1997 · live album
The studio concert that brought five Fleetwood Mac musicians back together and renewed an earlier collaboration with USC.
On 23 May 1997, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood performed at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank. Recorded for The Dance, the concert put the five musicians together again before a live album and a new tour carried the reunion further.
Markers identify buildings or documented location references. They do not mark an exact recording room, stage position or camera angle.
Rhino’s history places the Burbank performance before the album’s 19 August release and the tour’s September opening in Hartford. The sequence matters: the studio concert became a record before the reunion travelled through a succession of arenas. Burbank was the setting in which this particular return took recorded form, giving later audiences a shared performance to encounter. [1]
USC’s Spirit of Troy records its appearances on both Tusk in 1979 and The Dance in 1997. The marching band’s participation gave the reunion another continuity with Fleetwood Mac’s earlier work. Alongside the five returning musicians stood a collaboration that had begun nearly two decades before. It connected the sound of a university ensemble with a rock band’s concert recording, widening the musical company through which the reunion was heard. [2]
Rhino dates the subsequent tour from 17 September to 27 November, ending at Madison Square Garden. The Dance was therefore a beginning as well as a retrospective. Songs drawn from the band’s history became material for a new run of performances after the Burbank recording. The live album preserves one setting within that larger return, rather than standing for every concert the reunited group subsequently played. [1]
3400 Warner Boulevard, Burbank
23 May 1997
Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood performed at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank on 23 May 1997, recording the concert released as The Dance. [1]
The association identifies the Burbank studio property. It does not establish a particular soundstage, a surviving concert setup or access to the recording space.
