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| Fleetwood Mac - Original Fleetwood Mac Band: Fleetwood Mac Tracks: - Drifting - Leaving Town Blues - Watch Out - A Fool No More - Mean Old Fireman - Can't Affort to Do It - Fleetwood Mac - Worried Dream - Love That Woman - Allow Me One More Show - First Train Home - Ramblin Pony No. 2 - Mighty Cold - Jumping at Shadows (Live Recording) - Somebody's Gonna Get (Their Head Kicked In Tonite) - Man of Action No with my money They remastered a classic album and then only added only a few minutes to bring the toal time up to 55 minutes. Another rip off. An essential for fans of the blues When it comes to British Blues, no one can do it better than Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. And this is certainly a blues classic, with Mac classics all around, which is saying something considering its an outake collections. 1.)Drifting; A perfect example of Peter Green's guitar genius. Driven and electrifying guitar mastery. 2.) Leaving Town Blues: A perfect example of Fleetwood Mac's ability as a 12 bar blues group. Excellent vocals, perfect lyrics, and solid rhythms make this essential Mac. 3.) Watch Out: This version of Watch Out is faster, less bluesy, and somewhat inferior than the version on Fleetwood Mac in Chicago. 4.) A Fool No More: A perfect blues song. Not a chord played wrong, and the rhythm doesn't miss a beat. Plus Peter Green's singing and guitar is a perfect staging of the desparation of the song. 5.) Mean Old Fireman: Brilliant slide guitar blues. More relaxed and certainly superior than most of Jeremy Spencer's numbers. 6.) Can't Afford to Do It: A typical Jeremy Spencer number. Average guitar play and vocals, and for the most part nothing to crow about. 7.) Fleetwood Mac: An instrumental recorded way back when Peter Green with John Mayall with the rhythm section that would become the famed background of Fleetwood Mac. This is an excellent instrumental with solid backing, and excellent guitar and harmonica from Greeny that shows just what he was capable of. 8.) Worried Dream: 5 star cover of a B.B. King classic. 9.) Love That Woman: Another fairly average Jeremy Spencer cover. 10.) Allow Me One More Show: The best song on the album. Like Mean Old Fireman this is a relaxed, accoustic slide number in which Spencer is solo. Plus it is a Spencer-penned number that actually sounds original. 11.) First Train Home: Another blues number by Greeny. Rather average and sounds too much like Worried Dream and A Fool No More. 12.) Rambling Pony No. 2: Fast, rollicking, boogie blues. Classic way to close way to close out the original album Bonus Tracks<BR>13.) Mighty Cold: An excellent 50's rock number from Jeremy Spencer. 14.) Jumping at Shadows: Taken from the famed Boston concerts. Of the three nights this is one of the best, with Green shredding the guitar like the blues master that he is 15.) Somebody's Gonna Get (Their Head Kicked In Tonite): Spencer pulls off an Elvis Presley impersonation that is simply hilarious. 16.) Man of Action: Average Spencer parody of John Mayall. Certainly makes Mayall sound very lame. In conclusion this outake collection is an underated blues classic. If you have any interest in the blues era of Fleetwood Mac this is not a bad place to start. The genius of Peter Green This is my favourite of the early Fleetwood Mac's blues albums, containing some memorable Green guitar work, and some good examples of how he refined B.B.King's style, playing with taste and restraint, on "Worried Dream", and "First Train Home", his flair for understatement to the fore.<BR> <BR>Green succeeded in embellishing his BB influenced style with his own dramatic sense of dynmics, just listen to "Fool no More" where his choice of notes is exquisite; hereless is certainly more. It also Brings to mind the Miles Davis' dictum, which can also be applied to BB King, namely that what isn't heard is as important as the notes that were. Other hihglights include the aponymous Mac signature tune, a mellow jam, and the explosive "Drifting". Peter Green was a Truly innovative guitarist, who played with immense passion and fire. This album is a perfect example of that. <BR>(I haven't heard the remastered version containing the bonus tracks, my comments are based on the original CD release) Buy Fleetwood Mac Original Fleetwood Mac at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
