Original Fleetwood Mac [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, Live]

Fleetwood Mac | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 20, 2000)
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, Live
• Label: Original Masters UK
• ASIN: B00004TKHH
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #401,573 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Drifting

2. Leaving Town Blues

3. Watch Out

4. A Fool No More

5. Mean Old Fireman

6. Can't Affort to Do It

7. Fleetwood Mac

8. Worried Dream

9. Love That Woman

10. Allow Me One More Show

11. First Train Home

12. Ramblin Pony No. 2

13. Mighty Cold

14. Jumping at Shadows (Live Recording)

15. Somebody's Gonna Get (Their Head Kicked In Tonite)

16. Man of Action

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Peter Green is a true blues guitar god!, June 22, 2000

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Richard M.Judice (Hazlet, N.J. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Original Fleetwood Mac (Audio CD)

Forget about all the white boy blues revivalists-all you need to do is listen to any track on this reissue & the revivalists can pack up their guitars because the Fleetwood Mac original lineup of Peter Green,Jeremy Spencer, John McVie & Mick Fleetwood were & are the true blues revivalists. Just listen to the guitar playing on "Watch Out" it's impeccable. Peter Green's singing on "Fool No More" is so moving you can swear nothing else in the song can top it until you listen to his guitar licks. Every song on this CD is great & the bonus tracks are a real treat. Buy this CD - you won't be disappointed.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An essential for fans of the blues, December 12, 2001

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"rockrollmusicislife" (Redding, CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Original Fleetwood Mac (Audio CD)

When it comes to British Blues, no one can do it better than Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. And this is certainly a blues classic, with Mac classics all around, which is saying something considering its an outake collections.

1.)Drifting; A perfect example of Peter Green's guitar genius. Driven and electrifying guitar mastery.

2.) Leaving Town Blues: A perfect example of Fleetwood Mac's ability as a 12 bar blues group. Excellent vocals, perfect lyrics, and solid rhythms make this essential Mac.

3.) Watch Out: This version of Watch Out is faster, less bluesy, and somewhat inferior than the version on Fleetwood Mac in Chicago.

4.) A Fool No More: A perfect blues song. Not a chord played wrong, and the rhythm doesn't miss a beat. Plus Peter Green's singing and guitar is a perfect staging of the desparation of the song.

5.) Mean Old Fireman: Brilliant slide guitar blues. More relaxed and certainly superior than most of Jeremy Spencer's numbers.

6.) Can't Afford to Do It: A typical Jeremy Spencer number. Average guitar play and vocals, and for the most part nothing to crow about.

7.) Fleetwood Mac: An instrumental recorded way back when Peter Green with John Mayall with the rhythm section that would become the famed background of Fleetwood Mac. This is an excellent instrumental with solid backing, and excellent guitar and harmonica from Greeny that shows just what he was capable of.

8.) Worried Dream: 5 star cover of a B.B. King classic.

9.) Love That Woman: Another fairly average Jeremy Spencer cover.

10.) Allow Me One More Show: The best song on the album. Like Mean Old Fireman this is a relaxed, accoustic slide number in which Spencer is solo. Plus it is a Spencer-penned number that actually sounds original.

11.) First Train Home: Another blues number by Greeny. Rather average and sounds too much like Worried Dream and A Fool No More.

12.) Rambling Pony No. 2: Fast, rollicking, boogie blues. Classic way to close way to close out the original album

Bonus Tracks
13.) Mighty Cold: An excellent 50's rock number from Jeremy Spencer.

14.) Jumping at Shadows: Taken from the famed Boston concerts. Of the three nights this is one of the best, with Green shredding the guitar like the blues master that he is

15.) Somebody's Gonna Get (Their Head Kicked In Tonite): Spencer pulls off an Elvis Presley impersonation that is simply hilarious.

16.) Man of Action: Average Spencer parody of John Mayall. Certainly makes Mayall sound very lame.

In conclusion this outake collection is an underated blues classic. If you have any interest in the blues era of Fleetwood Mac this is not a bad place to start.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Intro to Peter Green's Mac, June 26, 2001

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N. Wakabayashi "Nobs" (Jawsey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Original Fleetwood Mac (Audio CD)

This is a pretty nice reissue, that has a few extra bonus tracks. The songs are divided between Peter Green's blues numbers, Spencer's slide & rock-n-roll honky tonk. While Spencer is always entertaining, the real reason to pick up early Mac is to hear "Greenie" play & sing.

A master with holding notes (check out his tone) & using dynamics, one wonders if he wasn't the BEST blues player England has ever produced. Nobody remotely sounds similar to his style in the blues-rock genre, & his singing is considerably stronger than say... Eric Clapton's (although he comes pretty darn close on Layla).

The early Mac's studio work is somewhat inconsistent from album to album, hence my four star rating. For their best studio work, I would recommend They Play On (as Green's songwriting grew out of the blues), but this is a nice place to start.

Check it out.