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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Original Masters UK
Salesrank: 220847
Released: August 25, 1998 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Live In Boston, Vol. 2 Track Listing:
1. World in Harmony
2. Oh Well
3. Rattlesnake Shake
4. Stranger Blues
5. Red Hot Mama
6. Teenage Darling
7. Keep a Knockin'
8. Jenny, Jenny
9. Encore Jam [#]
Live In Boston, Vol. 2 Reviews:
Strong start, but more than a little disappointing... 
2006-03-11 - After listening to volume 1, I was absolutely blown away. I immediately ordered a copy of Volume 2, hoping for it to be every bit as amazing as volume 1, but now that I finally have it, I can't help but feel disappointed. It's not because the band is low on energy. Far from it. The problem is that Volume two showcases Jeremy Spencer's work the way Volume one showcased Peter Green and Danny Kirwan's.
The show starts off with the beautiful guitar interplay of Peter Green and Danny Kirwan on "World In Harmony." A lighter number that changes up with a rougher bluesy sound for a few minutes before softening up again for the ending. They follow this up with a devastating performance of "Oh Well". Lasting just under 3 minutes, it's short but oh-so-sweet, with some great lead played by Danny. "Rattlesnake Shake" comes next, nearly the same as the version from Volume 1, but a little less organized and a little more free form jam.
After these three songs, they turn the set over to Jeremy Spencer, and it goes downhill from here. Jeremy goes into a couple blues covers, he does a little 50s doo wop imitation thing that was probably better to watch than listen to, and he finishes off with a Little Richard tune. The songs aren't bad, but they just don't come close to touching the unique skill of Green and Kirwan.
After this, they turn it back over to Green for a song, but instead of doing one of his own he decides to finish off the show with a cover of "Jenny, Jenny". Not bad, but not enough to recover what could have been another amazing performance.
This isn't the last song on the disc, however. The band gets back onstage for an encore jam, featuring Eric Clapton and Joe Walsh. It's a pretty good jam that sort of peeters out after about 12 minutes.
Overall, not a bad CD, but not that great either. It starts off strong for the first 3 songs, and never quite gets back up there after that.
The 2nd Volume is as good as the 1st!!! 
2004-01-30 - More Mac Attack!
This second volume of 3 from the band's 1970 run at the Boston Tea Party is just as strong as the 1st volume of tracks.
You can just feel the energy in these tracks with the first 3 being the highlights. The jam at the end is pretty tasty as well - as well as the steaming cover of Little Richard's Keep On Knocking.
Awesome!!
Bottom Line: Forget about picking one volume -- get them ALL!!!
I wept
2001-03-17 - Peter Green-integrity and simplicity,McVie / Fleetwood - a fabulous rhythm section and-oh!-what a stupendous drummer M Fleetwood is/was on this night(Rattlesnake Shake,for example)-McVie is 1st class too but it is sometimetimes hard to hear him but you know he is going at it in his own unique manner (I'm confident in John-OK ?)-plus the young Kirwan(well hired Peter) and the delightful Jeremy Spencer(described in the liner notes to this triple set as a bit of a rock and roll afficionado / Elmore James copyist but just listen to track 4's Stranger Blues and hear JS's exuberance and -in my view- you've already hit 1 of the at leat 10 highlights of this magical groove).. if you have the edition in my paw: Vol 2SMMCD 556 on Snapper Music then you have a precious -remixed in near the original concert order-event in your ears. A band at the apogee of its form. Thank you all and thanks for still playing. For similar "exuberance" try remixes of Who Live At Leeds, Frank Zappa's Hot Rats and anything by Humble Pie,Foo Fighters and Eddie Cochran ...I could go on....
Great sound on remastered re-released live album 
2000-12-15 - Capturing Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac at the height of their powers, Live at the Boston Tea Party Volume Two features the superb guitar interplay of Danny Kirwan and Peter Green. This edition features a 28 minute version of Rattlesnake Shake that burns.
Featuring one previously unreleased track (the encore jam featuring Joe Walsh whose band at the time The James Gang opened for FM), this astonishing album has never been heard this clear before. Nick Watson has remixed and remastered these classic recordings using the High Definition Compact Disc technology that has improved so many marginal (and not so marginal) sounding albums.
Highly recommended.
Cleaned Up and Amazing
1998-09-28 - At first I was a Doubting Thomas, having weathered some of this material in the form of bootlegs and previously inferior CD incarnations. But these tapes have been cleaned up and run through the HDCD process. Volume 2 contains the highest of highs while Volume 1 as a set is more consistent. If you start with Volume 2 (I haven't yet heard Volume 3, the final chapter), you'll be amazed at the first 30+ minutes in which Peter Green and Danny Kirwin really go at it GDead-style. Simply a vital piece of rock n roll history. Stevie who?
