Live At The Boston Tea Party, Part Three

• Format : CD Live
• Released : 22 February 2000
• Label : Snapper Music Inc.

• Mick Fleetwood
• Peter Green
• Danny Kirwan
• John McVie
• Jeremy Spencer

• Jumping At Shadows
• Sandy Mary
• If You Let Me Love
• Loving Kind
• Coming Your Way
• Madison Blues
• Got To Move (Version One)
• The Sun Is Shining
• Oh Baby
• Tiger
• Great Balls Of Fire
• Tutti Frutti
• On We Jam

• Recorded in Boston, M.A. February 5/6/7, 1970 by The Fleetwood Mobile. Remixed from original 8-track masters by Nick Watson, SRT Studios St. Ives England June, 1998 (with the help of Neil Slaven).
• This final part of a three CD set is expected to be released in February 2000. See also Part One and Part Two. The three CDs will also be available together as a box set.

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	All classic whether previously unreleased or not Reviewer: John Fitzgerald, Human resources staff database assistant       July 19, 2001 The main plus for this set are the six previously unreleased tracks which are mostly amazing. Jeremy's "The sun is shining" is a basic Elmore James cover that doesn't deviate much from the B-side version but it's got a nice rough feeling to it as does a cover of Fabian's "Tiger" with Jeremy sounding his most appealingly lecherous since "Hi ho silver". There's another version of "Jumping at shadows" here which is referred to in the liner notes as "more forceful" and although it's rather subtle, that's a good phrase to use in describing this version. The lengthy slow blues of "If you let me love you" is not as good on the sound quality side but heartfelt soloing by Peter prevails. Meanwhile, Danny's got two jams, well, "On we jam" is one on which you mainly hear Kirwan's guitar work but it's basically everybody just winging it for a few minutes as this seems to have acted as a soundcheck for Dinky Dawson and the recording people as they appear to have been having some technical difficulties. This seven minute piece nonetheless displays how suspenseful and moving the Macs' jams could be, and this is without even really trying. "Coming your way" is a real ride, almost double the length of the "Then play on" version and surprisingly instrumental, it's a real shame they had to opt for the fade on this tune (obviously due to unusable damaged masters) but this is even better than "On we jam" and may even compare well with the classic "Then play on" version. For those unfamiliar with the other recordings, you won't be disappointed, "Sandy Mary" is a classic Peter Green song that almost was (as it was apparently planned to be the Macs' next single after "The Green manalishi" had Peter stayed in the band) but lives in it's glory here with irresistible Little Richard influences abounding, it's a must have. Danny has a great but short rocker called "Loving kind". It will always be a wonder why this one was never cut on an album. Jeremy's set is equally impressive with the best versions available of "Madison blues" & "Got to move" here and a nice change of pace for Spencer on "Oh baby" (a.k.a. "I can't stop loving"). Jeremy's final rocking cover of "Great balls of fire" sounds as if it was mastered slower than on previous tea party collections but effective regardless as is Green's numbing finale cover of "Tutti frutti" another wish would be that this one didn't have to be faded out either but it's (all) still priceless gold.

Thanks to Alison (Snapper Music), Steve Elliot, and Mario Pirrone for the tracklisting information. Cover scan provided by Mark Trauernicht. Transcribed to HTML by Marty Adelson.

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