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)

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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.

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)

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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)

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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 - 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 - 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.

Fleetwood Mac - Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 10-17-1975

Here's a must-have concert if you're a fan of the "Rumours" era version of Fleetwood Mac.

If you know much about Fleetwood Mac, you probably knew the band started out as a blues band led by Peter Green, but slowly morphed into a pop rock band without him. At the start of 1975, the band practically transformed into an entirely different band, because a key singer-songwriter, Bob Welch, left the band, and was replaced by the team of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Those two, plus Christine McVie, who had been a part of the band since 1970, would propel the band into pop superstar status very quickly.

Personally, I like both the early blues versions and later pop versions of the band. When it comes to concerts by the band, 1975 is my favorite year, because during that year and that year alone, there was a more or less even mix between both versions. The band put out the album simply called "Fleetwood Mac," which started selling slowly but would go on to sell millions. they wanted to promote that album with their concerts, but they wanted to draw on their older songs too, so the new version of the band wouldn't alienate long-time fans.

Thus, this concert has six songs from the years before Buckingham and Nicks joined, and six songs from their 1975 album. So you have the rare treat of hearing older songs like "Oh Well," "Station Man," "The Green Manalishi," and "Hypnotized," except sung by new members of the band, usually Buckingham. It's a really interesting mix of pop and blues, and I think Buckingham does well trying to live up to Peter Green's guitar heroics.

It's a bit of a shame that the 1974 "Fleetwood Mac" album did so well, and then the 1977 album "Rumours" did much better still, because that meant from 1977 onwards, the band had so many great recent songs to play in concert that they largely discarded anything from before 1975. That means that 1975 concerts are the best opportunity to hear "old" and "new" versions of the band mix together.

In 2018, a deluxe version of the 1975 album was released, and it included lots of live performances. Six of them were from Capitol Theatre, in Passaic, New Jersey, on October 17, 1975, and I've included those here. Unfortunately though, the band did two shows that night, and those six songs were only about half of the late show. But luckily, some of the early show and the rest of the late show were played on radio at the time, and there are excellent bootlegs of this. So I've combined the versions from the deluxe version with unreleased versions from bootlegs to create an ideal version of a concert from that night.

The early show had a lot of songs not featured in the late show, but unfortunately most of those weren't played on the radio, so there aren't any known bootleg versions of them. That's a great shame, because the band played some very interesting rarities. For instance, they did "Frozen Love," a song from the 1973 Buckingham-Nicks album that was only played a few times in 1975 by Fleetwood Mac. (They also played "Monday Morning," "Why," "Crystal," "Over My Head," "Say You Love Me," and "Blue Letter.") I didn't want to include any duplicates of songs from the late show, so I've only included "Station Man" and "Landslide" from the early show.

Both the performances from the deluxe version and the performances from radio show bootlegs sound great, though the deluxe version performances sound slightly better. But one big problem is that it turns out the deluxe version performances included only quiet levels of the audience, and the radio show bootlegs included loud audience levels. So I did my best to even these out, by lessening the crowd noise for some songs and boosting it for others. Sometimes, I also had to resort to copying and pasting in some crowd noise from the end of one song to another, because some songs had only a few seconds of crowd reaction and others had a lot more. If I didn't tweak things, it would have seems as if the crowd didn't like some songs at all, and loved others. Now,  there should be an expected, typical crowd reaction after every song, and hopefully you won't notice there was any sort of fiddling around.

Aside from that crowd noise issue, which didn't affect the actual songs at all, everything else is fine. This is a great concert that lasts an hour and four minutes. I hope that someday all of both sets from that evening will be released, so we can hear the seven other different songs they played.

Oh, by the way, the band played Capitol Theatre twice in 1975, in June and then again in October. Bootlegs of the concert generally list it taking place in June. But I compared the songs that overlapped between the bootlegs and the official deluxe versions, and I figured out from identical between song comments and other things that the show definitely was in October instead. The song order I use should be accurate as well, though note that the first two songs come from the early show.

01 Station Man (Fleetwood Mac)
02 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
03 Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Get like You Used to Be (Fleetwood Mac)
05 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
06 Spare Me a Little of Your Love (Fleetwood Mac)
07 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
08 Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)
09 Don't Let Me Down Again (Fleetwood Mac)
10 I'm So Afraid (Fleetwood Mac)
11 Oh Well, Part 1 (Fleetwood Mac)
12 The Green Manalishi [With The Two Pronged Crown] (Fleetwood Mac)
13 World Turning (Fleetwood Mac)
14 Blue Letter (Fleetwood Mac)
15 Hypnotized (Fleetwood Mac)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15291600/FleetwodMc_1975g_CpitolTheatrePssaicNJ__10-17-1975_atse.zip.html

If you're curious, you can find a video of the entire late show on YouTube. I would have used a screenshot from that for the cover art, except the video is in black and white and is low resolution. So I've used a photo from another 1975 concert instead. Unfortunately, this photo only shows Nicks and Buckingham, but it's next to impossible to find any good 1975 concert photos showing a lot of band members together, since they tended to spread out on stage.

