In addition to "Not That Funny," Buckingham yowls and yelps his way through one of the band's signature songs, "Go Your Own Way." It's one of the rawest performances from the original LP. The May 20-21, 1980 stop in Cleveland is well-covered on the album. The 1980 performance from Tucson's McKale Center (capacity: 13,053) is one of many instances preserved on Live in which the band seemingly transforms a large arena into a much more intimate venue. Buckingham also cut loose on an extended rendition from Cleveland of his own "Not That Funny," bringing a furious energy to his musical answer to the punk movement the Live sequence then finds him in sensitive, reflective mode with "Never Going Back Again" during which he captivates with just voice and guitar.
But the eighteen selections went deeper than just Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, and Tusk, beginning with the excavation of band co-founder Peter Green's blistering and rhythmic "Oh Well" from St. Indeed, all nine of Mac's 1975-1979 top twenty singles were included on Live other than "You Make Loving Fun" and "Tusk." Live performances of both are featured on the bonus disc, CD 3. Live could well have been "just" a survey of the band's hits they'd certainly accumulated enough over just three albums with the "new" line-up. (Yes, it's believed that much of the original album was overdubbed, but that's hardly uncommon.) Night to night, the band eschewed playing it safe, expanding upon their polished studio productions rather than strictly recreating them. Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood happily never settled on one "sound," so all sides of the group from ballsy rockers to balladry and even a nod to FM's blues-rock roots are heard on Live. The songwriter's guitar and voice are both in gutsy form, and it proves as effective an opener to Live as it did on Fleetwood Mac. Expanded with nearly 80 minutes' worth of unreleased live music, this 3CD/2LP set (Rhino R2 599176) is a worthy addition.Īppropriately enough, the original album begins with the same song that opened the Buckingham/Nicks era of the band on 1975's Fleetwood Mac: Lindsey Buckingham's rousing "Monday Morning" from a 1980 stand at Tokyo's Budokan Hall.
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Last month, Rhino added Live to its series of remastered and expanded Mac reissues already including Fleetwood Mac (1975), Rumours(1977), Tusk(1979), Mirage(1982), and Tango in the Night(1987). Live was introduced into the band's CD catalogue in 1988, and that original edition has been a mainstay ever since. and earning a Gold certification from the RIAA less than one year after its release. Live, produced by the band with Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut, was intended to fill that void. 1 in 1977-1978 on its way to becoming one of the biggest sellers of all time. top ten singles - it fell off the album chart within nine months as opposed to its predecessor, Rumours, which spent a record-breaking nine consecutive weeks at No.
4 on the Billboard 200 and yielded two U.S. While Tusk was a success by any measure - it reached No. When Fleetwood Mac's Live reached store shelves in time for Christmas 1980, the deluxe 2-LP set was following another mammoth affair: Tusk, released just fourteen months earlier.
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