Posted on 11/28/2015 5:54:13 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Fleetwood Mac - The Early Years 1967-1970
FEATURING MICK FLEETWOOD, PETER GREEN, DANNY KIRWAN, JOHN McVIE, JEREMY SPENCER
TRACKLISTING
Short Story
My Heart Beat Like A Hammer
Date Performance: 1967-12-11
Shake Your Moneymaker
Date Performance: 1967-12-11
I'm Worried
Like It This Way
The World Keep On Turning
Stop Messin' Round
Date Performance: 1968-04-28
Albatross
Date Performance: 1968-10-06
Need Your Love So Bad
Date Performance: 1968-04-28
Man Of The World
Date Performance: 1969
Like Crying
Linda
Oh Well
Date Performance: 1970-02-00
Rattlesnake Shake
The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown)
Date Performance: 1970-02-00
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band formed in July 1967, in London. The band have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling bands of all time. In 1998, selected members of Fleetwood Mac were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.[4]
The two most successful periods for the band were during the late 1960s British blues boom, when they were led by guitarist Peter Green and achieved a UK number one with "Albatross";[5] and from 1975 to 1987, as a more pop-oriented act, featuring Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Buckingham and Nicks, 1977's Rumours, produced four U.S. Top 10 singles (including Nicks' song "Dreams"), and remained at No.1 on the American albums chart for 31 weeks, as well as reaching the top spot in various countries around the world. To date, the album has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the eighth-highest-selling album of all time.
The band achieved more modest success between 1971 and 1974, when the line-up included Bob Welch, during the 1990s in between the departure and return of Nicks and Buckingham, and during the 2000s between the departure and return of Christine McVie.
Due to numerous lineup changes, the only original member present in the band is drummer Mick Fleetwood. Although band founder Green named the group by combining the surnames of two of his former bandmates (Fleetwood and McVie) from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, bassist John McVie played neither on their first single nor at their first concerts, as he initially decided to stay with Mayall. Keyboardist Christine McVie, who joined the band in 1970 while married to John McVie, has appeared on every album except the debut album, either as a member or as a session musician. She left the band in 1998 but returned in 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2GSkWGdKl0
Rumors was a great album.
Bare trees, grey light...
Three posts, nine seconds
One of the great iconic albums that gets better w/ each listen. I so wanted to look like Stevie Nicks back in the day ;)!
To my taste “Then Play On” was the last good LP.
After Green left the group was too folksy pop for my taste.
I recall reading that in 1969 Fleetwood Mac sold more LPs than the Stones and the Beatles.
Oh Well....
when I was back there in seminary school...etc.
Excellent! And that works out to ______ posts per second, Bob?
She had her own fashion style, fer sure. Like the Wilson Sisters in Heart.
Ping
And leaving the bus for a south pacific island....
Peter Green was one of the greats. Too bad he ate the brown acid.
FWIW, I used to have this record on vinyl that I bought at a really cool 2nd hand music store - from 1969 when she was recording with Chicken Shack as Christine Perfect, a year before she married John McVie.
“Bare Trees” and “Come A Little Bit Closer” are the only two things they’ve ever done that were worth anything.
How to make a Les Paul cry and sing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ8AcEYTEFY
Call and Response a couple years before the Allman Brothers came along.
Loved the early Mac right through the Welch years up until Buckingham and Nicks took over. B & N weren’t bad but they didn’t carry the same “underground” cachet that the early Mac had for us.
As one of my favorites of all time, I played RUMORS often until Clinton used DON’T STOP THINKIN’ ABOUT TOMORROW as his campaign theme. It destroyed it for me so I destroyed the album.
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