Buckingham Nicks - Circles in Time - Non-Album Tracks (1975)

As long as I'm posting the Buckingham Nicks concert that I just posted, I want to post something that's very closely related. You as a listener might want to download this, or that, or both.

As I mentioned in my post about that concert, Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were in the middle of recording their second Buckingham Nicks studio album, but that never got finished. Apparently, they got the phone call inviting them to join Fleetwood Mac, so that took precedence. Then it seems all the recordings for that second album got lost and/or destroyed, which means we'll never get to hear what that second album would have sounded like.

So instead, I've come up with this, my attempt to recreate that second album as closely as I can. The song list largely overlaps with the songs played in the Tuscaloosa concert I just posted. However, it turns out there was another concert recorded just one day earlier, on January 28, 1975, at the Alabama State Fairgrounds in Birmingham, Alabama. Probably the same person recorded both shows, as the sound quality is excellent for both. Only part of that concert has made it onto bootleg.

I've used performances from that concert whenever possible in order to reduce duplication. The result is that only four of the same performances are on this album and the full Tuscaloosa concert I posted. I also removed all audience noise and talking between songs. Since the sound quality is excellent, I think this sounds like studio recordings and not a concert.

I didn't include any songs from the 1973 Buckingham Nicks album, which eliminates tunes like "Crystal" (which would also appear on the 1975 "Fleetwood Mac" album), "Don't Let Me Down Again," "Frozen Love," and "Long Distance Winner." Three of the songs I have included would be done by Fleetwood Mac for their 1975 album ("Monday Morning," "Blue Letter," and "Rhiannon"), and one more would make it on their 1977 album "Rumours" ("I Don't Want to Know").

I think it's very interesting to hear Buckingham Nicks versions of those songs. This would-be album should have been a big seller just from the inclusion of all time classics like "Monday Morning" and "Rhiannon."

But I think what's most interesting are the inclusion of good songs that got lost and forgotten as the duo joined Fleetwood Mac. "Sorcerer" is one of the best Buckingham Nicks songs, in my opinion, and it's strange that it never got released in the 1970s. Nicks revived it decades later, and it was popular enough to make it onto one of her solo greatest hits albums. It also was recorded around 1973 as an unreleased acoustic demo which I included on the Buckingham Nicks album called the "Coffee Plant Demos." But two other songs here, "Farewell Failure" and "Heartbreaker (Circles in Time)" are also really good original songs that seem to have totally disappeared except for their appearance on the two Buckingham Nicks concert bootlegs from January 1975.

I added one song to the end of this album, "After the Glitter Fades," that is technically a Stevie Nicks recording instead of a Buckingham Nicks one. That's because the song was included on her first solo album, "Bella Donna," in 1981, but this unreleased demo recording dates from around 1975, if not earlier. Furthermore, according to interviews, Nicks says the song was written in 1974, or maybe 1973. So I think the odds are very good that it would have been included on a second Buckingham Nicks album.

If anyone knows the names of the two short guitar instrumentals here, please let me know so I can update the song list. I titled one of them "Little Guitar Thing" only because Buckingham said right before starting the song that he was going to "play a little guitar thing." It sounds a little bit like "Never Going Back Again," so it could be an early version of that.

This album is 32 minutes long.

01 Monday Morning (Buckingham Nicks)
02 Farewell Failure (Buckingham Nicks)
03 Sorcerer (Buckingham Nicks)
04 You Won't Forget Me (Buckingham Nicks)
05 Blue Letter (Buckingham Nicks)
06 Rhiannon (Buckingham Nicks)
07 Guitar Instrumental (Buckingham Nicks)
08 Heartbreaker [Circles in Time] (Buckingham Nicks)
09 I Don't Want to Know (Buckingham Nicks)
10 Little Guitar Thing [Instrumental] (Buckingham Nicks)
11 After the Glitter Fades (Stevie Nicks)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MRJeSrup

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/CMDrLd8N9JigUBl/file

In 2025, I found a better photo, so I replace it. This shows Buckingham and Nicks in the mid-1970s.

