Buckingham Nicks Live downloads

thanks for posting this information and thanks for posting them! I never expected this....and when i first read the title of the post i expected some cheesy audience recording. but this is unbelievable. i think someone leaked them on purpose. And i'm sure we'll get more tracks from the same concert. I wonder if this is from their last performance? Didn't they play in AL for their farewell show?

[Carolina Girl]

I'm just now listening to Lola, and my first thought is: this is too good to be true!! Amazingly clear. Just unbelieveable. (Can't spell right now, sorry.)

[flyfirefly]

Wow. Awesome.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

Okay, I woke up with a facial spasm, started the day with Lola. Then I had to leave for work. But I coudn't. Listened to the other tracks, and Oh what a wonderful loose rocking band. The spasm is a big grin again and now I'm at work. Too late, but what is a better story to your students than this one? They ate it: "Everytime you come in late for class with such a passionate fan-story and such a happy face, you are welcome."

So they started the day with a lifelesson.

Holy cow, this makes me happy.

Gerald, you crack me up!

These are (to use the host of The Swan's favorite word) AMAAAAAZING!!!

A million thank you's!!

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by Lux

Exactly where do the Welch reside though?

With the grape juice.

[estranged4life]

for the Buckingham/Nicks Tuscaloosa, AL show (This is according to Gary Hodges Penguin Q&A from June 2000). I don't know if this is the exact set order but mighty interesting none-the-less:

Lola My Love
Rhiannon
Don't Let Me Down Again
Crystal
Lady From The Mountain
Frozen Love
Races Are Run
I Don't Wanna Know
Blue Letter

[Mari]

drooling to a point of dehydration...
WHERE ARE THOSE OTHER SONGS!!

[shackin'up]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

for the Buckingham/Nicks Tuscaloosa, AL show
Blue Letter

???????

SO THIS HAD TO BE A SHOW DURING THE fm-RECORDINGS?????

sorry for shouting. But Blue letter in a B/N-set doesnot seem logical from the story about when it was taped the first time.

OK, can anybody clear this up?

A very interesting set indeed. historyclass, mates!

gerald

[estranged4life]

to the Gary Hodges Penguin Q&A from June 2000 (Towards the middle of the page is where he states what the setlist for the Tuscaloosa show was)

http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/qa/hoppy_qa1.htm

[dontlookdown]

can anyone tell us low-tech people how to get the mp4s into mp3s so we can hear them?

[dissention]

Originally Posted by dontlookdown

can anyone tell us low-tech people how to get the mp4s into mp3s so we can hear them?

Mari and Le Stew converted them into mp3's, the links are in this thread somewhere.

[David]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

???????SO THIS HAD TO BE A SHOW DURING THE fm-RECORDINGS?????

sorry for shouting. But Blue letter in a B/N-set doesnot seem logical from the story about when it was taped the first time.

OK, can anybody clear this up?

Jan Susina wrote an article called "Buckingham Nicks: Goodbye to the First Eight Years" for a paper in Birmingham (Birmingham After Dark). It was published in February 1975. It says it was written a week after the last Buckingham Nicks concert in Birmingham -- I guess in January or February 1975. It couldn't have been any earlier than January because Stevie & Lindsey had already joined Fleetwood Mac when they gave the interview & played the shows. The article says they're about to begin "later this month" with Fleetwood Mac. Stevie is quoted: "They're hoping that I'll be able to bring Christine out more because she's very shy & very overshadowed. She doesn't write a lot, but she writes a few really good songs." Later, Stevie says, "The Buckingham Nicks thing -- me & Lindsey -- have been together eight years with the people we're playing with, Tom & Hoppy. As soon as Buckingham Nicks go back together, they'll come too."

Tom says about Lindsey & Stevie, "I consider myself one of their biggest fans. I don't see any reason why they can't be hot everywhere. There are other people we can play with & enjoy, but it's not the same. So they'll go out there & do their best, & when it's over we'll be here."

Seems as if Lindsey & Stevie planned -- or at least told the press so -- to return to Buckingham Nicks after the Fleetwood Mac 1975 album & tour.

[shackin'up]

Thanks, David (and Brian for the Q&A-link).

But still, I thought Blue Letter came into picture during the recording of FM, That they met the Curtis bros in the studio there and heard the song. So how can it be in their live set? Maybe I am reading totally wrong, but your very interesting source doesn't give clearance on that. Or does it?

gerald

[Les]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

Thanks, David (and Brian for the Q&A-link).

But still, I thought Blue Letter came into picture during the recording of FM, That they met the Curtis bros in the studio there and heard the song. So how can it be in their live set? Maybe I am reading totally wrong, but your very interesting source doesn't give clearance on that. Or does it?

Hi Gerald,

I believe Lindsey actually knew the Curtis Brothers before being involved with the Mac, so it seems plausible that he was familiar with the song as it was being created, even before it was selected for the white album. Ex-Fritz bandmate Bob Aguirre played with the Curtis Brothers. When Bob did his Q&A here at the Penguin I asked him about his involvement with the Curtis Brothers and he said the following:

Q - I read an article many years ago that left the impression on me that you drummed for the Curtis Brothers in the 70s. Is that right? If so, how long were you involved with them? Did you play a role in writing and bringing "Blue Letter" to Lindsey's (and Fleetwood Mac's) attention for inclusion on the 1975 Fleetwood Mac album?

A - Lesley, you sure know you`re stuff. Yes I played with the Curtis boys and by the way we recorded an album of some really good songs that never got released. And yes, LB did help out on some of those tracks. Actually LB was already friends of the Curtis Bros. before the Mac and introduced me to them.

[CarneVaca]

Thanks to Mari, Neil and whoever else was involved in sharing these with us lowly fans.

I especially like this Rhiannon take, and frankly, I wish they had recorded it more like this for the FM album. This version has a raw, honest-to-goodness quality that becomes obscured by the sheen of the studio recording. I have especially been disenchanted with Rhiannon since The Dance. To me the way the band started performing it on that tour sucked a lot of the life out of it. I don't dig the piano intros and the way the song sputters to an end, like a car that has run out of gas on the highway. I'm not a fan of the piano in pop music, anyway. I like the live 70s versions, though I realize Stevie cannot, and should not, sing like that anymore.

Anyhoo, these are great.