Release Date: 04 November 2013
Label: Snapper
Packaging Type: Gate Fold
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 636551500517
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
Spock's Beard
Wishbone Ash
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac