For Your Holiday Weekend Listening Pleasure: Fleetwood Mac's '78 Cotton Bowl Landslide

• I love how you, and others, remember the show like it was yesterday--totally correcting the master of FYWLP. Brave. 

• I finally got a download from NY, as, that link from the Dallas show is now busted, and, I must disagree. I think Stevie was not at her best. Maybe it was too much of the "Gold Dust" from "Gold Dust Woman". Who knows? However, I will not dispute your looks comment. I was not yet in the womb, so, wouldn't know.

• I love E!News! Only the first 10 minutes are relevant, though. The rest is not worthy. And, yes--the wrong person won, I think. Team Vicci...or at least, Team Beverly. But, there was that Stevie Nicks performance.

• the Fleetwood Mac show was on July 23rd. the Texxas Jam was on July 1.

• Don't care what Billboard said, I was at that show in Saratoga.  She looked, I mean sounded great.

• I've heard and enjoyed quite a bit of the old Fleetwood Mac.  How instrumental is Welch, who I don't think I've ever heard of, in that more raw bluesy sound?  I find it amazing that Mick and Mac allowed their band to be so changed by Lindsey and the witch.  Anyone wanna spin a yarn about Fleetwood Mac's evolution from the 60's to the late 70's?

• Actually, it was called Texas Jam II.

• And Lindsey Buckingham straight out ROCKED THAT SHIT to open the show.

• Fleetwood Mac at it's greatest:  Peter Green " I can't help about the shape I'm in. I can't sing, I ain't pretty and my legs are thin..."

• This is one of my favorite youtube videos of all time from earlier that year: Bob Welch / Stevie-Mick collaborating on "Ebony Eyes" at Cal Jam 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-ZphPSSXR8

•  Is there a link to hear this?

• As I remember the radio ads for it called it The End of Summer concert. The August date was correct  

• I didn't see any Welch numbers in the set list but it is stated that the list is incomplete. It would have been a lost opportunity to not hear the old Fleetwood Mac - Welch numbers: Hypnotized, Future Games, Angel, Emerald Eyes, etc.

• FWIW, Little River Band was the show stealer.  They clearly did a better set than Bob Welch or Steve Miller.  Then, Fleetwood Mac came on and blew them all away.  Not to nitpick too much Big Bob; but, that concert was on August 12, 1978.  You might have the dates confused with the first Texas Jam -- the one that Aerosmith, TedNugent, Heart and Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush headlined.

• Correct -- Billy Thorpe was at the 1979 Texas Jam in the Cotton Bowl.

• It was indeed Bob Welch -- a former Fleetwood Mac member.  If I remember correctly, he came back on and did a song with Fleetwood Mac during their set.

• I was at this,I remember Bob Welch coming out and playing with Fleetwood Mac. I didn't go for the first act which I was told was Billy thorpe. 

• What happened on The Voice?  It sucked, that's what, judging from what I heard during e-news yesterday.

• his 15 minutes didn't start ticking off till the next summer.

• I never understood why that song was called Landslide and not Avalanche...since it was about snow and all.

• So you're saying I've had "Children of the Sun" in my head all day for nothing? Gotdangit.

• Billy Thorpe wasn't there it was Bob Welch. he later came out and jammed with Steve Miller. Miller mopped him up. the Mac previewed Sisters of the Moon from the upcoming Tusk. oh yeah I was there.

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