Well, Fleetwood Mac did branch out a bit (Albatross, Man of the World, Green Manalishi etc. etc.) ;)

@@KariKauree those songs are still blues. If you listen to blues radio today, those songs fit in easily with the playlists

@@neilfriedman I disagree 🤷🏼‍♂️

@@KariKauree I still listen to Manalishi from time to time - terrific cut.

Yea the Rutles was such laugh but also very talanted

Agreed.

He was involved in background vocals but I think he wasn't credited bc of royalties, I mean he belonged to EMI label, not Deram.

Would love to know the name of the radio show.

Not to much , just only The British Electric Blues...!!!

Thanks!

Agreed. Fantastic channel!

Cheers, Linda.

@@YesterdaysPapers ……I’m not sure I’ve ever mentioned, your backing music is always beautifully done too so due credit to you. I really look forward to your excellent videos.

@@lindadote Thank you very much, Linda. Glad you enjoy the background music.

"4 years too late" ? Do you mean 40 years too late?

Thanks, Sophie! It was an incredible month. I think november and august might be the best months of 1967 when it comes to single releases.

@@YesterdaysPapers Definitely 💖

Marketing rules current music...

I’m in my mid 40s. I only vaguely knew about Peter Green from his stint in the Bluesbreakers (especially the super-natural), and didn’t know of any Fleetwood Mac that wasn’t Buckingham-Nicks until my early 20s, even though I had a massive interest in 60s music from my adolescence and knew a lot about their contemporaries. I knew of Albatros, but for some reason in my head I assumed it was from the 70s and that it was Lindsey Buckingham playing (which in hindsight is ridiculous). I’d heard “Oh well” many times in films or occasionally on the radio but I didn’t have a clue who performed it. And I didn’t know about “man of the world” or “the green manalishi” and thought that “black magic woman” was a Santana original. And the strange thing is; my discovery that there was a Fleetwood Mac before Stevie nicks and Lindsay Buckingham was from looking into the music and career of Bob Welch, not Green or Spencer or Kirwan. I’d thought I’d look more into these excellent 70s songs “ebony eyes” and “sentimental lady” that I’d heard on classic hits stations over the years and who was responsible, and was shocked to discover that he’d fronted Fleetwood Mac with the famously tall lanky drummer and the unfaithful married other Brits. The entire picture didn’t get pieced together for me until not long afterwards, I coincidentally also read-up on the child sexual abusing Christian group; the children of god, and saw them mention many times the involvement of British musician Jeremy Spencer, formerly of Fleetwood Mac. Naturally, so recently after the discovery about Welch, I Iooked into this music made by Fleetwood Mac while this man was involved, and opened the treasure trove. And discovered just what a massive deal they were in the 1967-70 UK music scene. It was obvious to me that John Lennox’s “Sun King” was an inferior rip off of Albatross and that Led Zeppelin’s “black dog” was inspired by “oh well”. They were so good, were so big (at least in Europe), and yet they receive so little attention now and are almost forgotten. I remember guitar magazines in the 1990s were always talking about Jeff Beck or Jimmy Page or Clapton but no mention of Peter Green or Danny Kirwan or even Spencer. I’ve wondered if it’s mostly because of Spencer’s deplorable later activities with the children of god, or more because of Green and Kirwan both developing schizophrenia? But it all seems to have been swept under the rug.

@@danieleyre8913 My favorites from the Peter Green era are green Manalishi that was redone by Judas Priest and Oh Well That was the inspiration for the Led Zeppelin song Black dog

@@michaelrochester48 I really like both those tracks also. But my absolute favourites from the Green would be “rattlesnake shake”, “Long grey mare” and “show-biz blues” from Green. Along with “when you say” & “although the sun is shining” by Danny Kirwan and “my heart beat like a hammer” & “somebody’s gonna get their head kicked in tonight” by Jeremy Spencer.

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You can get the B side on several BDB compilations, along with other gems.

@@garygomesvedicastrology you beat me to it. Their output is fairly readily available. Does anyone else think that The Intro And The Outro helped Vivian Stanshall get the narration job on Tubular Bells? I saw the remaining Bonzos (the ones who could be bothered to make the trip anyway!😊) in Norfolk about four or five years ago. I knew the words and mouthed along to everything they played. I felt so old and so delighted to have seen them one last time.

True, I really love that film.

The Bonzos were with some of the Pythons before they were even Pythons - on that classic ITV show Do Not Adjust Your Set. (BTW: has that been lost? If not, has it ever been put out on DVD?)

@@Krzyszczynski Some of the episodes are on youtube or used to be.

The series is available on dvd along with At Last the 1948 show. I own them and they are probably still available.

A few years after this "Awge" (as he was known for a while) formed another rock-oriented outfit called the Oblivion Express, which I happened to catch once (Duster Bennett was the real attraction for me that night). To be frank I thought they were kinda boring and sounded too similar to all the million-and-one other bands playing in that style at the time. He probably chose well to step sideways into jazz. And Jools hasn't done too badly on that scene either, though under a different name.

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For a lot of the UK in 1967-8: Fleetwood Mac was the first time they had ever heard slide guitar like Jeremy Spencer’s, and for them it was a revelation. The Fleetwood Mac very much continued the British interest in blues that the Bluesbreakers began and set up the UK fan audience that would later first propel Led Zeppelin and Free.

