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Peter Green has died.
Before Fleetwood Mac became the highly successful soft rock band it's known as today, it went through several incarnations. It was founded in 1967 by Green as a blues rock band, though his songwriting led it in new directions. They soon had major hits in England (took a bit longer for them to break in America). Drug and mental problems had him leaving the band in 1970, but not before leaving us with some memorable tracks.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:13 AM
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Their first album was brilliant blues-rock.
The studio version of "Oh Well" is best, since the long acoustic section was dropped from the single.
In 2002, the band released a two-CD compilation called The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac, and it contained no music from the pre-Buckingham Nicks era. Ridiculous.
The first album they released was called FLEETWOOD MAC. Seven years later, when Buckingham and Nicks joined the band, their first album was called FLEETWOOD MAC. It was like a rebirth and that lineup (even with one or two missing occasionally) has represented the band ever since.
So I can see how the new version subsumed Fleetwood Mac.
Years ago, I had a book called The Rock Book of Lists. (Remember when the original Book of Lists was all the rage, and there were tons of spinoffs?)
I don't know if it contained a list of "Bands that had a self-titled album that wasn't their first album", but that would make an interesting list.
It would include Genesis (1983), which was intended to signal a break with Genesis' past... although in hindsight there was no single album that signaled Genesis' move from prog-rock to pop-rock. It was more gradual than that.
Deep Purple's third album was self-titled, but I think that was just because they couldn't think of a title. It wasn't their reinvention album.
Don't forget THE BEATLES, even though it's better known as "The White Album."
Apparently Green had an LSD reaction that was traumatic so he left music for awhile.
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