Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac

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Man, these guys did some killer blues rock in their time>
But their best album with that classic five (including Gree, Kirwan and Spencer) was the last one with Peter Green called Then Play On!!!>>> easily a 4* in my book
But plenty of great tracks on other albums such as Oh Well, Gree Manalishi, Black Magic Woman , Albatross, Man Of The World , World In Harmony etc.....      Another great album is the double FM blues jam in Chicago
Swedish prog group Ragnarok actually based part of their sound on this FM Then Play On album, especially their self-titled debut

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Sean Trane Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 19627	Topic: Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac Posted: February 01 2006 at 05:17
	Man, these guys did some killer blues rock in their time> But their best album with that classic five (including Gree, Kirwan and Spencer) was the last one with Peter Green called Then Play On!!!>>> easily a 4* in my book But plenty of great tracks on other albums such as Oh Well, Gree Manalishi, Black Magic Woman , Albatross, Man Of The World , World In Harmony etc..... Another great album is the double FM blues jam in Chicago Swedish prog group Ragnarok actually based part of their sound on this FM Then Play On album, especially their self-titled debut Edited by Sean Trane
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Trotsky Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 25 2004 Location: Malaysia Status: Offline Points: 2771	Posted: February 01 2006 at 05:36
	Love That Burns is one of my all-time favourite blues songs ... I have a 16track Best Of as well as a single album called The Original Fleetwood Mac ... Aside from Love That Burns, the good songs include Rattlesnake Shake, Rambling Pony, Albatross, Black Magic Woman, Jigsaw Puzzle Blues, a couple of songs recorded with pianist Eddie Boyd and a host of Elmore James covers Embarassingly though (well, maybe not since I've never even seen them) I have not even heard Oh Well, Green Manalishi and Man Of The World
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	The first period rocks!! "The end of the game" also, several years later, in a colder genre.

ANDREW Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 21 2005 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 3064	Posted: February 01 2006 at 07:51
	I like FLEETWOOD MAC!!! Their first album "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac" is a fantastic example of urban blues, with Jeremy Spencer's guitar in evidence. "Mr. Wonderful" (1968) is very similar to their first one. "Then Play On" saw a radical change in comparison with their original blues sound. The frequent use of acoustic phrasings and Peter Green's fluttering guitar create cosmic atmospheres. Best tracks here are "Rattlesnake Shake" and "Showbiz Blues". These tracks, when played live, extended and lenghtened, turn into psychedelic rock blues. The two CDs "Blues Jam In Chicago", both recorded in 1969, are the results of the meets between FLEETWOOD MAC and their idols Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, S.P. Leary, Willie Dixon, Buddy Guy. The sound here is pure blues.Great!!!

VanderGraafKommandöh Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: July 04 2005 Location: Malaria Status: Offline Points: 89372	Posted: February 01 2006 at 10:16
	There are some great sessions about, particularly noteworthy are "The Madge Sessions" and the "October Jam" sessions. "World In Harmony" is also a great tune. They weren't just a blues band! Rattlesnake Shake and Green Manalishi are excellent tracks and as somebody mentioned here "Love That Burns" is amazing. I have two versions of it, one of which has very prominent piano playing by Christine Perfect (later McVie). "Man Of The World" I've also always loved and not forgetting the Duster Bennett classic "Jumping At Shadows". The Boston Tea Party concerts are very special and worth purchasing, as well as a couple of the boxsets that include rarer stuff: The Vaudeville Years and Madison Blues, of I remember correctly.


salmacis Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Content Addition Joined: April 10 2005 Status: Offline Points: 3928	Posted: February 01 2006 at 15:36
	Got to say I never felt Fleetwood Mac ever recorded a particularly cohesive album, but if they had, I've often felt they'd have been the best blues rock band Britain ever produced. Not heard 'Then Play On' for quite a few years though.

Dick Heath Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12799	Posted: February 03 2006 at 13:45
	If you can afford, buy the 6 CD set *The Complete Blue Horizon* *Sessions* by (Peter Green's )Fleetwood Mac Although the use of "complete" is an exaggeration, since for example FM back Otis Spann on The Biggest Thing Since Colessus (although Mike Fleetwood was not exceptable to Spann and he used one of the Chess Records session drummers instead), and that album isn't represented here. *The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions*, has outtakes of Peter Green berating the rest of Fleetwood Mac for sloppy timing, amongst many other things, and clearly as the leader of the band, you will hear his east end Cockney accent and language coming through loud and clear. This set and such revelations, indicate the man 'leading' Splitter Group is not the same Peter Green - severe LSD poisoning being the prime difference (and think of the others gone that way: Syd Barrett, Skip Spence, Roky Erikson)