anyone give me info on this set please
Disc 1, WFLR FM Broadcast Trod Nossel , Wallingford 23rd September 1975 , show performed in 75 by the Mac-McVie-McVie- Buckingham-Nicks line up, three months after the release of their first album together, is an early illustration of the new Fleetwood Mac in their initial phase. Their eponymously titled album had not at this point charted and the single Over My Head had only reached No. 20 on Billboard. However, listening to this broadcast concert today it is not difficult to understand how it was that within another year Fleetwood Mac would be among the biggest rock bands on the planet.I love the way that Buckingham & Nicks integrate with Christine McVie.As ever,the rock solid rhythm section of McVie & Fleetwood give the music real guts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tq9vEQQemM
No,the sound isn’t perfect,it’s an FM (sic) recording over 40 years ago but it’s well worth fans adding.
A nice touch, Bob Welch who’d left in December 1974
Disc Two , The Budokhan Theatre Tokyo, 5th December 1977,
Disc Three, The Checkerdrome St Louis, 11th June 1979
Disc Four, The Forum Inglewood CA, 21st October 1982.
Filmed in Los Angeles, California at the fabulous Forum and broadcast over MTV at Christmas time. That show started with “The Chain” Other Fleetwood Mac classics such as “Dreams” and “I’m So Afraid” were highlights of a great show in front of The Mac’s hometown family and friends. That night somebody gave Stevie Nicks a huge Bouquet of flowers that was almost as big as she was. Tunes from Mirage such as “Love in Store” “Hold Me” & “Wish You Were Here” were standout songs from a really great performance and the band looked stunning on television and they all seemed prone to go on and conquer the world at this point in their career.
This CD isn’t on par with that excellent video tape and this is almost a cut-and-paste job as we can find a much more exciting version of “The Chain” on “Fleetwood Mac Live” the double LP that came forth after the huge 1979-1980 world tour that supported “Tusk.” The track selection of this CD is an issue as songs like: “Not That Funny” that crept outta “Tusk” just ain’t that good and do we need another live version of “Rhiannon” when we could have heard a live version of “Book of Love” that was only performed in front of audiences on this tour? This show had enough material to stuff two CD’s instead this single.
Over half of this CD is about Lindsey Buckingham. Lindsey penned five songs that are featured on this disc and co-wrote The Chain with the rest of the band. Lindsey also sings: “Blue Letter” and less than equal billing is given to Christine and Stevie when you are hoping for more from them. Again, a double CD set would have fixed this problem and I wish I were here to review that instead. Found herein is almost 74 minutes from a classic Fleetwood Mac tour of 1982. The sound quality needs a boost and a whole show needs to be documented..
Disc Five, Nurburgring, Nurburg 5th June 1988,
Fleetwood Mac, this time at the Rock am Ring concert in Germany in 1988, where the group was promoting their Tango In The Night album. pressure was being placed on Lindsey Buckingham to keep the project focused and moving forward, and things came to a head shortly after the release of the album when the guitarist announced his departure from the band on the eve of the Tango In The Night Tour in 1987. Rick Vito and Billy Burnette were then roped in for the Tango tour;
The Fat Angel Sings 