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.

Chris Isaak with Stevie Nicks, Michael Buble & Brian McKnight - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 9-21-2004

Here's a little Christmas gift - some Christmassy music. This is another episode of the excellent "PBS Soundstage" TV show. Chris Isaak was the host, but he also had three guest stars: Stevie Nicks, Michael Buble, and Brian McKnight.

I actually posted a Soundstage episode starring Chris Isaak already, from 2003. But he came back only a year later probably because of the Christmas theme, so all the music was different. He actually would go on to host the show yet again in 2005. I'll post that one eventually as well.

Isaak generally sang most of the songs, and then sang duets with the guests. Then everyone came back to take part in the final song.

I should have posted this earlier in the winter holiday season, but at least I posted it a few days before Christmas. Happy holidays!

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 57 minutes long. 

01 talk (Chris Isaak)
02 Blue Christmas (Chris Isaak)
03 talk (Chris Isaak)
04 Mele Kalikimaka (Chris Isaak)
05 talk (Chris Isaak)
06 Washington Square (Chris Isaak)
07 talk (Chris Isaak & Michael Buble)
08 The Christmas Song (Chris Isaak & Michael Buble)
09 talk (Chris Isaak & Michael Buble)
10 Let It Snow (Chris Isaak & Michael Buble)
11 talk (Chris Isaak & Michael Buble)
12 Gotta Be Good (Chris Isaak)
13 talk (Chris Isaak)
14 Pretty Paper (Chris Isaak)
15 talk (Chris Isaak)
16 Hey Santa (Chris Isaak)
17 talk (Chris Isaak)
18 Brightest Star (Chris Isaak)
19 talk (Chris Isaak & Brian McKnight)
20 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Chris Isaak & Brian McKnight)
21 talk (Chris Isaak)
22 Last Month of the Year (Chris Isaak)
23 talk (Chris Isaak)
24 Santa Bring My Baby Back (Chris Isaak)
25 White Christmas (Chris Isaak)
26 talk (Chris Isaak)
27 Christmas on TV (Chris Isaak)
28 talk (Chris Isaak & Stevie Nicks)
29 Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (Chris Isaak & Stevie Nicks)
30 talk (Chris Isaak)
31 I'll Be Home for Christmas (Chris Isaak)
32 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Chris Isaak, Stevie Nicks, Michael Buble & Brian McKnight)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/KKwNCwC3

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/iT0YN3RcAjJSfeO/file

The cover photo is a screenshot I took from this exact concert. It shows Chris Isaak and Stevie Nicks.

Various Artists - Peace Sunday, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA, 6-6-1982, Part 4: Dan Fogelberg and Stevie Nicks

Here's the fourth out of five albums that make up the "Peace Sunday" concert in 1982. 

I'll just paste in a paragraph I wrote in my post for Part 2, since it still applies here:

If you want a full explanation of what the concert was about, please read my write-up for Part 1. In that, I also explained about the sound quality issue. In short, the only known source for the whole concert is an audience bootleg. It didn't sound very good, so this concert recording hasn't been shared that much. But I could tell there was potential there, if I could get rid of most of the much. As I explained in detail in my write-up, I think I did get rid of most of it. It still doesn't have excellent sound, but it's pretty good, and worthy of being posted at my blog, where I have pretty high sound quality standards. 

This part is split in two. The first half features Dan Fogelberg, and the second half features Stevie Nicks. Graham Nash helped Fogelberg with harmony vocals on one song.

Both Fogelberg and Nicks were at or near the peak of their popularity. His most recent album at the time, "The Innocent Age," was released in 1981. It sold over two million copies, and had three songs in the Top Ten of the U.S. singles chart. Meanwhile, Nicks was having both a very successful solo career while still remaining a member of Fleetwood Mac. A new Fleetwood Mac album, "Mirage," would be released a month after this concert. Nicks didn't perform any songs from it.

This album is an hour and one minute long. 

Note that, for all the parts, the track numbers continue from the numbers in the previous part. That way, you can put all the songs together and listen to the whole thing at once if you want.  

