Peter Greens' Fleetwood Mac

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
1)MY HEART BEAT LIKE A HAMMER 2)MERRY GO ROUND 3)LONG GREYMARE 4)HELLHOUND ON MY TRAIL 5)SHAKE YOUR MONEYMAKER6)LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY 7)NO PLACE TO GO 8)MY BABY'S GOODTO ME 9)I LOVED ANOTHER WOMAN 10)COULD BLACK NIGHT11)THE WORLD KEEP ON TURNING 12)GOT TO MOVE**1973-1977 SONY MUSIC RELEASE OUT OF JAPAN**

Tracks:

Albatross
Black Magic Woman
Need Your Love So Bad [USA Version]
My Heart Beat Like a Hammer
Rollin' Man
Green Manalishi (With the Two Pronged Crown)
Man of the World
Something Inside of Me
Looking for Somebody
Oh Well
Rattlesnake Shake
Merry-Go-Round
I Loved Another Woman
Need Your Love Tonight
Worried Dream
Dragonfly
Stop Messin' Round
Shake Your Moneymaker
I'd Rather Go Blind - Chicken Shack, Fleetwood Mac
Albatross - Chris Coco, Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green

Album Description

Full title - Very Best Of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. 20 tracks assembled here on this excellent retrospective which also adds 'I'd Rather Go Blind' by future Mac member Christine McVie's band, Chicken Shack, and Chris Coco's 2002 remake of 'Albatross' featuring Peter Green. Slipcase. Columbia. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

Wrongs righted.......2007-05-27

There have been compilations before of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, the band he formed after leaving John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, but this latest one puts right most of the wrongs and omissions of those.
Everything you expect is here including Oh Well Parts 1 & 2 in its full 9 minute glory and without fading out in the middle, where you had to turn over the single, as previous collected versions had; and the previously unreleased US Version of Need Your Love So Bad, which is a superb extended six minute piece, with strings arranged by Mickey Baker (who played guitar on Little Willie John's original). Stop Messin' Round was on the flipside of Need Your Love So Bad, but it is here in the slighter shorter version used on the album Mr. Wonderful.
The towering magnificence of The Green Manalishi is also re-established by its inclusion. The compilation ends with a token track by Chicken Shack, because of Christine McVie's involvement with the band, and the then-recent hit remix of Albatross by Chris Coco, both of which I could have done without in this particular context, perhaps replaced by their first single, Rambling Pony/I Believe My Time Ain't Long.

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Great alternate to John Mayall for '60's British Blues...
Great discovery

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Manufacturer: Blue Horizon
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ASIN: B00030607O
Release Date: 2004-10-12

Tracks:

My Heart Beats Like A Hammer
Merry Go Round
Long Grey Mare
Shake Your Moneymaker
Looking For Somebody
No Place To Go
My Baby's Good To Me
I Loved Another Woman
Cold Black Night
World Keeps On Turning, The
Got To Move
My Heart Beat Like A Hammer (Take 1)
Merry Go Round (Take 1)
I Loved Another Woman (Takes 1,2,3 & 4)
I Loved Another Woman (Takes 5 & 6)
Cold Black Night (Takes 1,2,3,4,5 & 6)
You're So Evil
I'm Coming Home To Stay

Customer Reviews:

Great alternate to John Mayall for '60's British Blues..........2007-05-05

Peter Green was the best replacement John Mayall could have found for Eric Clapton, and Green continues his emotional guitar playing style with his own group consisting of additional ex-Mayall sidemen Mick Fleetwood and John McVie.

If you are expecting something similar to the classic Fleetwood Mac of the '70's with Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie, then beware--this is totally different music, straight blues. Those three had not appeared in the lineup back when this album came out. The only other member besides the core three from Mayall's band is slide guitar expert Jeremy Spencer.

While Peter Green's vocals are competent in a blues context, I have never been too fond of Spencer's vocals, which appear on the slide guitar-heavy songs. Spencer is an unabashed Elmore James disciple and even does a fair job of mimicking some of the legendary bluesman's vocal nuances and his slide playing is good, but his voice sounds amateurish and boyish. Maybe he improved later on, but here I think Green should have assumed all the vocals.

