Peter Greene wrote this song. The band was originally known as Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac, the three of them met when they were in John Mayalls Blues Breakers.
Yes! Peter Green wrote this! This is the original Fleetwood Mac when they were a blues band. Love Peter Green! So many songs to check out! Albatross is a beautiful instrumental
The first part of the Fleetwood Mac time, was great too, especially Man of the world, Oh well or the green Manalishi were outstanding songs, it was more Blues, Rock oriented sound then.
I literally shed a tear when Peter, suffering from an LSD-induced mental breakdown, abandoned music altogether for almost a decade. After what seemed like an eternity, I snapped up his comeback album and the three after that. Then, on Jan. 12, 1998, Fleetwood Mac and Santana were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Against all the odds, Peter attended. Quoting from Peter's bio that I had the honour of writing for the AllMusic Guide online, "In a rare, perfect moment, Green jammed with fellow inductee Santana on "Black Magic Woman." Peter Green died in his sleep at his home on July 25, 2020; he was 73. He was one of the greats.
I know, it annoys me when people refer to Fleetwood Mac as the new version. Peter Green was the founder of this great band. He is one of the greatest songwriters ever.
@@maryhayes3177You’ve gotta give credit to Bob Welch as well. There was just something special about his very underrated era in the band (hard to believe he was in there for five albums!). I’d say it’s my favorite Fleetwood Mac era. But yeah, you can’t deny the raw power and soul of Fleetwood Mac’s first album. Everybody raves about Then Play On, and it’s not bad, but I’ve always thought that Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac was the best album that era of the band put out.
And mine. Poor guy had a troubled life plagued with schizophrenia and hidden away in a mental health facility for ages. I did get to see him in Leeds in the 90's with his Splinter Group. Died 2020.
HARRI!! My boy Peter. The best, the original, I ADORE HIM. I got to see him live when he "came back" in early 80s. I was awestruck. Love him, love him.
What a great tune. Peter Green was the founding member of Fleetwood Mac and he wrote " Black Magic Woman". Definitely can hear how Santana would want to sound like this. The guitars are smokin'. Great reaction Harri.🎄🎅☃️🎁🎄 Thanks Harri and John. Amazing. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Peter Green wrote "Black Magic Woman." He founded Fleetwood Mac. He named it that to coax John McVie to join his group (Mick Fleetwood was already in). McVie joined a few weeks later (he preferred a steady payday from John Mayall at the time). B.B. King said that Peter Green was the best white blues guitarist he'd ever heard. Amazing compliment from a blues giant. Thanks, Harri!
Thank you for recommending Peter Green's ORIGINAL Fleetwood Mac. Don't forget the great Danny Kirwan who also played a mighty guitar and who wrote and sung many beautiful songs. This is the only Fleetwood Mac that I've ever cared for. R.I.P. Peter Green and Danny Kirwan. I saw Peter Green in the Splinter Group and shook his hand. What a legacy of great music!
BBKing also siad Peter Greens tone gave him the cold sweats. Try hearing their live version of I`ve got a mind to give up living to hear one of the best guitar solo`s ever recorded.
I was there, and we were blown away. I had heard "Supernatural" from when Green played with John Mayall and that started me playing guitar. I would add that Danny Kirwan is also playing some phenomenal riffs on this cut as well....
I don't think Mick Fleetwood ever gets enough credit. He is a tremendous drummer. I once played bass with him (a long story). It was only a couple of numbers but I dined out on it for years! He was the first drummer I had seen who could play a shuffle properly.
I loved the first Fleetwood Mac & Peter Green. To a kid from the Southside of Chicago, they, along with John Mayall, were the English blues bands I couldn’t get enough of. Enjoy his catalogue.✌️❤️🎶
STILL no reference by a reviewer that PETER GREEN founded Fleetwood Mac which I find both astounding ignorant AND pathetic. As to the suggestion that PG was influneced by Carlos Santana?????
I was there for this concert at the Boston Tea Party. They blew me away. It was the second time I saw them there. Peter Green was my favorite electric blues guitarist and I was lucky enough to see quite a few live, Eric Clapton, Mike Bloomfield, John Mayell, Duane Allman, Muddy Waters, Albert King, and that's just the ones I saw play at The Boston Tea Party. BB King once said about Peter Green "the only living guitarist to make me sweat. He had the sweetest tone I’ve ever heard".
@@dickcnormis1444 Actually a pretty funny thing happened to me at that concert. I had planned to got to a party after the concert in Lynn, MA, just a few miles north of Boston. Some of my friends in a band were throwing a party after a gig in a local bar. Well I saw these two pretty blondes standing near the refreshment stand apparently unaccompanied. I decided to go see if I could get them to come to the party. When I started to talk to them I realized they were British. They quickly, but very nicely and politely shot me down, saying they just came to see the band and were busy after the concert. A few years later I saw a picture of Christine McVie and realized she was one those blondes. I still didn't know who the other one was. It wasn't until a while later that I saw a picture of Jennifer Boyd and knew that she was the other blonde. Four months after this concert was when she married Mick Fleetwood. I'm glad McVie and Mick Fleetwood were on stage when that happened. Mick could be pretty wild and I wouldn't want to mess with him if he got PO'd. I'm sure those girls must have got hit on all the time in those days and thinking back, I'm surprised at how nice they were and not at all harsh or showing any anger or impatience in dealing with me. Anyway, a nice memory that became more interesting as time went on!
Saw them in their early days, late 60’s, in Brighton. I was a slide guitar obsessive, never seen it played live, and when Jeremy Spencer launched into 'Dust my Blues' I thought I'd reached the promised land! Always adored Peter Green's more lyrical and spare solo style, such a talent, but such a troubled soul. Long may we cherish his legacy.
Peter Green is one of my favourite guitar players.There’s a song called Stone Crazy he played on with Rod Stewart,Jack Bruce and Aynsley Dunbar is worth a listen
Thanks for this choice, John Chu. I have the album from which this is taken but I've never seen this video. If I'm not mistaken, this is when they had three guitarists: the incomparable Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan but Green was so darned humble that he often allowed the others to play lead, as on this where it's Danny. And when you consider that he's only 20 here and joined the band when he was 18 then you get some idea of how highly he was rated. I really think that when you've heard the early Fleetwoods, you can never accept the later, more commercially successful group as being on a par with them. Peter Green's mental health deteriorated after the Munich party and I still hate the way the organisers behaved. It may have happened sooner or later anyway but they prematurely took a musical genius from us, although I don't discount his later work with the Splinter Group.
