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Live in Boston 2

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This Album, together with LIVE IN BOSTON VOL.1 and VOL.3, contains most of the tracks originally intended for release as a live album by Fleetwood Mac. This was one of a number of projects curtailed by the sudden departure from the band of Peter Green in April 1970. The recording was done at the Tea Party Club in Boston whilst the band was on it's second American tour in 1969.

Of particular interest in this set are the rock'n roll cuts ("Keep A Knocking" and "Jenny Jenny" on VOL.2, "Great Balls Of Fire" and "Tutti Frutti" on VOL.3) performed by 'Earl Vince & the Valiants' - a pseudonym for a gold lamé suited Mac fronted by Jeremy Spencer - and a tongue-in-cheek tribute to their rock forebears. Contrasted with this are the straight Chicago style blues that were the band's hallmark ("Madison Blues" and "Got To Move" on VOL.3, "Red Hot Mama" and "The Sun Is Shining" on VOL.2) highlighted by some of Peter Green's last and greatest songs ("Oh Well" and "Rattlesnake Shake" on VOL.2, "Green Manalishi" on VOL.1) with Fleetwood Mac. Highly recommended!

The Live in Boston 3 volulme set is a reissue that has been remastered from the original 8 track master tapes. I almost bought the original releases some years ago but passed up on it after reading about the poor sound quality. I'm glad I waited for this reissue because the sound quality is awesome. Volume II rattles and shakes! The version of Rattlesnake Shake on Volume II is better than on Volume I and that is saying a heck of a lot. Buy all 3 volumes and you'll be happy you did.

The guitar jamming is so fine .... the interplay between Kirwin and Green and the underated slide work of Jeremy Spencer on these live perfomamces makes it clear why Fleetwood Mac in the late 60s and early 70s were the best live performing band of this genre ... better than the Stones, the Who or anyone else playing electric blues based music. Buy them, take em home or put them on your car stereo, crank it up and boogie.

To say that Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac is an understated jewel in the blues/rock world is too dismissive. They have a raw energy that could only be matched by only a few, and I can't really even think of who they are. I got Then Play On when I was 15 in 79. I have replaced the album 3 or 4 times, and still listen to it at least once a month. It is a staple in my home, car, and ipod.

I have heard, but not owned Albatross, and somewhere have two Peter Green cassette tapes. I never heard them live. What a shallow existance I have lived. I just got Live in Boston 1 and 2 today (from Amazon) and can not beleive what I am hearing. Truely some of the greatest music I have ever heard.

If you know the early works of Fleetwood Mac or Peter Green, then this is the creme de la creme. Words can not describe how absorbing the music is. I am addicted to Jam Bands (the Dead, Garcia, moe., the cheese...) and see many similarities, but mellower and bluesier.

Buy it, listen to it, fall in love with the lost art of Fleetwood Mac / Peter green et al.

Does it get any better than this? Not much...well, I actually prefer volume 1 but this is really excellent as well. Some of the very best, classic rock improvising you'll ever hear.

In February of 1970 Peter Green, Daniel Kirwan, Jeremy Spencer, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood, the BLUES-ROCK outfit known as Fleetwood Mac, played three consecutive nights at The Boston Tea Party. They had plans to record and release their first live album. The band was at the peak of their powers but, unfortunately, it was a peak right before a fall as the band was about to loose their leader, Peter Green, a few months later. Peter left the Mac in May of 1970 and plans for the live album were canceled. Peter's departure would start the ball rolling for the numerous personnel changes that would plague Mac for the rest of their career! But on those three nights that February, no one in the audience could have suspected such a thing. No doubt had the proposed live album been released it would have been hailed alongside The Who's "Live At Leeds" or Deep Purple's "Made In Japan" as one of the most fierce documents of a '60s/'70s rock band in concert.

To say that "Live In Boston Vol. 2" rocks would be an understatement. This is probably the best live Mark I Fleetwood Mac anyone could ever hope to hear! The remastered sound quality, direct from the original 8-track masters, is top notch and all the elements that made the first Fleetwood Mac great are in full display. You've got Peter Green and Danny Kirwan's blazing lead trade offs, Jeremy Spencer's Elmore James inspired slide work and '50s parody, John McVie's looping bass lines, and Mick Fleetwood's relentless attack on the skins that never lets up. "Live In Boston Vol. 2" comes from a three-volume set of their Boston Tea Party concerts held Feb. 5-7, 1970. The band's second show finds the group ready to fire on all cylinders after the "warming up" of the first night. This is nowhere more evident than on the CD's centerpiece, the 25+ minute jam of "Rattlesnake Shake." Like stated in the CD's booklet, the band's confidence in their jamming ability here boils right over into flat out cockiness. And it's a good thing too. Rarely do you get to hear two twin lead guitarist spar onstage with such gusto! Peter and Danny will blow your mind on this one! The band moves from "Rattlesnake Shake" into the "Madge" jam, then into "Underway" for a breather, then right back into "Madge." You'll be so wrapped up in the performance it certainly won't feel like close to an half hour has passed.