Great discovery.......2005-11-10

Well, after you get to a certain age, you are more likely to buy old favorites than to find something new. I've always been a blues fan, but generally the blues I like are Delta blues by singers who are, or sound like, actual old Delta guys. I mean, I appreciate Eric Clapton and others for rediscovering and republicizing these great old songs. But I just don't connect with the British blues singers. And: I regard a number of Fleetwood Mac's songs as rock anthems, songs everybody should own. I was poking around on iTunes deciding which old Fleetwood Mac anthems I loved enough to buy for my iPod, and hadn't heard too many times already, and, of course, the way iTunes' search works, I could hardly miss Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. It's seldom that iTunes out-obscures Amazon, but here's one. Amazon (at least, as I write this) has no samples of this CD; go to iTunes and listen to some samples. You might actually like it well enough to buy the whole CD. Otherwise, I bet you'll find several cuts you can't do without: particularly, Moneymaker and Cold Black Night. And be sure to check out Tallahassee Lassie. Really outdoes Freddy Cannon.

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early 70's fleetwood mac
5 stars for Greenie
Much Better Than I Expected! Peter Does The Blues!
Where's Fleetwood Mac?
Highs, lows, tortured blues

Alone with the Blues
Peter Green & The Original Fleetwood Mac
Manufacturer: Metro Music
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Then Play On

ASIN: B00004RIMP
Release Date: 2000-05-23

Tracks:

Walkin' The Road
Trying So Hard To Forget
Coming, I'm Coming
Kind Hearted Woman
Jumping At Shadows
Sandy Mary
Same Old Blues
Born Under A Bad Sign
Tribal Dance
Time For Me To Go
A Fool No More
Loser Two Times
Fallin' Apart
Just For You
Last Train To San Antone
Give Me Back My Freedom

Album Description

After acknowledging Eric Clapton and George Harrison in the audience at a concert at London's Royal Albert Hall in 1969, B.B. King was heard to have said 'But I've got to say that I'm sorry, Peter Green is best'. With this budget-priced 16 track compilation featuring over 30 years of great recordings by one of the world's best blues guitarists, you and your customers will probably be of the same opinion! From recent solo work through classic early Fleetwood Mac tracks and even earlier John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers cuts, this is an essential overview of the development of one of rock's most intriguing, talented and misunderstood enigmas. Contains 'Kind Hearted Woman', 'Born Under A Bad Sign' and 'A Fool No More'. 2000 release standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

early 70's fleetwood mac.......2007-01-10

What can I say. I haven't like fleetwood mac since peter green left

5 stars for Greenie.......2003-12-03

Why five? Because you loved the man's touch and feel on the strings; because he sounded so good with soulful down-hearted blues on "Trying So Hard to Forget" and "Coming, I'm Coming"? Dig that slide he's teasing. Or kick it back on the porch with a "Kind Hearted Woman" by way of Mr. Robert Johnson.

And tell me how woeful and hurtin' Peter cries on "Jumping At Shadows"--who's in more pain, his song or his guitar? Listen to those peals of sorrow--the voice AND the tortured notes he's pulling off that Les Paul. You didn't feel the knife cut you that deep until you heard the end of his solo, did ya?

If grief could be made into work, he could sing the nails out of the wall, and don't forget the squeals and squawks he'd grind out on lead guitar. I heard "Same Old Blues" by Bonnie Bramlett; Peter would make the perfect duet. And lookee-here, Albert King's "Born Under a Bad Sign" is as menacing as the original. Those are Albert's signature licks, aren't they?

Shake it, shake it, with "Tribal Dance." It's spacy and it moves. And could that be a hint of a David Gilmore-like influence on "Time for Me To Go"?

Get this because you loved the early Fleetwood Mac. Buy it because you have a friend who loves to learn new guitar ideas from an old source. Keep it because you need it in your collection.

Much Better Than I Expected! Peter Does The Blues!.......2002-01-02

I bought this not knowing exactly what it was. I had hoped it would not be Peter doing the weird stuff that I had heard plagued some of his post-Fleetwood Mac solo records. I was not disappointed! This is a really great collection if you are just looking to recapture some of the old Bluesbreakers/Fleetwood Mac sound. Much of what is here would have sat comfortably next to any of the Fleetwood Mac era tracks.

In response to one of the other reviewers, if you had read the back cover notes you would not have been misled into thinking it's all from the Fleetwood Mac days - in any case I knew this couldn't all be from the Mac era since I didn't recognise most of the songs, and I know all of them from the box set. Actually, only Sandy Mary and Jumping at Shadows are definitely from the Fleetwood Mac lineup (from the Boston Tea Party concerts).

It is not clear exactly where some of the rest of the songs originate - the liner notes are no help at all although it is claimed that at least one track is from the Bluesbreakers era (but, no indication as to which one!).