I've felt like that re:later FM, but Christine McVie RIP was a powerful addition and ultimately a more prodigious contributor than her eventual friend Stevie. Love what she brought. I even respect Nicks more now than I perhaps used to.Try Future Games and Bare Trees for FM w/Christine pre- Buckingham-Nicks.
Peter Green began Fleetwood Mac as a Bluesy-Jazz group. It later morphed into a top 40 Rock group. Cristine Perfect (nee McVie) was U.K.s #1 female artist and helped change the group's tenor. My fave is double album, "Kiln House;" with cover art a la Grandma Moses.
Hey Harri. I was 19 when Fleetwood Mac played this superb song. And right through, I loved all of the early Fleetwood Mac songs. Black Magic Woman. Green Manalishi. Need Your Love So bad. Man Of The World. and so on. It was the music background of my life. And , around that time, a 16 year old blues guitar player, Stevie Ray Vaughn was also playing some mean blues.
Thanks Cynthia. Fun fact: McVie's reluctance to join Green was really a matter of finances. Although, it was by joining the band that he was able to meet Christine Perfect, whose band Chicken Shack toured with Fleetwood Mac They got married within 2 weeks of first setting eyes on each other. Peter Green was John's Best Man at their wedding. Christine actually quit Chicken Shack to be a homemaker (fearing they'd never be able to be together as both were touring musicians). Of course, when Green left in 1970 (shortly after this Boston concert), Christine McVie officially joined Fleetwood Mac.
I dont know wether this guys guitar wasnt tuned properly but Santana blow this guy out the water with the harmonic accoustics coming off his guitar in the 1970 version.
@@saturnnet1627 I love Carlos as a guitarist. He's great. But Santana's version of Black Magic Woman sounds different because Carlos plays the first 16 bars of Gabor Szabo's "Gypsy Queen" as his intro. It gives the song that Latin flavor that makes Santana's version distinctive. On the album, Santana adds Gypsy Queen to the end of the track as well.
Glad to hear this version which is, of course, the original version. If I may make a suggestion.... " The Green Manalishi " which is also written by Peter Green. I think you may like it as well. Take care...
This was an amazing concert, the sound is incredible given how many years ago this was. The concert recordings are on a double CD. It is outstanding, the two guitarists frequently alternate and play off each other and holy smoke! They were in their prime of raw energy output that only comes with doing your thing without looking for celebrity approval. You will never hear the like again..
Peter Green was given a guitar as a kid by his older brother who had asked for one for his birthday but could not get on with learning to play it, a couple of months after he had been given the guitar their father asked the brother to go to Peters room and tell him to turn down his radio as the music was too loud, when his brother opened the door he found Peter playing the guitar and not the radio, he was that good already and totally self taught. If had not been for his drink being spiked with LSD in Germany he could have become one of the greatest of all time for sure.
Peter actually willingly took lots of LSD, unfortunately, and was never spiked by anyone. The person you're thinking of is Syd Barrett---who willingly took SIGNIFICANTLY larger/more frequent doses of LSD than Peter Green did, but also often had his food and drinks spiked with LSD by the roommates he lived in an apartment with.
In an interview Peter actually recalls willingly taking "LSD" (by that time, he had already been taking LSD for almost 2 years) with the people in the hippie commune in Munich, Germany and recording spiritual music with them. That night, he likely took DOM (also known as "STP")---which is like LSD in effects and duration but is significantly more potent than LSD. That shit can mess you up permanently VERY easily. Syd Barrett was also known to take "STP" from time-to-time.
@Brian Taylor 2.0 yes he did willing take LSD, but in an interview with Mick Fleetwood he describes a time in Germany where Peter Green is taken by unnamed wealthy Germans one night to a party at one of their houses during his time there they allegedly plied him with spiked drinks, in an experiment to see how well it made him play, Mick said that when the band finally tracked him down he was nothing a good way at all, theh managed to get him away from there and got him medical treatment, however, he was permanently damaged mentally by the incident and his performances became erratic and he would even miss gigs entirely, he eventually stopped playing guitar completely. There was a British documentary about him and a journalist teackednhim down to a small cottage, Peter was a sorry sight overweight, very dishevelled and his fingernails were at least 3 inches long, the journalist asked him if he would consider playing again and Peter replied no I can't because I would have to cut my nails and I can't do that. Later, having received further treatment, Peter did play again and formed The Peter Green Splinter Group he released a few good albums and toured a few times. So although his experience are similar to Syd's, it was different but he was definitely spiked, maybe in an even more sinister way, not sure what the interview with Mick is called but I'm sure you can find it is you search for it.
@@simply_psi Like I said, Peter knew he was taking LSD when he was at the hippie commune in Munich-regardless of whether it was mixed into drinks, taken as tabs, etc. Peter did not unintentionally become under the influence of LSD at that commune-he knew that he was taking LSD. “Spiked” usually means that a drug is mixed into someone’s food or drink without them knowing, thus leading to them becoming intoxicated from whatever substance without knowing why. Peter said that he was aware that he and everyone else in that hippie commune in Munich were taking LSD.
John Mayall, the Godfather of British blues, had a great eye for guitar talent. Great guitarist who played for him, Peter Greene, Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya and Buddy Whittington to name some!
Thanks Harri for this , as much as I love Santana's version, I love this more. Peter Green and the much overlooked Danny Kirwan were an astonishing pairing. Thin Lizzy and Wishbone Ash are often referred as the first bands to feature twin leads but FW pre-dated them and with Jeremy Spencer you could argue three lead guitarists. Don't know why Jeremy Spencer wasn't part of this performance.
If this was recorded in Boston it could be that Jeremy Spencer had already left by then, I thought he left in 1971, but I also know he did not tour America with the band, so I'm not sure if there is a mixup on the date of this performance and it is 1971 and not 1970, that would explain Jeremy's absence.