Buckingham Nicks - Morgan Auditorium, Tuscaloosa, AL, 1-29-1975

Since I just posted what Fleetwood Mac was up to in late 1974, I think it's fitting to also post what was happening with Buckingham Nicks just a couple of months later.

By the time this concert took place, Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks had already joined Fleetwood Mac, but they had a few last concert obligations to fulfill. That was a lucky thing, because it was only their last few shows that got decently recorded. In fact, this show took place on January 29, 1975, and their last show as a duo was two days later, on January 31st.

If you want to know more about this concert, there's a really good newspaper article about it from 2018, surprisingly enough:

https://expo.al.com/life-and-culture/erry-2018/09/da850ca1cf6155/45-years-later-buckingham-nick.html

So I won't say much more, since that article says it so well. But I'll note that the sound quality is very good. Also, Buckingham Nicks' only album was released in 1973, and they planned to record a second one. But that was never finished, and most of those songs went on Fleetwood Mac's self-titled 1975 album, with one of them ("I Don't Want to Know") making it on 1977's "Rumours." Recording for that 1975 Fleetwood Mac album began just days after these last concerts. So this is a really interesting look at a pivotal moment in the musical careers for Buckingham and Nicks.

I'm very surprised that this concert recording doesn't get around more as a bootleg, because the performance is excellent and so is the sound quality. I suspect it's because it's under the name "Buckingham Nicks" instead of "Fleetwood Mac."

This album is an hour long.

01 Lola [My Love] (Buckingham Nicks)
02 talk (Buckingham Nicks)
03 Monday Morning (Buckingham Nicks)
04 I Don't Want to Know (Buckingham Nicks)
05 talk (Buckingham Nicks)
06 Little Guitar Thing [Instrumental] (Buckingham Nicks)
07 Races Are Run (Buckingham Nicks)
08 Rhiannon (Buckingham Nicks)
09 Long Distance Winner (Buckingham Nicks)
10 Django - Sorcerer (Buckingham Nicks)
11 talk (Buckingham Nicks)
12 You Won't Forget Me (Buckingham Nicks)
13 Blue Letter (Buckingham Nicks)
14 Heartbreaker [Circles in Time] (Buckingham Nicks)
15 Don't Let Me Down Again (Buckingham Nicks)
16 talk (Buckingham Nicks)
17 Frozen Love (Buckingham Nicks)
18 Crystal (Buckingham Nicks)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ViWHFmeZ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/vbwYdyM1x2IkrN9/file

The photo for the cover is of the band playing at the University of Alabama within days of the concert this music is from. It comes from a university yearbook, and I found it because it was reprinted in a news article. Since it was in black and white, I tinted it with some color to make it more interesting.

Buckingham Nicks - Buckingham Nicks (1973)

I just posted an album of demos by soon-to-be Fleetwood Mac stars Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, recorded in 1973. That same year, they released their only album as a duo, simply called "Buckingham Nicks."

I'm posting that album here, even though I haven't changed the album in any way, because the album has been out of print since mere months after it was released in 1973. The record company only printed up a limited run, believed to be about 35,000, and never promoted it in any way, so it was a rarity pretty much since the time it came out.

Since then, the album has been tied up in legal limbo, with disputes over who exactly has the legal rights to release it. Also, it's gotten caught up in personal disputes, with Nicks apparently in favor of releasing it and Buckingham against. Given that Buckingham was fired from Fleetwood Mac in 2018, it seems highly unlikely to me that people will get together enough to officially release this anytime soon.

If you like the "Rumours" era Fleetwood Mac, you really should check it out. It's a very good album. The song "Crystal" would be redone on the 1975 Fleetwood Mac album (just called "Fleetwood Mac), and "Don't Let Me Down Again" would be done in a live version on the 1980 Fleetwood Mac album "Live." But many of the other songs were strong enough to have been included on later Fleetwood Mac albums. Interestingly, it was the song "Frozen Love" that was a local hit in Alabama and caught the interest of Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood and led to him wanting to get the duo to join his band.

01 Crying in the Night (Buckingham Nicks)
02 Stephanie [Instrumental] (Buckingham Nicks)
03 Without a Leg to Stand On (Buckingham Nicks)
04 Crystal (Buckingham Nicks)
05 Long Distance Winner (Buckingham Nicks)
06 Don't Let Me Down Again (Buckingham Nicks)
07 Django [Instrumental] (Buckingham Nicks)
08 Races Are Run (Buckingham Nicks)
09 Lola [My Love] (Buckingham Nicks)
10 Frozen Love (Buckingham Nicks)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15291408/FleetwodMc_1973c_BuckinghmNcksBuckinghmNcks_atse.zip.html

I've used something very close to the official album cover. But that one uses a black and white photo, and I really hate black and white. I've colorized a lot of album covers myself, but in this case I found that someone else named Sam Taylor colorized it and posted that version on the Internet, so I've used that. There are also some very slight differences here and there due to having to add in the text and other bits from scratch.