Walkin' Down The Road opens the disc with a classic blues cut that I had never heard - great stuff! Worth the price of admission alone just for that song! The next three songs are probably from a live show and the sound quality suffers, but actually this adds to rather than detracts from the music - gives it a certain vibe! In any case, the performances on those live tracks are really great! Especially "Kind Hearted Woman" which you should compare to the later version that Peter did recently. I think I like this one better!

The rest of the tracks (including the first song) are in fine sound quality and I would guess are from the post-Mac era(?). Good stuff, and every song is blues-based - no weird experimental stuff.

I highly recommend this disc if you want a sample of the post-Mac Peter Green filtered to give you just the real blues stuff, you will not be disppointed!

Where's Fleetwood Mac?.......2000-09-05

I thought I was getting an album of Original Fleetwood Mac, but only two of the 16 cuts feature Mac. Eleven are solo Peter Green from after he left the band. I've been a fan of Peter Green since I first heard Albatross in 1967, so I still enjoyed the music, but it is grossly mislabeled.

Highs, lows, tortured blues.......2000-06-19

A broad collection of blues covers and originals that spans the curiously blue life of Peter Green. The vocals are every bit as revealing as the fine guitar work (from gritty to smooth, harnessed to wild). I would have loved to hear Peter and Albert together on Born under a Bad Sign, but I guess I'll settle for Peter's short, but reverential cover of this fine blues anthem. An earlier issue of this disc included Black Magic Woman and Green Manilishi, but I think their absence does not detract from this cd. I think inclusion of The Supernatural would have been an important cut, but Oh Well!

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The Blue Horizon box distilled to one disc...
Now when the day goes to sleep and the full moon looks............
Some Reservations
British Blues Genius
Neat and tidy starter set!

The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Manufacturer: Sony International
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ASIN: B00009YX6D
Release Date: 2006-06-06

Tracks:

Albatross
Black Magic Woman
Need Your Love So Bad [USA Version]
My Heart Beat Like a Hammer
Rollin' Man
Green Manalishi (With the Two Pronged Crown)
Man of the World
Something Inside of Me
Looking for Somebody
Oh Well
Rattlesnake Shake
Merry-Go-Round
I Loved Another Woman
Need Your Love Tonight
Worried Dream
Dragonfly
Stop Messin' Round
Shake Your Moneymaker
I'd Rather Go Blind - Chicken Shack, Fleetwood Mac
Albatross - Chris Coco, Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Collection of the Early Fleetwood Mac Before the Arrival of Buckingham/Nicks and When Peter Green Ruled the Roost. Includes the First Remastered Appearance of the Complete "oh Well" and the Original "Black Magic Woman", "Albatross", "Shake Your Moneymaker" and So Many More.

Customer Reviews:

The Blue Horizon box distilled to one disc..........2007-03-04

...and kudos to Sony UK for having done such a fine job. While the 6 CD box The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions 1967-1969 contains the complete contents of the albums Fleetwood Mac, Mr. Wonderful, The Pious Bird of Good Omen, Blues Jam in Chicago (alternately known as Blues Jam at Chess and Fleetwood Mac in Chicago 1969) and The Original Fleetwood Mac, this compilation goes beyond those albums to Then Play On ("Oh Well," here broken up into two tracks, the A- and B-sides of the single; and "Rattlesnake Shake") and the band's Immediate singles "Man of the World" and "The Green Manalishi" (one of my favourite tracks of the Peter Green lineup), plus adding Chicken Shack's recording of "I'd Rather Go Blind" (pointing the way towards the later lineups of Fleetwood Mac, with Christine McVie) and a remix of "Albatross." I rather felt that remix to be unnecessary--nice, but unnecessary. I agree with other reviewers that other tracks could have been included instead, but there you go.

Either way, you finally have the tracks from Then Play On without massive amounts of tape hiss (such as is audible throughout the whole of that CD, a situation Warners has yet to rectify, 20 years on), plus a whole series of thoroughly essential tracks from this first (and IMO, best) edition of Fleetwood Mac, all together on one disc. The only other way to manage this is to buy the individual albums--thankfully, all are in print and available on CD--and create your own mix at home, something not all of us have time to do. Again I say, kudos to Sony for pulling this particular feat off.

