In 1972, the main creative forces in the band were Christine McVie on keyboards, Bob Welsh on lead guitar, and Danny Kirwan on lead guitar. By the end of 1972, Kirwan was out of the band. The band brought in two new members: Bob Weston on slide guitar, and Dave Walker on lead vocals. That's the line-up for this concert: Christine McVie, Bob Welsh, Bob Weston, Dave Walker, plus the two unchanging members, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood.
Walker, who had been the lead vocalist for the band Savoy Brown, was brought into the band because the band's manager thought the band needed a charismatic lead vocalist. However, he didn't last long. He was included in the album "Penguin," released in March 1973. But he only sang lead vocals on two songs, one of which he wrote. At the end of the tour to promote the album, he was ejected from the group. So, in the larger history of this band, Walker is a minor blip, only remembered for singing two songs on one album. But he actually dominates this concert, singing most of the songs.
The band carried on with just five members. Later in 1973, the band released another album, "Mystery to Me." Shortly after the tour to promote that album started, it was discovered that Bob Weston was sleeping with the wife of Mick Fleetwood. The tour was immediately cancelled, and the band actually broke up for several months. When they finally got back together, Weston was gone. So this is probably the only decent concert bootleg out there prominently featuring both Walker and Weston. One can tell Weston's guitar playing since he pretty much exclusively played slide guitar.
Now, let me address this recording. This is an audience bootleg. I generally shy away from those, due to sound quality issues. But it was an unusually good one. The main problem was that the lead vocals were buried in the mix. So I used the MVSEP program to bring them back up. That made a big difference. I also ran MVSEP over all the songs again to get rid of the crowd noise during the songs. Furthermore, the banter between songs was hard to understand. I ran those tracks through the Adobe vocal enhancer program, and that helped a lot. After all that, I think this concert sounds almost as good as a soundboard boot from the time.
The one disappointment I have in this concert is that McVie only sang lead vocals on one song, "Get like You Used to Be." That's curious, because the lead single for the album they were promoting at the time, "Penguin," was "Remember Me," a song written and sung by McVie.
This album is 55 minutes long. It's relatively short for a concert, but that's because they were an opening act. You can hear right at the end how the emcee announces there will be a short break before the main act, Deep Purple, takes the stage.
01 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
02 The Green Manalishi [With the Two Prong Crown] (Fleetwood Mac)
03 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Oh Well, Part 1 (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Get like You Used to Be (Fleetwood Mac)
06 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
07 Night Watch (Fleetwood Mac)
08 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
09 Same Old Blues (Fleetwood Mac)
10 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
11 In the Country (Fleetwood Mac)
12 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
13 Rattlesnake Shake (Fleetwood Mac)
14 talk by emcee (Fleetwood Mac)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/BfV3NdrW
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https://bestfile.io/en/IoeQxCwJoYsPsA1/file
The cover image is kind of a creative invention. I found a photo of band members Bob Weston and Bob Welch in concert in 1973, and another photo of Dave Walker in concert in 1973. I put them together in Photoshop. Both original photos were in black and white, but I colorized them using the Kolorize program. From right to left: Bob Weston, Bob Welch, and Dave Walker.
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