50 Part of the Plan (Dan Fogelberg)
51 Empty Cages (Dan Fogelberg)
52 Tell Me to My Face (Dan Fogelberg)
53 Face the Fire (Dan Fogelberg)
54 talk (Dan Fogelberg)
55 There's a Place in the World for a Gambler (Dan Fogelberg with Graham Nash)
56 Edge of Seventeen (Stevie Nicks)
57 talk (Stevie Nicks)
58 Sara (Stevie Nicks)
59 I Need to Know (Stevie Nicks)
60 Rhiannon (Stevie Nicks)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DGXo684q

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/0sOekxVb3WtKsKr/file

The cover photo of Stevie Nicks is from this exact concert.

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.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers with Stevie Nicks - PBS Soundstage, Stephan C. O'Connell Center, Gainesville, FL, 9-21-2006

Here's an episode of the great TV show "PBS Soundstage" staring Tom P. and the Heartbreakers, from 2006.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)  

The star of the show was born and raised in Gainesville, Florida, and in fact most of his band was from there as well. So this concert was a rare homecoming, giving it extra emotional appeal. For the band's entire 2006 summer tour, they were assisted by Stevie Nicks, despite the fact that she was a big star in her own right. She has publicly stated more than once that she wishes she could have been a member of the Heartbreakers, so this tour was probably the closest she came to fulfilling that wish. She didn't sing any of her own songs, but sang back up on some of songs by the main act (including duet in which she sang on the original). 

This album is a lot longer than the typical hour-long episode of this TV show. That's because this is the full concert, from the DVD. It hasn't been released in any audio format, however. 

Note that this musical act did another episode of "PBS Soundstage," back in 2003. I've posted that one as well.

This album is an hour and 54 minutes long.

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file. 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/SrVC27H8

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/wtiqNcLva2nDKFG/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.

Various Artists - FireAid, Intuit Dome, Inglewood, CA, and Kia Forum, Inglewood, CA, 1-30-2025

Here's something surprisingly timely from me. I mostly post music from decades ago, but as I write this in early 2025, this concert took place only three days ago! It's a big concert - five hours long - with lots of big name artists.

I like posting big rock festivals and benefit concerts, because I've noticed they tend to get overlooked. But I tend not to post many from the 2000s because I don't like many of the musical acts on the bills. However, I looked at the list of performers here and I liked most of them, and could at least tolerate the rest. If you frequently come to this blog, your musical tastes are probably pretty similar to mine. You might want to give this a listen even if you don't like some of the acts. I think it's better than the vast majority of these kinds of concerts.

The concert was a surprisingly fast response to a series of fires that burned parts of the Los Angeles region earlier that same month. Millions were raised that would go to a charity to help the victims of the fires. There are lots of natural disasters that don't result in big benefit concerts. But this disaster hit very close to home for many famous musicians and or the people they know. For instance, Billy Crystal, one of the presenters here, lost his house to one of the fires, and Stevie Nicks came very close to losing hers. So it's not surprising that so many artists wanted to take part in a benefit concert.

Before I say anything else, note that the crisis caused by the fires is very much still ongoing, and donations are still being accepted. If you want to donate, here's the link:

Homepage - FireAid

I'm posting this because the entire concert has been put out there for free all over the place, including on literally at least ten TV streaming services, Tik Tok, YouTube, and more. So I'm just helping to spread it. If you want to watch it instead of just listen, YouTube is an easy way to find it. (That said, I wouldn't at all be surprised if this gets taken down due to some copyright issue or another, so grab it fast!)

The Wall Street Journal put out an interesting article before the concert took place that explained how it came to be. It's a worthwhile read:

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I'll spare the details, since you can read about everything there. But I want to note that famous musical acts were falling over each other to take part, so many were turned down. The ones that were included generally were ones who lived in Los Angeles or otherwise had close ties to the area. 

Also note that the concert was rather strange in that it actually two place in two different venues on the same night. This is similar to what happened with Live Aid in 1985, except that consisted of concerts in North America and Europe, whereas this was two concerts both in the two of Inglewood. The thinking was that one of the concerts was mainly for pop music and the other for rock music. While there was down time between acts in one concert, they would show a set from the other concert, keeping both audiences entertained almost all the time. I thought about splitting this into two album, one for each venue. But I ultimately decided on making one big one, with all the songs in the order they occurred.

