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Release Date: 04 November 2013
Label: Snapper
Packaging Type: Gate Fold
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 636551500517
Description
Double LP set featuring vintage live recordings from Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.
Earlier this year the current incarnation of Fleetwood Mac embarked on a massive world tour. Dates in North America are being followed by gigs around Europe, Australia and New Zealand. These dates will see the band playing sold-out shows to huge arena crowds and are sure to create another surge of interest in this much-loved band.
Boston Volume 1 is a 2LP set which features live recordings from an earlier era of the band's colourful history. The set features the classic blues line-up of Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, John McVie and Jeremy Spencer.
Originally recorded at the Boston Tea Party venue at the first show of a three night residency in February 1970, for a planned release later the same year, these recordings were left in the can, unissued, following leader Peter Green's sudden decision to leave the band a few weeks after the dates. Tracks from the shows were eventually released in various forms in the mid-80s but these releases were blighted by poor sound sources. The discovery of the original 8-track tapes and a number of previously unreleased tracks in the late 90s allowed the material to be re-mixed, re-mastered, and substantially overhauled for release on 3 separate CD volumes.
This new vinyl edition of the first of these volumes is pressed on double heavyweight (180g)vinyl with an etched fourth side. It is packaged in a gatefold sleeve with printed inners.
Description
FLEETWOOD MAC'S LEGENDARY THREE-NIGHT PERFORMANCE AT THE BOSTON TEA PARTY - VOL 1 - DEVASTATING PERFORMANCES REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL TAPES.
Boston is a CD trilogy which captures a magical night at the Boston Tea Party (Feb 1970). The set features the band at the height of its powers with its classic blues line-up of Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer & Danny Kirwan alongside the omnipresent Mick Fleetwood & John McVie.
Originally recorded for a planned release later the same year, these recordings were left in the can, unissued, following leader Peter Green's sudden decision to leave the band a few weeks after the dates. Tracks from the shows were eventually released in various forms in the mid-80s but these releases were blighted by poor sound sources. The discovery of the original 8-track tapes & a number of previously unreleased tracks in the late 90s allowed the material to be re-mixed, remastered & substantially overhauled for release on 3 separate CD volumes.
The mid-price trilogy release on separate digipack CD's brings together all of these re-mastered recordings to present a complete document of these historic shows, each complete with an 8-page booklet & composite sleeve artwork when the CDs are owned together.
Boston Volume 1 (SMACDX1327); Boston Volume 2 (SMACDX1136); Boston Volume 3 (SMACDX1137).
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Rick Wakeman
Fairport Convention
Vivian Stanshall
Vivian Stanshall
Rick Wakeman
Caravan
Bob Marley & The Wailers
The Pretty Things
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
