It's my favorite period of theirs, and I don't think I'm alone feeling that way. Future Games, Bare Trees, Mystery to Me, Heroes Are Hard to Find, wtf?
Makes me angry.
It's my favorite period of theirs, and I don't think I'm alone feeling that way. Future Games, Bare Trees, Mystery to Me, Heroes Are Hard to Find, wtf?
Makes me angry.
I think a better question would be "why does everything have to be remastered?"
Or, "Does remastering always improve the original?"
It's more important that the albums are still in print, really. I just don't think there's enough of an audience for this period to justify it. They haven't even remastered 'Live', 'Mirage' or 'Tango In The Night' from the Buckingham/Nicks era, and there's much more in the way of B-sides etc. from that time too.
This period has some stunning music- the first time I heard the song 'Future Games' I had to play it again straight after, a fantastic vibe on that.
There may be business reasons. Maybe Welch owned the rights and now that he's gone nobody is pushing to earn additional income from his songs.
They're coming up right after the Buckingham-Nicks remaster...
There's a vinyl package that includes two of the Welch era albums:
http://www.amazon.com/Fleetwood-Mac-...wood+mac+vinyl
Allmusic had a contest to win this about a month or so ago.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
I have all of the Welch era on album and have thought about trying to transfer them to disc and see how that compares to the released CDs. The official releases are just kind of flat sounding, with not a lot of sound. You know, the way CDs sounded when they first came out and had printed warnings about the sound quality. What made me think about this was that I recently picked up a copy of Danny Kirwan's Second Chapter on CD and was surprised at the quality and care taken in that '07 reissue. How did that get remastered when the material he is most famous for hasn't been?
Love the Welch era. 'Heroes Are Hard To Find' I think is the best of those, just a fantastically underrated album, (except for the title track). Love 'Coming Home', 'Angel', 'Bad Loser', 'Safe Harbour'... 'Future Games' is full of great tunes as well. Aside from the title track, Danny Kirwan has, in my opinion, his best music on that album (Woman of 1000 Years & Sands of Time)
I have these and 'Mystery To Me', and they sound pretty good I think, not suffering from the weak sound quality that some albums (Smallcreep's Day?) suffer from.
'Heroes Are Hard To Find' is probably the one I'd like to see remastered the most. I agree that the rest of the originals of FG, BT, MtM don't sound too bad.
The 'Heroes' title song is fine. I also like 'Come a Little Bit Closer' and 'Prove Your Love' great tracks, esp if you happen to be involved at the time.
That and Mystery To Me are my faves of the Welch era as well. Especially Heroes.
Bad Loser is probably my fave of hers on that one too. I really liked Keep On Movin from Mystery To Me. A Welch tune she liked enough to sing. A lot of her tunes in this era have a samey quality where a few rise to the top and the rest sound similar. I think she became a better writer during the next era.
To have better quality versions of Angel & Bermuda Triangle would make me happy indeed.
Sleeping at home is killing the hotel business!
This is about the best of what we have from that era live.
Too bad Weston went for it all, and got burned. He did have some rather nice contribution to MtM.
Last edited by cingram; 05-16-2015 at 12:41 AM.
Agreed, that's from the 'Heroes' tour I think. Unfortunately, they did not do a whole lot of that album live. What they did here seems just a bit forced. Welch left the band pretty soon after this performance. I'd love to hear Christine's love songs from this album live, but I think that probably never happened.
This is...interesting. It's ALMOST passable vocally, until they hit that chorus. LB sounds like a big adenoid.
It's only a video loop, but this is still from an important era of music.
That Capitol Theatre pains me, lol.
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