Now, let's get to the music. I found high quality videos of each set at a bootleg sharing site, then I converted them to audio and broke them into mp3s. The videos were already almost entirely free of the frequent begging for money typical of these types of concerts. I kept nearly everything. However, there were some sequences highlighting the fires and the resulting homelessness that I cut out, mostly because those were videos meant to be seen, not just heard. But I did keep speeches by Billy Crystal and Jimmy Kimmel talking about the fires.

As I mentioned above, I liked most of the musical acts. The vast majority of them have been featured in albums I've posted at this blog already. The ones who haven't are: Anderson Paak, Dawes, Gracie Abrams, Tate McRae, Jelly Roll, Nirvana, Katy Perry, Olivia Rodrigo, Peso Pluma, Billie Eilish, and Lady Gaga. Some of those were merely okay, but a lot of them only played a song or two, and often did a cover of a famous song, so it didn't matter much. There was only one musical act I couldn't stand, and that was Lil Baby. Gawwwd, the Autotune on that is sooo awful! So that was the only act I didn't include.

I mentioned Nirvana above. It's hard to imagine Nirvana without Kurt Cobain, who died long ago. The set here featured the three surviving members, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear. To fill Cobain's shoes as lead vocalist, different female singers sang each of the four songs performed: St. Vincent, Kim Gordon, Joan Jett, and Violet Grohl (the last being the daughter of Dave Grohl). 

Generally speaking, the sound quality was excellent. But I noticed the lead vocals seems quite low during the Nirvana set, as well as the subsequent Red Hot Chili Peppers set. An analysis of those songs in an audio editing program confirmed that. So I boosted the vocals relative to the instruments for just those two sets, using the UVR5 audio editing program.

One other problem was that there often were abrupt sonic transitions between each set. So I would carefully look at the last song of one set and the first song of the next one. If it didn't sound smooth, I made some edits until it did. Typically, I'd merge audience applause together so it just sounds like lots of cheering until the next act got started.

This album is five hours long exactly. The actual concert was more like six hours long, but there was some dead air between sets, plus the video presentations about the fires that I cut out, as well as the Lil Baby set I couldn't stand.

