Various Artists - Playboy After Dark (CBS Television City, Los Angeles, CA), Volume 8: December 1969 to February 1970

Here's the seventh volume of the episodes I compiled of the "Playboy After Dark" TV show. It's the third volume of the show's second season.

I'll only mention some things about a couple of the performances. The rest should be evident just by listening. 

This episode features a previously unknown chapter of Lesley Gore's music career. She'd had a string of hits from 1963 to 1967, but her music went out of style. She continued to release some singles, but they all flopped. In 1972, she put out an album for the first time since 1967, "Someplace Else Now," that recast her in a singer-songwriter mode, similar to Carole King and her seminal 1971 album "Tapestry." In her Playboy TV appearance, she sang two songs that were moving into that mode. Neither of them were officially released by her anywhere, as far as I could tell. One of them, "Didn't We," is a Jimmy Webb song that was covered by many musical artists in this time period. 

Another bit of lost history are the two songs by Joanne Vent and Muscatel. Vent was an attractive White woman with a soulful, bluesy voice, who seemed to have potential for a big music career, a la Janis Joplin. She put out a solo album in 1969, called, "The Black and White of It Is Blues." Unfortunately, as one review I read put it, "Great voice, but not such a great album." At the time of this show, she was getting ready to release a second album with a new backing band, called Muscatel. I found a web link of someone selling a test pressing of it on eBay. But somehow that album never came out. The two songs she sang here suggest what her second album could have sounded like. She also was part of a duet in Volume 5, and shows up again in Volumes 10 and 11.

It's great that Fleetwood Mac is included here. But unfortunately, their performance was badly edited down. Their one song, "Rattlesnake Shake," is only two and a half minutes long. It's clear the performance was longer, since the song both fades in and fades out. They also did a second song, "Coming Your Way," but it only showed up for half a minute at the very end of that particular episode, under an overdubbed advertisement for T.W.A. Airlines. So I didn't bother to include that.

I've mentioned that each episode ended with talking over the music. But, by chance, that only impacted one song in this volume,  "The Category Stomp by John Hartford. That's why that one has "[Edit]" in its title.

This album is an hour and eight minutes long. 

01 Something (Dolores Hall)
02 Just Because of You (Dolores Hall)
03 A Simple Thing as Love (John Hartford)
04 Natural to Be Gone (John Hartford)
05 The Category Stomp [Edit] (John Hartford)
06 Let's Get Together (Jack Jones)
07 If You Want Me To (Chambers Brothers)
08 Love, Love, Love (Chambers Brothers)
09 Georgia on My Mind (James Brown)
10 Yesterday (Vicki Anderson)
11 By the Time I Get to Phoenix (James Brown)
12 God Bless the Child (Jack Jones)
13 The More I See You (Jack Jones)
14 Rattlesnake Shake (Fleetwood Mac)
15 Hello Young Lovers (Lesley Gore)
16 Didn't We (Lesley Gore)
17 High Sheriff of Calhoun Parrish (Tony Joe White)
18 Groupy Girl (Tony Joe White)
19 Slow Train (Joanne Vent & Muscatel)
20 Long Walk to D.C. (Joanne Vent & Muscatel)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/JdGHbzj8

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/HAcJNqwRYyI9p09/file

The cover image shows Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac. It's a screenshot I took from one of these episodes.

Stevie Nicks with Vanessa Carlton - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 10-2007

Im posting Neil Young and Dionne Warwick albums almost exclusively while I’m on vacation, but here’s an exception. I happen to have this episode of the “PBS Soundstage” episode ready to go. It stars Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, with Vanessa Carlton as a special guest for a couple of songs.

Here's part of the intro to the Wikipedia entry for guest star Vanessa Carlton: 

Vanessa Lee Carlton (born August 16, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress. Her 2002 debut single "A Thousand Miles" spent 41 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned three Grammy nominations, becoming her signature song. It preceded her debut album, Be Not Nobody, released by A&M Records that same year and reaching number five on the Billboard 200. It further produced the singles "Ordinary Day" and "Pretty Baby". ... In 2025, Billboard ranked Carlton among the best female artists of the 21st century. 

Here's the link to the Wikipedia entry for Carlton:

Vanessa Carlton - Wikipedia 

The music here is unreleased in audio format. The sound quality is excellent. I believe it comes from a DVD. That’s why it’s a full concert length instead of being edited down to about an hour.

This album is an hour and 45 minutes long.

01 Stand Back (Stevie Nicks)
02 talk (Stevie Nicks)
03 Enchanted (Stevie Nicks)
04 talk (Stevie Nicks)
05 If Anyone Falls (Stevie Nicks)
06 Rhiannon (Stevie Nicks)
07 talk (Stevie Nicks)
08 Crash into Me (Stevie Nicks)
09 Sorcerer (Stevie Nicks)
10 talk (Stevie Nicks & Vanessa Carlton)
11 The One (Stevie Nicks & Vanessa Carlton)
12 Gold Dust Woman (Stevie Nicks)
13 talk (Stevie Nicks)
14 I Need to Know (Stevie Nicks)
15 talk (Stevie Nicks)
16 Circle Dance (Stevie Nicks & Vanessa Carlton)
17 talk (Stevie Nicks)
18 Landslide (Stevie Nicks)
19 talk (Stevie Nicks)
20 Sara (Stevie Nicks)
21 talk (Stevie Nicks)
22 Fall from Grace (Stevie Nicks)
23 talk (Stevie Nicks)
24 How Still My Love (Stevie Nicks)
25 Edge of Seventeen (Stevie Nicks)
26 Rock and Roll (Stevie Nicks)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/guZHk5jq

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/NPLWxwegFSrGUCg/file

The cover is a screenshot taken from a video of this exact concert.

Fleetwood Mac - Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA, 4-15-1973

The band Fleetwood Mac went through many personnel transformations, with only the bassist (John McVie) and the drummer (Mick Fleetwood) remaining constants. I'm interested in pretty much all versions of this band, because they remained consistently good despite all the changes. As far as live recordings go, I always though 1973 was a lost year. I couldn't find even one decent recording from that year. But recently (writing this in February 2026), I came across a worthy one. So here it is.

In 1972, the main creative forces in the band were Christine McVie on keyboards, Bob Welsh on lead guitar, and Danny Kirwan on lead guitar. By the end of 1972, Kirwan was out of the band. The band brought in two new members: Bob Weston on slide guitar, and Dave Walker on lead vocals. That's the line-up for this concert: Christine McVie, Bob Welsh, Bob Weston, Dave Walker, plus the two unchanging members, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood.

Walker, who had been the lead vocalist for the band Savoy Brown, was brought into the band because the band's manager thought the band needed a charismatic lead vocalist. However, he didn't last long. He was included in the album "Penguin," released in March 1973. But he only sang lead vocals on two songs, one of which he wrote. At the end of the tour to promote the album, he was ejected from the group. So, in the larger history of this band, Walker is a minor blip, only remembered for singing two songs on one album. But he actually dominates this concert, singing most of the songs. 

The band carried on with just five members. Later in 1973, the band released another album, "Mystery to Me." Shortly after the tour to promote that album started, it was discovered that Bob Weston was sleeping with the wife of Mick Fleetwood. The tour was immediately cancelled, and the band actually broke up for several months. When they finally got back together, Weston was gone. So this is probably the only decent concert bootleg out there prominently featuring both Walker and Weston. One can tell Weston's guitar playing since he pretty much exclusively played slide guitar.

Now, let me address this recording. This is an audience bootleg. I generally shy away from those, due to sound quality issues. But it was an unusually good one. The main problem was that the lead vocals were buried in the mix. So I used the MVSEP program to bring them back up. That made a big difference. I also ran MVSEP over all the songs again to get rid of the crowd noise during the songs. Furthermore, the banter between songs was hard to understand. I ran those tracks through the Adobe vocal enhancer program, and that helped a lot. After all that, I think this concert sounds almost as good as a soundboard boot from the time. 