Buckingham Nicks - The Coffee Plant Demos (1972-1974)

I've posted a ton of Fleetwood Mac stuff relating to the group's early Peter Green-led blues era. I still have some more to post there, especially BBC material. But I also want to move on to the second phase of the band, its rebirth as a soft rock group.

I've already posted an album by Fritz, the late 1960s and early 1970s group led by future Fleetwood Mac stars Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. That group evolved into the Buckingham Nicks duo. I've got a lot to post from them. In my opinion, Buckingham and Nicks basically took over Fleetwood Mac in 1975 and led them to become one of the most successful groups of all time. From a singing and songwriting perspective, it's true that Christine McVie also plays an important role. But Buckingham and Nicks were essentially two-thirds of the force behind all those big soft rock hits in the 1970s and 1980s.

Some people have noticed that Buckingham and Nicks didn't just pop out of thin air when they joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975, but in fact already had a career going with one album as a duo in 1973. But unfortunately, not nearly enough people know about their duo work, since that one album has remained unreleased pretty much since shortly after it was released. I'm going to post that album here shortly. But this album is the compliment to that, a series of demos done by the Buckingham Nicks duo around the same time as they recorded their lone album in 1973.

The bulk of this comes from a popular bootleg known as the "Coffee Plant Demos." There isn't a single song here that is also on the Buckingham Nicks album, so this is like a second album. One can call these demo recordings, but a lot of them are fairly fleshed out, with drums and bass.

In my opinion, there are a lot of good songs here, and no real duds, showing that the Buckingham Nicks duo should have had success whether they joined Fleetwood Mac or not.  In particular, one song here, "Sorcerer," has kind of become a Stevie Nicks standard, getting on her more recent greatest hits collections, even though she didn't officially release a solo version of it until 2001.

In addition to the songs from the "Coffee Plant Demos" bootleg, I've added two songs. The first song on the album, "See the World Go By," is a Stevie Nicks song that dates from 1972, and seems to fall between the cracks of when the band Fritz broke up in 1971 and when the Buckingham Nicks duo did a lot of recording for their lone album in 1973. The song quality on this song is a bit less compared to the rest, but it's still decent.

I've also added a song at the end, the classic "Rhiannon." This comes from a concert bootleg dating to 1974. I'm going to post some live Buckingham Nicks material later. But I'm adding this in here because it's kind of a free floating recording that doesn't come from the two full Buckingham Nicks concerts that were bootlegged, and yet it's in pristine soundboard quality. So I've removed the audience noise to make it fit in with the rest of the songs on the album. This is probably one of the very first time this song was every played in concert, if not the very first time. (Although the exact date and location of the recording is unknown.) It's interesting to see how this song was different in its early days, with some different lyrics and a slightly faster pace.

This album is 36 minutes long.

01 See the World Go By (Stevie Nicks)
02 Without You (Buckingham Nicks)
03 Candlebright [Nomad] (Buckingham Nicks)
04 That's Alright (Buckingham Nicks)
05 Garbo (Buckingham Nicks)
06 Sorcerer (Buckingham Nicks)
07 Cathouse Blues (Buckingham Nicks)
08 Goldfish and the Ladybug (Buckingham Nicks)
09 Going Home (Buckingham Nicks)
10 Yesterday I Saw the World (Buckingham Nicks)
11 Rhiannon (Buckingham Nicks)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/otv4rsPe

alternate:

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

There are very few photos of Buckingham and Nicks prior to their Fleetwood Mac days. In November 2019, I changed the photo for the cover art. I thought the one I'd used was from 1973, but it turns out it's from 1975. So I updated it with a photo that is from 1973. It shows Buckingham and Nicks playing in the Troubadour club in Los Angeles that year.

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

Fritz - Fritz (Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham) (1968-1971)

Here's a very special share, of something so rare that I don't believe it's even ever been bootlegged. It's an album of the best of Fritz, the band Fleetwood Mac stars Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were in back in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

I've started posting various stray tracks albums of Fleetwood Mac, moving forward chronologically through the band's long career. I plan to keep doing that. But I also need to begin posting about the early career of Nicks and Buckingham, until they join Fleetwood Mac in 1975. Some people know about the official "Buckingham Nicks" album from 1973, but there's more than that, including this.