Now when the day goes to sleep and the full moon looks...................2006-09-17

Since other reviewers have already addressed the casual and curious fans of the original Fleetwood Mac, let me speak to those of you who are more serious followers of the genius of Peter Green that now find yourselves on the rocky road of foraging through the many repackaged recordings of the early band.
First and foremost:
this disc represents the one and only place you will find tracks from the Mac's labels; BLUE HORIZON, WARNERS /REPRISE and their intermittent shortlived stint with the doomed English label, IMMEDIATE all in one place.
Most of these songs have appeared in sometimes differing versions on other compilations, but these are the final studio mixes. AND digitally remastered for the first time! Thank you, Sony International.
I'd begun to think Green's final mixes of the two songs from the IMMEDIATE sessions(Man Of the World, Green Manalishi) would never make it to disc. Well, here they are.
Yes, there should of been a couple of tracks here that aren't;Love That Burns(Blue Horizon)Before the Beginning, ShowBiz Blues(Reprise) but alas! the Jeremy Spencer material is kept to a minimum and Danny Kirwan has just two cuts(the splendid blues track, Something Inside Of Me and the rare, interesting Dragonfly)so, I won't complain.
Nothing from the Live in Boston series(Jumping at Shadows)appears here but that no doubt, is due to another licensing snafu with the owner of those tapes(SNAPPER MUSIC?)
In any case, these tracks are pristine sounding remasters and the fact that Sony put up the $$$ to compile these recordings from the various labels is a good sign for the future. For a huge fan of Peter Green like me(you?), just having Man of the World and especially Green Manalishi here in their final mixes(my old vinyl copy is toast), is enough to purchase the disc.

Some Reservations.......2006-07-24

This is an interesting compilation, but is marred by some bizzare choices of material. There are at least two glaring omissions - for some reason that I can't comprehend, two of Green's most beautiful, haunting and personal songs, "Jumping at Shadows" and "Show-Biz Blues," are omitted. If the last two tracks had been dropped, these could easily have been included.

It's not clear to me where this set is directed. Fans of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac will already own most of this material, and novices would be much better served by picking up the classic "Then Play On" and disc one of the three "Live in Boston" discs on Snapper (and then following up with the next two).

This seems to me to be a missed opportunity - only three stars, I'm afraid.

British Blues Genius.......2006-03-25

A superb compilation and excellent recording .... having not heard some of these classics for decades...its like meeting up with old dear friend...fantastic.....heaven on a disc !

Neat and tidy starter set!.......2005-12-07

I was quite throughly impressed upon my first listen to this set, considering there has never really been a comprehensive single disc set featuring the mark I line-up of the band. Bascially, it's a single disc comp of the Blue Horizon box set, but has some nice single mixes and some nice bonus materials. Enjoy the US version of "Need Your Love So Bad," as well as the blistering "Shake Your Moneymaker." Included as well is the epic (read: SEVEN MINUTE) "Albatross" consisting of both parts of the double sided single. Loved my first taste of Chicken Shack with Christine Perfect doing "I Would Rather Go Blind," which inspired me to buy more Chicken Shack. Plus, the fantastic version of Chris Coco's remix of "Albatross." You get a kind of "bookend" of their storied career. If you further enjoy Peter Green, check out his solo catalogue and his Splinter stuff. Otherwise, this set rocks!

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blues/rock benchmark

Jumping at Shadows: The Blues Years
Fleetwood Mac , and Peter Green
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ASIN: B00005V5CJ
Release Date: 2006-08-14

Tracks:

Black Magic Woman [Live]
Jumping at Shadows [Live]
Oh Well [Live]
Ride With Your Daddy Tonight - Brunning/Hall Sunflower Blues Band
Do You Give a Damn for Me? - Peter Green
Love That Burns
World in Harmony
Long Grey Mare
Talk to Me Baby
Fast Talking Woman Blues
Man of the World [Early Version]
If You Let Me Love You - Brunning/Hall Sunflower Blues Band
My Baby's Sweeter
Like It This Way
Madge Sessions, No. 2
Lazy Poker Blues
I Have to Laugh
Green Manalishi

Tracks:

Man of the World [Single Version]
Showbiz Blues
Buzz Me Baby
Blues in B Flat Minor
It Takes Time - Brunning/Hall Sunflower Blues Band
Leaving Town Blues - Peter Green, Nick Pickett
Sun Is Shining
Uranus - Brunning/Hall Sunflower Blues Band
Mind of My Own
How Blue Can You Get?
Trying So Hard to Forget - Duster Bennett, Peter Green
Two Harps - Duster Bennett, Peter Green
Thinking About a Woman - Duster Bennett, Peter Green
Kind Hearted Woman - Duster Bennett, Peter Green
Coming, I'm Coming - Duster Bennett, Peter Green
Stranger Blues [Live]
Coming Your Way [Live]
Rattlesnake Shake [Live]

Album Description

UK compilation featuring tracks from the original Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green (solo & with Nick Pickett & Duster Bennett) & Brunning Sunflower Blues Band. 36 tracks including live & studio material. Highlights include, Fleetwood Mac 'Black Magic Woman' (Live), 'Oh Well' (Live), 'The Madge Sessions (Part 2)', 'Stranger Blues' (Live), 'Coming Your Way' (Live) & 'Rattlesnake Shake' (Live). Slipcase.

