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Summary: Uneven testiment to the genius of the early Peter Green
Comment: How highly do I rate Peter Green(baum)? Well put it this way, at his peak he was at least as good as anyone that has EVER picked up an axe, plus he had the ability to write songs that still sound amazing thirty years later. So how good is this as a testament to his lost talent? Well, about as good as it could be given his early crack-up and losing his "magic stick." Tragedy really. A far bigger loss than Syd Barrett was to the Pink Floyd.
Here we have classics and filler in equal numbers. To be frank the blues pastiche (not all written by Green) was ho-hum at the time and is skip material here. The sixties recording time was shorter and there are even a few bum notes that should not be there.
However the genius of Albatross (who but a genius could make a number one instrumental?) and the sad Oh Well are worth the price alone. Green could do it all from rock to acoustic to ballad. Didn't really do more than one show stopping classic in every department, but who cares? Quality over quantity.
The only really bad part is that it includes the slash-and-burn remix of Albatross by Chris Coco. Green once came after an accountant with a gun (do a Wiki) - if he was in the same room as Coco he would have probably used it.
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Summary: I can't think of a better way to spend £5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment: I have loved all these tracks from when they were first released and I was a schoolboy,I managed to see them live twice around that time, at the Ulster Hall in Belfast, I generally don't listen to that much older music and tend to move on,usually staying quite contempory, but just about everything on this CD sounds just as great as it always did!
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Summary: The CD I have been looking for
Comment: I saw Peter Green with the original Fleetwood Mac playing live at the Fishmongers Arms, Tottenham in the 60's and have been trying to find a CD which included many of the early tracks and at last I have found it. I agree that Peter Green never received the recognition that he is truly deserves and I rate him as posibly the finest gutarists of that era. I would urge people to buy this CD and listen to it and try to imagine what Fleetwood Mac could have become.
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Summary: Masterpiece!
Comment: I would give this cd 10 stars if I could. I am a great fan of the original Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green when they were first and foremost a blues band. Every song on this is good if not excellent and for me it is a masterpiece and one of my favourite cds in my collection.
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Summary: sticking to their roots and so much the better.
Comment: it's refreshing to say the least that a compilation of fleetwood mac's early years has been released. on the whole, i much prefer this line-up to the later 70s one. the all-male quartet stick to their blues roots without letting themselves be turned into a commerical pop group. this amazing C.D proves that without a doubt.
best songs on here, are masterpieces like "black magic woman," "albatross," "man of the world," "oh well," "black magic woman" etc.
this group present blues music at its very best.
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