001 Last Night on Earth (Green Day & Billie Eilish)
002 talk (Green Day)
003 Still Breathing (Green Day)
004 When I Come Around (Green Day)
005 talk (Billy Crystal)
006 Hand in My Pocket (Alanis Morissette)
007 talk (Alanis Morissette)
008 Thank U (Alanis Morissette)
009 talk (Anderson Paak)
010 Put Me Thru (Anderson Paak with Sheila E.)
011 talk (Anderson Paak)
012 Come Down (Anderson Paak with Sheila E.)
013 Still D.R.E. (Dr. Dre & Anderson Paak with Sheila E.)
014 talk (Anderson Paak)
015 California Love (Dr. Dre & Anderson Paak with Sheila E.)
016 talk by Alanis Morissette (Joni Mitchell)
017 Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell)
018 talk (Dawes)
019 Time Spent in Los Angeles (Dawes)
020 talk (Stephen Stills with Dawes)
021 For What It's Worth (Stephen Stills with Mike Campbell & Dawes)
022 talk (Graham Nash with Stephen Stills & Dawes)
023 Teach Your Children (Graham Nash with Stephen Stills & Dawes)
024 talk (Pink)
025 What about Us (Pink)
026 talk (Pink)
027 Me and Bobby McGee (Pink)
028 talk (Pink)
029 Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You (Pink)
030 talk by Samuel L. Jackson (Rod Stewart)
031 Forever Young (Rod Stewart)
032 talk (Rod Stewart)
033 Maggie May (Rod Stewart)
034 talk (Rod Stewart)
035 People Get Ready (Rod Stewart)
036 talk by Pink (John Mayer)
037 Neon (John Mayer)
038 Gravity (John Mayer)
039 Free Fallin' (John Mayer)
040 That's the Way of the World (Earth, Wind & Fire)
041 Shining Star (Earth, Wind & Fire)
042 September (Earth, Wind & Fire)
043 talk by Graham Nash (Black Crowes)
044 Remedy (Black Crowes)
045 talk (Black Crowes)
046 Have You Ever Seen the Rain (John Fogerty with the Black Crowes)
047 talk (Black Crowes)
048 Going to California (Black Crowes with Slash)
049 talk by Philip Bailey (Gracie Abrams)
050 I Love You, I'm Sorry (Gracie Abrams)
051 talk (Gracie Abrams)
052 A Long December (Gracie Abrams)
053 talk by John Meyer (No Doubt)
054 Just a Girl (No Doubt)
055 Don't Speak (No Doubt)
056 Spiderwebs (No Doubt)
057 talk (Tate McRae)
058 You Broke Me First (Tate McRae)
059 talk (Tate McRae)
060 Don't Dream It's Over (Tate McRae)
061 I Am Not Okay (Jelly Roll)
062 talk (Jelly Roll)
063 Hollywood Nights (Jelly Roll with Travis Barker)
064 talk by Gwen Stefani (Stevie Nicks)
065 Stand Back (Stevie Nicks)
066 talk (Stevie Nicks)
067 Landslide (Stevie Nicks)
068 talk (Stevie Nicks)
069 Edge of Seventeen (Stevie Nicks)
070 talk (Stevie Nicks)
071 talk by Jelly Roll (Katy Perry)
072 Rise (Katy Perry)
073 Roar (Katy Perry)
074 talk (Katy Perry)
075 California Gurls (Katy Perry)
076 Breed (Nirvana & St. Vincent)
077 School (Nirvana & Kim Gordon)
078 talk (Nirvana)
079 Territorial Pissings (Nirvana & Joan Jett)
080 talk (Nirvana)
081 All Apologies (Nirvana & Violet Grohl)
082 talk by Stevie Nicks (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
083 Dani California (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
084 Californication (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
085 talk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
086 Black Summer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
087 Under the Bridge (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
088 talk (Olivia Rodrigo)
089 Drivers License (Olivia Rodrigo)
090 talk (Olivia Rodrigo)
091 Deja Vu (Olivia Rodrigo)
092 talk by Olivia Rodrigo (Sting)
093 Message in a Bottle (Sting)
094 Driven to Tears (Sting)
095 Fragile (Sting)
096 talk by Lil Baby (Peso Pluma)
097 La Bebe (Peso Pluma)
098 talk by Sting (Billie Eilish with Finneas)
099 talk (Billie Eilish with Finneas)
100 Wildflower (Billie Eilish with Finneas)
101 The Greatest (Billie Eilish with Finneas)
102 talk (Billie Eilish with Finneas)
103 Birds of a Feather (Billie Eilish with Finneas)
104 talk (Billie Eilish with Finneas)
105 talk (Stevie Wonder)
106 Love's in Need of Love Today (Stevie Wonder)
107 Superstition (Stevie Wonder with Sting)
108 Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder & Sting)
109 talk (Jimmy Kimmel)
110 Shallow (Lady Gaga)
111 talk (Lady Gaga)
112 Always Remember Us This Way (Lady Gaga)
113 talk (Lady Gaga)
114 Time Is a Healer (Lady Gaga)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZQXR1WV7

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/1MTEuDFXIW31ySS/file

I had hundreds of photos to choose from for the cover art. Unfortunately, there was no big encore with lots of famous people on stage together. So I decided to go with a photo of the stage and a bit of the audience, with John Mayer playing guitar and looking quite small on the huge stage. Then I added a huge version of the FireAid logo to the top half of the image.

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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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.

Stevie Nicks - VH-1 Storytellers, VH-1 Storytellers Studio, New York City, 8-18-1998

Next up for my "VH-1 Storytellers" series is Stevie Nicks.

Nicks has had incredible success as a long-time member of Fleetwood Mac. That band has sold over 120 million albums, most of them from the years Nick was a member. But she's had great success as a solo artist too, selling over 65 million albums.