The second volume opens with the stage announcer warning the audience, "If anyone here has a weak heart, you better leave now 'cause it's gonna get really heavy from here on out." The band then cleverly underscores his statement by opening the show with the gentle Green/Kirwan instrumental "World In Harmony." But as soon as that song ends, all bets are off as Green rips into the guitar intro to "Oh Well." HEAVY INDEED! After the exhaustive jam of "Rattlesnake Shake" (how did the group manage to continue afterward), the spotlight is then given over to Jeremy Spencer. Jeremy almost manages to steal the show here starting out his set with "Stranger Blues" and following it with "Red Hot Mama." Suddenly the band is no longer Fleetwood Mac, but another band....Earl Vince and The Valiants! Jeremy takes the band into this '50s doo-[...] parody with his very own "Teenage Darling," introducing the song as a "hit" he had long ago spoken in a mock Elvis voice. After that, Peter takes over and launches the band into "Keep-A-Knockin" with some dirty lyrics thrown in for good measure ("You said you'd let me [...]you but you can't come in"). The early live Fleetwood Mac was anything but family friendly! The group keeps it rocking with "Jenny Jenny" and then does an encore jam with The James Gang who opened for them that night. Apparently Eric Clapton got onstage with them to for this last jam but he's barely decipherable in the mix of guitars.

So you want to hear some killer live Mac? Look no further than "Live In Boston VOL. 2" and then get the other two volumes. "Vol. 3" has been out of print for some time now but be sure to look for it. It features a bigger spotlight on Danny Kirwan and another great set from Jeremy Spencer (doing a killer version of Fabian's "Tiger" no less). They might not be as proficient now as they were on Feb. 6, 1970, but all five members of THIS Fleetwood Mac are still alive and to see this line up take the stage once more would be incredible. Com'on guys! Whatdaya say?

I recieved the two cd's in good time, well packed and all in perfect shape. The cd's themselves Fleetwood Mac/Live in Boston/Remastered played perfect and are good quality. ALL is Perfect.

Having downloaded Live In Boston Vols 2 & 3 recently, I now have all the live Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac I can find. (Not that I'm not looking for more.....) If you are a fan of the British Blues scene in general, and 1968-1970 Fleetwood Mac in particular, you cannot find anything better than these 3 Live In Boston Remastered Volumes. The music is spectacular and you won't believe these shows were recorded more than 40 years ago. All three guitarists are in fine form. I'm betting you'll do what I do when I find more of this incredible music and play it non-stop for days; at home, on the road, on the computer, I never get enough of it. Enough of this, I gotta hear it again!

this terrific live album is one of a series of fantastic albums from the original live albums from the original Fleetwood mac fron ted by one of the greatest guitarists in Peter Green and ably supported by Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan.They played these set of concerts in boston US.This cd contains some of the finest blues rock ever with awesome version of classics like rattlesnake shake,Jenny Jenny,Stranger Blues and Encore Jam and has some of the finest guitar solos of all time.Very highly recommended along with vol 1.

Those who might only be familiar with the pop version of Fleetwood Mac are in for a shock, and a stunning intro to one of the great bands that made up the latter part of the British Invasion in the late 1960s. The ensemble playing and the musicianship alone are worth the price of admission, but the emotional power of the songs drive this music over the top. They were a guitar band but one that literally and figuratively marched (and boogied) to the beat of a different drummer. Their album compilations are a near-schizophrenic mix of delicate almost ethereal songs, coupled with the hardest driving blues imaginable. To get a taste of this, you only have to listen to Although The Sun Is Shining, then follow it up with Rattlesnake Shake from Then Play On.

This album is no exception with World in Harmony, and Oh Well acting as counterpoint. The former is a beautiful contemplative ballad, the latter a hard-driving rip-em up with Mick Fleetwood moving everything forward at breakneck speed with conga and drums.

Long live the memory of one of very best blues-rock bands. To listen is to understand.

if you are a fan of the pre Buckingham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac line up, this captured some GREAT Live stuff, the First disc was even better. Check out the jams with Peter Green and Danny Kirwan!!! Recording is excellent.