The one disappointment I have in this concert is that McVie only sang lead vocals on one song, "Get like You Used to Be." That's curious, because the lead single for the album they were promoting at the time, "Penguin," was "Remember Me," a song written and sung by McVie. 

This album is 55 minutes long. It's relatively short for a concert, but that's because they were an opening act. You can hear right at the end how the emcee announces there will be a short break before the main act, Deep Purple, takes the stage. 

01 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
02 The Green Manalishi [With the Two Prong Crown] (Fleetwood Mac)
03 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Oh Well, Part 1 (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Get like You Used to Be (Fleetwood Mac)
06 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
07 Night Watch (Fleetwood Mac)
08 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
09 Same Old Blues (Fleetwood Mac)
10 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
11 In the Country (Fleetwood Mac)
12 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
13 Rattlesnake Shake (Fleetwood Mac)
14 talk by emcee (Fleetwood Mac)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/BfV3NdrW

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/IoeQxCwJoYsPsA1/file

The cover image is kind of a creative invention. I found a photo of band members Bob Weston and Bob Welch in concert in 1973, and another photo of Dave Walker in concert in 1973. I put them together in Photoshop. Both original photos were in black and white, but I colorized them using the Kolorize program. From right to left: Bob Weston, Bob Welch, and Dave Walker. 

Fleetwood Mac - PBS Soundstage, FleetCenter, Boston, MA, 9-24-2003

Here's a Fleetwood Mac concert from the great "PBS Soundstage" TV show. This concert was split between two episodes, making for an extra long concert compared to most episodes.

This concert took place in 2003, shortly after the release of the band's album "Say You Will." This was a time when the band was led by two singer-songwriters, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, while their their singer-songwriter, Christine McVie, was pursuing a solo career. Six songs were played from their new album: "Peacekeeper," "Say You Will," "Goodbye Baby," "What's the World Coming To," and "Say Goodbye." The rest was filled with greatest hits, minus some written by McVie.

This full concert was later released on DVD. There was an audio album released as well, but it only contains ten songs out of 24, so it's very incomplete. 

This album is two hours and 24 minutes long.

01 The Chain (Fleetwood Mac)
02 Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)
03 Eyes of the World (Fleetwood Mac)
04 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Peacekeeper (Fleetwood Mac)
06 Second Hand News (Fleetwood Mac)
07 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
08 Say You Will (Fleetwood Mac)
09 Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac)
10 Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)
11 Come (Fleetwood Mac)
12 Gypsy (Fleetwood Mac)
13 Big Love (Fleetwood Mac)
14 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
15 Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
16 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
17 Say Goodbye (Fleetwood Mac)
18 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
19 What's the World Coming To (Fleetwood Mac)
20 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
21 Beautiful Child (Fleetwood Mac)
22 Gold Dust Woman (Fleetwood Mac)
23 I'm So Afraid (Fleetwood Mac)
24 Silver Springs (Fleetwood Mac)
25 Tusk (Fleetwood Mac)
26 Stand Back (Fleetwood Mac)
27 Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac)
28 World Turning (Fleetwood Mac)
29 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
30 Don't Stop (Fleetwood Mac)
31 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
32 Goodbye Baby (Fleetwood Mac)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/aoBCe4dL

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/V7OAfRrxR46ZrQ2/file

The cover image is a screenshot taken from this exact concert. It shows Stevie Nicks up close and Lindsey Buckingham further back.

Fleetwood Mac - Cue Club, Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-2-1969

I've delved very deeply into early Fleetwood Mac, posting 36 albums of their music from 1967 to 1971, so I don't know how I missed this one until now. This is peak Peter Green-era, with fantastic sound quality.

(A couple of years ago, I actually put one song "Gothenberg Improv" (which is just a guess at a title) from this exact concert on the album "Live and Rare, Volume 2," and yet I missed the whole concert somehow. Maybe I got that from some compilation and failed to find the rest of it, until a few days ago.)

This is a complete concert that either is a soundboard or was broadcast on Swedish radio at the time. Either way, the sound quality is as good as it gets for the era. Better still, the band was firing on all cylinders. Peter Green, the band's main singer, songwriter, and lead guitarist at the time, was at the height of his creative powers. (He would have increasing troubles in early 1970 and leave the band in the middle of that year.) At the time, the band had another lead guitarist, Danny Kirwan, and their guitar interplay was peaking here as well.

The band had released the hit album "Then Play On" a couple of months earlier, as well as the hit song "Oh Well, Part 1." But this concert also includes the hit song "The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)," which wouldn't be released until May 1970. It's possible this was the first time it was performed in concert. (Setlist.fm lists the first performance later in November, but it sometimes is incomplete.)

There was only one problem with this concert, and that has to do with the last song, "The Green Manalishi." The entire first three minutes were missing. The recording began right as the vocals part of the song ended, and a long instrumental jam began. I used another version (from the Warehouse in New Orleans in January 1970) for those three minutes. The last minute or so was missing as well. I used the same source to fix that also. So that's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title.

This album is an hour and 21 minutes long. 

01 Rattlesnake Shake (Fleetwood Mac)
02 Underway [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
03 World in Harmony [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Red Hot Mama (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Got to Move (Fleetwood Mac)
06 Gothenburg Improv [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
07 Coming Your Way (Fleetwood Mac)
08 Stranger Blues (Fleetwood Mac)
09 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
10 Albatross [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
11 Oh Well, Part 1 (Fleetwood Mac)
12 The Green Manalishi [With the Two-Prong Crown] [Edit] (Fleetwood Mac) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/jqYAECRo

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NXXZ9uK3jSWqeVZ/file

The cover photo of Peter Green is from an appearance on the "Top of the Pops" BBC TV show (not to be confused with the radio show of the same name) at Lime Grove Studios, in London, on October 23, 1969. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.

Fleetwood Mac - Fox West Coast Theatre, Long Beach, CA, 5-15-1972

I'm psyched to be posting this album, because it's a big sonic upgrade over versions of this music that has been publicly available until now. Also, it shines a light on a little known era of Fleetwood Mac. At the time of this concert, lead guitarist Peter Green was gone, but the other lead guitarist from the band's early years, Danny Kirwan, was still there. But the band was increasingly dominated by the singer-songwriters Christine McVie and Bob Welch.

Before I say any more about this album, note that today I posted upgrades to about 20 other Fleetwood Mac albums. I mainly changed two things. For the band's first seven BBC albums, I've found better sources for many songs, due to the anonymous person who has been sending me pristine BBC "Top of the Pops" radio shows. That updated maybe up to 25 percent of the songs on those seven early BBC albums. For all the other songs on those albums, I also double checked the balance between the vocals and the instruments, and boosted the vocals where need be. That was probably about half of the songs. I also found two songs I'd previously missed, on Volumes 5 and 7. So you might want to redownload those seven BBC albums.

Secondly, while I was at it, I realized a lot of the band's album covers didn't look that good, so I redid all the ones I thought needed work, with the use of the Krea AI program. That's why I've upgraded the links to about 20 albums, not just the seven early BBC ones.

Anyway, getting back to this album, Bob Welch joined Fleetwood Mac in April 1971, replacing Jeremy Spencer. For two albums, "Future Games" in 1971 and "Bare Trees" in 1972, the band was mainly led by Welch, Christine McVie, and Danny Kirwan, who all sang and wrote songs. But during the band's 1972 tour to promote "Bare Trees," troubles began growing with Kirwan. Band member Mick Fleetwood later recalled,  "On that long tour in 1972 Danny became quite volatile ... He just got more and more intense. He wouldn't talk to anyone. He was going inside himself, which we put down to an emotional problem that we had no idea about. We thought he was just being awkward. I had no idea he was struggling at that level. ... Danny had been a nervous and sensitive lad from the start. He was never really suited to the rigours of the business. Touring is hard and the routine wears us all down ... Our manager kept us touring non-stop and we were being stretched to our limits ... and the pressure was obviously taking its toll."

