Live at the Marquee

Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 11, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1967
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sanctuary Records
• ASIN: B00005NQJG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,065 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Horrible Sound Quality, April 14, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Live at the Marquee (Audio CD)

This was my first experience with the Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac. The sound quality on this disc is so awful, I felt cheated. Fortunately I didn't give up and found "Then Play On". Gets one star for actually playing in the CD player, the other because Peter Green is the baddest white boy on the gitfiddle this side of Stevie Ray Vaughan. (though it doesn't show on this disk, at least that which I could hear). For completists only.

If you are looking for a great Live Mac album, check for the Recall - import double CD issue of the Fleetwood Mac "Boston Blues." These are the sets from which the "Live at the Boston Tea Party" re-issues were issued, and you won't be dissappointed. Plus you get two of those three discs for the price of one-and-a-half.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Watch Out Peter Green Fans, September 27, 2001

By 

Michael Dow (Bangor Maine USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at the Marquee (Audio CD)

I just picked up this new issue of the 1967 Live at The
Marquee recordings of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.
I am a collector of all Peter Green era recordings
and was really hoping to find something along of the
lines of Dinky Dawson's excellent Shrine '69 on Ryko.
Unfortunately, this CD can't compare. The sound
quality on Live At The Marquee is extremely poor.
The performance is good especially considering that
the band had been together for a very short time at
this point. Peter Green's guitar playing is tentative
at the beginning of the set but he seems to quickly
gain confidence. By the time they start "Watch Out",
he is clearly in control but again, the recording
quality is so poor that only a true Green-o-phile
will stick it out long enough to find out. There
is some kind of disclaimer about the sound inside
the brief booklet but even that doesn't prepare you
for how bad this sounds. It claims that the recording
stems from a sound board source but I would be very
surprised if that were true. The only thing I can
compare this to is 12/31/62 Star Club recordings of
The Beatles. That night was captured by an alleged
friend of the band on unprofessional recording equipment.
Fleewood Mac Live At The Marquee sounds to me like
it has similar origins. Original Mac bassist Bob
Brunning supplies some interesting notes inside (first
published with the 1992 of this release) and the
period photos from the band are nice (although familiar

to Green fans). If you need all of the available
Peter Green material out there, you will need this
but newcomers to this amazing band would be much
better served by the aforementioned live "Shrine '69"
or the even better three disc "Live at the Boston Tea
Party" (Red Snapper edition-remixed) and the very
reasonable priced six disc Blue Horizon Years box set
(essential for any blues collection).

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Live @ the Marquee, October 9, 2001

By 

Michael G. Cohen (Falls Church, Va. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at the Marquee (Audio CD)

It is a neverending search to try to find good quality recordings of early Peter Green and this is not the end of that search. The sound quality is fair, at best, and Green stays in the background too much for my taste. This maybe due to Danny Kirwan not being on this one, leaving too much Jeremy Spencer. I am glad I have this recording though as Mean Woman Blues is GREAT despite the sound quality. Green is dynamite at the end of it. So far, I still think you're better off with the Live at the Boston Tea Party discs.