Fleetwood Mac

[thegreatelephant]

Tango In The Night getting the deluxe treament in March. well chuffed, one of my favourite albums for many reasons, no question.

[Mook]

Danny Kirwan dead.

 

Overshadowed by Peter Green but no less dramatic, after a brief stint in the spotlight he spent much of the last 40 years homeless by all accounts.

 

Great guitarist.

[Boss]

I don't know how much the Munich LSD stories are to blame or whether the other members used it as a convenient excuse to phase them out, but psychologically the pair of them went down fast after that incident. Makes you wonder what the real truth was there.

[Mook]

I don't know how much the Munich LSD stories are to blame or whether the other members used it as a convenient excuse to phase them out, but psychologically the pair of them went down fast after that incident. Makes you wonder what the real truth was there.

Kirwan lasted another two years after Green left but the Munich incident definitely seemed very weird. The impression I get from the rest of the band is that they were pretty bitter about what happened.

[Boss]

Kirwan lasted another two years after Green left but the Munich incident definitely seemed very weird. The impression I get from the rest of the band is that they were pretty bitter about what happened.

 

The stories are quite contradictory. If you listen to Mick the pair of them almost died in the backseat of the car tripping but Green's recollection is more normal, that he enjoyed the party and wrote good music there. 

[TheHowieLama]

McVie tells it pretty straight. The road manager went mad as well. Of course Green had a good time

 

I dont think Kirwan was in Munich -- in any case about 5 guitar players from Mac have passed under duress/suicide -- Bob Welch included

[Tony Moanero]

Nicks is boss.

[KMD7]

I don't know how much the Munich LSD stories are to blame or whether the other members used it as a convenient excuse to phase them out, but psychologically the pair of them went down fast after that incident. Makes you wonder what the real truth was there.

Id say in Greenes case, acid wouldnt have helped if he had any mental health issues going on at the time. The lyrics in Man of the World had already hinted at someone struggling with issues. I don't think Kirwan was in Munich.

 

According to Mick Fleetwood, Green wanted the band to give away all the money they made to charity. Could see that as causing friction in the band.

[Bjornebye]

Tony won't like this

 

 

 

[Tony Moanero]

19 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Tony won't like this

 

 

 

The Harry Styles stuff feaks my nut out. He comes across as a bit of a dick.

[Bjornebye]

Just now, Tony Moanero said:

The Harry Styles stuff feaks my nut out. He comes across as a bit of a dick.

I can't imagine why you don't like him

 

 

 

[Tony Moanero]

1 minute ago, Bjornebye said:

I can't imagine why you don't like him

 

 

 

Fuck’s sake, what a knob. Makes me cringe whenever I see Nicks perform or collaborate with the little blert. That said, my marriage proposal to her (wrote a letter to her fan club when I was about 10) still stands.

[TheHowieLama]

"It is your Runours."

 

 

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

Fuck me, what a load of bollocks.

fleetwood mac:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuck Rumours

[Grinch]

Rumours is a classic

[cloggypop]

I'd rather jack

[easytoslip]

1 hour ago, cloggypop said:

I'd rather jack

Is that the excellent recording from some years ago by Sonia? A forgotten classic. 

 

 

 

[easytoslip]

2 hours ago, Grinch said:

Rumours is a classic

Every birds bedroom had that album years ago, so for that reason it is. Some good tracks on that, but none as good as Over My Head from the previous album. 

[Tony Moanero]

4 hours ago, Audrey Witherspoon said:

Fuck me, what a load of bollocks.

fleetwood mac:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuck Rumours

Sorry, mate, got to neg the Rumours comment. 

[Tony Moanero]

 

11 minutes ago, easytoslip said:

Is that the excellent recording from some years ago by Sonia? A forgotten classic. 

 

 

 

 

[easytoslip]

12 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

 

 

The horror the horror, much obliged for that enlightenment at this time in the morning.

Edited March 25, 2020 by easytoslip

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

1 hour ago, Tony Moanero said:

Sorry, mate, got to neg the Rumours comment. 

Don’t apologise, musics about what sets yer alight. I love Peter greens fleetwood mac, which is why the MoR yank version pisses me

off so much.

i actually like some of the songs, but in a hate fuck kind of way.

[Captain Turdseye]

1 hour ago, Tony Moanero said:

Sorry, mate, got to neg the Rumours comment. 

Negged for apologising about negging. 

[Tony Moanero]

1 hour ago, Captain Turdseye said:

Negged for apologising about negging. 

Repped for negging me for apologising about negging, as I feel it is only fair. However, I am somewhat disappointed that you neglected to call me a cunt.

[Red Shift]

Bernie Marsden : Jamming with Peter Green

Every three months or so, Bernie Marsden makes a two-hour drive from his home near Oxford, heading south-west. He'll arrive at his destination – an unremarkable house in a quiet residential street – feeling a little nervous. A short while after he rings the bell, the front door opens. "I go, ‘Hello Pete’, or sometimes I call him Pedro. Then he invites me in and makes me a cup of tea. Mentally, I still pinch myself as I walk through the door", says Marsden. As former songwriter and guitarist with UFO, Whitesnake and Paice Ashton Lord, Bernie isn’t normally given to starry-eyedness. But these visits are different. The person he comes to see is Peter Green, his idol as a young guitarist growing up in the late ’60s. The fanboy, it transpires, has never quite left him.

Before too long, Marsden and Green move to the front room with their guitars, where they are joined by Green’s friend and neighbour Paul Hoenderkamp. "He makes sure Peter plays every other day", says Marsden. "I think they go fishing together, too." The three of them begin playing - a loose jam between friends, with no agenda. Marsden sets a tape running to record what they do. "Last time around we did 'Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’On', Little Richard’s 'Lucille', 'The Young Ones' by The Shadows and The Beatles’ 'Help!' And then we started rolling into ‘Oh Well’…"  On his most recent visit to Green’s place, shortly before Christmas, Bernie Marsden took with him a bootleg of Fleetwood Mac recordings, circa 1967-68. "It's BBC sessions and two American concerts", he says. "Really good quality. When I mentioned that one section sounded particularly good, Peter just went ‘Bit messy !‘ I imagine that’s what he was like to be in the band with at the time - really tough. But he admitted ‘Yeah, we were a good little band’."

(text : Rob Hughes - "Uncut", Jan. 2020. / photo : Paul Hoenderkamp)