Things would come to a head at a concert in August 1972. Right before going on stage, Kirwan flipped out, flying into a violent rage, smashing his head and fists against a wall, smashing his guitar to pieces, and trashing the dressing room. The other band members had a meeting afterwards, and fired him.

There are tons of concert bootlegs from the band in earlier and later eras, but very little from this era. (I've posted two, from the Swing Auditorium in San Bernadino, California, in 1971, and from The Paramount in Seattle in 1972. But that, plus this one, is basically it, at least when it comes to decent sound quality. I haven't posted this one until now, though, because it's a mere audience bootleg, with one major sonic flaw: the vocals were too low. I've noticed low vocals are a very common problem when it comes to bootlegs, but in this case they were way, way low, almost inaudible at times.

A year or two ago, I tried using the UVR5 audio editing program to pull the vocals apart from the instrumentation so I could boost the volume on just the vocals, but the results were disappointing. UVR5 does a good job most of the time, but the vocals were too low to get enough of them to boost them well. So I gave up. But since then, technology keeps improving. The latest version of the MVSEP program separates vocals and instruments much better. So I tried that, and the results were excellent this time.

I have to say... this concert sounds really good! True, it only comes from an audience bootleg source. But it was a very well recorded one for the era. Then, after fixing the vocals to instruments mix level, it sounds as good or better than most soundboard bootlegs from this era. I further improved things by running all the songs through MVSEP again, this time removing most of the crowd noise during songs while keeping the cheering at the ends of songs.

If you're a fan of the band in this time period, I highly recommend you give this a listen. The sound quality really is a big improvement, and the singing and playing is great. Kirwan was still playing at a high level with the band, probably for the last time that's been recorded and preserved. 

This album is an hour and five minutes long.

01 Tell Me All the Things You Do (Fleetwood Mac)
02 Get like You Used to Be (Fleetwood Mac)
03 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Sunny Side of Heaven [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Future Games (Fleetwood Mac)
06 Homeward Bound (Fleetwood Mac)
07 The Ghost (Fleetwood Mac)
08 Black Magic Woman (Fleetwood Mac)
09 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
10 Oh Well, Part 1 (Fleetwood Mac)
11 Shake Your Moneymaker (Fleetwood Mac)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Up8X36KN

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/l8A7uoYd7aeGG09/file

The cover image is from an appearance on the "Midnight Special" TV show in 1973. I couldn't find any good images of the two band leaders at the time, Christine McVie and Bob Welch, in the frame at the same time. So I took a screenshot of McVie and another one of Welch and put them together in Photoshop.

Lindsey Buckingham - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 12-18-1992

Here's yet another episode of "PBS Soundstage." I have so many of these to post. This one features Lindsey Buckingham, one of the main singer-songwriters in Fleetwood Mac. He's actually done two episodes of this show. This one is from 1992, and I'll later post one from 2003.

In 1987, Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac after he'd helped them sell tens of millions of albums since the mid-1970s. It sounds like drugs and rock and roll excess were getting out of hand in that band, and he had to leave the band for his own preservation. He would eventually rejoin Fleetwood Mac in 1997, but at the time of this concert that probably seemed far from a certain thing. He'd already released solo albums in 1981 and 1984 while still a member of Fleetwood Mac. But his 1992 album "Out of the Cradle" was the first one when his solo career was his main focus. 

If you listen to the banter between songs, at one point he said this was his very first full solo concert. I looked it up, and that's not exactly true. He actually did four club shows just prior to this one. But it's true in a larger sense, because those were warm-ups for this one, which was his first solo concert of importance, since it was broadcast nationwide.

Overall, this bootleg recording sounds excellent. But I had a lot of editing trouble with it, which is why a bunch of songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. Technically, this is from the one year the program was called "Center Stage" instead of "Soundstage," though I'm calling it "Soundstage" for consistency's sake. Unfortunately for me, this was one of those shows where whoever edited it decided to spice things up by occasionally including interview segments. But while the show generally did that between songs, or while the concert kept playing in the background, in some cases here, sometimes songs were completely cut partially through. So in those cases I had to find other performances of the same song from the same tour and patch them in. For some songs, like "Go Insane," "Big Love," and "Street of Dreams," that meant adding in a couple of minutes for each song. For others, the editing was relatively minor. For instance, "The Chain" only had some interview talk over the cheering at the end of the song.

But the bottom line is all those interview parts are gone, and this should just be pure concert. Hopefully it will sound seamless to you. If you want those other bits, I recommend you watch the video of this on YouTube. 

And speaking of video, I couldn't find any good audio bootlegs of this, but I did find a high quality video. So I converted that to audio and broke it into mp3s. 

This album is an hour long.

01 talk (Lindsey Buckingham)
02 Don't Look Down (Lindsey Buckingham)
03 You Do or You Don't (Lindsey Buckingham)
04 The Chain [Edit] (Lindsey Buckingham)
05 Big Love [Edit] (Lindsey Buckingham)
06 talk (Lindsey Buckingham)
07 Go Insane [Edit] (Lindsey Buckingham)
08 Trouble (Lindsey Buckingham)
09 Tusk (Lindsey Buckingham)
10 I'm So Afraid (Lindsey Buckingham)
11 Street of Dreams [Edit] (Lindsey Buckingham)
12 talk (Lindsey Buckingham)
13 Never Going Back Again (Lindsey Buckingham)
14 All My Sorrows [All My Trials] [Edit] (Lindsey Buckingham)
15 This Is the Time (Lindsey Buckingham)
16 Go Your Own Way [Edit] (Lindsey Buckingham)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ihE4wmLg

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/MPXhMwG8ClPHB9S/file

The cover is from this exact concert.

Fleetwood Mac - BBC Sessions, Volume 8: Selland Arena, Fresno, CA, 12-10-1987

Still more renumbering, as I keep finding BBC concerts I'd missed. I'll explain more about the renumbering below. The main thing is, here's another Fleetwood Mac concert for the BBC, this time from 1987.

In 1987, Fleetwood Mac released the studio album "Tango in the Night." It proved to be another huge success for the band, selling over 15 million copies worldwide. All three of the band's major singer-songwriters from the 1970s and early 1980s participated: Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, and Stevie Nicks, plus the always reliable foundation of Mick Fleetwood on drums and John McVie on bass.

However, although the music on the album was strong, with several big hit singles, the band was very dysfunctional behind the scenes. For instance, John McVie hadn't played the bass at all for a couple of years, and had gotten so addicted to alcohol he worried he'd lost the ability to play. Fleetwood had such a big cocaine habit that he spent much of the recording sessions in a nearby mobile home getting high. Nicks also often was so high on cocaine and/or alcohol that most of her backing vocals proved to be useless and had to be faked by other band members. Because of these problems and more, it took a year and half to get the album done.

So when it came time for a band meeting to plan the tour to support the album, Buckingham announced he wasn't going to take part. This made Nicks so angry that she actually got in a physical fight with him that spilled out into the street! Buckingham later said that at the time of the album's release, "everybody was leading their lives in a way that they would not be too proud of today." He also said that, "Compared to making an album, in my experience, going on the road will multiply the craziness by times five. I just wasn't up for that."

Buckingham quit the band, seemingly permanently. He wouldn't rejoin until a decade later. He was replaced by the relatively unknown Rick Vito and Billy Burnette. Note that Buckingham's role in the band was considered so important that it took two people to replace him.

So while it's disappointing that Buckingham isn't on this recording, the band was coming off a big hit album, and most of the hits on it were sung and written by Christine McVie or Stevie Nicks.

The sound quality here is solid, despite this being unreleased. However, I discovered the lead vocals were down in the mix. So I used the UVR5 audio editing program to boost them relative to the instruments. Furthermore, there was something off with the mix even after I did that. It was beyond my ability to fix, so I sent the files to my musical associate MZ and he fixed it. Part of the problem was the bass range was too loud.

