It was Peter Green "at the helm." Mick was just the drummer lucky enough to have been in his band and Peter gifting him and John McVie the name. No other incarnations of Fleetwood Mac could touch this one.
They were in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. He gifted Peter some studio time ( knowing he’d leave and form a band, after all Greens predecessor was Clapton and he was replaced by Mick Taylor pre Stones)
@@adelbertomuggler372 Peter Green founded Fleetwood Mac and gave his band that name. The "Peter Green's" addition was made by the record company. They were never billed as such with Peter's permission who absolutely did not want it that way.
The transition from part 1 to part 2 is actually around the 3:50 mark of this video, a minute or so after the quieter section begins. Part 1 was released as a single in the autumn of 1969, and after a fairly slow start it climbed to #2 in the UK charts as people began to realise what a magnificent piece of music this was. I understand why the later incarnation of the band became so popular, but they never produced anything that belongs on the same planet as Oh Well.
Not quite right. That's the transition from the A side to the B side. The A side has the first minute of part 2 and the end. This is a bad edit that repeats that entire minute of audio.
Someone needs to play this for Stevie Nicks and then ask her to explain again how there would be no Fleetwood Mac without her. They were an amazing band long before her. This particular track ( part 2) reminds me a lot of a spaghetti western with Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood staring menacingly at each other.🤠👍👍👍
@@SightAfterDark Many great songs from the pre-Buckingham/Nicks band. Future Games, Station Man, Rattlesnake Shake, Jewel Eyed Judy, Woman of a Thousand Years, many more.
@@cravinbob Buckingham and Nicks. Look, I love them but they did not join the band until their 10th album. There was a whole lot of great music that basically gets ignored .
This is the definitive Fleetwood Mac line up. Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan. Three guitarists in one group.For me Fleetwood Mac died when Peter Green left. I didn't like what they became. They started out as a British Blues band, and for me they will always be that. Check out Need Your Love so bad.
This is from FM's revised 1969 album, Then Play On (the song was released as a single but later added on to later pressings of the album). That album is a masterpiece, imo. At that time the band was led by Peter Green, and Danny Kirwin had just joined as a co-lead guitarist (he was about 19 years old at this point). Both Peter Green and Danny Kirwin were gifted musicians/songwriters. Arguably, the worst thing to happen to them were Buckingham and Nicks. ;) Just because the music world seemed to forget all about the old songs and records when the new era Fleetwood Mac became a phenomenal hit. Coincidentally, folks, I requested a different early Fleetwood Mac track for next month, so there's more to come.
Hmmm. OK, if you say so. I bought the album when it was released in late 1969 and the Oh Well part 1 and 2 were on it. Just saying. Bought all of their albums. Adding Christie Perfect McVie to the band really opened up their sound. Once they added Bob Welch and released "Mystery to Me" and "Penguin" were awesome albums. After Welch left they nailed it big time adding in Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to the band. The three part harmonies of Buckingham, Nicks and McVie were stunning. Really three different bands with three distinctive band sounds. All versions were pretty incredible but different. IMHO.
I love the original "Fleetwood Mac." The average music fan doesn't even realize the Band was a Blues band long before Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were part of the revamped 2nd version of the Band, post Peter Green, Bob Welch, and others. "Kiln House" has some really good songs on that album. "Then Play On", and "Oh Well". Most people think Santana wrote "Black Magic Woman," but it was the great Peter Green. Thanks folks, Excellent channel
Wow, so impressed you did this. This is one of the first soloing songs I learned on the guitar. Always was my little song that not many people knew or played.
This early lineup and the Bob Welsh era of Fleetwood Mac are my favorite go to albums by them. I pretty much checked out during their more commercially successful and recognizable years with Buckingham and Nicks.
Yes, Kiln House is a good album. My best friend worked at a record store and I actually heard and bought the album Buckingham Nicks when it was released in 1973. Granted, the main reason we were so 'mysterious' drawn to it may have been the fact that Stevie Nicks was a total FOX. But the album was really pretty good and Lindsey Buckingham is a pretty darned good guitarist. So when they both joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975 I had high expectations for the groups future. My expectations were correct and they became more popular then they could ever have imagined. But after Rumours I was burnt out on Fleetwood Mac going forward from that album.
Some kick-ass covers of this out there too - the Rockets and Joe Jackson to name a couple. Thanks for doing part 2 - we so rarely get to hear it. It doesn’t really “go with” part one but I like it, sounds like music for a soundtrack to a Western.
I bought this vinyl record back in 1970 when I got back from overseas. I literally wore out the grooves on this record. I'm a huge fan of the early incarnation of Fleetwood Mac that had Peter Green in it. He wrote this song as well as played lead guitar on it as well. I currently own " Then Play On " in the CD format. Thanks for reacting to this track. Take care.
When I put this into the Alternate Reactions Poll I didn't have high expectations that it would be voted in. But hey, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while. Oh well! 😂 The Peter Green era of Fleetwood Mac is by far my favorite version of the group. More blues/rock oriented and very creative. This song is a Peter Green masterpiece in my opinion. Agree with Sifa - Part 2 sounds a little like a soundtrack for a spaghetti western. Exquisite guitar work. Great review SAD!
