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.
Many thanks for this.
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