I'm not going to go through a long explanation about the story of Fritz. If you're interested in that, Google it. Here's one article that gives a good summary:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/30-fascinating-early-bands-of-future-music-legends-200891/stevie-nicks-and-lindsey-buckinghams-psychedelic-rock-band-fritz-203670/

The short version is that the band began in the Bay Area of California in 1966. In 1967, Nicks and Buckingham joined. The band got popular enough for them to open for many big name artists, including Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Nicks and Buckingham stayed in the band until it broke up in 1971, when those two moved to Los Angeles to try to make it big in the music business. But even though Nicks and/or Buckingham were the lead singers on all of Fritz's songs, there were three other band members, including Brian Kane on lead guitar and Bob Aguirre on drums. But the creative heart of the band was keyboardist Javier Pacheco, because he wrote nearly all the songs. (One exception here is the first song, "Where Was I," written by Nicks.)

As far as I can tell, absolutely none of Fritz's music has ever been officially released. And that's not likely to change any time soon, since neither Nicks nor Buckingham seem interested in uncovering the early part of their career. For instance, the 1973 "Buckingham Nicks" album is beloved by many Fleetwood Mac fans, but it has remained out of print ever since its first release. Only a couple of songs from it have come out on career spanning box sets, and nothing from any time before it.

Luckily, Pacheco has kept many recordings of Fritz, and in recent years he's released a lot of them through YouTube videos. I went through all the videos I could find and put together the best ones for this album. Unfortunately, that didn't mean including all the best songs, because I had to take into account two factors: song quality and recording quality. There were many more songs I didn't include, some of them quite good, because I deemed the recording quality too poor. For instance, there was at least an album's worth of songs performed live, but all of those recordings just weren't good enough for repeat listenings. (If you're interested though, just search for "Fritz" and "Pacheco" on YouTube.)

Thankfully, Fritz did go into professional recording studios several times to record some of their songs, even though they never got a record company to sign them. So pretty much all the songs here are good songs that are well recorded. If you like the "Buckingham Nicks" album, this is much like discovering a very similar album, of comparable musical talent. Despite the fact that nearly all the songs are written by Pacheco, they're probably as good as if they'd been written by Nicks or Buckingham in their pre-Fleetwood Mac days. (Pacheco has gone on to have a long musical career, but in other musical areas, mostly in the Spanish language.)

The last three songs on this album aren't quite Fritz recordings, but I figure they belong here because they fit in the general Fritz time frame. "Anybody Out There" is a demo by Nicks, apparently of a song she wrote. The last two songs, "Next Time Around" and "Time Ago" are more Pacheco songs. Fritz had broken up by then, but he still was able to get Nicks to sing one of them and Buckingham to sing the other.

By the way, I did make a significant edit for one song, "Reconsider." I don't know why, but for that song Pacheco has only made available a snippet of the song that's about a minute and twenty seconds long. That snippet ends with the exact same riff that starts it. So I repeated the entire song, and then added another copy of the intro riff at the end to allow a good fade out. Hopefully, the rest of the original recording will be made public one day. But until then, this can give you some idea of how the song goes.

This makes up a nice 44 minute album that I think any big fan of the "Rumours" era Fleetwood Mac would be interested in. Basically, if you hear a female voice on any of these songs, assume it belongs to Nicks, and if you hear a lead male voice, assume it's Buckingham.

01 Where Was I (Fritz)
02 Up to Fate (Fritz)
03 You Don't Get Young Anymore (Fritz)
04 Reconsider (Fritz)
05 Take Advantage of Me (Fritz)
06 Whirlpool (Fritz)
07 A Million Ways (Fritz)
08 Wondering Why (Fritz)
09 Good Old Fritz (Fritz)
10 In the Dawn (Fritz)
11 Pollyanna Louise (Fritz)
12 Anybody Out There [Demo] (Stevie Nicks)
13 Next Time Around (Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks)
14 Time Ago (Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks)

UPDATE: After a request from Pacheco to stop sharing this music, I've taken down the link. Some of this has now been officially released, with more coming soon. Here's a link if you want to buy the official album:

https://fritzrmb.com/music/

I'm still unable to do much photo editing, but I figured it was important to show a picture of Fritz, since so few people are familiar with anything about the early careers of Nicks and Buckingham, including how they look. In this photo used for the cover, taken around 1968, the sole female is Nicks. The male in the middle is Buckingham, and the male on the right is Pacheco. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a good color photo of all five band members, so I cropped this one to highlight the three key people.