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 Pure magical brilliance July 9, 2010
J Thorpe
I went to see Fleetwood Mac at the Sheffield Arena recently, absolutely bowled over how good they were. Followed that with a trip to Buxton Opera House to see Pete Green - quite a sad experience but worth the seeing, he was slow but the rifts came.
This album captures the sheer brilliance of the man and his influence on the group - its been on constant play since I got it. Living in the past? Possibly, but this music is timeless - I would recommend to any music lover, A Classic.
 A Chapter in British Rock History June 23, 2010
Chris Emmerson (The Netherlands)
This is a great CD for any fan of good guitar music. Peter Green had a magic touch and could coax subtle tones from a guitar - sounds that are common now but were unusual in the late 1960s. I particularly like The Green Manalishi written by Green after a bad LSD trip. It was perhaps one of the first 'power chord' driven songs and a strong indication that all was not well with Peter. A few years ago Garry Moore made a Peter Green tribute album and that was also a collector's item. Despite an attempt to reproduce the 60's sound the music was accurate (of course) but too clean. This CD includes the original 'dirty' vintage sound and it is better for it.
In my attempts to play this music I found a few You Tube clips of Peter Green playing with Fleetwood Mac. In this process I discovered that many fans of Judas Priest firmly believe that the original Green Manalishi was written by Judas Priest. This music is so old that contemporary fans can only relate to second generation 'covers' (and it is a great cover). Despite this, whenever I play this Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac CD, my 13 year old daughter is compelled to get up and dance and on the slow numbers, her face expresses the anguish of the rejected lover.
This is Rock and Roll history and you will hear strong echoes of this music in many modern songs. Peter Green was from the Clapton, Beck and Hendrix generation, they experimented and learned from one another. It is a pity that Peter Green took a sabbatical that lasted half a lifetime but, as consequence, this makes the limited number of his early recordings even more valuable.
 Good, but not good enough June 15, 2010
R. Clementson (UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I agree with many of the reviews who cite this as a proper compilation of the first incarnation of FMac. Peter Green was a musical genius, but to call the band Peter Green's FMac, is simply misleading. A good marketing ploy, but not true. PG was only around for the first 3 albums. They started as a pure blues band, loyal to the Bluesbreakers background, and built up an extremely loyal following, playing venues up and down the country. When "Then Play On" was issued, there was a considerable amount of criticism from their "blues" fan-base. This compilation shows the amazing leap from competent blues band to cutting edge creativity. Just listen to "Rollin Man", then "Green Manalishi" (conveniently on this cd, one follows the other). This creativity leap - Albatross, Oh Well, etc, was of course severely drug fuelled, but you have to wonder what else would have been produced had PG not succumbed. My issues with this compilation are: Firstly, the quality of the sound - nowhere on the cd cover, do I find the words "Digitally remastered", and that's because it has'nt been done. So the sound quality is the same as if I am playing the LP. Lacking in depth, and at times outright "tinny". Secondly, a couple of the track choices are not good - "Need your love so bad" is cringeworthy - sheer commercialism, early FMac at its worst - just like Clapton's horrendous sell out "Beautiful Tonight". Finally, what is theawful acid house version of Albatross doing on this cd, and why a Chicken Shack track?????? There's more than enough early quality FMac output to plug these gaps, and why is Jigsaw Blues not on this????
Peter Green - what a talent April 22, 2010
GARY BEAUMONT (NI)
MAny people will only know of Fleetwood Mac - in the 70's - but not the 60's line up. The style and talent in the band should be appeciated more. The Stevie Nicks etc lineup definitly was GOOOOD and could only have been the path to go along for the band, but to me , Peter Green was Fleetwood Mac himself.
The best of is a purchase not to miss - buy, listen and appreciate his talent, as was.
I woke up this morning... February 18, 2010
Gary Ward (Glasgow, Scotland)
A brilliant overview of the bands pre-70's stardom with the mercurial Peter Green. Some awesome tracks on here, only marred by the inclusion of a pointless contemporary remix of 'Albatross' and perhaps it misses a couple out like 'Rambling Pony' but these are mere quibbles...
Sound quality is also superb and at a mid-price you can't whack it!
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