Customer Reviews:

blues/rock benchmark.......2002-07-24

This collection should gain Peter Green accolades upon
accolades!His tasteful use of tone, and dynamics are lessons
in expression- without histrionics.It's just a truly amazing
corpus ,by someone who deserves the same esteem that Django,
and Hendrix command.From early electric , through acoustic
( incl. violin/guitar), and rockier things ...a magnum opus!!!

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The Supernatural
Peter Green , and Fleetwood Mac
Manufacturer: Snapper UK
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ASIN: B000NO20W4
Release Date: 2007-05-15

Tracks:

The Green Manalishi - Fleetwood Mac
Black Magic Woman - Fleetwood Mac
Jumping At Shadows - Fleetwood Mac
The Supernatural
Albatross
World In Harmony - Fleetwood Mac
Oh Well! - Fleetwood Mac
Sandy Mary - Fleetwood Mac
Rattlesnake Shake - Fleetwood Mac
Man Of The World

Tracks:

Heart Of Stone
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Big Change Is Gonna Come
Homework
When You Got A Good Friend
You'll Be Sorry Someday
Phonograph Blues
Love In Vain Blues
Burglar
From Four Until Late
Hiding In Shadows
Sweet Home Chicago
Hitch Hiking Woman
Me & The Devil Blues
Going Down

Album Description

A 2CD Career retrospective of Peter Green's Fleetwood mac and his Splinter Group

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Good, but watered down
your father's Fleetwood Mac
INCREDIBLE!!
Mixing Elmore James and Buddy Holly

Live at the BBC
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ASIN: B00005NHNT
Release Date: 2001-08-21

Tracks:

Rattlesnake Shake
Sandy Mary
Believe My Time Ain't Long
Although The Sun Is Shining
Only You
You Never Know What Your Missing
Oh Well
Can't Believe You Wanna Leave
Jenny Lee
Heavenly
When Will I Be Loved
When I See My Baby
Buddy's Song
Honey Hush
Preachin'
Jumping At Shadows
Preachin' Blues
Need Your Love So Bad

Tracks:

Long Grey Mare
Sweet Home Chicago
Baby Please Set A Date
Blues With A Feeling
Stop Messing Around
Tallahassee Lassie
Hang On To A Dream
Linda
Mean Mistreatin' Mama
World Keeps Turning
I Can't Hold Out
Early Morning Come
Albatross
Looking For Somebody
A Fool No More
Got To Move
Like Crying Like Dying
Man Of The World

Customer Reviews:

Good, but watered down.......2006-03-13

While this album does have many of the great songs that made the early Fleetwood Mac great, it seems as if the band is watering down its sound on many tracks. It's as if they wanted their recordings for the BBC to be listener-friendly, and they threw in some more pop-sounding songs to give people something to like about their music. One example, the reworking of Long Grey Mare found here. In my opinion, the sound you'll find on their main albums is what's really great, and it's present here. I just wish they would have left out some of the songs like Jenny Lee and Heavenly. I have to skip past those songs...

your father's Fleetwood Mac.......2005-11-22

If you were born after the first half of the Baby Boom (1946-55), this is your father's Fleetwood Mac. Although three of the main players in the popular, late 1970's incarnation of the band are present here (Mick Fleetwood on drums, John McVie on bass, and the future Mrs. McVie, Christine Perfect, making guest appearances on three tracks, but offering no vocals), the sound is completely different, save a few pop offerings. The male McVie, Fleetwood, and lead guitarist Peter Green all emerged from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers to form Fleetwood Mac, at Green's behest, in 1967. Given their heritage in John Mayall's band, it's no surprise that the bulk of Fleetwood Mac's circa 1970 productions are grounded in the blues. What is surprising is the gamut of other genre's visited by the band, ranging from down and dirty, Jim Morrison style blues and psychedelic rock (Green's 'Rattlesnake Shake'), to almost pure bubblegum fare (guitarist Jeremy Spencer's 'Jenny Lee'). In between are convincing and entertaining parodies on Buddy Holly (Spencer's 'Linda' and Danny Kirwan's 'When I See My Baby'), Elvis (Spencer's 'You Never Know What You're Missing' and 'Heavenly'), and even the power pop sound of Badfinger ('Honey Hush').