According to setlist.fm, one song is missing from the very end of the encore: "Songbird."

As I mentioned at the start of this write-up, some renumbering has taken place. I previously posted a 1990 concert (with the same band members, by the way), which I called "Volume 8." That now is "Volume 9." But I also recently discovered that the band's 1997 concert which became the live album "The Dance" was broadcast by the BBC at the time. So that has been slightly renamed, with "Volume 10" added to the title.

Here are the links to those, if you want to get the correct cover art and mp3 tags and such:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/11/fleetwood-mac-bbc-sessions-volume-8-in.html

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/12/fleetwood-mac-dance-expanded-version.html

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long.

01 Say You Love Me (Fleetwood Mac)
02 The Chain (Fleetwood Mac)
03 Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)
04 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Isn't It Midnight (Fleetwood Mac)
06 Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac)
07 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
08 Oh Well, Part 1 (Fleetwood Mac)
09 Seven Wonders (Fleetwood Mac)
10 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
11 Rattlesnake Shake (Fleetwood Mac)
12 Over My Head (Fleetwood Mac)
13 Gold Dust Woman (Fleetwood Mac)
14 Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You (Fleetwood Mac)
15 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
16 I Loved Another Woman (Fleetwood Mac)
17 Brown Eyes (Fleetwood Mac)
18 Little Lies (Fleetwood Mac)
19 Stand Back (Fleetwood Mac)
20 You Make Loving Fun (Fleetwood Mac)
21 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
22 Don't Stop (Fleetwood Mac)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PA6YRV5B

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/dnYRnS8ck456dCz/file

The cover image is a composite of two photos. I started with an image of just Christine McVie, taken from a concert in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in October 1987. Then I found a photo of Stevie Nicks from a London concert in May 1988 that seemed to roughly match. I put them together in Photoshop.

US Festival '82, Glen Helen Regional Park, San Bernardino, CA, 9-5-1982 - Day 3, Part 5: Fleetwood Mac

The fifth act presented here from Day Three of the 1982 US Festival is a set by Fleetwood Mac. They were the closing act for the festival.

Not long before this festival, in July 1982, Fleetwood Mac released their studio album "Mirage." It was a big hit, going double platinum in the U.S. Festival funder Steve Wozniak must have really wanted them for his festival, because he paid them $500,000, the most of any act at the festival. That seems like a fairly trivial amount in the 2020s, but it seemed an outrageous amount for a single concert performance back then.

Unfortunately, as with most of the recordings for this festival, all I could find was an audience boot for this set. I tried hard to improve it with the UVR5 and MVSEP editing programs. Hopefully, someday the full festival recordings will be made public. Apparently, there is one record company with the rights, and they're releasing individual albums. They put out the English Beat album from the festivals, for instance. But they seem to be moving at a snail's pace.

The Rolling Stone Magazine article I found about this festival had a little bit to say about this set:

While [prior act Jackson] Browne was onstage, the members of Fleetwood Mac arrived backstage. They had played the previous day in Orlando, Florida, and didn't make it to San Bernardino until after three A.M. Sunday. But, as Christine McVie said, "We're getting such a lot of money for this that we couldn't pass it up. And it's a good opportunity to do something big on the West Coast."

A short while later, when Mick Fleetwood pounded out the beat that begins "Second Hand News," there was a typical Graham touch. All weekend long, volunteers had been inflating helium balloons, and at that moment, they were released from the scaffolding at the sides of the stage. The balloons drifted out over the dust and the lakes and the parking lots and the campgrounds, sailing away in two thick clumps. The crowd called on its final reserves of energy and whooped it up. It was just what Tom Petty had described: a party.

By the way, I've posted an album of a concert from this band's 1982 tour. In terms of sound quality, that's a better listen, no doubt. But you may still want to listen to this to get the full US Festival experience.

This album is an hour and 47 minutes long.

081 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
082 Second Hand News (Fleetwood Mac)
083 The Chain (Fleetwood Mac)
084 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
085 Don't Stop (Fleetwood Mac)
086 Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)
087 Oh Well, Part 1 (Fleetwood Mac)
088 Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)
089 Brown Eyes (Fleetwood Mac)
090 Eyes of the World (Fleetwood Mac)
091 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
092 Gypsy (Fleetwood Mac)
093 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
094 Love in Store (Fleetwood Mac)
095 Not That Funny (Fleetwood Mac)
096 Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac)
097 Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
098 Tusk (Fleetwood Mac)
099 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
100 Sara (Fleetwood Mac)
101 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
102 Hold Me (Fleetwood Mac)
103 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
104 You Make Loving Fun (Fleetwood Mac)
105 I'm So Afraid (Fleetwood Mac)
106 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
107 Songbird (Fleetwood Mac)
108 talk (Fleetwood Mac)

https://www.imagenetz.de/dX33a

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ooijnwtg

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/v1gDFNzxh8BigmS/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. Like many of the photos from this festival, I used the Krea AI program to add some detail.

Fleetwood Mac - Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, TN, 10-12-1982

I recently decided I wanted a concert recording from Fleetwood Mac's 1982 tour. This was the last tour with the band's most popular "Rumours" line-up all the way until 1997. So I came up with this one.

There's a disc of live recordings from this tour on the 2016 super deluxe edition of the band's 1982 album "Mirage." However, there are some problems with it. The songs come from two concerts (in Los Angeles) instead of one, and they're in a seemingly random order. Also, many songs played each night on the tour weren't included, and all the banter was cut out. I wanted a full concert with all the songs and banter, in the correct order, with the best possible sound. I looked around and found this Memphis concert was the only soundboard bootleg from the tour. (An Oakland concert from this tour is supposedly a soundboard, but in my opinion it's just an average audience boot.) So this is what I worked with.

However, there were some audio problems with it. The biggest was the lead vocals were down in the mix, a lot more on some songs than others. I used the audio editing program UVR5 to fix that. Also, the cheering at the end of each song had an annoying buzzing sound in it every single time. So I generally turned that way down and used the cheering from the super deluxe edition live tracks instead, while keeping shouted thank yous and things like that. The cheering was also really quiet, as it often is with soundboards. So at the same time I made sure to make it a lot louder.

Also, the band played the same exact songs in the same order every night of this tour, so it was easy to see that three songs were missing from the bootleg: "Love in Store," "Not That Funny," and "I'm So Afraid." By luck, the super deluxe edition live disc included all of those, so I used those versions. 

But also, parts of two other songs were missing. About the first minute of "Second Hand News" was gone, as well as the first minute of "Landslide." Neither of those were on the super deluxe edition live disc. So instead I resorted to using the Oakland audience boot for those. I removed the crowd noise on those parts using the MVSEP audio editing program so the sound would fit with the rest. That's why those two songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. Also, about five seconds of "Sisters of the Moon" was missing in the middle of the song. Luckily, it was in an instrumental riff section, so I was able to patch that up with music from elsewhere in the song. So that one has "[Edit]" in the title too.

Previously, this Memphis concert recording wasn't very popular due to the sound flaws and missing songs and sections of songs and so forth. But I feel it's sounding really great now. In my opinion, this now has to be the best recording from the band's 1982 tour, even more than the songs on the super deluxe edition, since this is a complete concert with essentially the same sound quality.

The band did a really long tour in 1979 and 1980 to support their 1989 album "Tusk." That resulted in a live album, simply called "Live." But that tour was a disaster filled with the typical drug and ego problems of famous bands. It nearly broke up the band. Key band members were often so high they were barely functional on stage. The 1982 tour was much more professionally done, resulting in better music. So I think this is better than the "Live" album too.

This album is an hour and 56 minutes long.

