Fleetwood Mac w. Peter Green - My Baby Sweet - 1968/12/31 - Paris Peter Green : guitar, vocals Jeremy Spencer : slide guitar, piano, vocals Danny Kirwan : guitar John McVie : bass Mick Fleetwood : drums
Danny was an underrated genius. Jeremy could mimic old Elmore James tunes note for note. That was great when they were an traditional blues band, but when they started getting all hippie creative, he got relegated to the maracas. When Pete quit and Jeremy lead the bad into the recording studio, what came out? Kiln House. So Jeremy had graduated from 30's blues to 50's Biddy Holly style rock. Then he disappeared, turned up in a cult with his head shaved.
This song captures perfectly the Elmore James inspired slide style of Jeremy Spencer and is an altogether lovely piece of fine blues music. Spencer's addition to The Mac was just another example of the pure musical genius of Peter Green. What a band this was at one time. Wow.
I was too young to remember the early beginnings of Fleetwood Mac, but they were really great with Peter Green. It is amazing to see how much different they were in the beginning. They were solid as a blues band. Very much appreciated.
Love how this video shows how all three of these brilliant musicians played great leading roles, and then stepped back and let the others shine through.
Without the latter incarnation FM would have been forgotten. They moved into the pop business and did some great and innovative records and sounds. Lindsey Buckingham is an incredible guitarist/singer too.
@@megazeko This is true, if Mick (with no shirt in this video!) John, and Christine didn't go to America and hire LB & Stevie, they would've been nobodies. RIP Peter Green.
Danny Kirwan, Jeremy Spencer and later and Robert Welch never got enough credit! Jeremy flipped out about the same time as Peter Green so it was Danny and Bob Welch who held it together with some of their best songs like Future Games, Dust, Woman of a 1000 Dreams and more! Some of the best work I thought they ever did!
The Bob Welch years will always be my favorite version of this band. I like to say that Fleetwood Mac are 3 of my favorite bands because each version is just sooooooo good.
The band has always been Fleetwood Mac. On their first album the record company for some reason called them "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac". Green was angry about it and straightened them out. Any future references to Peter Green in the band name have been added by others to differentiate this version of the band from later versions. From Fleetwood hinself: " "We had been in a band called John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, John McVie, Peter Green and myself." The name Fleetwood Mac came about incidentally, in the middle of a recording session. They'd laid down an instrumental, their first unofficial track together, and the engineer asked, "What are we gonna put on the box?" "Peter goes, 'Call it Fleetwood Mac. John and Mick are playing on it,'" Fleetwood said. Green, a guitar god who'd replaced Eric Clapton in the Bluesbreakers, would write the band's first British hit, "Black Magic Woman." "He had no interest in being a solo creature," Fleetwood said of Green. "He called the band Fleetwood Mac for a reason." The first album was called "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac" which, Fleetwood said, made Green furious. "He was asked, they said, 'Why would you call the band Fleetwood Mac? Why did you?' He said, 'Well I pretty much felt that one day I would leave and I wanted Mick and John to have a band,'" Fleetwood said. " www.cbsnews.com/news/fleetwood-mac-mick-fleetwood-on-bands-origin-new-book/
@@dman7322 Yeah, you've got me there. I remember seeing it or reading it but I can't provide a reference. So I could be spreading fake news. Don't think so though.
I can’t believe that is the same man that died in 2020. There is a lot more to this man’s story than we know. I’m fascinated by him. We’ve had Clapton and Page shoved down our throats here in the USA all my life (I was born in 65’) and I’ve only recently come to learn of Peter? I didn’t even know he founded Fleetwood Mac until recently.
same here, I just recently found out after somehow I found the Eddie Boyd and his blues band album that FM was the hottest, make that the best, blues band in europe in the sixties.
oh lord! I can't believe this exists. Jeremy Spencer is so great, yet so unknown. How great was this band. Even after Peter left---and I stone cold love Peter's music---this band was great, with Christine. Kiln House and Bare Trees. Saw them LIVE a dozen times. Great great memories.
hey, that guy doing the cool guitar work and singing is not Peter Green, it is Jeremy Spencer, who left the group and has been serving the Lord Jesus for the last 40 years! God bless him!!
BB King once said that Peter was the only guitar player who over made him sweat. lol. Peter was a very soulful guitarist and singer. I love his vocals on this tune.
@@Baci302 Definitely. Peter is on the back to the left (from our perspective)... check around 0:54 when the camera zooms in. Danny Kirwan is on the far right (close-up around 2:16) with the purple t-shirt. Both gone now, unfortunately.
Hello again clitikyclak You may well be right about Peter's modesty. I don't know what the problem is or indeed how he is at present. All I know is I wish him well and I feel immense gratitude for the great pleasure his music has given me (both on record and 'live') from Out Of Reach (an eerily prohetic title) until Before The Beginning.
There are essentially 2 Fleetwood Mac’s, the former generation with Green and the latter with Buckingham. It’s ridiculous to compare the two. You like one or the other, cool.
Yes clikityclak...good video footage about Peter G's Golden Era is hard to find. There is the biography I mentioned, but that too may be hard to find: I don't know if it's in print or not. Look out for the reprinted version of 'Strange Brew: Eric Clapton & The British Blues Boom', hopefully within the next two/three years according to the author who also says the revised version will have more about Peter G than at present. The existing version of 'Strange Brew' is definitely worth reading!
Fleetwood Mac Ground Control ... whilst Barbarella stretches her silken limbs in zero gravity .. quite different to the Chicago Aire with Otis at the keys . but certainly a delicacy ;)