@@simply_psi This is definitely the performance I saw in the first week of February 1970. All three guitarists were there plus John McVie on the bass, who the cameraman also mostly ignored. Spencer walked off on the band during a tour of America in 1971 just before they were about to play in Los Angeles. They canceled the concert and went looking for him. When they found him days later he had joined a religious group, "The Children of God", he cut his hair short, gave them all his money, and told the band's manager, Clifford Davis, that he renounced his wife and 2 children, saying "Jesus will take care of them" and refused to rejoin the band.
The wonderful amazing Peter Green such a talent the best in my opinion. Leaves Clapton for dead with his soulfulness, innovation and use of space. Listen to him play the five string fender bass on Green Malarishi live at Boston Tea Party it is brilliant rip PG
It’s amazing to me how so many people only know of the Fleetwood Mac from after Lindsey and Stevie joined, and yet they’d been a band for so long before that. By the time they joined the band, Fleetwood Mac had already put out 9 studio albums and had 10 band members both come, go and stay in the band!
3 lead guitars backed by the best rhythm section ever! This is the Real Fleetwood Mac. A side note: Peter Green replaced Eric Clapton in John Mayall's Blues Breakers.
Most people only hear the Santana version (which is FIRE), but this is so cool, Peter Green's finest moment. Yes, Carlos took his style from Greeny. I have been so lucky to have two older brothers who bought this all to me from the time I was born. I'd be sitting at the optimal position in front of the DeccaGram 'stereo' and they'd play something, me with my thumb in my mouth, and they would expect a sensible comment! After I proved myself music savvy, they would wake me up to sneak downstairs to watch Old Grey Whistle Test and we would have great times discussing music, then on to John Peel on Radio 1 on a Sunday evening.. Ahh, good times... Fleetwood Mac were a blues band at their formation, and this shows it.
This video is not Black Woman from Boston, not Black Woman at all. A very well edit video to make it look that way. The audio IS!!! My favorite version 💚 Thank you for respecting our Greeny💚💚💚💚💚
There really isn't much to say about Fleetwood Mac because that Peter Green wrote and composed almost all of the songs during this time. Back then they were the best white blues band ever. Without Peter Green they relegated themselves to just any pop band and the music became mainstream and monotonous (to my taste) . After many years of drug excess, Peter Green's solo career was followed by very good blues-oriented albums.. I'm glad to have seen him live on stage shortly before his death. One of the best live performances I've ever seen (heard). Best regards and merry x-mas @all from hamburg (germany)
Peter Green was in a hospital for his mental health issues. The hospital was demolished. My house stands on the sight. I think wow maybe Peter's spirit is here❤
The Green Manalishe was the last song he did about Money and the Devil back when all they used were their instruments and no theatrics just raw talent..
Peter left the band not long after this concert. Jeremy Spencer was still in the band but I don't think he played on this song. They went through a lot of lineup changes! Danny Kirwan joined in late 1968, then Peter left in 1970 and it was Danny and Jeremy for s short time, though Christie had been doing a lot of studio work with them on keys. She officially joined after they released Kiln House in 1970. Then Jeremy left in the middle of a tour and Peter came back to help them finish the tour. Bob Welch then replaced Jeremy and they did the Future Games and Bare Trees album with that lineup. Then Danny was kicked out of the band and replaced by Bob Weston. Dave Walker was also in the band for a short time, then he left. Weston then left after two albums and it was just Welch on guitar. Welch left and that was when they brought in Buckingham and Nicks. There were yet more changes later on in the 80's.
Did you notice at 5:15 Danny breaks a string? Also, Santana has an album called Supernatural. Rumor has it that Carlos named it after the song The Supernatural by Peter when he was with The Bluesbreakers after Clapton left.
Harri, now you're cooking, the original MAC, and for me the best, Peter Green is the composer, Santana's version is also fantastic, check out NEED YOUR LOVE SO BAD.
3 leads 3 totally different sounds, all great in their own right. The Peter Green stuff is so influential in the early 70's, musicians knew talent even if the wider public did not. The Bob Welsh stuff is so spacy, try Hypnotized it will blow your mind. Then the top 40 sounds of the Buckingham - Nicks era, if they were somehow on stage together, other than Mick and John always being there and Christne for most of it, there would be no way to tie the 3 eras together.
Nothing like Peter Green, that's all. It is interesting how close Santana followed the tune to begin with. Try "Jumping At Shadows" from Boston Tea Party. Thanks!!
Wow... I had no idea this wasn't a Santana original! I really love Peter Green's song "Oh Well", and Tom Petty did a great cover of it as well. Check out Tom's version from his "Live Anthology" album.
Reminds me a little of The Allman Bros. with Duane Allman and Dickie Betts going back and forth with each other. These guys were so good. Wow! such a young Jon McVie, and drummer Mick Fleetwood. They must have been all of 20 or 21 yrs. old.
Don't sleep on Danny Kirwin. He and Green were seamless. A lot of people assume all the great guitar playing in The Mac is always Peter, but sometimes its Danny (Jeremy Spencer, channeling the spirit of Elmore James, is playing most of the slide licks).
You should follow this up with a review of a cover. The Mick Fleetwood Band did this live a decade ago. Rick Vito takes the guitar and vocals. Has all the sound and feel of Peter Green. And for added enjoyment, there is a kick-ass B-3 that helps take this cover over the edge.
Indeed, it was 2 different times, era or parts of Fleetwood Mac, close to what happened to Genesis or Chicago, just the same in terms of different sounds, 70ies, 80ies.
This band had one prodigious guitarist !!!.....FALSE !...this band had two prodigious guitarists, 'cause, together with Peter Green, there was a young blondie guy...Danny Kirwan (not Clint Eastwood) who played holding his guitar to his heart...WOW !!!
I thought about requesting that one but I think it was less than 200K views, which is Harri's requirement. Much better video too since it's from a British TV show.
The audio is obviously from a different live track than the video performance. Otherwise, there would be no need to do the periodic edits you can see in the video to allow the audio to catch up with the video. But great none the less.
