Fleetwood Mac... The ORIGINAL Fleetwood Mac
Not with the above mentioned but guitar legends Peter Green Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer. When the name Fleetwood Mac enters your ears images of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are sure to appear, but "Live in Boston" features the original line-up featuring, yes, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, but the list continues. Very bluesy and quite good. Features "Black Magic Woman" and the blues ballad "Rattlesnake Shake". This is a must buy for blues enthusiasts.
better late than never...
Guess it's time to catch up!! This is one of the best raw, in yer face, all out guitar blues cd's i've heard in a long time. Back when the Mac were a blues band, i somehow missed the boat. The remastering is fantastic!! Sounds like you are right there in front of the stage. Peter Green smokes!!! Highly recommended for blues/rock fans. . . Buckingham/Nicks fans approach with caution. . this is the OTHER Fleetwood Mac.
Truly great remastered performances
This is the Fleetwood Mac I love with Pete,Danny,et al not the later pop lineup with Steve,Lindsey,etc. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this CD and others in the Boston Tea party series. .
Rock this
I am glad that I did. Being a blues-rock fan, and a fan of well known pop-rock incarnation of Fleetwood Mac, I made this album my first of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. This album contains a series of shattering performances containing some of the the best heavy, blues-based rock that I have ever heard. Jeremy Spencer's Elmore James mimickery is entertaining, but in my opinion the standouts are "Rattlesnake Shake", "Only You", "Jumping at Shadows", and "Green Manalishi". The awesomeness of "Rattlesnake Shake" and "Green Manalishi" are detailed in other reviews, but I'd like to mention "Jumping at Shadows" for the emotion conveyed by Green's voice and guitar: self-doubt and nervousness. Rarely are you going to find any group of musicians (especially ones playing in front of a frenzied, soldout crowd) who can express such delicate emotions. In my opinion, the entire show is permeated by a sense of self-doubt.
Awesome live recordings. If you are on the fence, just go ahead and buy these records. It will be worth it. Although, I have to disagree with that fellow who so readily put this record ahead of the Allman Bros. and the Grateful Dead at their best. That is just daft. .
Oh My God!
They have a raw energy that could only be matched by only a few, and I can't really even think of who they are. To say that Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac is an understated jewel in the blues/rock world is too dismissive. I got Then Play On when I was 15 in 79. I have replaced the album 3 or 4 times, and still listen to it at least once a month. It is a staple in my home, car, and ipod.
I have heard, but not owned Albatross, and somewhere have two Peter Green cassette tapes. I never heard them live. What a shallow existance I have lived. I just got Live in Boston 1 and 2 today (from Amazon) and can not beleive what I am hearing. Truely some of the greatest music I have ever heard.
If you know the early works of Fleetwood Mac or Peter Green, then this is the creme de la creme. Words can not describe how absorbing the music is. I am addicted to Jam Bands (the Dead, Garcia, moe. , the cheese. . . ) and see many similarities, but mellower and bluesier.
Buy it, listen to it, fall in love with the lost art of Fleetwood Mac / Peter green et al.
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