The bulk of the better tracks are found on the first disc, and most of them are Peter Green compositions, as well as nice covers of Tim Hardin's 'How Can We Hang On To a Dream' (unusual given its piano foundation) and Phil Everly's 'When Will I Be Loved'. The first disc opens with the two heaviest numbers, every bit as weighty and psychedelic as anything by Led Zeppelin. 'Rattlesnake Shake' is the longest performance on the disc, running seven and a half minutes, and actually is faded out rather than brought to a conclusion by the band. For my money, they could have gone on for another twenty minutes with this roof-raising guitar-fest. The entire disc features an abundance of superb guitar work, courtesy of the three talented guitarists (Green, Kirwan, and Spencer), but nowhere near as flamboyant as on the opening track. Another Green composition follows, 'Sandy Mary', featuring more blues than psychedelia, but just as much appeal as the opening track. Green is on again with perhaps his most recognizable composition, 'Oh Well' on track seven ("don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to..."). It's not until the fourteenth track on the second disc that we find another superb Green composition, 'Looking For Somebody', a slow-tempo blues track with a fetching melody. In between are a wealth of fine tunes from a host of composers including Robert Johnson (3 tracks) and Elmore James (3 tracks). Green supplies ten compositions, and Danny Kirwin five. The emphasis is heavily on the blues. There really aren't any losers, but only seven or eight tracks worthy of mention among the 36 offered.

The recording quality varies greatly. I have no complaint about the quality of the bulk of the tracks, but several, such as 'Need Your Love So Bad' (the last track on the first disc) suffer from poor fidelity, as though the Dolby Noise Reduction accidentally got switched on. The discs were produced by Mick Fleetwood, and he apparently decided to arrange the tracks in his own mysterious manner. Because of this, the contrasting characteristics of each recording session are highlighted, and the listening experience takes on a patchwork quality. I believe Fleetwood would have been better off keeping the tracks from each recording session together. There are five tracks offered from 1967, nine from 1968, eleven from 1969, eight from 1970, and one from January of 1971.

Listening to 'Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Live At the BBC' is an archival experience. While the band wasn't the most influential band of the era, they are clearly an eclectic outfit that reflected, and encapsuled, the dominant sounds of the 1960's. The musicianship is exemplary, and while none of the several vocalists has outstanding talent, they are all adroit, and in combination produce some enticing harmonies. Guests on the disc include Chicago bluesman Eddie Boyd and guitarist Nick Pickett (no relation to Wilson...). This two disc set includes an inlay featuring numerous band photographs, an introduction from Mick Fleetwood, background on the BBC broadcasts from Stephen Davis, and detailed track listings. Altogether, a thoroughly enjoyable package.

INCREDIBLE!!.......2004-10-20

This two cd set belongs in every music lover's collection. It's THAT great! This is a fantastic set of songs by Peter, Jeremy, Danny, Mick, and Jon. Extraordinary!

Mixing Elmore James and Buddy Holly.......2001-12-19

... the ORIGINAL Fleetwood Mac was a force to be reconned with in their heyday 1968-1970. Peter Green, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood (from ONE incarnation of John Mayall's legendary Bluesbreakers) recruited slide virtuoso and 50's stars aping Jeremy Spencer and third guitarist Danny Kirwan (and one Cristine Perfect, soon to be Mrs McVie on some of the later sessions) and took on the world.

Riding british hits (the reverb drenched ALBATROSS which inspired the Beatles SUN KING, the sad and world weary MAN OF THE WORLD and the original BLACK MAGIC WOMAN) the band did these sessions for the BBC 1968-1970 (last broacast was Jan 1971, shortly after Spencer and Green had both left the band). Included are the bluesy stomp of RATTLESNAKE SHAKE (a short version at 7:30, the Elmore James-ey BELIEVE MY TIME AIN'T LONG and BABY PLEASE SET A DATE, a rockin' twin lead peice by Kirwan called ONLY YOU, Spencer's 50s favorites JENNY LEE and a smoking TALLAHASSIE LASSIE), more of Green's trademark world weariness on JUMPING AT SHADOWS and the classic NEED YOUR LOVE SO BAD. Add a couple of solo slide pieces (think Robert Johnson) in PREACHIN' and EARLY MORNING COME. They even perform a pretty good imitation of their old boss Mayall on BLUES WITH A FEELING.

