Celebrate the Music of Peter Green and the Early Years of Fleetwood Mac

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Green died on July 25th. “No one has ever stepped into the ranks of Fleetwood Mac without a reverence for Peter Green and his talent,” Fleetwood said, “and to the fact that music should shine bright and always be delivered with uncompromising passion!!!”

For me, and every past and present member of Fleetwood Mac, losing Peter Green is monumental! Peter was the man who started the band Fleetwood Mac along with myself, John McVie, and Jeremy Spencer. No one has ever stepped into the ranks of Fleetwood Mac without a reverence for Peter Green and his talent, and to the fact that music should shine bright and always be delivered with uncompromising passion!!! On February 25, 2020, days before the first case of COVID-19 was discovered in the UK, a very special concert took place at the legendary Palladium in London celebrating the songs of Peter Green and the original incarnation of Fleetwood Mac. This show also now takes on a particularly poignant meaning, with the unfortunate passing of Peter Green in July 2020. Oh Well, Part 1 was never envisioned as a duet, but here it is, with Steven Tyler and Billy Gibbons trading lines like it's the most natural call-and-response in the world.Update April 2021.Much has happened in the 14 months since this original concert, including the death of Peter Green and the pandemic. Pete Townshend's amp is louder than anyone else's. We know this because he plays the riff from The Who's Won't Get Fooled Again solo , guiltily pointing out the similarity to the riff of Station Man (actually written by Danny Kirwan, Jeremy Spencer and John McVie) in the manner of someone who's been waiting a while to admit this. The set ended with an all-star version of Elmore James’ Shake Your Moneymaker, which Fleetwood Mac covered on their self-titled 1968 debut album. His slide guitar is pure, his voice aches, Fleetwood seems genuinely moved. And standing on stage left, holding down the bottom end with nonchalant aplomb, is the one and only Bill Wyman. History unfolding before our very eyes. 4. Albatross (David Gilmour) Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge.

The Green Manalishi was the last song Peter Green wrote for Fleetwood Mac before stepping into the wilderness, and its hellish themes and demonic chord progressions make it the perfect vehicle for Metallica's Kirk Hammett. I will miss you, but rest easy your music lives on. I thank you for asking me to be your drummer all those years ago. We did good, and trail blazed one hell of a musical road for so many to enjoy. Tyler then joined up with Gibbons for an all-out performance of "Rattlesnake Shake." Tyler stayed to do "Stop Messin' Around" with FM's own McVie. She also took the reins during "Looking for Somebody." The concert was a celebration of those early blues days where we all began, and it’s important to recognize the profound impact Peter and the early Fleetwood Mac had on the world of music,” Fleetwood said in a statement about the concert film. “Peter was my greatest mentor and it gave me such joy to pay tribute to his incredible talent. I was honored to be sharing the stage with some of the many artists Peter has inspired over the years and who share my great respect for this remarkable musician.”You realise that Albatross inspired a musical movement: there's Albatross, and there's all those other songs that try and capture that Albatross feel but invariably fall short. Like Led Zeppelin's Kashmir, it's a song that inspires sonic plagiarism in others. 3. The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) (Kirk Hammett) The show opened up spotlighting blues-era Fleetwood with "Rollin' Man" followed by a cover of "Homework" by Otis Rush. Gibbons joined in for a performance of Buster Brown's "Doctor Brown" and stayed to do another Rush number - "All Your Love." The celebration will be screened on March 23rd / 28th , 2021 in cinemas across the country, distributed by Cinema Live. Details will be announced in the new year. Fleetwood, who curated the list of artists performing, said: “The concert is a celebration of those early blues days where we all began, and it’s important to recognize the profound impact Peter and the early Fleetwood Mac had on the world of music. Peter was my greatest mentor and it gives me such joy to pay tribute to his incredible talent. I am honoured to be sharing the stage with some of the many artists Peter has inspired over the years and who share my great respect for this remarkable musician. ‘Then Play On’…”

The concert was a celebration of those early blues days where we all began, and it’s important to recognize the profound impact Peter and the early Fleetwood Mac had on the world of music. Peter was my greatest mentor and it gave me such joy to pay tribute to his incredible talent. I was honored to be sharing the stage with some of the many artists Peter has inspired over the years and who share my great respect for this remarkable musician. ‘Then Play On’...” Whatever your view on Neil Finn joining the cast of the Fleetwood Mac soap opera, he delivers one of the evening's more eloquent tributes to Peter Green, and gets to perform one of his most dramatic songs, Man Of The World. Like David Gilmour's guitar (more on that later), his singing voice is so identifiable with another band that it all sounds a little more like Crowded House than it probably should. Fleetwood will be joined this evening at the London Palladium by Billy Gibbons, David Gilmour, Jonny Lang, Andy Fairweather Low, John Mayall, Christine McVie, Zak Starkey, Steven Tyler, Bill Wyman, Noel Gallagher,Pete Townshend, Neil Finn, Kirk Hammett and many more. Recorded live at the London Palladium, 25th February 2020. A Man Of The World Pictures Production for BMG.It's trademark Gilmour throughout, transporting the original's rather dour classical facade to somewhere entirely, well, Floydian. He solos, that guitar soars, that sublime tone fills the room, and there's magic in the air. You can take the man out of Pink Floyd, but you can't take Pink Floyd out of the man. 1. Oh Well, Part 1 (Billy Gibbons, Steven Tyler) He's actually playing Peter Green's original Les Paul, the fabled ' Greeny', the guitar the song was written on. It's a guitar that was later owned by Gary Moore and subsequently bought by Hammett for a reported two million dollars. Again: actual history, right here. 2. Oh Well, Part 2 (David Gilmour)