You make an interesting point. Psychedelic music was certainly a movement away from blues-based rock with all the sonic experimentation that was being done. It seems only natural that progressive rock would evolve at least partially from psychedelica and completely sever rock from the blues (at least in the prog rock and similar genres). As was mentioned here, what was somewhat surprising (at least to me) was the later resurgence of blues-based rock but this time much heavier a la Led Zeppelin and others. In the US the Americana trend grew more pronounced after psychedelica faded with a lot of rock bands sounding more "country" than what was on the country and western charts. There was so much creativity in this period and it was difficult to predict what the next trend would be.

Thanks, Willie! Yeah, it was a good thing 'cause a lot of musicians got introduced to the blues via those bands and that was their gateway to the great original bluesmen.

Thanks!

I love "My Father's Name Is Dad". Great song!

Didn't The Fire do Treacle Toffee World too? Another fine track.

@@maurice8607 Yes, that was the B-side.

A.K.A The Al Capone of the Music Business.

@@YesterdaysPapers And his daughter Sharon learned how to be just as ruthless, but within the legal boundaries.

I was there and I remember it despite a popular saying a few years ago declaring, “if you remember the ‘60s, you weren’t there.” On that basis you could always pretend 🫠

Macari's - still in existence now albeit in a different shop

@@PaulMcCaffreyfmac yes I know I would love to see it what history! I think over the decades it's moved three times l8ke I said I would love to check out the shops in London I'm in LA and the shops here don't have near the charm or history as the UK's cheers mate !

Agreed, very underrated band.

And featured many, many times in session on John Peel’s Top Gear.

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They were unprogressive. Green's solo album from that era was Great

Sharon Osbourne's father.

@@YesterdaysPapers holy heck! I had no clue!

Happy Thanksgiving, Chris.

@@YesterdaysPapers Thanks

Thank you very much, Ross! Really appreciate it. Cheers!

No worries, you have a great channel looking forward to more.

@@rossgregor4817 Thanks!

Every music evolves into Progressive as musicians evolve and learn more and apply what they learn--and King Crimson could arguably be connected to metal from the first track on their first album. The blues guitar tone was already established by 1968 through Clapton, Hendrix and others. I think blues rock groups sort of slowed the growth of rock. There was no need to have continuous repetitive blues bands repeating the same licks for years. Growing up at that time, I agree with the snidey journo. Every time rock tried to move forward on its own, it subverted its freshness with back to basics movements until now, it's basically cliched itself into irrelevance. Don't get me wrong! I liked those blues groups initially, but by 1969 I wanted to hear something different and started moving more to jazz and contemporary classical. Nothing wrong with blues...but a steady diet of the same food is pretty boring to me at least.

@@garygomesvedicastrology George Melly develops something like this thesis at the end of his book Revolt Into Style. Any form of pop music can only develop so far before it bumps up against the limits of its practioners' technique, at which point the only direction is back to the roots, rinse and repeat, sometimes in a different style or along a different route, but ultimately always ending up at that same insurmountable obstacle. The few who do get over it inevitably find they're operating in another idiom altogether.

@@Krzyszczynski I disagree with this thesis (but I will see if I can get the book). This proposition denies the evolution of virtually every music in the world.

Great keyboard player

Great band, definitely well worth checking out.

After december 1967, I'll do January to May since these series started with singles from June 1967. It'll be interesting to cover the first half of 1967.

@@YesterdaysPapers Yay!!!!

Yes I heard that he bought it and also met Green to jam with him with it about a decade ago. And I’ve heard that Green (or maybe one of his brothers) modified at least one of the pickups back in the 60s by reversing their electric polarity or something, which gives it a different sound to regular Les Paul’s.

Yeah, the first Fleetwood Mac album includes about 3 or 4 Elmore James tracks that sound almost identical.

@@YesterdaysPapers Right. I bought a Jeremy Spencer solo album tho where he was dabbling around with other genres ala the "Kiln House" period. Pretty interesting.

@@YesterdaysPapers I thought it’s the second Fleetwood Mac album “Mr Wonderful” where Spencer’s songs all almost sound the same and have the same intro?

Jeremy Spencer was a great live performer and great with the slide guitar. But yes his early material was either covers or a pastiche of Elmore James. And from what I heard, this started to frustrate Green, as it was inhibiting his own songwriting. The bands second album “Mr Wonderful” is a really dull and uninspired affair. And that was what led the band to take on Danny Kirwan, who was still in secondary school but had his own blues rock band called something like boilerhouse and who was a massive Fleetwood Mac fan and would hang out and help roadies load their equipment at the clubs, etc. Because at first; Kirwan’s own creativity allowed Green to move forward with his songwriting, and that’s what allowed Green to compose Albatross. So while they kept Spencer on for his live performing and off stage sense of humour, he was shunted aside for the writing and recording of the seminal “then play on” album. The record company allowed him to record his own solo album, full of his own compositions, within which he had expanded his range of artists to imitate, but it quickly sank without a trace. He did however contribute some decent songs for the Kiln House album that was written and recorded shortly after Green departed.

@@danieleyre8913 You're right, I was getting the albums mixed up.

It's funny you mention Tame Impala because the first time I heard the single by The Societie, I thought it sounded a lot like Tame Impala.