A Band On Fire
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Caught them live in Honolulu
I caught them on the way back from the Asia portion of the Tusk tour that was the basis for this live album in Mar 1979. Lindsay's performance on I'm So Afraid left me in awe in a way that has been hardly breached since. The performance on the album doesn't quite compare to live, but that is engineering and ambiance. It does capture the power and energy of the band at it's peak and in the raw, unlike the crisp productions in the studio.

BTW, I was also fortunate enough to catch Clapton on the Slowhand tour about the same timeframe. Dates are a blur, but the music resonates. Also Bob Marley, Blue Oyster Cult, and some other notables.

Vintage Mac
I love this album. I know it received lukewarm reviews upon its initial release in '80 (including a measly two and a half stars from Rolling Stone - if memory serves me). I know it isn't quite as polished as The Dance and was no where near as successful sales wise. But I could listen to this double live set over and over and never get tired of it. (And in fact that's exactly what I've been doing this winter. It makes a great companion on a cold night's drive home from work.) Maybe it is my thirty years love affair with the band. Or maybe, more likely, it is the brilliance of their singing and songwriting. There is no other group quite like them. They are unmistakable and inimitable.

In addition to playing familiar hits live, the band offers new songs as well. Once again Christine McVie scores a vocal bull's eye with "One More Lonely Night." Seemingly, deceptively without effort, she manages to convey anguish, loneliness, desire, and wisdom. "Farmer's Daughter" is just a lovely bit of jauntiness. And I was floored by L. Buckingham's version of "Oh Well." Yes, he does go a bit overboard with the extracurricular wails and cries, as though he forgot the song he was supposed to sing and lapses into John Lennon's "Well Well Well" instead, but overall it's a stunning, moving performance.

As for the classic songs, whether they're performed in a studio or on a stage, they never fail to enthrall. They move you, make you dance, have you singing right along with them. If not, you're not really a Mac fan.

This is an underappreciated classic. I predict it will gain prestige in the years to come.

Three long lost brilliant songs!
Fleetwood Mac included three new tracks on this live album, and
all of them are brilliant! Fireflies is one of the best Stevie
Nicks tunes she ever recorded, believe it or not. Great melody
and perfect vocal. Strangely, this track got buried and was
never played on the radio. They also buried another of her best tunes,
Silver Springs for 20 years, very strange! There was saturation of Fleetwood Mac
in 1980, which may explain why Fireflies wasn't a hit.
They should have re-released this one later, or included it on
a compilation.

Christine McVie's new tune, One More Night is fantastic, and also
could easily have been a hit record. Very pretty, soft tune.

Fleetwood Mac rival the Beach Boys with their incredible harmonies
on The Farmer's Daughter. This is a big surprise and beautiful way
to close the record.

The rest of the live recordings are interesting, but the real treasure
are the new tracks, don't miss them if you are a Fleetwood Mac
fan! It's a shame they got lost in the shuffle, so long ago...

LIVE Fleetwood Mac!!
This CD is great! It genuinely flows along ,you can tell this was a good time for Fleetwood Mac (not alot of fighting and competing). In my opinion this Cd was captured during the groups prime! My favorite song is Firelies!