Never let Danny Kirwan be forgot, great to see him in this clip and he was a great guitarist (see Jigsaw puzzle blues). Another one who died way to young. 2:52
I think you probably should have listened to the studio version before the live version. I like the live version, but the sound quality isn’t nearly as good. I also recommend maybe diving into John Mayall with Peter Green and John Mayall with Eric Clapton. Those two albums have some of their best guitar work.
Well man you should do your homework before playing this. Peter Green founded Fleetwoodmac & wrote s substantial amount of their work and left them before they left for the USA & became a pop group. I saw them in Green’s Playhouse in Glasgow in 1969 & they were the best thing I had ever seen.
in the first 2 min 30 secs of this vid the song has a definite Latin (i.e. South American) feel from the rhythm section. I think that is why Carlos chose to cover it. It is interesting that a lot of current USA popular music uses similar beats, yet it is hardly ever acknowledged.
Ooh you’re on Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac are you? This gonna be good. (Narrator: It was good). Hopefully you can do ‘Man Of The World’, and Danny Kirwan’s Dragonfly as well
The original version written by Peter Green. Originally A Blues group with Green,. Fleetwood, McVie, Kirwan & Spencer. Also check out "OH, WELL", that was covered by the group "The Rockets". Fleetwood and John McVie are the only surviving members of the original group.
This is the original Fleetwood Mac, formed by Mick Fleetwood and Jon McVie. They, along with the great Peter Green, and the others, were a Blues Band. I liked the later version with the girls and Lindsey Buckingham, but it was a complete makeover from who they originally were. I doubt the casual Rock fan even knows who Peter Green was, and only know the mid 70s Fleetwood Mac. This early version was so damned good. Only us folks over 60 or so, know these guys. Thanks, Harri
Fleetwood Mac was formed by Peter Green, not Mick Fleetwood or John McVie. In fact, John McVie *TECHNICALLY* isn’t even an original member of the band. Peter approached Mick and asked him to be the drummer for the band-which would go on to be “Fleetwood Mac”-he was creating. Peter also asked John McVie-who was still actively a member of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers-to join as their bassist, but he declined at first. They had a different guy (don’t remember his name) take the bassist spot under the agreement that he would have to leave if John McVie changed his mind and decided that he wanted to join the band. A few weeks later, John McVie changed his mind and replaced the other guy as Fleetwood Mac’s bassist.
Ah, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. A great blues band unfortunately somewhat lost into the mists of time. Ask anyone if they know Fleetwood Mac and only old farts like me will recall the Peter Green period, and recall it with fondness. Don't get me wrong; I also love the Lindsey Buckingham line-up. They didn't become the juggernaut they were for nothing. But with Peter Green they were special too.
1. Peter Green wrote the tune. Santana copied it. A Black Magic woman doesn’t necessarily mean she is a black women. Does anyone know what Black Magic is? I’m so tired of idiots.
I was only 10 when this was performed I do remember this version (because of my sister who is 6 years older) but I am much more familiar with Santana’s.
Peter Greene wrote this song. The band was originally known as Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac, the three of them met when they were in John Mayalls Blues Breakers.
Yes! Peter Green wrote this! This is the original Fleetwood Mac when they were a blues band. Love Peter Green! So many songs to check out! Albatross is a beautiful instrumental
The first part of the Fleetwood Mac time, was great too, especially Man of the world, Oh well or the green Manalishi were outstanding songs, it was more Blues, Rock oriented sound then.
I literally shed a tear when Peter, suffering from an LSD-induced mental breakdown, abandoned music altogether for almost a decade. After what seemed like an eternity, I snapped up his comeback album and the three after that. Then, on Jan. 12, 1998, Fleetwood Mac and Santana were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Against all the odds, Peter attended. Quoting from Peter's bio that I had the honour of writing for the AllMusic Guide online, "In a rare, perfect moment, Green jammed with fellow inductee Santana on "Black Magic Woman." Peter Green died in his sleep at his home on July 25, 2020; he was 73. He was one of the greats.
Finally Someone Who is playing Peter Green! This is The Real Fleetwood Mac. Thanks Harry!. Green wrote it. Les Paul standard 🇺🇸🪴👍
I know, it annoys me when people refer to Fleetwood Mac as the new version. Peter Green was the founder of this great band. He is one of the greatest songwriters ever.
@@maryhayes3177You’ve gotta give credit to Bob Welch as well. There was just something special about his very underrated era in the band (hard to believe he was in there for five albums!). I’d say it’s my favorite Fleetwood Mac era. But yeah, you can’t deny the raw power and soul of Fleetwood Mac’s first album. Everybody raves about Then Play On, and it’s not bad, but I’ve always thought that Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac was the best album that era of the band put out.
@@crescentfreshbretThen Play In was Peter Green. 👍
This is my favorite version of Fleetwood Mac. Play more of their cuts. Peter Green was a great guitarist. Great song.
Peter Green is my favourite Blues Guitarist of all time ever.
mine too
Go on then, put me down as well.
And mine. Poor guy had a troubled life plagued with schizophrenia and hidden away in a mental health facility for ages. I did get to see him in Leeds in the 90's with his Splinter Group. Died 2020.
@@maryhayes3177He took too many psychedelics. I had a friend same thing happened to, very sad.
not just blues guitarist but singer/ harmony and harmonica player. Let us not forget his songwriting and bass composition. ..
HARRI!! My boy Peter. The best, the original, I ADORE HIM. I got to see him live when he "came back" in early 80s. I was awestruck. Love him, love him.
He was so magic as his song black magic woman 💚💚💚 shame🖤 what was done on this man 🖤cant forget such evil 😰 thanks for sending this
When BB King say's he is the only guitarist that gives me the cold sweats, you know Peter Green was good!
And BB knew SRV, especially from their time at Antones in Austin, and we know how good SRV was!
What a great tune. Peter Green was the founding member of Fleetwood Mac and he wrote " Black Magic Woman". Definitely can hear how Santana would want to sound like this.
The guitars are smokin'. Great reaction Harri.🎄🎅☃️🎁🎄 Thanks Harri and John. Amazing.
Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
He was THE founder of the group,gave them their name too
@@joebloggs8636 Thanks. 👍✌️🇨🇦
Peter Green wrote "Black Magic Woman." He founded Fleetwood Mac. He named it that to coax John McVie to join his group (Mick Fleetwood was already in). McVie joined a few weeks later (he preferred a steady payday from John Mayall at the time). B.B. King said that Peter Green was the best white blues guitarist he'd ever heard. Amazing compliment from a blues giant. Thanks, Harri!
Finally Someone else Knows the Truth. Peter Green! This is the real Fleetwood Mac. Les Paul standard 🇺🇸🪴
Thank you for recommending Peter Green's ORIGINAL Fleetwood Mac. Don't forget the great Danny Kirwan who also played a mighty guitar and who wrote and sung many beautiful songs. This is the only Fleetwood Mac that I've ever cared for. R.I.P. Peter Green and Danny Kirwan. I saw Peter Green in the Splinter Group and shook his hand. What a legacy of great music!
Yep, it was the original song, Santana shortly after covered this timeless song !
BBKing also siad Peter Greens tone gave him the cold sweats. Try hearing their live version of I`ve got a mind to give up living to hear one of the best guitar solo`s ever recorded.
@@reallymysterious4520 Yes
I was there, and we were blown away. I had heard "Supernatural" from when Green played with John Mayall and that started me playing guitar. I would add that Danny Kirwan is also playing some phenomenal riffs on this cut as well....
I don't think Mick Fleetwood ever gets enough credit. He is a tremendous drummer. I once played bass with him (a long story). It was only a couple of numbers but I dined out on it for years! He was the first drummer I had seen who could play a shuffle properly.
Carlos latinised it but PG wrote it. They were originally called Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. THE BEST.
Only the first album, because the record company insisted Green put on name on it.
I loved the first Fleetwood Mac & Peter Green. To a kid from the Southside of Chicago, they, along with John Mayall, were the English blues bands I couldn’t get enough of. Enjoy his catalogue.✌️❤️🎶
STILL no reference by a reviewer that PETER GREEN founded Fleetwood Mac which I find both astounding ignorant AND pathetic. As to the suggestion that PG was influneced by Carlos Santana?????
I was there for this concert at the Boston Tea Party. They blew me away. It was the second time I saw them there. Peter Green was my favorite electric blues guitarist and I was lucky enough to see quite a few live, Eric Clapton, Mike Bloomfield, John Mayell, Duane Allman, Muddy Waters, Albert King, and that's just the ones I saw play at The Boston Tea Party.
BB King once said about Peter Green "the only living guitarist to make me sweat. He had the sweetest tone I’ve ever heard".
Awesome.. I bought the three cds of the Boston Tea Party concerts.
@@dickcnormis1444 Actually a pretty funny thing happened to me at that concert. I had planned to got to a party after the concert in Lynn, MA, just a few miles north of Boston. Some of my friends in a band were throwing a party after a gig in a local bar.
Well I saw these two pretty blondes standing near the refreshment stand apparently unaccompanied. I decided to go see if I could get them to come to the party. When I started to talk to them I realized they were British. They quickly, but very nicely and politely shot me down, saying they just came to see the band and were busy after the concert.
A few years later I saw a picture of Christine McVie and realized she was one those blondes. I still didn't know who the other one was. It wasn't until a while later that I saw a picture of Jennifer Boyd and knew that she was the other blonde. Four months after this concert was when she married Mick Fleetwood.
I'm glad McVie and Mick Fleetwood were on stage when that happened. Mick could be pretty wild and I wouldn't want to mess with him if he got PO'd. I'm sure those girls must have got hit on all the time in those days and thinking back, I'm surprised at how nice they were and not at all harsh or showing any anger or impatience in dealing with me. Anyway, a nice memory that became more interesting as time went on!
Peter Green 💚 the greatest blues guitarist and singer this country produced.
He’s from England!!!
@@butchpea8525 correct, that's where I am.
Saw them in their early days, late 60’s, in Brighton. I was a slide guitar obsessive, never seen it played live, and when Jeremy Spencer launched into 'Dust my Blues' I thought I'd reached the promised land! Always adored Peter Green's more lyrical and spare solo style, such a talent, but such a troubled soul. Long may we cherish his legacy.
Peter Green is one of my favourite guitar players.There’s a song called Stone Crazy he played on with Rod Stewart,Jack Bruce and Aynsley Dunbar is worth a listen
not one of my favourite guitarists.......................he is my favourite guitarist. Stone Crazy is epic...................
Damn, what a lineup! Was that released on an album, or just a single?
Stone Crazy....Peter Green, Rod Stewart, Jack Bruce bass and Aynsley Dunbar soooooo Good!
Need Your Love So Bad, and Man Of The World, also I Loved Another Woman, well worth doing!
Good to see somebody reacting to original Fleetwood Mac at last. They had much more blues and raw sound and had a few big hits in the UK.
Thanks for this choice, John Chu. I have the album from which this is taken but I've never seen this video.
If I'm not mistaken, this is when they had three guitarists: the incomparable Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan but Green was so darned humble that he often allowed the others to play lead, as on this where it's Danny. And when you consider that he's only 20 here and joined the band when he was 18 then you get some idea of how highly he was rated.
I really think that when you've heard the early Fleetwoods, you can never accept the later, more commercially successful group as being on a par with them.
Peter Green's mental health deteriorated after the Munich party and I still hate the way the organisers behaved. It may have happened sooner or later anyway but they prematurely took a musical genius from us, although I don't discount his later work with the Splinter Group.
I've felt like that re:later FM, but Christine McVie RIP was a powerful addition and ultimately a more prodigious contributor than her eventual friend Stevie. Love what she brought. I even respect Nicks more now than I perhaps used to.Try Future Games and Bare Trees for FM w/Christine pre- Buckingham-Nicks.
B.B. King once said that Peter Green was the ONLY guitarist whose playing gave him the cold sweats. That says A LOT about Peter’s playing!
Peter Green began Fleetwood Mac as a Bluesy-Jazz group. It later morphed into a top 40 Rock group.
Cristine Perfect (nee McVie) was U.K.s #1 female artist and helped change the group's tenor. My fave is double album, "Kiln House;" with cover art a la Grandma Moses.
