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Originally Posted by slipkid
The 1999 3 volume release of "Fleetwood Mac: Live in Boston" has plenty of stage banter. On volume 2, Peter goes into great detail about Mick's woman problems before the epic 25 min. Rattlesnake Shake (my favorite version, then Paris Theater). There's another part where Peter is doing the child rhyme "one two buckle my shoe" bit. I don't know what the "official" 2 CD version is, though I have "Boston Blues" that is 2 cd's but it's only excerpts from the 3 cd set. That does not have any banter except for the guy introducing the band. Volume 3 of Live in Boston is now out of print for some reason, and it has some must have gems such as "On We Jam", and B.B. King's "If You Let Me Love You". Overall the must have disc is volume 2.
BTW according to the "Boston Blues" liner notes, "Encore Jam" does not have Clapton included as long rumored. However, I confirmed it with a friend of mine that there is a fourth guitarist on the left channel (Kirwan's channel). It's Danny hard left, Peter hard right, Joe Walsh in the center, and the fourth guitarist is soft left (Clapton?).
I thought I'd bring that up.
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Thank you doodyhead and slipkid(and I see now that Mario has posted too at the second I went to write this reply). My copy of Boston Blues is released in 2000 by Snapper Music. Like you said there is hardly any banter except for the odd 'thank you' and the guy introducing the band. The liner notes is written by someone called I. Moulden-Gray, and he writes about the 'Clapton issue': "And then with the gig seemingly over, Peter Green & Co trudge wearily back onstage for an encore jam session with
Joe Walsh, a couple of other members of support band The James Gang, and an unusually low-key
Eric Clapton".
I have often seen that some of you here have talked about a 3 CD version of Boston Blues/Tea Party. I have now hit Christopher Hjorts book and he writes that FM were playing three nights there 5-7th of january 1970 and they were all recorded (according to Hjort) and "made available during the 1990s in a series of different guises and are eventually collected in a three-CD boxed set,
Live At the Boston Tea Party, covering more than two dozen songs - without repeats - from all three nights." Ahhh, this explains it!
The Clapton jam apparently happened when Delaney, Bonnie and Friends (including Clapton) hit Boston Tea Party on the two following nights the 8th and 9th of january. Hjort continues that, according to Dinky Dawson a jam took place, including Peter Green, Joe Walsh and and Donnie Scott which nobody wanted to stop, but Clapton dropped out and the jam faltered. He then notes that:"A lacklustre live recording circulates later, purporting to be from this show, but is more likely the encore from the previous night when Fleetwood Mac played with Joe Walsh sitting in."(p. 284) Maybe this can explain the rather boring "Encore Jam" that ends my 2 CD copy of Boston Blues. Sounds like a giant meatgrinder - not inspired souls - at work!
Ms Moose