Live (1980) - remastered and expanded???

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by chiliD

The version from the GW Forum in August 1977 (the cassette tape of which I initiated in circulation way back when, until somebody finally put it onto CD and later in digital format) is one of the best live versions of "Rhiannon" I can recall hearing, either live or in person. (and I saw/heard them all at that LA "homestand" in '77)

I agree about this Rhiannon being amazing. Landslide, from this show also is quite incredible.

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by vivfox

I agree about this Rhiannon being amazing. Landslide, from this show also is quite incredible.

It's too bad I didn't get the whole show...only got about the first half. From recall, I think that was THE best show I'd seen from the "fireflies" incarnation, before or since. (even Buckingham's "Oh Well" didn't bother me that night!)

Originally Posted by vivfox

In 1980 by the time the live album was released I had already had and heard a million times the bootleg albums known as SIN CITY(Live in Las Vegas), ALBATROSS, BUT NOT AROUND MY NECK PLEASE and HOLLYWOOD. These 3 albums still hold up to this day. All 3 of these Rhiannon's are a million times better than the live officially released version, which IMHO is so lame. Of all the live Tusk versions that will just blow you away I totally believe Lindsey(Oh yes folks I blame him) chose THAT one as the track to define Stevie and to this day I completely skip that track. The live album does have many good selections but they completely failed with Rhiannon. I truly believe that Stevie had nothing to do with the song selections on Live because at that time she had already moved forward and had begun the production of Bella Donna.

Rant over.

Really!? Wow. I couldn't disagree more lol That version of Rhiannon, at that point in time was so similar to most of the performances early in that tour before she started dropping her vocal down. I think it's pretty spot on and rivals Rosebud.

I actually don't dislike anything about the Live album except for a few ommissions (The Chain, Sisters, GDW). However, one glaring mistake imo is rerecording most of the vocals on Sara. That, to me, is sacrilegious. I never could stand it and rarely listen to it. It's the Tusk tour doc performance but she recorded a new vocal. Shoulda kept the original. Just sayin....

[David]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Based on the boots we have (and some of them are not even that good in sound quality) few of the best versions of any of the songs wound up on the album, including GYOW.

I guess it's all very subjective because I like that GYOW quite a bit. Sounds a little chipmunky in the vocals, but the guitar blazes out like the Peasants' Revolt.

The 1980 Live has a bunch of material from 1977: Monday Morning, Say You Love Me, Dreams, Over My Head, Rhiannon, and Don't Stop—and Don't Let Me Down Again might be from 1976 or '75.

There's also a beautiful Never Going Back Again, my favorite track on the album. It's the 1980 performances of that song which mark the birth of the "modern" Lindsey, to my ears—stretching the sinewy vocal lines, elongating a bit here, pushing a bit there, driving a rhythm home despite deliberate fits and starts that make the crowd wonder which downbeat to clap with.