Hey Harri. I was 19 when Fleetwood Mac played this superb song. And right through, I loved all of the early Fleetwood Mac songs. Black Magic Woman. Green Manalishi. Need Your Love So bad. Man Of The World. and so on. It was the music background of my life. And , around that time, a 16 year old blues guitar player, Stevie Ray Vaughn was also playing some mean blues.
Greeny & Danny Kirwan were a formidable guitar duo.
Without a doubt the best blues guitar duo, I think Green and Kirwan were 1 and Duane and Dickey were 2
The REAL Fleetwood Mac!
The ONLY Fleetwood Mac!
I just love Fleetwood Mac and this is such a great song. Thanks John and Harri.
This is such a great song. I love this one and I also love Santana’s version as well. Great choice John. ✌️
Thanks Cynthia. Fun fact: McVie's reluctance to join Green was really a matter of finances. Although, it was by joining the band that he was able to meet Christine Perfect, whose band Chicken Shack toured with Fleetwood Mac They got married within 2 weeks of first setting eyes on each other. Peter Green was John's Best Man at their wedding. Christine actually quit Chicken Shack to be a homemaker (fearing they'd never be able to be together as both were touring musicians). Of course, when Green left in 1970 (shortly after this Boston concert), Christine McVie officially joined Fleetwood Mac.
@@John_Chu Very interesting John, you seem to know a lot about music and musicians.
I dont know wether this guys guitar wasnt tuned properly but Santana blow this guy out the water with the harmonic accoustics coming off his guitar in the 1970 version.
@@saturnnet1627 They have very different sounds, but I do like both versions.
@@saturnnet1627 I love Carlos as a guitarist. He's great. But Santana's version of Black Magic Woman sounds different because Carlos plays the first 16 bars of Gabor Szabo's "Gypsy Queen" as his intro. It gives the song that Latin flavor that makes Santana's version distinctive. On the album, Santana adds Gypsy Queen to the end of the track as well.
Glad to hear this version which is, of course, the original version. If I may make a suggestion.... " The Green Manalishi " which is also written by Peter Green. I think you may like it as well. Take care...
Danny Kirwan,( other guitar player) was fantastic also...
This was an amazing concert, the sound is incredible given how many years ago this was. The concert recordings are on a double CD. It is outstanding, the two guitarists frequently alternate and play off each other and holy smoke! They were in their prime of raw energy output that only comes with doing your thing without looking for celebrity approval. You will never hear the like again..
A couple other big songs of theirs from this time: "Albatross" and "Oh Well", both worth your time to check out.
Man of The World also
Peter Green was given a guitar as a kid by his older brother who had asked for one for his birthday but could not get on with learning to play it, a couple of months after he had been given the guitar their father asked the brother to go to Peters room and tell him to turn down his radio as the music was too loud, when his brother opened the door he found Peter playing the guitar and not the radio, he was that good already and totally self taught. If had not been for his drink being spiked with LSD in Germany he could have become one of the greatest of all time for sure.
Peter actually willingly took lots of LSD, unfortunately, and was never spiked by anyone. The person you're thinking of is Syd Barrett---who willingly took SIGNIFICANTLY larger/more frequent doses of LSD than Peter Green did, but also often had his food and drinks spiked with LSD by the roommates he lived in an apartment with.
In an interview Peter actually recalls willingly taking "LSD" (by that time, he had already been taking LSD for almost 2 years) with the people in the hippie commune in Munich, Germany and recording spiritual music with them. That night, he likely took DOM (also known as "STP")---which is like LSD in effects and duration but is significantly more potent than LSD. That shit can mess you up permanently VERY easily. Syd Barrett was also known to take "STP" from time-to-time.
@Brian Taylor 2.0 yes he did willing take LSD, but in an interview with Mick Fleetwood he describes a time in Germany where Peter Green is taken by unnamed wealthy Germans one night to a party at one of their houses during his time there they allegedly plied him with spiked drinks, in an experiment to see how well it made him play, Mick said that when the band finally tracked him down he was nothing a good way at all, theh managed to get him away from there and got him medical treatment, however, he was permanently damaged mentally by the incident and his performances became erratic and he would even miss gigs entirely, he eventually stopped playing guitar completely. There was a British documentary about him and a journalist teackednhim down to a small cottage, Peter was a sorry sight overweight, very dishevelled and his fingernails were at least 3 inches long, the journalist asked him if he would consider playing again and Peter replied no I can't because I would have to cut my nails and I can't do that. Later, having received further treatment, Peter did play again and formed The Peter Green Splinter Group he released a few good albums and toured a few times. So although his experience are similar to Syd's, it was different but he was definitely spiked, maybe in an even more sinister way, not sure what the interview with Mick is called but I'm sure you can find it is you search for it.
@@simply_psi Like I said, Peter knew he was taking LSD when he was at the hippie commune in Munich-regardless of whether it was mixed into drinks, taken as tabs, etc. Peter did not unintentionally become under the influence of LSD at that commune-he knew that he was taking LSD. “Spiked” usually means that a drug is mixed into someone’s food or drink without them knowing, thus leading to them becoming intoxicated from whatever substance without knowing why. Peter said that he was aware that he and everyone else in that hippie commune in Munich were taking LSD.
John Mayall, the Godfather of British blues, had a great eye for guitar talent. Great guitarist who played for him, Peter Greene, Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya and Buddy Whittington to name some!
Another great olden golden hit. Fantastic choice John Chu. Great reaction Harri, of course. 🎅🤶🎀☃️🎄❄️🤴🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸🙃👍
The whole album Then Play On is a gem of a recording.
Thanks Harri for this , as much as I love Santana's version, I love this more. Peter Green and the much overlooked Danny Kirwan were an astonishing pairing. Thin Lizzy and Wishbone Ash are often referred as the first bands to feature twin leads but FW pre-dated them and with Jeremy Spencer you could argue three lead guitarists. Don't know why Jeremy Spencer wasn't part of this performance.
Jeremy is on the extreme left side of the bandstand and the cameraman kind of ignored him basically. There are a couple of brief glimpses of him.
If this was recorded in Boston it could be that Jeremy Spencer had already left by then, I thought he left in 1971, but I also know he did not tour America with the band, so I'm not sure if there is a mixup on the date of this performance and it is 1971 and not 1970, that would explain Jeremy's absence.
