Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way

[garth cartwright]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GN2kpBoFs4

While Peter Green's FM were a great band and PG remains my fave British blues-rock guitarist the Anglo-American FM were the better band: better songwriters, better singers and much better looking (Stevie & Lyndsey - what a divine couple! Or ex-couple). And Go Your Own Way - released in 77 and rocking harder than anything in punk - is their ultimate masterpiece. Lucky I'm on the other side of the world so Adam can't come looking for me...

[Adam Blake]

Aaah, Garth, sometimes I think you mistake me for a much younger version of myself. Twenty years ago, perhaps, I could have been roused by such a statement but these days... If you believe it and want to state your opinion as though it were a fact, go 'head on.

I lived through the ubiquity of "Rumours" etc. It's fine pop music of its day. It never made much impression on me, to be honest. As for this tune "rocking harder than anything in punk", I think you must be on drugs or something.

[AndyM]

Rhiannon was their masterpiece, actually.

And yes, the rocking/punk claim is dashed odd, Cartwright! The Angelic Upstarts alone woulkd blow it out of the water.

[Adam Blake]

Yes, I did like "Rhiannon". That's a lovely song. There was one off "Tusk" I liked as well. It went "Dont...Stop....du du du dum dee dum dum". Can't remember the title but it had a swinging 6-8 feel and a very catchy I - bVII - IV chorus. (Sorry...)

[Jude]

Yes, I did like "Rhiannon". That's a lovely song. There was one off "Tusk" I liked as well. It went "Dont...Stop....du du du dum dee dum dum". Can't remember the title but it had a swinging 6-8 feel and a very catchy I - bVII - IV chorus. (Sorry...)

Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlNIkwBz8HI

Jolly fine song...

[Adam Blake]

That's the one. Thanks, Jude.

[garth cartwright]

I'm in Topanga Canyon - perfect place for a FM state of mind!

Were there any other bands beyond the Small/Faces and FM/FM who kept the rhythm section and replaced vocals/guitar and were brilliant in both incarnations?

[Adam Blake]

I'm in Topanga Canyon - perfect place for a FM state of mind!

.......nice........

[NormanD]

Just about everything worked so well on "Rumours". It sold millions world-wide and affected us whether we liked it or not. I know there are people who claim not to have a heard a single track on it, but it reminds me of those families that still claim never to have had a telly in their house. It's there, it's there, there's no choice in the matter. Even the singles were remixed with extra punch, like this one, "Say You Love Me"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dM7lMNg ... h_response

Instant radio appeal then, instant nostalgia now. F Mac II were the dog that had a VERY big day.

[MurkeyChris]

There was one off "Tusk" I liked as well. It went "Dont...Stop....du du du dum dee dum dum". Can't remember the title but it had a swinging 6-8 feel and a very catchy I - bVII - IV chorus.

That's from Rumours as well! A wonderful album.

Fleetwood Mac's reunion album from 1997, The Dance is darned good as well. I listened to it a great deal at the time, and listening to it again the other day bought back so many memories.

[Adam Blake]

I saw Fleetwood Mac at Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall in 1973. I went on my own and it cost me £1 to get in. It must have been the lowest ebb in their entire career. I had a great time. I used to have a bit of Mick Fleetwood's crash cymbal that broke off during the gig. I rushed up onstage and grabbed it at the end. They did a version of "Rattle Snake Shake" that must have gone on for about half an hour. Their singer pretended that the microphone was his willy. His name was Dave Walker. Also in the band at that time was Bruce Welch who I mistook for Danny Kirwen. "Are you Danny Kirwen?" I asked him, as he was setting his gear up. "No, I'm Bruce Welch", he said, and I feigned disinterest. I didn't know what Danny Kirwen looked like so it had been a process of elimination that had gone wrong. I knew that it couldn't be Peter Green or Jeremy Spencer because they'd left but I didn't know that Danny Kirwen had left as well. Christine McVie was very tall and beautiful. Mick Fleetwood was very tall and ugly and he took off his shirt and roamed around the stage with a pair of maracas for what seemed like ages.

I haven't thought about any of this for a very long time. It must have been only the third or fourth gig I ever attended. There were lots of girls there. They were much older than me. I didn't speak to any of them and none of them spoke to me. I did talk to an Irish drummer who said the name of his band was No. I asked him if this was because he didn't like Yes. He said No. He liked Yes. The support band were called Factory. they were really good. I liked them almost as much as Fleetwood Mac. I could go on...

[NormanD]

Adam - if you don't mind me saying so - this is so unlike your usual free-flowing prose. I take the time of writing into consideration, etc, but it reads like a confession. It only needed a signature at the bottom (written in a vaguely recognisable signature) and it might have been knocked out by a copper typing with two fingers. "Right. Sign this and then you'll get a cup of tea and a couple of hours kip....."

And then, a half hour later, just as your eyes fall asleep, the copper will come back with his shouts and threatening fists:
"You having a laugh? You want some of this? Bruce Welch?!? You effing know it was Bob!! Now I've gotta write it all out again, and can't go home 'cos of you. Right. Back in here - no messing this time...."

[Chris P]

Norman, you're creasing me up!

[Adam Blake]

Bruce Welch, Bob Welch, The Shadows, Fleetwood Mac, what's the difference? I'm giving up music for quantum physics. Even as I write trillions of neutrinos are pulsing through my body. Hawkwind had the right idea: "Quark, Strangeness and Charm"...

[Chris P]

on the blotters n blow again?