Fleetwood Mac (Official Thread)

[gabriel cash]

Re: Fleetwood Mac

it sounds like every blues band at the local bar on a saturday night. the best song to me was a CD bonus track called your so evil. if u can find that song check it out

 

[joe]

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it sounds like every blues band at the local bar on a saturday night. the best song to me was a CD bonus track called your so evil. if u can find that song check it out

You must be putting down too many pints(?).

 

[Sox]

Re: Fleetwood Mac

it sounds like every blues band at the local bar on a saturday night. the best song to me was a CD bonus track called your so evil. if u can find that song check it out

It was released in 1968 at that time this band were at the spearhead of the second wave of the British Blues Revival. There were not so many bands then at that level ,, even today you would have to go a long way to match the feel and intensity of Peter Green at his best IMO.

 

[gabriel cash]

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i think it's inferior to ten years after's debut and def inferior to cream's debut as far as the second wave of british blues bands go. but i will try to give it another chance if i find it again

 

[gabriel cash]

Re: Fleetwood Mac

It was released in 1968 at that time this band were at the spearhead of the second wave of the British Blues Revival. There were not so many bands then at that level ,, even today you would have to go a long way to match the feel and intensity of Peter Green at his best IMO.

it's not the spearhead if it came out 2 years after cream's first album

 

[Sox]

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Fair enough lets say they held the torch well and truely aloft, though I think Cream were already moving into Blues/rock "I Feel Free","N.S.U.", "I'm So Glad" .. but an album that remains true to the blues format and gets to number 4 and stays in the charts for 37 weeks and is cited by numerous later musicians as an influence has IMO gained a place that deserves respect.

 

[joe]

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I have a hard time taking someone serious that claims Fleetwood Mac's s/t album sounds like every blues band at a local bar on a Saturday night.

Fleetwood Mac-Fleetwood Mac: Feb.1/68
Cream-Fresh Cream: Dec.9/66
Ten Years After-Ten Years After: Oct.27/67

It was just over a year between all three releases.

From what I hear from Fresh Cream is the sound is basically still rooted in the blues with a tinge of jazz and psych/pop on some of the tracks. Half the tracks on the album are covers of originals. "Spoonful" is the highlight of the album and "I'm So Glad" and "Sleepy Time Time" are rather annoying IMO. I prefer Ten Years After version of "Spoonful" to that of Cream's. Overall a rather inconsistent album. 6/10

Ten Years After's s/t debut is again an album still based on the blues and over half the tracks are covers of originals. Alvin Lee and company add the swagger and boogie with jazz influences as well to produce a upbeat, fast tempo on certain tunes and also pound out the heavy blues on the last track, "Help Me". Very well done. 7/10

Can a white man sing the blues? Peter Green sure in the hell can. This album is dedicated to Chicago electric blues as the roots are very clear to my ears. The album cover depicts what's inside, filthy blues. The interplay between the lead guitar of Peter Green and the bottleneck slide of Jeremy Spencer is riveting. The rhythm section chugs and keeps it simple and solid. The sound of the album almost sounds like a band mastering the blues at a local bar on a Saturday night. Really, not a weak track on the album. Essential for any fan of the blues and history of rock. 9/10

 

[Hardnecker]

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Christie's song called Songbird is really nice. I'm a rocker at heart buy that one touched a nerve the first time I heard it.

 

[rollingstoned]

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I really like Fleetwood Mac's early stuff.

 

[Tommy Walker]

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I really like Fleetwood Mac's early stuff.

Like what? I just recently got into these guys via their more pop-oriented stuff (Rumours, etc.), but I've heard that they had a more bluesy sound before that, which sounds pretty cool.