Fleetwood Mac - Live Becoming A Landslide (2015)

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An excellent live performance CD from late 1975 by F Mac, with Stevie Nicks just recently joined. Contains songs from the last Bob Welsh album alongside quite a few from the classic 1976 self titled record. A very nice addition to any Mac collection.

By Neil, amazon

OCTOBER 1975 BROADCAST RECORDING BY THE NEW FLEETWOOD MAC The recording on this CD, a show performed in October 75 by the Mac-McVie-McVie- Buckingham-Nicks line up, three months after the release of their first album together, is an early illustration of the new Fleetwood Mac in their initial phase. Their eponymously titled album had not at this point charted and the single Over My Head had only reached No. 20 on Billboard. However, listening to this broadcast concert today it is not difficult to understand how it was that within another year Fleetwood Mac would be among the biggest rock bands on the planet.

About the Artist
To suggest that Fleetwood Mac have had their fair share of trouble and strife throughout their lengthy career, now spanning almost 50 years, would be an understatement of some magnitude. Indeed, soon after the group had their first real success with hit single Albatross in the closing months of 1968, lead guitarist and main songwriter Peter Green was diagnosed with schizophrenia following his consumption of LSD. Green left the group in 1970, a month following their last chart hit for five years, the ironically titled Peter Green composition Man Of The World. In 1971, original guitarist Jeremy Spencer walked out of the group in order to join a religious cult and in 72, Danny Kirwan, by then principle guitarist and songwriter, was asked to leave following a serious drinking problem that caused violent outbursts and refusals to play. Internal struggles were also present at this time; John McVie was drinking too much as well, and his marriage to Christine was under pressure, and Mick Fleetwood s wife began an affair Kirwan s replacement, guitarist Bob Weston. Weston was soon sacked, following which the group s 1973 US tour was cancelled. In 1974 a fake Fleetwood Mac emerged and began performing in the US. Put together by ex-manager Clive Weston, who claimed he owned the name, the new line-up did not contain anyone who had ever previously performed with the group. Although the matter was resolved via the courts, for the best part of 74 the real Mac were prevented from performing or recording. At the end of 1974 Bob Welch, rhythm guitarist, songwriter and by then musical director, was fed up with the legal hassles and constant touring, and he left the group in December. Searching for a replacement guitarist, Mick Fleetwood came across Lindsey Buckingham and offered him the role. Buckingham accepted on the proviso that his partner, Stephanie Nicks, could also join. The pair were added to the line-up on New Year s Eve 1974, less than a month following Welch s departure. And the rest, as they say, is history, albeit one that provided for many more years of internal struggle, but one augmented by the kind of success that most bands can only dream of.

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