If it sounds like this band is all over the map... well maybe. But as a BAND, they make it all work and run together so well. One of the surprising aspects of the set is how much FUN it sounds like these guys are having just playing together. It's hard NOT to be taken in by the shear JOY of SANDY MARY or BUDDY'S SONG (a send up to Holly). This might be the most fun record this side of THE WHO SELL OUT.

This record is NOT for fans of the Buckingham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac or even the Bob Welch Mac, unless you like the blues, and like your blues a little loose at that. Personally and as a guitar player I love Green's tone and use of reverb and there is little of that on display here (try THEN PLAY ON or THE VAUDEVILLE YEARS 1968-1970 for big slices or even his album with Mayall, A HARD ROAD), but I really REALLY like this record.

Tracks:

Rattlesnake Shake
Sandy Mary
Believe My Time Aint Long
Although The Sun Is Shining
Only You
You Never Know What Youre Missing
Oh Well
Cant Believe You Wanna Leave
Jenny Lee
Heavenly
When Will I Be Loved
When I See My Baby
Buddys Song
Honey Hush
Preachin
Jumping At The Shadows
Preachin Blues
Need Your Love So Bad
Long Grey Mare
Sweet Home Chicago
Baby Please Set A Date
Blues With A Feeling
Stop Messing Around
Tallahassee Lassie
Hang On To A Dream
Linda
Mean Mistreating Mama
World Keeps Turning
I Cant Hold Out
Early Morning Come
Albatross
Looking For Somebody
A Fool No More
Got To Move
Like Crying Like Dying
Man Of The World

Album Description

A substantial supplement to the band's recorded legacy with Peter Green, this album features 36 songs broadcast between 1967 and 1971. The music presents more solid evidence of the band's skills in both blues and rock during its earliest incarnation.

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Unique recordings of a legendary band.......2007-05-14

During the three years or so covered on these two discs, Fleetwood Mac evolved from being a blues band to being something else entirely, and they still had another four fraught years to go before Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were to join the remaining members and turn them into a license for printing money. The original line-up that signed to Blue Horizon in 1967 stayed relatively stable during these three years but apparently Jeremy Spencer's unwillingness to collaborate with Peter Green on his boss's material meant that a third guitarist was drafted into the band.

Eighteen-year old Danny Kirwan from the band Boilerhouse joined in August 1968, and made his BBC debut later that month with a live broadcast for the Radio One O'Clock Club before a studio audience. By this time, the band's name had shortened to just Fleetwood Mac, and for the final two sessions represented on this disc (from July 1970 and January 1971) Peter Green was no longer in the line-up.

Changes in direction and line-up meant that a fair amount of material was amassed that did not see the light of day on their records and there are seventeen titles on this set otherwise unrecorded, plus two that were on a solo album by Jeremy Spencer (helped out by mates from the band).

The one and three-quarter hours here barely scratches the surface of the amount of material they recorded for the BBC, though there are plenty enough Elmore James covers, psychedelic blues and time-stopping flights of guitar to feed the soul. Twenty-one sessions between 1967 and 1971 are mentioned in Ken Garner's book of BBC sessions In Session Tonight, each probably averaging 20 minutes in playing time, though many of these may well not be preserved, at least not in the quality of those here, which is largely excellent and appears in the main to have come from single-track master tapes (Need Your Love So Bad is a notable exception).

Nearly all are session recordings, though the CD kicks off with a blistering seven and a half minute version of Rattlesnake Shake that was recorded live at the Paris Theatre in 1970 for the In Concert series; and includes two live performances from the Radio One O'Clock Club show mentioned earlier.

Liner notes are sparse, giving only first broadcast dates without specifying the programme involved, and unfortunately line-ups are limited to surnames, not specifying what instruments were played or who is singing lead. In Session Tonight helps out a little here but doesn't identify the mystery pianist who crops up on ten of the tracks. The most likely candidates are Jeremy Spencer, when not playing guitar, or Christine Perfect, who is credited with playing on Stop Messing Around, and appeared on some of their records of this period. Sweet Home Chicago comes from a World Service session they shared with Eddie Boyd, who may well be the pianist on that particular track.

