“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 […]
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 […]
The Henry Björklund Tapes, Part Two I first came across a reference to this performance thirteen years ago, in Christopher Hjort’s “Strange Brew – Eric Clapton & the British Blues Boom 1965 – 1970” (Jawbone Press). Under the entry for this date, Hjort writes of audience member Henry Björklund’s recollection of Green opening the show […]
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 […]
“Sherman, set the controls on the Way Back Machine to Chicago, the Chess Studios, January fourth, 1969” All books, whether fiction or non-fiction serve as “time machines”, allowing us to vicariously experience the ancient, or recent past; speculative futures or imagined worlds and realms. “Fleetwood Mac in Chicago January 4 TH 1969 – The Legendary […]
I am not sure how the song first crossed the Atlantic, but the first to cover it in England (to the best of knowledge) was Alexis Korner and Blues Incorporated on the “Red Hot From Alex” LP in 1964 Based on Herbie Goins’ vocal and the comparatively more conservative tempo used, it would appear that […]
Recorded November 11, 1969, (late show) Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, Finland On July 25, 2021 the Finnish Broadcast Company (YLE) released the original audio broadcast of Fleetwood Mac’s late show performance from the Kulttuuritalo in Helsinki, Finland on November 11, 1969. The show can be found here: https://areena.yle.fi/audio/1-50888397 (I recommend going to the “main page” and checking […]
ACT II When Fleetwood Mac hit the road in 2019, the band replaced Lindsey Buckingham with Neil Finn and Mike Campbell. It was near the end of the tour, at a show in Perth, Australia, that they first played ‘Man of the World’ with Neil Finn taking the lead vocal and Mike Campbell, on second […]
1 Blu-Ray / 2 CDs (BMG 2021) ACT I On February 25, 2020, days before England (and most of the rest of world) was locked down due to Covid-19, Mick Fleetwood staged a concert in celebration in of Peter Green and the early years of Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood assembled a “House Band” to back the […]
Part 1 Mike Vernon first spotted Kirwan, all of seventeen at the time, playing guitar in a trio called Boilerhouse, with Trevor Stevens on bass and Dave Terrey on drums, “…I seem to remember him playing this Watkins beginner guitar yet making these wild sounds that reminded me in a way of Lowell Fulson… I […]
