“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘My Baby’s Sweet’ Peter Green is understandably the considered the nucleus of the band that he founded (in spite of his desire not to be seen as such). Easily forgotten is how integral Jeremy Spencer’s contributions were to the band in their earliest days. It was a Spencer lead number ‘I Believe My Time Ain’t […]
‘Crazy For My Baby’ a.k.a ‘Without You’ –Home recording / BBC session, August 27, 1968 The second “home recording” that we have was almost certainly recorded at the same time as the first and although I have no way to confirm, or disprove this conjecture, I believe these recordings were made by a French film […]
BBC session, “First Gear” July 07, 1970 Fleetwood Mac was close to wrapping up what would be the band’s fourth LP, “Kiln House” (their first without Peter Green) at the time they taped this session for the BBC. The five songs the band performed for the show, were all included (despite the collection’s title) on […]
This recording has been a thorn in my side for over twenty years. When I first came across it, I could not find any information as to the performance’s provenance; in all of my research, I could not find any confirmation that showed that the band had ever recorded this song. The title could not […]
Fleetwood Mac / Jeremy Spencer 1968 – 2006 ‘Bleeding Heart’ is one of Elmore James’ later originals, done for producer Bobby Robinson. From late 1960 through early 1963 James cut over thirty titles for Robinson during sessions held in New York City and New Orleans. The majority of those titles were released posthumously, including this […]
Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA – February 19, 1971 Fifty-two years after it was recorded and forty-nine years after it first appeared on the bootleg LP, “Merely a Portmanteau’ (The Amazing Kornyphone Record Label) (TAKRL)* the full “Jam” appended to their closing number, ‘Tell Me all the Things You Do’, at the first show that […]