01 Second Hand News [Edit] (Fleetwood Mac)
02 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
03 The Chain (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Don't Stop (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)
06 Oh Well, Part 1 (Fleetwood Mac)
07 Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)
08 Brown Eyes (Fleetwood Mac)
09 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
10 Eyes of the World (Fleetwood Mac)
11 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
12 Gypsy (Fleetwood Mac)
13 Love in Store (Fleetwood Mac)
14 Not That Funny (Fleetwood Mac)
15 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
16 Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac)
17 Landslide [Edit] (Fleetwood Mac)
18 Tusk (Fleetwood Mac)
19 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
20 Sara (Fleetwood Mac)
21 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
22 Hold Me (Fleetwood Mac)
23 You Make Loving Fun (Fleetwood Mac)
24 I'm So Afraid (Fleetwood Mac)
25 Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac)
26 Blue Letter (Fleetwood Mac)
27 Sisters of the Moon [Edit] (Fleetwood Mac)
28 Songbird (Fleetwood Mac)

https://www.imagenetz.de/mkgpa

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PKgVo2ts

second alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/MtLd0ceKq5EdKai/file 

The cover photo shows four out of the five band members in concert in 1982. Drummer Mick Fleetwood is the one not shown. I don't know exactly where and when the photo was taken.

In 2025, I improved the detail on the image with the use of the Krea AI program.

Fleetwood Mac - Live at the Record Plant, Record Plant, Los Angeles, CA, 9-19-1974

There are two well known live recordings of Fleetwood Mac in 1974. One took place on October 4, 1974, in Hempstead, New York. It's a bootleg that I've posted here. Another one took place on December 15, 1974, in Sausalito, California. I haven't posted that one because it was officially released in 2020 as part of the box set "1969-1974." But there's also this bootleg concert. It seems to have been almost entirely overlooked, judging by how little it's mentioned on the Internet. But, like the other two, it comes from a live radio station broadcast, so the sound quality is excellent. It also contains two songs not on either of the other ones: "Coming Home" and "I Loved Another Woman."

In 1974, Fleetwood Mac was led by the singer-songwriters Bob Welch and Christine McVie. Welch would leave at the end of 1974 and would be replaced by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, leading the band to much greater fame and fortune. For this concert, the band was promoting the album "Heroes Are Hard to Find," which had been released just a few days earlier. However, only three songs are from that album: "Coming Home," "Angel," and "Bermuda Triangle." 

I keep finding concerts where the vocals are too low in the mix. This was another one, although it wasn't a severe case. As usual, I used the UVR5 audio editing program to boost the vocals relative to the instruments. Also as usual, I boosted the volume of the banter between songs quite a lot.

This was part of a radio series called "Live at the Record Plant," done by the radio station KMET. So that's why I have that in the title. The band's December 1974 concert mentioned above was also recorded at a studio called "The Record Plant," but that was a totally different place, in Sausalito instead of Los Angeles.

This concert is an hour and eight minutes long.

01 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
02 Coming Home (Fleetwood Mac)
03 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Sentimental Lady (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Future Games (Fleetwood Mac)
06 Bermuda Triangle (Fleetwood Mac)
07 The Green Manalishi [With the Two Prong Crown] (Fleetwood Mac)
08 Why (Fleetwood Mac)
09 Homeward Bound (Fleetwood Mac)
10 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
11 Angel (Fleetwood Mac)
12 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
13 I Loved Another Woman (Fleetwood Mac)
14 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
15 Spare Me a Little of Your Love (Fleetwood Mac)
16 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
17 Oh Well, Part 1 (Fleetwood Mac)
18 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
19 Rattlesnake Shake (Fleetwood Mac)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eHGyWBJd

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/RKvOtS2gE2dtt4h/file

The cover photo shows all four members of Fleetwood Mac at the time. From right to left: Christine McVie, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, and Bob Welch. I don't know where or when the photo was taken, only that it's from around 1973 or 1974.

Fleetwood Mac - BBC Sessions, Volume 10: The Dance - Expanded Version, Warner Brothers Studios, Burbank, CA, 5-23-1997

Note that this is different than the official Fleetwood Mac live album "The Dance," which has sold millions. This contains everything that album contains, plus six additional songs. So if you have that and want more of it, here you go.

In 1987, singer-songwriter Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac. In 1991, singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks left. Then in 1995, the last major singer-songwriter, Christine McVie, ended the band. But just two years later, all three of them, plus continual members Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, reunited. They only stayed together for one year before Christine McVie left again. But during that year, they reunited long enough for "The Dance" live album and a concert tour. They mostly sang classic hits, but they did have a few new songs as well.

The reason I can add some songs is because there's a DVD version of "The Dance" with five extra songs: "Gold Dust Woman," "Gypsy," "Go Insane," "Over My Head," and "Songbird." I've added those in using the order the songs were actually performed on this night (which is slightly different from both the album and the DVD, with a few songs shuffled a bit). 

I then went looking for more songs they did on that tour, since they did do about six more. But unfortunately, I could only find those extra songs on audience bootlegs which were a steep drop in sound quality from these songs. However, I did add one song from an audience bootleg, the finale, "Farmer's Daughter." I was able to include this cover of a Beach Boys song because it was done in a stripped down style, with just drums and vocals. As a result, the sound quality didn't matter so much. I also boosted the vocals to make it sound a little better.

A couple of years after I first posted this, I discovered this actually was a BBC concert. The BBC broadcast this exact concert only a couple of months after it happened, well before the official album came out. So I redid the album title, cover art, and mp3 tags to reflect that fact.

This album is an hour and 14 minutes long. The extra material totals 23 minutes.

01 The Chain (Fleetwood Mac)
02 Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)
03 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Gold Dust Woman (Fleetwood Mac)
06 I'm So Afraid (Fleetwood Mac)
07 Temporary One (Fleetwood Mac)
08 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
09 Bleed to Love Her (Fleetwood Mac)
10 Gypsy (Fleetwood Mac)
11 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
12 Big Love (Fleetwood Mac)
13 Go Insane (Fleetwood Mac)
14 Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
15 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
16 Say You Love Me (Fleetwood Mac)
17 You Make Loving Fun (Fleetwood Mac)
18 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
19 My Little Demon (Fleetwood Mac)
20 Silver Springs (Fleetwood Mac)
21 Over My Head (Fleetwood Mac)
22 Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)
23 Sweet Girl (Fleetwood Mac)
24 Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac)
25 Tusk (Fleetwood Mac)
26 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
27 Don't Stop (Fleetwood Mac)
28 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
29 Songbird (Fleetwood Mac)
30 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
31 Farmer's Daughter (Fleetwood Mac)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/wfhceJBB

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/8zuFNT8YI9BnCUk/file

For the cover, I wanted a photo of all five members of the band at this time. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a good one of them on stage in 1997 because they rarely all stood close to each other. (I found one like that, but it was low-res.) However, I did find this photo of them standing together backstage at one of their 1997 concerts. I used Photoshop to bring Mick Fleetwood (the tallest one) a little closer to the others.

Fleetwood Mac - BBC Sessions, Volume 9: In Concert, Maine Road Stadium, Manchester, Britain, 8-25-1990

As I write this on November 30, 2022, I'm sad to pass on the news that Christine McVie, longtime singer and songwriter for Fleetwood Mac, died today, of natural causes. She was 79. To celebrate her musical legacy, I wanted to post something with her in it. So here is a 1990 BBC concert that prominently features her.

This concert took place during a difficult time for the band. They released the successful album "Tango in the Night" in 1987. But then one of their three key singer-songwriters, Lindsey Buckingham, quit the band before the start of their tour to support the album. He was replaced by two guitarists, Billy Burnette and Rick Vito. Both of the other two key singer-songwriters, Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks stayed on board. This new version of the band released the album "Behind the Mask" in 1990. The lack of Buckingham was noticeable, and sales and reviews were disappointing. This concert was part of the tour to support that album.

