaced by a Roland Space Echo)

Oh, yeah...especially during the December show (where they had a longer time slot), Bob was very "chatty", both between songs and in the middle of them (much like on the bootleg versions of "Future Games" & "Bermuda Triangle"...story after story). And, just as he did on those 1975-82 versions of "World Turning", Mick came out from behind the kit and did his African Talking Drum solo during "Nightwatch".

For the Kirshner show, which was filmed in the old Long Beach Center Theatre (adjacent to the Sports Arena) and was torn down shortly after the season of Don Kirshner shows was wrapped and a whole new "Performing Arts Center" was built in its place. I was way in the back of the theatre (but the theatre was VERY small, barely held 1,000 people, so it wasn't so bad) slightly off to the right (Bob & Doug's side of the stage)...for the December show at the LB Arena, the stage was moved forward, so that it only was about 1/2-2/3 of the arena seating instead of the full arena. I was in the risers off to the left (stage right...Christine's side) up from the floor about 4-5 rows (about even with the stage height)...about even with the soundboard on the floor. Was off center about 45 degrees. Had I been to my left one section closer to the stage, the left side PA speakers would've obstructed my view of Christine. So I was very fortunate to be where I was. I thought they were GREAT seats, and that it was a fantastic show. It wasn't more than two weeks later, I'd read a small blurb in Rolling Stone magazine about Welch leaving and "the Buckingham Nicks duo" joining Fleetwood Mac. It was really weird because I already HAD the Buckingham Nicks album (which I'd discovered while working for a local record store chain over the previous holiday season...obviously, at first, I was only attracted by the cover photo, but I enjoyed the music as well) but I just couldn't conceive of how they'd fit into Fleetwood Mac's sound.

I was up in a bar/club last saturday and the dj had all albums.. (not cd's)... he played Frozen Love and then World Turning.. and I thought.. he must have know that was Buckingham/Nicks, followed by Buckingham McVie...

I had a few in me.. so it was pretty blissful...

[vivfox]

I saw my first show on November 10,1979 at the New Haven Coliseum in New Haven, Connecticut. There was only 9,635 of us but it looked like 20,000 to me. I had to stand on my seat all night and I still struggled to see. So I walked around the arena a lot for better views. This was the night where the audience was passing around a giant red baloon and Stevie caught it and held onto it while singing Sara. This is the photo that was taken that evening:

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by vivfox

I saw my first show on November 10,1979 at the New Haven Coliseum in New Haven, Connecticut. There was only 9,635 of us but it looked like 20,000 to me. I had to stand on my seat all night and I still struggled to see. So I walked around the arena a lot for better views. This was the night where the audience was passing around a giant red baloon and Stevie caught it and held onto it while singing Sara. This is the photo that was taken that evening:

That picture is most definitely a priceless memory for you IM sure!