The last of the non-standard tapes: a Maxell LNE35-7, 1,800 feet, with a label on the spine reading “Buckingham Nicks\/Fleetwood Mac.” There’s a song list inside that I didn’t notice until after I’d recorded the whole thing, and there’s also a list in the label on the tape itself, so there wasn’t much question about what was on it, at least for most of it.<\/p>\n
It’s three albums — “Buckingham Nicks,” “Fleetwood Mac” (the 1975 one), and “Rumours” — followed by Fleetwood Mac live.<\/p>\n
“Buckingham Nicks” flopped and has been out of print (excluding bootlegs) since 1973; I was very pleased to discover that I have it here, complete and clean. Two songs had later Fleetwood Mac versions, but here are the originals. I recorded this off WYDD — they played the album straight through, no interruptions, late one night in 1975. I remember the event.<\/p>\n
“Fleetwood Mac” and “Rumours” I already had, so I just deleted those once I’d verified there wasn’t anything weird going on. That finished out Side 1 and started Side 2.<\/p>\n
And Fleetwood Mac’s live set didn’t have a source listed, but the minute I hit a station break I recognized the announcer’s voice — it’s the good old King Biscuit Flower Hour. For some reason he never says<\/i> that, on this tape, but it’s unmistakable, and googling “Fleetwood Mac King Biscuit” promptly brought up all the verification I needed — this show was bootlegged, and the set list is plastered on the bootleg’s album cover, so I can be quite sure that’s the right one (even though the bootleggers have one song title slightly wrong). It was recorded in October 1975, broadcast in ’75 and ’76 and ’90.<\/p>\n
I used the bootleg cover as my cover in iTunes — why not?<\/p>\n
And finally, at the end of the tape is Renaissance, performing “Ashes Are Burning” live. I didn’t recognize it at first, to be honest, and even then wasn’t sure until I played the two in alternation, but it’s the performance from their “Live At Carnegie Hall” album (which I have). So I didn’t need to preserve that.<\/p>\n
No idea why I chose that to finish out the tape.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I got “Buckingham Nicks” and the Fleetwood Mac KBFH out of it, so I’m pleased.<\/p>\n
That just leaves thirty-two Concertape 44-1018 1800-foot tapes to go. Nothing else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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