Where you in the audience when Stevie did Red Rocks, etc...

[EnchantedKiwi]

Originally Posted by David

There are actually scads of ledgies who were at a lot of those notable concerts. We're a varied & well-traveled group of ledgies here!

You can usually tell which ledgies went to which concerts in the olden days (anything three years ago or longer) even if they don't specifically say so because they state that it was the best this or that Fleetwood Mac ever played, blah blah blah. It's human nature, I guess, & you see it in ledgies all the time: The show you yourself saw was the best ever, blah blah blah. People look back on something they attended with an especially roseate hue. Objectivity or even accuracy isn't the focus -- nostalgia is.

Example: I saw the Rose Bowl Peace Sunday daylong concert in June '82 & I always believed & told everyone that Stevie got the loudest applause. Something must have stuck in my mind that night (she played at night) that she did, but looking back on it now, I have no idea whether she did or not. My nostalgia has quite probably transformed the experience in my memory.

There do seem to be a couple of notable concerts or other events where no ledgie (yet announced publicly) attended. These concerts include:

• May 15, 1975 El Paso --- First ostensible concert given by new lineup
• Sept. 23, 1975 Wallingford --- Recorded at Trod Nossel Studio for radio
• April 25, 1976 Oakland --- Big splashy appearance at Bill Graham's Days On The Green
• Feb. 28, 1977 Berkeley --- Kickoff date of the Rumours tour & benefit for Jacques Cousteau Society
• May 7, 1977 Oakland --- Headliner for Bill Graham's Day On The Green
• June 29, 1977 New York --- Garden concert reviewed by Rolling Stone; Stevie "reeled like a drunken sailor"
• March 20, 1980 New Zealand --- Infamous concert & radio broadcast with Lindsey drunken rampage incident
• Nov. 28, 1981 Houston --- Opening night of Bella Donna tour (although John Kinney attended the following night in Dallas)
• May 27, 1983 Las Vegas --- The unexplained "opening night" of the Wild Heart tour; nobody's even sure it actually took place -- no one who attended has ever stepped forward & said so
• June 12, 1987 Los Angeles --- Mick Fleetwood's Zoo with guest Stevie Nicks (why didn't anybody go to this? why didn't I go to this? I don't even remember any announcement)
• 1988 tour in Europe --- No ledgie has ever said he or she attended any of these concerts in Europe in the spring of 1988

And so on.

For the New Zealand one, I know my mum's best friend went, my uncle, and my next door neighbor were all at the concert
It a small world if you live in nz.