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Fleetwood Mac
1979-11-06
Checkerdome
St Louis, Missouri
Soundboard Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included
01. Say You Love Me
02. The Chain
03. Dreams
04. Not That Funny
05. Rhiannon (end cuts)
06. Over And Over
07. Oh Well
08. Sara
09. What Makes You Think You're The One
10. Oh Daddy
11. Save Me A Place
12. Landslide
13. Tusk
14. Angel
15. You Make Loving Fun
16. I'm So Afraid
17. World Turning
18. Go Your Own Way
19. Sisters Of The Moon
20. Blue Letter
21. Songbird
1979 - Few albums ever achieved the success of Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 release Rumors. The disc won a Grammy for Album of the Year, went to number 1 on the Billboard charts and stayed there for 31 weeks, spawned 4 top 10 singles in the US, and became one of the best selling albums of all time. Perhaps emboldened by that success, the band decided to take a dramatically different approach to their next disc. Tusk would be more experimental in nature, with Lindsay Buckingham producing initial versions of tracks at home, then bringing them to the band finish in the studio. The arrangements were more sparse in nature, reflecting the influence of punk and new wave music on Buckingham's style. The final product was a double album, with 20 songs spread across 4 sides of music, which cost over $1 million to produce, making it the most expensive album in history to that point. Released on October 12, 1979, Tusk would go to #4 on the US charts, sell 4 million copies (at a price of $15.99, which equaled 8 million copies for a single disc), and produce 2 top ten hits, the title track and Sara. Despite those numbers, the record company deemed Tusk a failure in comparison to Rumors. Undaunted, Fleetwood Mac embarked on an 18 month world tour in support on the album. This soundboard recording captures the band in the early stages of that tour, on November 6, 1979, 38 years ago today, in St. Louis. The set list contains plenty of material from both Tusk and Rumors so when you download it you can decide for yourself how well Fleetwood Mac did with their follow up to the masterpiece.
6 comments:
Terrific blog, thanks for all your efforts! Nice to see up to date posts, and not an abandoned music blog... Cheers!
Thanks. This show brings back memories. Unfortunately some bad as well as good. You see, I had a chance to see the Mac back in 1976. A big stadium show. I turned down the invitation because my stuck-on-the Beatles pious self thought they were "too commercial". So I just sat around the house alone while all of my friends made the trek to the gig. It wasn't too long after that incident that I realized what a monumental mistake I had made! I did make it to their 1998 ‘The Dance’ tour, though. Same line-up as in 76. But with each year that passes, I regret missing that show more and more. Thanks for posting it, though! I can sure dig their type of “commercialism” now, boy!
Whenever you get a moment, it would be great if you could post this. Thank you so very much.
new link is up! enjoy!
Link is dead. Could you reup this one please. Looks like a great show.
Thanks for one great site.
new link is up! enjoy!
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