@@John_Chu I wasn't watching close enough lol
@@edwardallen4051 The video is awfully shot. You couldn't even see Peter actually playing his guitar. LOL.
@@simply_psi This is definitely the performance I saw in the first week of February 1970. All three guitarists were there plus John McVie on the bass, who the cameraman also mostly ignored.
Spencer walked off on the band during a tour of America in 1971 just before they were about to play in Los Angeles. They canceled the concert and went looking for him. When they found him days later he had joined a religious group, "The Children of God", he cut his hair short, gave them all his money, and told the band's manager, Clifford Davis, that he renounced his wife and 2 children, saying "Jesus will take care of them" and refused to rejoin the band.
Those solos in the middle section is Peter Green “duelling” with Danny Kirwan…
By far the best iteration of Fleetwood Mac and very underappreciated. Hope to see you and others dive more into their catalogue
The wonderful amazing Peter Green such a talent the best in my opinion. Leaves Clapton for dead with his soulfulness, innovation and use of space. Listen to him play the five string fender bass on Green Malarishi live at Boston Tea Party it is brilliant rip PG
You should listen to Fleetwood Mac’s cover of B.B. King’s “I’ve Got A Mind To Give Up Living”-it’s Peter pouring his soul out!
Peter Green & the equally amazing Jeremy Spencer. It's a shame that these two giants don't get mentioned more often.
The second guitar here is Danny Kirwin
Danny Kirwan
@@glasydorlan Thanks for the correction.
It’s amazing to me how so many people only know of the Fleetwood Mac from after Lindsey and Stevie joined, and yet they’d been a band for so long before that. By the time they joined the band, Fleetwood Mac had already put out 9 studio albums and had 10 band members both come, go and stay in the band!
I remember Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac's first single 'The sun is shining' with Jeremy Spencer on slide guitar.
3 lead guitars backed by the best rhythm section ever! This is the Real Fleetwood Mac. A side note: Peter Green replaced Eric Clapton in John Mayall's Blues Breakers.
Early Fleetwood Mac, "Oh Well"(long version), about 2 mins. of singing, 8 mins. of great guitar
Love that you provide your description of the history of the performance
It doesn't get much better than Peter Green. I loved this era of Fleetwood Mac.
The best British blues group.
If you like this you should check out the 'Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation ' they should have been as big as 'The Mac' but never got the breaks etc!!..
Most people only hear the Santana version (which is FIRE), but this is so cool, Peter Green's finest moment. Yes, Carlos took his style from Greeny. I have been so lucky to have two older brothers who bought this all to me from the time I was born. I'd be sitting at the optimal position in front of the DeccaGram 'stereo' and they'd play something, me with my thumb in my mouth, and they would expect a sensible comment! After I proved myself music savvy, they would wake me up to sneak downstairs to watch Old Grey Whistle Test and we would have great times discussing music, then on to John Peel on Radio 1 on a Sunday evening.. Ahh, good times... Fleetwood Mac were a blues band at their formation, and this shows it.
Peter Green was awesome 😊
This video is not Black Woman from Boston, not Black Woman at all. A very well edit video to make it look that way. The audio IS!!! My favorite version 💚
Thank you for respecting our Greeny💚💚💚💚💚
There really isn't much to say about Fleetwood Mac because that Peter Green wrote and composed almost all of the songs during this time. Back then they were the best white blues band ever. Without Peter Green they relegated themselves to just any pop band and the music became mainstream and monotonous (to my taste) . After many years of drug excess, Peter Green's solo career was followed by very good blues-oriented albums.. I'm glad to have seen him live on stage shortly before his death. One of the best live performances I've ever seen (heard). Best regards and merry x-mas @all from hamburg (germany)
Peter Green was in a hospital for his mental health issues. The hospital was demolished. My house stands on the sight. I think wow maybe Peter's spirit is here❤
This was written by Peter Green, and later covered and popularized by Santana in 1969 or 70.
Man oh man, this is so good!!!
Yes, Fleetwood Mac recorded some good stuff before Rumours!
Alot of Good stuff. The real Fleetwood Mac!
The Green Manalishe was the last song he did about Money and the Devil back when all they used were their instruments and no theatrics just raw talent..
Peter left the band not long after this concert. Jeremy Spencer was still in the band but I don't think he played on this song. They went through a lot of lineup changes! Danny Kirwan joined in late 1968, then Peter left in 1970 and it was Danny and Jeremy for s short time, though Christie had been doing a lot of studio work with them on keys. She officially joined after they released Kiln House in 1970. Then Jeremy left in the middle of a tour and Peter came back to help them finish the tour. Bob Welch then replaced Jeremy and they did the Future Games and Bare Trees album with that lineup. Then Danny was kicked out of the band and replaced by Bob Weston. Dave Walker was also in the band for a short time, then he left. Weston then left after two albums and it was just Welch on guitar. Welch left and that was when they brought in Buckingham and Nicks. There were yet more changes later on in the 80's.
This is the original version by Fleetwood Mac written by Peter green
I suggest the original line up all the time. Nobody ever does the original Blues they started as.
Him and Alvin Lee are always in my trucks CD player.
Did you notice at 5:15 Danny breaks a string? Also, Santana has an album called Supernatural. Rumor has it that Carlos named it after the song The Supernatural by Peter when he was with The Bluesbreakers after Clapton left.
Harri, now you're cooking, the original MAC, and for me the best, Peter Green is the composer, Santana's version is also fantastic, check out NEED YOUR LOVE SO BAD.
3 leads 3 totally different sounds, all great in their own right. The Peter Green stuff is so influential in the early 70's, musicians knew talent even if the wider public did not. The Bob Welsh stuff is so spacy, try Hypnotized it will blow your mind. Then the top 40 sounds of the Buckingham - Nicks era, if they were somehow on stage together, other than Mick and John always being there and Christne for most of it, there would be no way to tie the 3 eras together.
Got to give Danny Kirwan a mention, no mean player himself!
Nothing like Peter Green, that's all. It is interesting how close Santana followed the tune to begin with. Try "Jumping At Shadows" from Boston Tea Party. Thanks!!
