Pre-Rumours MacNuggets

[BklynBlue]

LazyPoker,
Well, as Alice once said, “Curiouser and curiouser…” as with so many things related to the Green era Fleetwood Mac, it seems we have once again fallen down a rabbit hole –

All the clips that I have been able to find on YouTube do, as you say, feature the Boston Tea Party audio – this includes, the one used on “The Early Years” compilation released by Castle Communications – you can see the compilation in full here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT_Sf-ARrBY (‘Oh Well’ begins around 40:55)

However, (there is always a however with these things, isn’t there…) I have a version on DVD which I received in a trade long ago on which the backing track is the original studio recording – the video is identical accept that it runs just a little bit longer after the number has stopped, and you hear the opening of “Pt. 2”.

It is my belief (your mileage my vary and I am very interested in what other people may think) that when the show was originally broadcast, it was done to the studio recording – again, the show was taped before the Boston Tea Party shows – when Castle Communications put together their compilation, they substituted the Tea Party recording because the Warner Brothers legal department told them they could not use the original song – another reason they dropped the “performance” of ‘Rattlesnake Shake’ from that show.

All of the other songs on the video compilation are either live, (thus unique and not "owned" by the label or from the Blue Horizon catalog, and God only knows who has the rights to those songs, so Castle Communications felt safe with those.

That said, I now have to figure out if the version of ‘The Green Manalishi’ used to end of the compilation is in any way unique or live (most likely) as the same restrictions would have applied…

Les Paul,
I have to go back to listen, but I would believe that for “Playboy After Dark” they did prerecord the numbers as that would have been standard practice for any television show at that time – but please don’t quote me on this until I have looked into it further - let's see if we can get to the bottom on one mystery first, before moving on to the others...