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Great find

J. R. Mason | Houston, TX United States | 03/12/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I started listening to Fleetwood Mac in 1970 and always thought that "Then Play On" was a fabulous rock album, definitely top-shelf stuff. Also followed them until the advent of Buckingham and Nicks, when I totally lost interest.



While I don't care for the strictly blues tracks (70% of the album), Dragonfly (post-Green), The Green Manalishi (studio cut) and Albatross (two versions) alone are worth the price of this CD (along with two cuts from "Play On"). I never realized how responsible Danny Kirwan was for the rock-path the band took with "Play On". It is an interesting factoid that Kirwan and Green both went to the same LSD party in Hamburg (circa 1969), and both never were the same again, and both ended up virtually homeless and borderline (or over-the-line)insane. What madness was in that batch of LSD? I think it was Mick Fleetwood who said, "they both went on a trip and never came back."



I only wish Columbia could have included "The Supernatural" from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, a true Peter Green classic.



It grieves me to think of what these two (Green and Kirwan) could have accomplished musically had they stayed together, and in their right minds. What a waste. But what a treasure their work together remains after all these years.



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Worthy compilation from a great musical period

Richard A. Tucker | Pembroke Pines, FL | 06/13/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The recording quality for this collection is one of the best I've heard. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac is a earthy revisiting of the sixties era blues influences with very little of the pop mechanics that was trying so hard to water down the experimental qualities of recordings from this time period. The legitimacy is in the intimacy of the sound. The efforts on display are sincere and have an easy groove. Blues standards like Need Your Love So Bad are perfectly paired with more rocking tunes like Part 1 of Oh Well. This diversity is not contrasting as much as it is reflective of eager, but mature musicianship, a band knowing there's only so much time to commit their sound to a recording. The curse of popular music is that musical art is confined to a time when the sales allowing the artists to create are sometimes numbered in months and incredibly lucky if they have years.

This Fleetwood Mac is complete, not hit makers like the later band with it's celtic folk influences. Green's efforts are rooted in the blues but also has progressions that show a curious dexterity and subtlety that pushes the standards aside hinting at the progressive rock that will burst on the pop music scene a scant few years later.

The musician's music displayed here will encourage others to take similar chances for better or worse. Peter Green's FM is the real deal and the precursor of things to come. This may not be pioneering but it's clearly innovative."

YOU FOUND IT!

VOICE OF VICTORIA | VICTORIA AUSTRALIA | 08/05/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"There are probably lots of people like me out there who have bought various early 'Mac' discs only to be disappointed that certain songs they had heard (or heard of) are missing. That is because Mac shifted recording labels several times in their early days and this meant that each of these companies released their own little bits of early FM. Perhaps finally these companies have realised there is more to gain by pooling their tracks and making one top flight compilation and here it is! This music is very well mastered and sounds as clear, solid and vital as you could want. Every track is great. This is the place to start collecting Peter Green material. BRILLIANT!"