Fleetwood Mac - The Early Years

Someone was kind enough to post part 1 of this dvd on-line. Peter Green is one of my favourites and this documentary is out of print ( I don't know if you say that for dvd's). Here's the link

Fleetwood Mac

Enjoy

Sandy Mary

This is live from the BBC recordings. An absolutely kickass version with the boys in top form. I picked this one from the listing at the back of Strange Brew. It is not disappointing. All the recordings were done for broadcast on various shows for the BBC between 1968 and 1970, although 4 of them were done after Peter Green left. As always great tone and playing.

Sandy Mary

Peter wrote this for his girlfriend of the time.

Black Magic Woman

There have been a few threads on the forums I haunt about Peter Green. A lot of people didn't realize that Santana's biggest hit was actually written by Green. Even more had never heard the original, so I thought I would share it with you.

Black Magic Woman

Green was, in my opinion just by listening, a big influence on Santana's playing. It's most evident on Green's The Supernatural.

Fleetwood Mac - Homework (live in France, 1968)

I love finding these old clips. Peter Green is in fine form. This is from before the drugs and psychological problems started to take their toll. Danny Kirwan looks like he is on another plane of existance. Everybody looks pretty into it and happy to be there.

Strange Brew

Subtitled: Eric Clapton & the British Blues Boom.

This book was inspired by an idea to un-cover the last corner of Eric Clapton's career. Specifically the time period between 1965 and 1970. It is done in a day by day, year by year format detailing performance dates, recording dates and press interviews and releases.

It is fascinating to trace the history as it unfolds. The author, Christopher Hjort, has done a lot of research and pieced it together with his own assumptions when evidence was not available. By this I mean some things documented are placed in likely order based on events before or after.

A lot of players wander through this history but it is mainly focused on Eric, Peter Green and Mick Taylor and the various groups they were in. But it's not just the history, the photographs are impressive as well. The book opens with a shot of Eric Clapton crouched beside two Marshall stacks with an original 'burst. I don't know enough about Clapton's early career to say if it's the "Beano" burst but I have read comments in interviews with him that he could never find another that suited him, and therefore never replaced it.

This book is just a great read for fans of the players and the period.

Fleetwood Mac "Oh Well"

I just can't get enough of this tune.

Peter Green Fleetwood Mac

Ahhh, the real stuff. Two great burst players in action.

More Peter Green

This is from a cd I picked up recently. "The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions". Great recordings with all the background chatter from the studio. I find it interesting hearing all the cues and direction from the various people there. Everybody seems to be having a lot of fun and it makes it all the more enjoyable.

All the cuts seem to be live off the floor. I find the music I enjoy the most is done that way. Over the last few years ( well, ten if I have to tell the truth)I have found a liking for live recordings. There's just something about the energy and spontaneity in the performance. Of course you have to have a band that can jam, like Zeppelin or Allman Brothers, to really make it worthwhile. It doesn't work with groups that just play the song as it was recorded.

Here's a clip: My Heart Beat Like a Hammer

Enjoy

Tune for a Tuesday

I have started working on my new winder. It will be made out of a hobby lathe. Nice, heavy duty and it will run way faster than I need it to. I've worked out how to make the bobbin attachments. This new one will allow me to make Fender style single coils and also my humbucker sized P-90 design. I'll post some pictures when it's done.

But enough of that. It is damn cold where I am. Something like -14C for tonight and the house is so dry I could burst into flames. So why not have a tune for a cold Tuesday.

Another Peter Green cut: Greeny

Cheers

Tune for a Monday

This is just great tone on this clip. It's a cut from John Mayall's Bluesbreaker's "A Hard Road". Peter Green wrote this one and plays superbly. His guitar sounds as if it is crying. Gary Moore did a version of this one as well but I like the original. As a matter of fact the whole album is great. I got a hold of the re-mastered and extended version which has 22 extra tracks.

The Supernatural

Fleetwood Mac Albatross

Great tone and great playing. It is hard to see if this is live or not. Right when they pan in at the beginning you can see the cords going offstage so it looks like they are plugged in. They don't seem to be synching as I haven't noticed any out of place moves. If it's live then they're having a good time.

Peter is playing his '59 'burst which he later sold to Gary Moore. You can see quite clearly the difference in fade from the one Green is playing and the one Jeremy Spencer ( or it might be Danny Kirwan, I can't tell which) is playing. You know, the more I look at it the more I think that's Danny with the other burst.

This post took three days to show up from Youtube, so I deleted the earlier one and kept this one.