‘When the Train Comes Back’ – Chicken Shack / Fleetwood Mac 1968 BBC performance, Album version, Single Version, Fleetwood Mac (BBC1-TV “Black, White & Blues”) Christine Anne Perfect was born in Bouth, Lancashire on July 12, 1943 Her Father was a concert violinist and music lecturer at St. Peter’s College of Education in Birmingham. Her […]
“Kiln House” / Pacific National Coliseum, British Columbia, August 11, 1970 / Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA, February 19, 1971 Peter Green played his last show with Fleetwood Mac at the end of May, 1970. The following month, the remaining members of the band began work on their next album, “Kiln House’. Of the […]
Photo: Lee Orlando (Sean Chambers & Pat DeSalvo & Garnet Grimm) The place: Chicago, City of Big Shoulders. The venue: Reggie’s Bananas Shack. The bands: Fun Parent and Sean Chambers and the Savoy Brown Rhythm Section. The occasion: a celebration of the music of Kim Simmonds and the release of his autobiography, “Street Corner Talking” […]
Plus: Session Outtakes In an interview published in the June 28, 1969 edition of Disc, Clifford Davis stated that Fleetwood Mac would begin to curtail the number of live appearances that they would be doing to concentrate on studio recording. In addition to the album that they were currently working on (Then Play On), they […]
Elmore James / Fleetwood Mac / The Nighthawks / Peter Green Splinter Group It probably wasn’t difficult to justify, (to himself, anyway), Elmore James’s aversion to contracts. He had signed on with Trumpet Records in January of 1951, mainly working on sessions for other artists on the label, notably Sonny Boy Williamson II. He also […]
Little Richard / The Merseybeats / The Beatles / Fleetwood Mac (Live) Little Richard was born December 05, 1932. He made his recorded debut in 1951, releasing four 45’s on the RCA Victor label from November 1951 to November of ’52. He went to Don Robey’s Peacock label the next year and was teamed with […]
The Astronauts, ? and the Mysterians, The Candymen, Elmore James, Fleetwood Mac In the States, the first “rock” band to cover ‘Call It Stormy Monday But Tuesday is just as Bad’, was a surf band from land-locked Boulder, Colorado, The Astronauts. Recorded live at The Club Baja under the title ‘Stormy Monday Blues’, their version […]
The show was organized by Robert Schaffner and Chris Herman and featured a number of fantastic musicians from around the country in rotating combinations on stage providing a wide range of excellent music. Before the musical offerings, the guest of honor, Paul Hamer was presented with three stunning prints by legendary photographer Jeff Lowenthal: photos […]
Part I: ‘Mighty Long Time’ Peter Green is rightfully considered one of the greatest guitarists to come out of the British Blues scene of the mid-to-late sixties but as we celebrate his seventy-eighth birthday (born October 29, 1946) I’d like to take a look at two songs featuring his harmonica playing. There is currently only […]
Near the end of February 2018, Italian Peter Green researcher Mario Pirrone brought to my attention an “alternate” recording of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers’ ‘It Hurts Me Too’ found on the 1969 U.K. compilation, “Looking Back”. Excited by the find (and admittedly a little jealous that this had gone unnoticed by me in all of […]