If you're not a fan of "Behind the Mask," don't worry. Only three songs from it were played here, and one of those is the very good hit single "Save Me." This a good concert for Christine McVie fans because without Buckingham, naturally more of the songs were sung by either McVie or Nicks, with only a few sung by either of the new guitarists.

The sound quality is excellent, as you'd expect from the BBC. But there were a few problems, most of which I fixed. The main version I used lacked all of the first song and half of the second one, as well as the musical intro to "Little Lies." Luckily, I found a second version of the concert on YouTube. The sound quality was ever so slightly worse, but I used that version to fill in the missing parts. "The Chain" and "Little Lies" have "[Edit]" in their titles, since they were spliced together from two different versions. The main version also ended with a handful of songs from a early 1980s Stevie Nicks solo concert, but were not labelled as such. I deleted those, since they have nothing to do with this concert.

Another problem just comes down to personal preference. There was a drum solo in "World Turning" that went on way too long for my tastes. Since I mainly make these albums for my own enjoyment, I cut that down drastically. I removed over 10 minutes of music, and yet I kept some of the solo, leaving the song 10 minutes long.

This album is an hour and 54 minutes long. Rest in peace, Christine.

UPDATE: On February 18, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. This is because I discovered a 1987 BBC concert I'd missed. So the title was changed to "Volume 9," and I changed the cover art and mp3 tags accordingly.

01 In the Back of My Mind (Fleetwood Mac)
02 The Chain [Edit] (Fleetwood Mac)
03 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)
05 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
06 Isn't It Midnight (Fleetwood Mac)
07 Oh Well, Part 1 (Fleetwood Mac)
08 Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)
09 Stop Messin' Around (Fleetwood Mac)
10 Save Me (Fleetwood Mac)
11 Gold Dust Woman (Fleetwood Mac)
12 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
13 I Loved Another Woman (Fleetwood Mac)
14 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
15 Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
16 World Turning [Edit] (Fleetwood Mac)
17 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
18 Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac)
19 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
20 Stand on the Rock (Fleetwood Mac)
21 Little Lies [Edit] (Fleetwood Mac)
22 Stand Back (Fleetwood Mac)
23 You Make Loving Fun (Fleetwood Mac)
24 Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac)
25 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
26 Tear It Up (Fleetwood Mac)
27 Don't Stop (Fleetwood Mac)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/5qQAGr7z

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/fr5hO8W0O8AXdla/file

I found a bunch of color photos of the band in concert in 1990, but I couldn't find just one that I especially liked. So I used Photoshop to combine two into one. Both are from the same concert in Minnesota, so both have the same general lighting. But one is of Christine McVie, and the other is of Stevie Nicks. I hope they look okay standing together. 

In February 2025, I upgraded the image quality with the Krea AI program.

Fleetwood Mac - The New Mac Plays the Old Mac (1975-1977)

Here's something a little different. Every now and then I've put together a thematic album, like an album of Heart playing Led Zeppelin songs, or Sheryl Crow playing Rolling Stones songs. This is similar, except it's the "new" Fleetwood Mac - meaning the band from 1975 onwards, playing songs of the "old" Fleetwood mac, meaning the band from its start in the late 1960s to the early 1970s. 

They're almost two different bands in terms of musical style and personnel. The "old" band was dominated by lead guitarist Peter Green and his love of the blues. The "new" band was dominated by three singer songwriters: Lindsay Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, and Christine McVie, and they found massive success with a pop rock style. The only consistency throughout was the drummer, Mick Fleetwood, and the bassist, John McVie. 

In 1977, the "new" band released "Rumours," which is one of the most successful albums of all time, selling over 40 million copies. From that point on, the band hardly ever played songs made famous by the "old" band, because they had more popular songs to play than they could fit into a concert. Thus, there really was only a short window of time, 1975 to 1977, when the new band played some of the old band's songs. I'm compiled all those songs together that I could find in worthy sound quality. About half of them come from the 1975 tour. The other half come from a bootleg of rehearsals for the 1977 tour.

This album mostly features Buckingham and McVie on lead vocals. As the only male lead vocalist in the 1975 to 1977 time period, it was natural for Buckingham to sing the songs previous sang by Peter Green or Bob Welch. McVie features because she joined the band around 1971 (after a graduation transition period), so she had some of her own "old band" songs to sing with the "new" band. I don't think Stevie Nicks sings lead anywhere here, but of course she frequently can be heard on backing vocals.

I think this is an interesting album because it's almost like a lost album of the famous "Rumours" line-up. Buckingham in particular had a key role in crafting that "Rumours" pop rock sound, and you can hear his influence in rearranging these songs to make them a mix of old and new styles.

This album is 45 minutes long. That doesn't include the two bonus tracks, which are bonus tracks because of poorer sound quality. Note the last song, "Mystery Train," is a cover of a song made famous by Elvis Presley.

01 Get like You Used to Be (Fleetwood Mac)
02 The Green Manalishi [With the Two Prong Crown] (Fleetwood Mac)
03 Station Man (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Spare Me a Little (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Why (Fleetwood Mac)
06 Hypnotized (Fleetwood Mac)
07 Believe Me (Fleetwood Mac)
08 Oh Well, Part 1 (Fleetwood Mac)
09 Tell Me All the Things You Do (Fleetwood Mac)
10 Mystery Train (Fleetwood Mac)

Jumping at Shadows (Fleetwood Mac)
Sunny Side of Heaven [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15116099/FleetwodMc_1975h-1977_TheNewMacPlaystheOldMac_atse.zip.html

For the album cover, I didn't want to have a picture of the "new" band and thus leave out the "old" band, and vice versa. So instead I went with some art. This picture comes from a Fleetwood Mac concert poster. I think it's from 1973. It was longer, but I had to cut the rectangular poster to fit into the square album cover format. The band name was there in the original art. I just added the text at the bottom.

Fleetwood Mac - Trodd Nossel Studios, Wallingford, CT, 9-23-1975

I hadn't planned on posting this 1975 Fleetwood Mac concert, great though it is, because it's very similar to another concert I posted by them at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey. In fact, the only difference in the songs is that two songs are uniquely performed on this one ("Why" and "Over My Head") and one song was uniquely performed on that one ("Don't Let Me Down Again").  But I'm posting it because there's an upgraded version that came out in late 2020 that I just found out about, and it sounds even better than before. And this bootleg concert already sounded great. So even if you have this popular bootleg, I recommend you get this version.

This is one of my favorite Fleetwood Mac concerts because it happened at a unique time in the band's history. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, they were a popular blues band, led by guitarist Peter Green. But by 1975, the personnel has drastically changed, especially due to the brand new members Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. Their 1975 album, simply called "Fleetwood Mac," was the first with this new line-up. It's now regarded as a classic, with every song a hit or should have been a hit. But this new Fleetwood Mac didn't catch on right away. At the time of this concert, they still relied a lot on the band's earlier reputation and songs. So this is a rare moment when the new Fleetwood Mac played lots of the old Fleetwood Mac's songs. Seven of the 13 songs here are from before Nicks and Buckingham joining the band. 

In 1977, the band would release "Rumours," one of the best selling albums of all time. It was so chock-a-block with great, popular songs that their concert set lists dropped the pre-1975 songs almost entirely. So it's only on this recording and the Capitol Theatre one mentioned above where you can hear these earlier songs done by this new line-up.

Needless to say, they do a great job, on both the new and old songs. The only minor fly in the ointment is that it seems most of the comments between songs weren't recorded. One can tell this by the few that there are only a few brief comments here and there, and by the fact that the applause often got suddenly cut off. For that latter problem, I patched in applause from the ends of other songs to make things transition in a more natural manner. I did that for about four or five song endings.

Personally, I think both this and the Capitol Theatre shows are so good that any fan of this Fleetwood Mac era should have both, despite their similarities. The sound quality for this one is possibly the best, helped by the fact that the band played for a small, quiet audience in a recording studio for a radio broadcast. During the quiet songs, it's like you can hear a pin drop.

