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- From: bc@campbell.Gwinnett.COM (campbell)
- Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
- Subject: Peter Green / Fleetwood Mac
- Message-ID: <w4BBuB1w164w@campbell.Gwinnett.COM>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 22:41:31 EST
- Organization: Loose
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- In the discussion of Peter Green, Mike Liepe posts...
-
- > I borrowed John Mayall's "A Hard Road" (Green's on it - the Mayall
- > album between the *big* Clapton one and his first with Mick Taylor)
- > shortly after reading the article and it broke my heart - Green was
- > phenomenal.
- >
- > Can anyone recommend any other albums with Peter Green on them?
-
- Many of the rock-and-roll history books I have read feel he is one
- of the great tragedies of the business. In the late 1960's, the
- band he led, Fleetwood Mac, was one of the 3 or 4 hottest bands
- in England. He was considered tremendously talented as a writer
- and musician. (Back then, FM was a 5-man blues/rock band).
-
- Then at the height of it all, he just said the hell with it and
- (reportedly) gave most or all his money away and took odd jobs,
- one of which was gravedigging. This all happened aroung the time
- another band member quit in the middle of an American tour to
- join a religious cult. (I think it was Jeremy Spencer).
-
- Anyhow, the 1970 album THEN PLAY ON is still one of my alltime
- favorites. Along with the strangely beautiful two-part "Oh, Well"
- it contains a kick-ass jam or sorts called Waiting for Madge /
- Fighting for Madge as well as lots of other goodies.
-
- Along with these, Peter Green also wrote Black Magic Woman which
- was made famous by Santana and a beautiful instrumental called
- Albatross which was #1 in England for several weeks in the late
- '60's and got zero airplay in the US.
-
- Fleetwood Mac hung in there, however, and limped along for about 5 years
- until they picked up Buckingham and Nicks and soared again with
- a totally different sound. Although they no longer sounded like
- the Peter Green version, they did perform Oh Well on a live album
- a few years ago.
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