BBC sessions are not synonymous with John Peel and though nineteen tracks come from his Top Gear programme, the rest were all recorded for shows presented by other disc-jockeys, including David Symonds and hairy cornflake Dave Lee Travis. One session, the only one to appear in full, was recorded for a Top Gear spin-off called First Gear, presented by producer John Walters while Peel was off on holiday. The theme for this month-long series was rock and roll and Fleetwood Mac came up with an appropriate mix of originals in the style of Buddy Holly and Elvis, as well as covers of songs by the Everlies, Big Joe Turner and Bobby Vee, the last being a tribute to Buddy written by his mother to the tune of Peggy Sue Got Married. Their blues roots were not forgotten, though, and the newest session included features Jeremy Spencer's version of Son House's Preachin'. This is the song that inspired Robert Johnson's Preachin' Blues, as also featured in a brilliant solo rendition by Peter Green in 1968 for Top Gear.

These double-sided discs feature a CD one one side and DVD-A on the other. I do not have DVD-A or surround sound equipment, but the DVD sides, played in standard DVD format through a digital amplifier, sounded clear and full of detail. I would have to query the benefits of 5.1 surround sound, though, as all the tracks were recorded and mixed to monaural single-track tape; and the claim on the sticker that the CD sides comprise "complete album in stereo" is clearly incorrect.

Great example of White Boy Blues.......2006-11-25

As a previous reviewer pointed out, there are (at least) two flavors of Fleetwood Mac, the most familiar being the "pop" Mac of the '80s and beyond.

But before the arrival of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, and to a lesser extent, Christine McVie and Bob Welch... they were a pure "Chicago" style blues band. Guitarists Peter Green... Jeremy Spencer... Danny Kirwan... and the namesake rythm section of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie - they were truly devoted to the blues genre. They, and several other "white boy blues" bands (John Mayall and Mike Bloomfield come immeditely to mind) proved their legitimacy, and were embraced by the "real" bluesmen of the era.

The guitarists knew their chops. (Peter Green, in particular, has become a living legend.) And Fleetwood and McVie have ALWAYS laid down the beat, whether it was "Sweet Home Chicago" or "Go Your Own Way."

This 2-CD set is "quasi live" at the BBC (recorded at a time when The Yardbirds, The Stones, The Beatles were also making similar recordings - talk about an era in music evolution!). I believe it's recorded in mono, but it sounds pretty good. The song selection contains Mac originals - "Rattlesnake Shake," "Albatross," etc. - novelty tunes like the Buddy-Holly-esque "Buddy's Song" and "Linda" - and a lot of covers of the standard blues repertoire.

Highly recommended for fans of (early) Fleetwood Mac or electric blues. (My own copy of this CD set has sentimental value, as I purchased it in London as a souvenir of a visit there.)

Heard only one cut, but oh man!.......2005-06-09

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac and what it morphed into (they went condo) are two different planets. Just heard "Rattlesnake Shake" on the 2-disc BBC Live CD and I know I need to have this CD. I wouldn't touch the 80's+ Fleetwood Mac with a ten-foot pole, but Peter Green's original band is WAY underheard.

The Original Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

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The Original Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Manufacturer: Blue Horizon
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00030608I
Release Date: 2004-10-12

Tracks:

Drifting
Leaving Town Blues
Watch Out
Fool No More, A
Mean Old Fireman
Can't Afford To Do It
Fleetwood Mac
Worried Dream
Love That Woman
Allow Me One More Show
First Train Home
Rambling Pony No.2
Watch Out (Take 1)
Something Inside of Me - (live)
Something Inside of Me (Take 2)
Something Inside of Me (Take 3)
One Sunny Day
Without You
Coming Your Way (Take 6)

Album Description

Contains four previously unreleased bonus tracks.

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Green Shadows
Fleetwood Mac , and Peter Green
Manufacturer: Metro Music
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ASIN: B0000AVSVZ
Release Date: 2003-08-25

Tracks:

Man of the World
Long Grey Mare
Lazy Poker Blues
Sun Is Shining
Green Manalishi
Looking for Somebody [Live]
Dust My Broom [Live]
Showbiz Blues
Black Magic Woman
Love That Burns
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Shake Your Moneymaker
No Place to Go
Got to Move [Live]
Jumping at Shadows
World in Harmony
Rattlesnake Shake

Album Description

Subtitled - Classics & Rarities Featuring Peter Green. This collection of singles, studio out-takes and 'live' performances captures all the energy and excitement of their sound. 17 tracks plus contemporary artwork and fold-out booklet including track by track commentary. Metro. 2003.

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17 Tracks featuring Early Hits, Rarities and Live Recordings from One of the Most Enduring Groups in Modern Music History.

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