'Rumors' about Fleetwood Mac BBC 4

Saw it first time round, it's a wonder they made any albums. Such were the ego and love life problems.

Steve

Danny Kirwan's Dragonfly was the last track I enjoyed by Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - couldn't come to terms with AOR stuff, bit like when the Bee Gees went disco.

I shall watch/record it. I like the album, PG version never did much for me.

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PG version never did much for me

Oh Well

I liked both line-ups. Different style bands completely, of course.

"H" have you tried much of the Green stuff? Can't stand Albatross, but most of the other stuff is great and "Need You Love So Bad" is classic.

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Steve

Ha, just watching this an one of the girls has so much plastic surgery she can't move her face.

Haha.

This one is available on Vinyl



has all the good early stuff on it

regards
Geoff

Thanks Geoff. Just tuned in - a bit late, but still worth seeing,

Steve I suspect I have heard more than I know. Oh Well, Albatross etc I do know.
Investigation to follow.

Man Of The World is one of the best pop songs ever done.

JohanR

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Man Of The World is one of the best pop songs ever done.

Exactly,but the post PG FM is slagged off for being pop,AOR,MOR or whatever. I don't get it.

I've seen it before, and enjoyed it again. It fired me up to seek out and order an LP copy of the 1973 musical CV that helped Buckingham and Nicks into Fleetwood Mac.



Never hitherto commercially issued on CD for some reason.

John.

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Originally posted by J.N.:

Never hitherto commercially issued on CD for some reason.

John.

Probably that hideous cover.

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Originally posted by BigH47:

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Man Of The World is one of the best pop songs ever done.

Exactly,but the post PG FM is slagged off for being pop,AOR,MOR or whatever. I don't get it.

I'm not slagging it off - I just don't really like AOR/ MOR music that's all - never understood the appeal of REO Speedwagon, Aerosmith, Foreigner, Boston et al, but then I don't get the Eagles or Neil Young either = I think it is because none of them wear the right hats, but then I don't dislike Men Without Hats, so maybe I'm just odd.

ATB Rotf

PS Man of the World is a brilliant song IMHO.

My point is that post PG FM is not that different to the pre PG one. Apart from being a great deal more successful. Re REO et al I have one or two albums by various of those groups and agree to a point I'm glad they are not my only sources of music, a large amount of diversity seems to work for me.
Not all diversions are taken though.

I take HMHB borrow hats from Miss Bullet then?

Howard

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Originally posted by Steve S1:
Saw it first time round, it's a wonder they made any albums. Such were the ego and love life problems.

Steve

Intersting isn't it, how out of troubled times can sometimes emerge great art?

I'm reminded of the famous line from Harry Lime in the film The Third Man;

Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. ..