Friday, August 23, 2024

Fleetwood Mac 1970-01-17 Eagle Auditorium, Seattle, WA

Artist: Fleetwood Mac
Date: 1970-01-17
Location: Seattle, WA
Venue: Eagles Auditorium
Source: Over The Air FM broadcast
Lineage: 1st gen cassette>wav(24/96)>wav(16/44.1)>flac
Transfer: 1st gen cassette>Revox B 215>Monster Studiolink cabling(balanced pair)>Audiophile 192>Adobe Audition 3.0
Taped By: Howie O.
Transferred By: weedwacker

Band Members:
Peter Green - guitar, vocals
Danny Kirwan - guitar, vocals
Jeremy Spencer - guitar vocals
John McVie - bass
Mick Fleetwood - drums

Setlist:
01. If You Let Me Love You
02. Whole Lot Of Loving
03. Only You
04. Madison Blues
05. Baby Please Set A Date
06. Home Work
07. Rattlesnake Shake
08. Stranger Blues
09. The Sun Is Shining
10. World In Harmony
11. Great Balls Of Fire
12. Jenny Jenny
13. Teenage Darling
14. I'm Ready

Length: 79:05

Notes:
Darrell F.'s 1st gen cassettes made from Howie's master reels. Unfortunately the reels are no longer with us so these are the best copies left of Howie's recordings. This particular recording along with many other Eagles Auditorium shows broadcast on KOL-FM if circulating from Bill B.'s reels will definately either be sourced from Howie's masters or Darrell's 1st gens so these may or may not be an upgrade to existing Eagles broadcasts from this time period if can be traced back to Bill. The recording may switch from stereo to mono periodically since reception wasn't the greatest from where Howie lived at this time which was in the extreme southwest of Seattle over a hill. Through the years people have questioned whether these recordings are truely soundboard or audience recordings and the answer is they are a hybrid of both. The recording sounds great but this is bittersweet moment in the band's history since it was at this point Peter Green's eccentricities were taking over which would lead to him leaving band only 4 months later.

Here is some more background info on these recordings from Pat L.
"All were broadcast on KOL-FM on their program called "Great Nights at Eagles". It ran on Sunday evenings and the host was a UW professor named John Chamblis. He borrowed the reels (or had copies) from Mike Reed who had recorded them and was selling copies at the time and was hoping these KOL broadcasts would generate some interest in his venture.
 
The tapes were recorded on a reel at the soundboard. The input was two microphones hung over the stage, which accounts for the somewhat funky sound--not quite soundboard, but not quite audience."

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