This concert is an hour and six minutes long.

01 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
02 Get like You Used to Be (Fleetwood Mac)
03 Station Man (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Spare Me a Little of Your Love (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)
06 Why (Fleetwood Mac)
07 Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
08 Over My Head (Fleetwood Mac)
09 I'm So Afraid (Fleetwood Mac)
10 Oh Well, Part 1 (Fleetwood Mac)
11 The Green Manalishi [With the Two Prong Crown] (Fleetwood Mac)
12 World Turning (Fleetwood Mac)
13 Blue Letter (Fleetwood Mac)
14 Hypnotized (Fleetwood Mac)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15182007/FleetwodMc_1975f_TrddNosselStdiosWallingfrdCT__9-23-1975_atse.zip.html

I know that since this was recorded in a recording studio, a photo of the band playing on an outdoor stage doesn't fit. But I had a hard time finding a good color photo of the band on stage in 1975. This was the best one I could find that shows most of the band members. It's from a concert in San Diego.

Actually, looking back at the original images just now, I see that I had two San Diego concert photos. Linsay Buckingham was out of view on the best one, so I took him from the other one and Photoshopped him into this one. Sorry about that, but like I said, it's really hard to find good color photos of all of them together on stage in 1975.

Chiristine McVie - I'm on My Way - Non-Album Tracks (1968-1969)

I previously posted the album, "Christine Perfect," a 1970 solo album by future Fleetwood Mac star Christine McVie back when she was a blues singer and keyboardist known by her maiden name, the same as that album title. When I posted that album, I mixed the best songs from it with some other songs she did prior to joining Fleetwood Mac in 1971. But I kept finding more worthy songs, until I decided to split her pre-Fleetwood Mac recordings into two albums.

I still have the "Christine Perfect" album, which can be found here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2018/05/chiristine-mcvie-christine-perfect.html

But I moved some songs from that to here, so I can have all of her early songs where she sings lead vocals in one place.

Christine McVie (I'm going to call her that, for consistency's sake) became a talented piano player at a young age, and had a natural talent for singing the blues. She started singing as a guest vocalist in clubs for blues bands. So when some musicians she knew started a new blues band called Chicken Shack in 1967, she joined them as a keyboardist and backing vocalist. But her skills were greater than that. From the very beginning, she wrote some songs and occasionally sang lead. In fact, the band's very first single, "It's Okay with Me Baby" was written by her and sung by her.

She stayed with Chicken Shack for two albums. But the band was dominated by Stan Webb's guitar playing and singing. She only had two lead vocal turns on their first album, and four on their second. Then, the band released a single of the Etta James classic "I'd Rather Go Blind," with McVie on lead vocals. It was a big hit in Britain. At that point, it became clear that she had too much talent to stay second fiddle in Chicken Shack, so she left the band and started a solo career.

I've gathered all the Chicken Shack songs where she sings lead and included them here. The songs were billed just to "Chicken Shack" but I've credited them to "Christine McVie & Chicken Shack" just for clarity.

At the end are four songs she did as a solo artist that aren't songs on her 1970 solo album "Christine Perfect." One is an outtake and the last three were played for the BBC.

I've called this album "I'm on My Way," even though that's a song on that solo album that isn't included here. I chose that title because that was the original planned title for her solo album. On top of that, it's a very fitting title for the start of one's career, because these early songs very much did send her on her way to musical success.

Note that the exact same version of her hit single "I'd Rather Go Blind" with Chicken Shack was put on her 1970 solo album. I thought it was important to have it in both places. But I don't like repeating the exact same performance. So for this album I used a performance of the songs she did for the BBC with Chicken Shack instead of the hit single version.

This album is 38 minutes long.

01 It's Okay with Me Baby (Christine McVie & Chicken Shack)
02 You Ain't No Good (Christine McVie & Chicken Shack)
03 When the Train Comes Back (Christine McVie & Chicken Shack)
04 I Wanna See My Baby (Christine McVie & Chicken Shack)
05 Mean Old World (Christine McVie & Chicken Shack)
06 Get like You Used to Be (Christine McVie & Chicken Shack)
07 A Woman Is the Blues (Christine McVie & Chicken Shack)
08 I'd Rather Go Blind (Christine McVie & Chicken Shack)
09 Tell Me You Need Me (Christine McVie)
10 Hey Baby (Christine McVie)
11 It's You I Miss (Christine McVie)
12 Gone into the Sun (Christine McVie)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MZ3TN3LM

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/pK7E7nGsGBKKvEN/file

I tried but failed to find any good color photos of Christine McVie from 1968 or 1969. Instead, I found a black and white one of her holding an award for the Melody Maker female singer of the year award in 1969. Then I colorized it.

In 2025, I improved the detail of the image with the use of the Krea AI program.

Fleetwood Mac - Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2-28-1969

I thought I was all done posting material from the Peter Green era of Fleetwood Mac. In terms of live material, there are only so many concerts that haven't been officially released yet still have high sound quality. But I found one more that's worthy, and anything featuring Peter Green in his prime is worth hearing, so here it is.

This is a strange one, because it's made up of two concerts that were performed in different cities in the Netherlands on the exact same night. Fleetwood Mac played at a venue called the Concertgebouw in The Hague around 6 P.M. Then they played another concert in Amsterdam at a venue with the exact same name later that same evening. (It seems they didn't go on stage until around midnight.) I don't know if it was by chance or what, but over the next few months, about half an hour of the Hague concert was played on Dutch radio or TV, from a longer show, then about half an hour of the Amsterdam concert was played on Dutch radio or TV, also from a longer show. The two broadcast portions were bootlegged over the years, while the rest of both concerts seem to have gotten lost.

This album consists of the broadcast portions from those two concerts. However, I've organized it so that most of the second concert comes first. That's because we have the ending of the first concert but not the ending of the second one, so it makes sense to end with an ending.

Generally speaking, the sound quality is excellent, since this was professionally recorded for either radio or TV. That said, some parts sound better than others. Some songs sound fantastic and some sound merely good. That's probably because the bootlegs were cobbled together from different sources. I worked with my musical associate MZ on improving the sound quality. He made some nice improvements, but sometimes one can only do so much. A few of the talking bits between songs come from worse sources, but that doesn't matter much since it's only a little bit of banter.

I cut a few songs for various reasons. There were two versions of "One Sided Love," so I only used one of them. A short snippet of "Teenage Darlin'" was played, but it really was only the bass line while the audience was cheering. That led into "Twist and Shout," but less than a minute of that was recorded. So I didn't include either of those.

Note that two of the exact performances here, "One Sided Love" and "Greeny Alone," were used on the stray tracks album I made called "One Sided Love."

The entire album is 59 minutes long. The Amsterdam portion is 35 minutes long and the Hague portion is 24 minutes long. The Hague portion includes the very first track (which is only a few seconds of an MC introducing the band in Dutch), then from track 13 to the end.

By the way, for the very delicate types out there, there are some X-rated improvised lyrics to the "Blue Suede Shoes" medley.

01 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
02 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
03 Merry Go Round (Fleetwood Mac)
04 One Sided Love (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Dust My Broom (Fleetwood Mac)
06 Got to Move (Fleetwood Mac)
07 Greeny Alone [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
08 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
09 Sugar Mama (Fleetwood Mac)
10 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
11 I Can't Hold Out (Fleetwood Mac)
12 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
13 Stop Messin' Round (Fleetwood Mac)
14 San-Ho-Zay [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
15 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
16 Albatross [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
17 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
18 Tallahassee Lassie (Fleetwood Mac)
19 Blue Suede Shoes - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Blue Suede Shoes (Fleetwood Mac)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15291491/FleetwodMc_1969a_ConcertgbouwAmsterdmNetherlands__2-28-1969_atse.zip.html

What a nice lucky break! I've had a hard time finding any good photos of the band on stage in 1969. But I happened to find the concert poster for the exact Amsterdam concert featured here. I didn't change a thing, so I hope your Dutch is good if you want to read all of it. :) But concert posters are rectangular. To make it fit, I cut out the portion of it below the band name. That portion mainly mentioned the name of the supporting bands, which were Cuby + Buzzards, and Livin' Blues.