This concert took place a few months after she released a box set dealing with her entire career, called "Enchanted." As a result, she didn't have the usual new studio album to promote, so pretty much all the songs here are classics from years earlier. The one partial exception is the song "Rhiannon." While it's a Fleetwood Mac classic from the 1970s, she put out a solo piano version on the "Enchanted" box set, and she also performed it here in a solo piano format.

I believe everything here is officially unreleased. As I've done with nearly all of these, I made some edits to get rid of traces of commercial breaks. Mostly that meant editing the applause after songs when they ended abruptly to go to a commercial.

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 Dreams [Incomplete] (Stevie Nicks)
02 talk (Stevie Nicks)
03 Landslide (Stevie Nicks)
04 talk (Stevie Nicks)
05 Stand Back (Stevie Nicks)
06 talk (Stevie Nicks)
07 Rhiannon (Stevie Nicks)
08 talk (Stevie Nicks)
09 After the Glitter Fades (Stevie Nicks)
10 talk (Stevie Nicks)
11 Edge of Seventeen (Stevie Nicks)
12 talk (Stevie Nicks)
13 Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You (Stevie Nicks)

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https://bestfile.io/en/ncn8MQ9Bv4UC6zx/file

The cover is a screenshot from this exact concert. I used the Krea AI program to upgrade the cover photo and increase detail.

US Festival '83, Glen Helen Regional Park, San Bernardino, CA, 5-30-1983 - Day 3, Part 8: Stevie Nicks

The seventh act on Day Three (Rock Day) of the 1983 US Festival is Stevie Nicks.

There were very few acts that appeared at both the 1982 and 1983 US Festivals. In fact, there were only two: Oingo Boingo and the English Beat. But one might count Nicks as a third, because she performed at the 1982 festival as part of Fleetwood Mac, and then in 1983 as a solo act. In 1982, Fleetwood Mac was touring to support their "Mirage" album released that year. Nicks returned in 1983 because she wanted to promote her new solo album, "The Wild Heart."

"The Wild Heart" album actually wouldn't be released until a couple of weeks after the US Festival. At the time of the festival, only the lead single, "Stand Back," had been released. As a result, she didn't play any of the songs from it except for "Stand Back."

This concert was a bit unusual for her since it was taking place a month before her tour to support her new album was scheduled to begin. So she did just one concert two days before it, in order to warm up. Apparently, her "Wild Heart" concert was a very wild one in terms of her personal behavior, especially drug use. She started dating Joe Walsh at the time (who had the time spot right before her at this festival), and they went on tour together. Walsh was heavily using drugs and alcohol at the time, and Nicks got caught up in taking part in that too to the point that it was negatively impacting her performances and her health. (She would go clean in early 1986, after a doctor warned her that he cocaine addiction had gotten so bad that she could die soon.) Luckily for our purposes though, since this concert took place before the tour got started, the drug use didn't negatively impact her voice and performance much yet, though people in the audience claimed she looked to be high on something.

Aside from the one "The Wild Heart" song, the songs were generally a split between songs from her first solo album "Bella Donna" and Fleetwood Mac classics that she wrote, plus a cover of Tom Petty's "I Need to Know."

This album is an hour and 16 minutes long.

094 talk (Stevie Nicks)
095 Gold Dust Woman (Stevie Nicks)
096 talk (Stevie Nicks)
097 Outside the Rain (Stevie Nicks)
098 Dreams (Stevie Nicks)
099 talk (Stevie Nicks)
100 Gold and Braid (Stevie Nicks)
101 I Need to Know (Stevie Nicks)
102 talk (Stevie Nicks)
103 Gypsy (Stevie Nicks)
104 talk (Stevie Nicks)
105 Angel (Stevie Nicks)
106 talk (Stevie Nicks)
107 Leather and Lace (Stevie Nicks)
108 talk (Stevie Nicks)
109 Stand Back (Stevie Nicks)
110 talk (Stevie Nicks)
111 How Still My Love (Stevie Nicks)
112 talk (Stevie Nicks)
113 Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (Stevie Nicks)
114 The Edge of Seventeen (Stevie Nicks)
115 talk (Stevie Nicks)
116 Rhiannon (Stevie Nicks)
117 talk (Stevie Nicks)

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The cover photo is from this exact concert.

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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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)

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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)

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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.

