Fleetwood Mac Dust Off Demos

Expanded reissues of late Seventies albums due in March

Rhino Records will reissue Fleetwood Mac's landmark late Seventies albums Fleetwood Mac, Rumours and Tusk on March 23rd.
The expanded version of Fleetwood Mac, originally released in 1975 and the first to feature Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, will include a previously unreleased jam, along with four alternate takes of album cuts. Both Rumours (1977) and Tusk (1979) will come with a full disc of unreleased demos and outtakes.

Rumours, which has sold more than 19 million copies, has become almost as famous for its creators' feuding as its blockbuster hits. "All of those problems and all of those drugs, and all of the fun and all of the craziness, all made for writing all those songs," says Nicks in the liner notes. "If we'd been a big healthy great group of guys and gals, none of those great songs would've been written."

The roughs and outtakes on the discs offer a behind-the-scenes peak at the group's sometimes fractured songwriting process, which gave "The Chain" its name.

"It started out as one song in Sausalito," Buckingham told Rolling Stone. "We decided it needed a bridge, so we cut a bridge and edited it into the rest of the song. We didn't get a vocal and left it for a long time in a bunch of pieces. It almost went off the album. Then we listened back and decided we liked the bridge, but didn't like the rest of the song. So I wrote verses for that bridge, which was originally not in the songs and edited those in. We saved the ending. The ending was the only thing left from the original track. We ended up calling it 'The Chain' because it was a bunch of pieces."

Fleetwood Mac outtakes:

Jam #2
Say You Love Me (Single Version)
Rhiannon (Single Version)
Over My Head (Single Version)
Blue Letter (Single Version)

Rumours demos and outtakes:

Second Hand News
Dreams
Brushes (Never Going Back Again)
Don't Stop
Go Your Own Way
Songbird
Silver Springs
You Make Loving Fun
Gold Dust Woman #1
Oh Daddy
Think About It
Never Going Back Again
Planets of the Universe
Butter Cookie (Keep Me There)
Gold Dust Woman
Doesn't Anything Last
Mic The Screecher
For Duster (The Blues)

Tusk demos and outtakes:

One More Time (Over and Over)
Can't Walk Out of Here (The Ledge)
Think About Me
Sara
Lindsey's Song #1 (I Know I'm Not Wrong)
Storms
Lindsey's Song #2 (That's All for Everyone)
Sisters of the Moon
Out on the Road (That's Enough for Me)
Brown Eyes
Never Make Me Cry
Song #1 (I Know I'm Not Wrong)
Honey Hi
Beautiful Child
Song #3 (Walk a Thin Line)
Come On Baby (Never Forget)
Song #1 (I Know I'm Not Wrong)
Kiss and Run
Farmer's Daughter
Think About Me (Single Version)
Sisters of the Moon (Single Version)
[This message was edited Wed Jan 28 16:44:31 PST 2004 by purplegypsy]

I'm drooling

oh i am so ready for this shit! and purplegypsy, you know its gonna be a mad blast at the night of a thousand stevies with all these demos!

SassyBritches said:

I knew this would excite you!

I'll have to pass on the info to my BF, maybe he'll finall convert me

endorphin74 said:

you need to be converted?! oh sweetie, listen, i'm gonna make you a mix disc and send it out. they'll be some rare stuff and some well known stuff. if that don't do it, nothin' will!

SassyBritches said:

really??/ you'd do that? That'd be loverly

my bf is scared of 'puters, he'd never even try and make a mix

and I'm sure he doesn't have any of the rare stuff

endorphin74 said:

baby, i'm gonna consult a pro on this one an make sure i send you the right stuff. you need to become a sister of the moon!

SassyBritches said:

k, then, I'm trusting you to show me the light!

endorphin74 said:

you can trust me.

The only MINOR complaint I have is that I know there are so many other demos/outtakes out there form the Rumours and TUSK sessions and I know that because they have been circulating around fans for years...so I"m a little disappointed that a lot of these are just "outtake/Demo" versions of the songs we already know (Dreams, Never going back again,etc.) --THE GOOD THING is I have most of these songs on the tracklist from years of trading but now with the remasters they will sound FUCKING FANTASTIC!

Odd that "The Chain" is discussed but not listed as one of the (Rumours) Outtakes.

yes... yes... yess... yeeesss. more $$$ to spend on more fabulous reissues... oh well. Bring on Mirage and Tango!

YES! This is great news and I can't wait to pick these up.

MrTation said:

It was called "Butter Cookie (Keep Me there)" before Stevie Nicks added the words. The song initially started out as an instrumental jam session which is probably what this is.

JonSnow said:

So far this year I'll have to get Fleetwood Mac , The Cure & Eurythmic's reissued cds. YIKES$$$

I hope Prince doesn't go this reissue/remaster route for a few years - it's killing my checkbook.
[This message was edited Thu Jan 29 14:09:30 PST 2004 by thedoorkeeper]

purplegypsy said:

Cool.Thanks.Ive heard an instrumental called "The Chain" on a boot that was somewhat similar to the classic version but also very different.I guess we'll know in a couple of months (finally)

MrTation said:

AAAH! I've got FM "Tusk" on now...i just can't wait!!! AAAH!

purplegypsy said:

that is so crazy! i just put on my tusk record (my cd skips) and i was thinking the same thing.

we must be soulmates!

SassyBritches said:

hmmm...but i haven't even met you! maybe someday we will?

purplegypsy said:

someday...

Cant wait!