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.
Another one that isn't anything at all to do with the BBC. It's a part of the Westwood One 'Superstars In Concert' series.
ReplyDeleteIt seems you're still unclear on the concept of how the BBC works. If they want to broadcast something badly enough and they didn't do it themselves, they go and get the rights to it from someone else. As was the case with this concert:
DeleteFleetwood Mac in Concert
BBC Radio 2 logo
BBC Radio 2
Sat 24th Aug 1996, 18:00 on BBC Radio 2
Recorded at Fresno,
California, in 1987. introduced by Ken Bruce. Producer Richard Masters
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1bdc7b25c6f1482ca7508d9b48377a0a
Is that not clear enough for you, yet again? You have a purist definition of what should be considered BBC material. It seems you and I disagree on that. So be it. But there's no way you can say this doesn't have anything to do with the BBC when it was clearly broadcast on the BBC!
I fully understand how the BBC works - I already told you about how they pay broadcast fees for material that they didn't produce - and they didn't produce this. I'm a BBC subscriber living in ENGLAND. It's clearly you that doesn't understand how the BBC operates. As I have explained in simple terms, just because something was broadcast on the BBC doesn't mean it was "Recorded for them" as you keep incorrectly claiming. This was a 'Superstars In Concert' recording produced by Westwood One. If you are going to do a BBC Project, then do it properly instead of using guesswork and at least get your basic information correct unless of coure you're suggesting that everything that is ever broadcast on the BBC was "made for the BBC"?
DeleteSee, nothing to do with the BBC:
https://archive.org/services/img/fleetwood-mac-fresno-ca-1987-westwood-one/full/pct:500/0/default.jpg
I didn't say I'm posting things only "made for the BBC." I'm posting and labeling things broadcast by the BBC. If I'm loose with that language, then I should fix that. As you can see from my above post, yes, this was broadcast by the BBC. The fact that it was originally broadcast by Westwood One doesn't change that fact in my mind. Clearly, you and I look at this in different ways. You've made your opinion clear. You're a purist. You think only things originally broadcast on the BBC deserves the BBC label. Whereas I think things originally broadcast elsewhere and then later broadcast on the BBC also count. (If I were collecting Westwood One recordings, this would count for that as well.) By now, it's clear that we're simply not going to agree, so there's no need for you to keep harping on it. You're not going to change my mind, because we look at this in different ways.
DeleteBut since you're so interested in this material, instead of complaining, how about helping? If you have BBC concerts that I haven't posted and you want to share with the world, I would be delighted if you want to pass them on to me. Also the same if you have lists of BBC concerts that I've missed that I should be on the look out for.
Interesting the two times Buckingham left he was replaced by two people: the second time in the 2000s it was for Neil Finn and Mike Campbell, two excellent musicians who quarterbacked their respective bands (Split Enz/Crowded House and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers). Still, without Lindsay the Mac was a competent soft rock band. With him they were kinetic energy.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much!
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