Sheryl Crow with Kid Rock, Stevie Nicks & Keith Richards - The Shine Club, New York City, 4-30-2001

This is a very interesting Sheryl Crow concert. In fact, it's the most interesting one I've ever come across. Instead of her usual shot performing her hits to a large crowd, she played a secret, unannounced show at a very small club. That freed her up to play whatever she wanted, just for fun. So although she did do a few of her hits, she mostly played cover songs she enjoyed.

For this show, she's played a lot of songs she very rarely, or maybe never, played otherwise. This contains covers of songs by: the James Gang, Badfinger, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers Band, Dobie Gray, the Everly Brothers,  Buddy Holly, Fats Dominos, Ram Jam/ Lead Belly, Foghat, Tom Petty, the Sugarhill Gang, and Queen! Definitely not your typical Sheryl Crow concert.

That would make the show plenty interesting already. But what's even more intriguing is that she invited three of her famous musician friends to join her: Kid Rock, Stevie Nicks, and Keith Richards. She's done various duets and musical projects with the first two, and she's toured with the Rolling Stones more than once, often performing with them on stage. Each of her guests also let their hair down and played songs they usually didn't play. For instance, Kid Rock strayed far from his reputation as a rap-rock star by playing a solo acoustic version of the Allman Brothers Band song "Come and Go Blues."

As far as the sound quality goes, this is an audience bootleg, which means it's less than ideal. But it's one of the better audience bootlegs. Normally, I steer clear of those, but this sounds perfectly fine to me.

I've made a lot of edits to tighten things up. Because the show was spontaneous and free-form, there was extended silence between songs, while I presume the band was figuring out what to play next. During these stretches, not much could be heard except fans shouting out their song suggestions. I've cut most of that out, but I've kept the between song banter of those on stage. Also, Kid Rock made some major flubs trying to get "Come and Go Blues" started, and I've edited those out.

In short, even though the sound quality isn't the greatest, if you want to download just one concert of Sheryl Crow playing with a band, I recommend this one.

01 talk (Sheryl Crow)
02 Walk Away (Sheryl Crow)
03 My Favorite Mistake (Sheryl Crow)
04 No Matter What (Sheryl Crow)
05 talk (Sheryl Crow)
06 If It Makes You Happy (Sheryl Crow)
07 It Don't Hurt (Sheryl Crow)
08 Don't Tell Me - Sweet Home Alabama (Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow)
09 talk (Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow)
10 Come and Go Blues (Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow)
11 talk (Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow)
12 Drift Away (Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow & Keith Richards)
13 talk (Sheryl Crow & Keith Richards)
14 Love Hurts (Sheryl Crow & Keith Richards)
15 Not Fade Away (Sheryl Crow & Keith Richards)
16 Ain't that a Shame (Sheryl Crow & Keith Richards)
17 Black Betty (Sheryl Crow)
18 Slow Ride (Sheryl Crow)
19 Do Ya (Sheryl Crow)
20 talk (Sheryl Crow)
21 Too Far from Texas (Stevie Nicks & Sheryl Crow)
22 talk (Stevie Nicks & Sheryl Crow)
23 It's Only Love (Stevie Nicks & Sheryl Crow)
24 Leather and Lace (Stevie Nicks & Sheryl Crow)
25 talk (Stevie Nicks & Sheryl Crow)
26 Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (Stevie Nicks & Sheryl Crow)
27 The Difficult Kind (Sheryl Crow with Stevie Nicks)
28 talk (Sheryl Crow)
29 There Goes the Neighborhood - Rapper's Delight (Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow)
30 Tie Your Mother Down (Sheryl Crow with Kid Rock)

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For some reason, Crow played three secret concerts at the Shine Club in 2001: this one in April, plus two in May. She had most of the same special guests each time. I found a photo of Crow with Kid Rock and Stevie Nicks together at one of the May concerts, and decided to use that for the cover art. But then, later, I discovered there were photos from this very concert in April. I found one I really like of Crow with Keith Richards. You can see the delight on her face that she's getting to play with one of her musical heroes. So I've chosen that as the cover art photo. But I like the other one, so I've included it here as well.

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)

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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.