Wow... I had no idea this wasn't a Santana original!
I really love Peter Green's song "Oh Well", and Tom Petty did a great cover of it as well. Check out Tom's version from his "Live Anthology" album.
Reminds me a little of The Allman Bros. with Duane Allman and Dickie Betts going back and forth with each other. These guys were so good. Wow! such a young Jon McVie, and drummer Mick Fleetwood. They must have been all of 20 or 21 yrs. old.
1960s British bands were hugely influenced by the black American blues and soul artists, who they idolised.
what was called the British blues invation Jeff Beck Truth/Mac/Tull/Zeppelin were released on the same day
or was it traffic
Don't sleep on Danny Kirwin. He and Green were seamless. A lot of people assume all the great guitar playing in The Mac is always Peter, but sometimes its Danny (Jeremy Spencer, channeling the spirit of Elmore James, is playing most of the slide licks).
You should follow this up with a review of a cover. The Mick Fleetwood Band did this live a decade ago. Rick Vito takes the guitar and vocals. Has all the sound and feel of Peter Green. And for added enjoyment, there is a kick-ass B-3 that helps take this cover over the edge.
pete green wrote "black magic woman" and it was later done by "santana"
The original - Fleetwood Mac- Santana covered the song
Indeed, it was 2 different times, era or parts of Fleetwood Mac, close to what happened to Genesis or Chicago, just the same in terms of different sounds, 70ies, 80ies.
This band had one prodigious guitarist !!!.....FALSE !...this band had two prodigious guitarists, 'cause, together with Peter Green, there was a young blondie guy...Danny Kirwan (not Clint Eastwood) who played holding his guitar to his heart...WOW !!!
Q: how good was Peter green. A: Peter was playing in the same building as B.B King. B.B king said his playing made him start crying like baby.
I stopped listening to Fleetwood Mac when they changed, I just couldn’t get it, but they became more popular… and poppy 😔
You should check out Need Your Love So Bad by Fleetwood Mac. I think you would love it.
I thought about requesting that one but I think it was less than 200K views, which is Harri's requirement. Much better video too since it's from a British TV show.
Man of the world. ALBATROSS fantastic songs or Curly with John Mayall .
The audio is obviously from a different live track than the video performance. Otherwise, there would be no need to do the periodic edits you can see in the video to allow the audio to catch up with the video. But great none the less.
Never let Danny Kirwan be forgot, great to see him in this clip and he was a great guitarist (see Jigsaw puzzle blues). Another one who died way to young. 2:52
I think you probably should have listened to the studio version before the live version. I like the live version, but the sound quality isn’t nearly as good. I also recommend maybe diving into John Mayall with Peter Green and John Mayall with Eric Clapton. Those two albums have some of their best guitar work.
glad that santana covered it and made it his own.
Well man you should do your homework before playing this. Peter Green founded Fleetwoodmac & wrote s substantial amount of their work and left them before they left for the USA & became a pop group. I saw them in Green’s Playhouse in Glasgow in 1969 & they were the best thing I had ever seen.
in the first 2 min 30 secs of this vid the song has a definite Latin (i.e. South American) feel from the rhythm section. I think that is why Carlos chose to cover it.
It is interesting that a lot of current USA popular music uses similar beats, yet it is hardly ever acknowledged.
Ooh you’re on Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac are you? This gonna be good. (Narrator: It was good). Hopefully you can do ‘Man Of The World’, and Danny Kirwan’s Dragonfly as well
Ah I see you’ve done Man Of The World…excellent. And if you do Dragonfly, go for the Beat-Club live performance of it if possible
Stunning brilliance of Peter’s song; lease get lyrics transcription corrected. Every word matters…
John McVie on Bass , Mick Fleetwood on drums
I always loved Danny Kirwan who here plays a lot of leads
The original version written by Peter Green. Originally A Blues group with Green,. Fleetwood, McVie, Kirwan & Spencer. Also check out "OH, WELL", that was covered by the group "The Rockets". Fleetwood and John McVie are the only surviving members of the original group.
Kirwan wasn't in original band but he is here,. He's my favorite
@@joebloggs8636 I should have stated...the most popular original line-up. Thanks.
Spencer is still alive.
This is the original Fleetwood Mac, formed by Mick Fleetwood and Jon McVie. They, along with the great Peter Green, and the others, were a Blues Band. I liked the later version with the girls and Lindsey Buckingham, but it was a complete makeover from who they originally were. I doubt the casual Rock fan even knows who Peter Green was, and only know the mid 70s Fleetwood Mac. This early version was so damned good. Only us folks over 60 or so, know these guys.
Thanks, Harri
Fleetwood Mac was formed by Peter Green, not Mick Fleetwood or John McVie. In fact, John McVie *TECHNICALLY* isn’t even an original member of the band. Peter approached Mick and asked him to be the drummer for the band-which would go on to be “Fleetwood Mac”-he was creating. Peter also asked John McVie-who was still actively a member of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers-to join as their bassist, but he declined at first. They had a different guy (don’t remember his name) take the bassist spot under the agreement that he would have to leave if John McVie changed his mind and decided that he wanted to join the band. A few weeks later, John McVie changed his mind and replaced the other guy as Fleetwood Mac’s bassist.
If you close your eyes and listen to Carlos Santana you will hear Peter Green. try it.
Ah, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. A great blues band unfortunately somewhat lost into the mists of time. Ask anyone if they know Fleetwood Mac and only old farts like me will recall the Peter Green period, and recall it with fondness.
Don't get me wrong; I also love the Lindsey Buckingham line-up. They didn't become the juggernaut they were for nothing. But with Peter Green they were special too.
Rattlesnake Shake please.
Great track!
They did write it first peter green that is..1968shortly after Santana covered it
1. Peter Green wrote the tune. Santana copied it. A Black Magic woman doesn’t necessarily mean she is a black women. Does anyone know what Black Magic is? I’m so tired of idiots.
I was only 10 when this was performed I do remember this version (because of my sister who is 6 years older) but I am much more familiar with Santana’s.
Peter replaced Clapton in John Mayall's blues Breakers. Mick and Mcvie were in the band. Mayall changed band members every few year