Fleetwood Mac


Saw an interview the other day on CNN with Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Lindsay Buckingham, and Christine McVie. Apparently they're getting back together for a tour (someone ran out of money?). The CNN crawl read "the original Fleetwood Mac back together. Seems they don't remember there was Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, and John McVie. How quickly they forget. I suppose there's a generation who only knows the "Rumours" era Mac. To me there were 3 Macs-the Green and Kirwan Mac, the Bob Welch Mac, and the group mentioned above.
mrmitch

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Judy, I think that after Peter Green left it was all over. But there's no denying that every subsequent incarnation had its fans, esp. the last one. I'm not among the fans of the later groups but the first one was amazing.
I'm a huge fan of the original band. I've never had any use for the later, post-Peter Green versions but I understand the appeal. It's weird to me that the original blues band could have ever morphed into the final version simply because the styles are so very different.
I have a lot of the Boston stuff--it's good, but start with the studio stuff. One of the first albums plus "Then Play On" would make sense.

The Boston tapes contain a lot of extended jams that would not be everyone's cup of tea.