MCA DiscoVision - Fleetwood Mac

Catalog Number 74-011

Format Standard Play CAV

Stereo
Pressing Location	DiscoVision Carson
Pressing Location	Universal Pioneer Japan
Label Color	Green
Retail Price	$24.95
Year Issued	1981

Side	Chapters	Frames	Running Time
1	6	47,120	26min 10sec
2	7	48,730	27min 04sec
	13	95,850	53min 15sec

Ratings
Video Transfer
Audio Transfer
Replication

Packaging
Printed

Pressing Notes

Overproduced to a fault, this mixture of live concert footage and documentary was prepared by Fleetwood Mac especially for LaserDisc. The audio was painstakingly mixed on state-of-the-art equipment using the most advanced technology money could buy...in 1980. The result is a dreadfully recorded mis-mash of unintelligible lyrics and bass that is so heavy you feel like your head is inside a sub-woofer.

Now for the good news. This was the last of DiscoVision's music titles, produced at the very tail end of the life of Carson's plant. Shortly after Fleetwood Mac was run, the entire plant shut down, and all remaining titles due for release were mastered and pressed by Universal Pioneer in Kofu Japan. The title contains the MCA Videodisc standard "shrinking number" bumpers at the side break. The opening DiscoVision music is either recorded heavily out of phase, or is actually stereo. Since there have been no actual "stereo" recordings of this music recovered from a DiscoVision disc, the "out of phase" theory is most likely the case.

Release History

Fleetwood Mac was never reissued on LaserDisc.

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