Fleetwood Mac - Live and Rare, Volume 2 (1968-1970)

Yesterday, I posted "Live and Rare, Volume 1." This is more of the same. It's the second and final album dealing with songs Fleetwood Mac played in concert during the Peter Green years that are officially unreleased and were only recorded on rough sounding bootlegs.

As I wrote for that previous volume, beware that the sound is far from perfect. That said, it's very listenable. I make these albums mainly for myself, and I'm not going to put up with something that sounds like crap. Like I wrote yesterday, these often are good sounding songs from otherwise rough sounding bootlegs.

How is that possible? One way is that it often is harder to record vocals well than the instrumentation. And four of the songs this time around are instrumentals. As I explained with that earlier volume, many of these instrumentals have no easily identifiable name. It's likely for at least some of them that they were spontaneous blues jams with no name at all. So I came up with my own names, using the town names. (I had to add the year for two of them, since there are two from Stockholm, Sweden in different years.)

This album ends in early 1970 because that's when Peter Green left the group. Also, when he left, the variety of songs the band played in concert was drastically reduced. I think the live improv instrumentals came to a halt as well.

Both this volume and the previous one are about 50 minutes long.

01 Goin' Down Slow (Fleetwood Mac)
02 San-Ho-Zay [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
03 Stockholm '69 Improv [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Gothenburg Improv [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
05 If You Let Me Love You (Fleetwood Mac)
06 All Over Again [I've Got a Mind to Give Up Living] (Fleetwood Mac)
07 It Takes Time (Fleetwood Mac)
08 Stockholm '70 Improv [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15115838/FleetwodMc_1968i-1970_LiveandRreVolume2_atse.zip.html

As with the cover art for Volume 1, I didn't have a lot of great photos of the entire Fleetwood Mac band, so I decided to use one of lead guitarist Peter Green, at a further tribute to his recent passing (which happened a few days ago as I write this).

Fleetwood Mac - Live and Rare, Volume 1 (1967-1968)

As I wrote yesterday, legendary guitarist Peter Green died just a few days ago. To further commemorate his passing, I have some more music to post from the time he led Fleetwood Mac.

Be warned that this album isn't for everyone. It contains interesting rare songs performed live that didn't fit anywhere else in my music collection. All of them are officially unreleased. But generally speaking, these songs come from audience bootlegs, so the sound quality isn't up to my usual standards. Some are rougher than others. That said, all of them pass my listenability test, or I wouldn't bother including them.

It's truly remarkable how many different songs Fleetwood Mac performed in concert back in their Peter Green-led years. All of these, I believe, never appeared on any official albums, and most of them only show up on one or a couple of different bootlegged concerts. (There are even more that I wish I could have included, but the sound quality was too poor, or they didn't get bootlegged at all.)

In some cases here, these songs happened to be the best from some fairly bad sounding bootlegs. For instance, there might have been a bootleg where the vocals were recorded badly, but an instrumental from it sounds just fine. The first three songs are all like that. They come from 1967, a year of no decent sounding Fleetwood Mac bootlegs, but for some reason these songs stood out in terms of sounding listenable.

I'll follow this with a second and final "Live and Rare" volume. I have to admit that there are some instrumentals on them with names that I can't identify. It could be they were just blues jams that never had a name in the first place. In such cases, I came up with my own name, using the town they were performed in. There's only one such case here, the song I call "Windsor Improv."

The last song, "All Over Again (I've Got a Mind to Give Up Living)," is kind of a bonus track. I have a different version on "Live and Rare, Volume 2." This one is from 1969, so it doesn't fit with the other songs here from 1967 and 1968. But Peter Green's slow blues guitar playing on "All Over Again" is always amazing, so I want to have every decent sounding version the band did in my collection. Thus, I've stuck one on here, instead of having two versions on "Volume 2."

Finally, thanks to my musical associate MZ for his assistance with this album. He helped me find some of the rare versions here, and also used his sound editing skills to make them more listenable.

01 Evil Woman Blues (Fleetwood Mac)
02 Windsor Improv [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
03 I'm Goin' Home (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Bleeding Heart [Edit] (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Don't Know Which Way to Go (Fleetwood Mac)
06 The Sky Is Crying (Fleetwood Mac)
07 Too Late to Cry (Fleetwood Mac)
08 Crossroads (Fleetwood Mac)
09 Call It Stormy Monday (Fleetwood Mac)
10 All Over Again [I've Got a Mind to Give Up Living] (Fleetwood Mac)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15115676/FleetwodMc_1967f-1968_LiveandRreVolume1_atse.zip.html

Good photos of Fleetwood Mac from 1967 or 1968 are very rare, and I've used just about all of the decent ones I could find. Since Peter Green died recently, and he was the leader of the band back then, I decided to honor him by featuring him on this cover. I don't know when or where this photo is from exactly, but I'm guessing it's from around 1968.

Fleetwood Mac - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: 1969

First off, sadly, I have to report that Peter Green died a few days ago, on July 25, 2020, of natural causes. He was 73 years old. He was a true musical giant in my opinion, one of the greatest lead guitar players of all time. He will be missed, even though most of his musical reputation rests on his years with Fleetwood Mac, from 1967 to 1970.

Only four of the 12 songs on it are officially released. Three more are from "On Air," but that's a dubious "grey market" release. However, I think you'll find there's very little sound quality difference between the released ones and the rest. 

 

The three "On Air" sourced songs are by Chicken Shack, the blues band Christine McVie was in shortly before she joined Fleetwood Mac. I've only included songs from this band where McVie was the lead vocalist.  

 

All of the BBC performances come from just three sessions, and probably the released and unreleased versions ultimately come from the same recorded versions.

There are four songs not from the BBC. Two of these ("San-Ho-Zay" and the "Blue Suede Shoes" medley) come from a Dutch radio show. I'm not a stickler that all songs on a BBC compilation have to actually come from the BBC - I figure other radio or TV show appearances are fair game as well. 

There's nothing wrong sonically with the bonus track, "Albatross." The only reason it's a bonus track is because I have another version of the band playing the song on an earlier album in this BBC series. There are remarkably few instances of the band playing the same song twice on the BBC, so any duplicates are downgraded to bonus tracks.

This album is 40 minutes long, not including the bonus track.

 

UPDATE: On September 26, 2025, I redid the mp3 download file. I'm not sure why, but I had a couple of songs out of chronological order between this album and Volume 4. So I moved some songs from here to there, and from there to here.  

 

01 San-Ho-Zay [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
02 Blue Suede Shoes - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Blue Suede Shoes (Fleetwood Mac)
03 Can't Believe You Wanna Leave (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Blues with a Feeling (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Tallahassee Lassie (Fleetwood Mac)
06 Early Morning Come (Fleetwood Mac)
07 Heavenly (Fleetwood Mac)
08 I'd Rather Go Blind (Christine McVie & Chicken Shack)
09 Hey Baby (Christine McVie & Chicken Shack)
10 Get like You Used to Be [Edit] (Christine McVie & Chicken Shack)
11 Man of the World (Fleetwood Mac)
12 Jumping at Shadows (Fleetwood Mac)
13 Linda [Edit] (Fleetwood Mac)

Albatross [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)

 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/N1MxEjZV

 

alternate:  

 

https://bestfile.io/en/mW0PYTajKJFlKOo/file

I'm not sure exactly when or where the cover art photo is from. But given their appearance, and especially the inclusion of Danny Kirwan (who joined in 1968), I think it's likely it's from 1969.

 

In 2025, I improved the detail of the image with the use of the Krea AI program.