@@paulfenwick8767 Thanks Paul. When I put it into the poll I was guessing it might get about 3 votes - me, you, and Chazblitz. Ha ha! It didn't win the poll, but got enough to be a runner up. Sweet!
You should check out the live Video where Peter was tripping out and Spencer and Kirwan wanted to have no part of it. Poor soul, Peter was my favorite guitarist from the Mayall Camp. Rest In Peace, "Ethereal Bluesman"!
I’m surprised anyone is reacting to this, it’s relatively obscure compared to other recordings from the same period. My dad told me about this single and I didn’t think much about it until I came across it on my own. Peter Green was unusual in his music ideas, but he was humble to a fault. He once said he formed the band so Mick Fleetwood and John McVie could have their own band, that’s why he named it after them. I think he never intended to stay long and he didn’t. A troubled soul, but what a genius.
Everyone else here may be older FM fans and initiates, but I didn't become at all really aware of their previous body of work until 1980, when a friend played me the original 'Black Magic Woman', me knowing only Santana's early hit version. I knew, peripherally, that Bob Welch ('Sentimental Lady"-1977 solo hit for Welch, original FM version 1972!!) had been in Fleetwood Mac, but had no idea what that sounded like 🤔 😅 😕 😳
If Oh well part 2 is a dusty desert, "Albatross" from the same period is out at the sea. Was sort of a hit. The girl group Haim made a nice live cover of part one in 2014. Peter Green left for mental illness during many years. After he recovered he formed the Splinter Group 1997-2004. Nice blues music!
I like your analogies: Oh Well = desert. Albatross = ocean. Nice. Albatross is another meditative instrumental masterpiece. Oh Well could've been the sound track for The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly. Albatross could've been the soundtrack for Endless Summer (60s vintage surfing movie).
"Albatross" was their chart topper which surprised them all since they were strictly blues imitators with occasional credits but most English bands were. Others were trying to be The Beatles. Peter's tone and melodies were unequaled. Jeremy Spencer did not want to cover any blues artist other than Elmore James. Danny Kirwin was a protege of Peter's and Kirwin's mental health went even farther out after Peter left. Mick managed keeping a band together over the years and deserves most of the credit just for being a solid drummer and without him the band would have ended when Peter left. It was Peter who named the band before he even started it. It was his two bandmates in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers John and Mick he wanted to take with him and assured them they would still have the name when he quit eventually.
I loved that early bluesband Fleetwood Mac and I got this song as a single record at Christmas 1969. Really liked it. Saw Peter Green live many years after with another band and he was just not the same person anymore.
What a fantastic set of tunes to react to; and that zappa t is stellar! The petergreen Mac was my fav period of the band, though I also loved Christine McVie, and saw the band on the green while attending UC StaBarbara... I learn to enjoy beer, at age 30 (!) at that concert cuz it got very hot. Cheers
Thank you for reacting to both parts. There are a lot of good covers of Part 1 and F in play it live as well. However, apparently, they have never played Part 2 live so check out the live album Mick Fleetwood and Friends celebrate the music of Peter Green. Recorded just before the pandemic lockdowns and released a year or so later. Fleetwood on drums with Steve Tyler and Billy Gibbons for Part 1 They also played Part 2 with David Gilmour!
Nice reaction. The Peter Green Fleetwood Mac is like the Peter Gabriel Genesis, in that they are completely different bands compared to what came later.
Peter Green! What a guitarist. What a story. Check out The Stumble (on John Mayall's Hard Road album.). One of the finest blues instrumentals ever recorded.
Fleetwood Mac was founded my Peter Green. It was never Mick Fleetwood's band while Green was there. He left shortly after this. Fleetwood then took up the pieces. Rumours was about 7 albums and 7 years after Green left.
Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac was simply awesome. The three guitarists, slide sensation Jeremy Spencer one day just ended up joining the Children of God cult, awesome incredible teenage guitarist Danny Kirwin went BS crazy, and Peter Green had a lsd experience that fried his brain. All sad losses to music. Great to hear this tune again. FM in Chicago is a must listen. Peter Green's legendary killer tone out-of- phase reverse p/u magnet, guitar "Greeny" eventually end up in Kirk Hammets after Gary Moore had it for a number of years. The early FM also did a pullin your horn blues number "Rattle Snake Shake"
Though I’m mostly familiar with Buckingham/Nicks era of FM, I love everything I’ve heard from this version of the band and really wanna hear a lot more (might Spotify from the beginning today.. idk). What I really like is how so many old school heads pop up in the comments and trash Buckingham/Nicks, saying “This is the REAL FM!”. 😂😂😂 I really do love that, and can totally relate as I feel the very same way about Aerosmith (for instance) where I think they were a much better band when they were all strung out on Coke and fighting with each other. People often request newer, more radio friendly, Aerosmith (LITE)- but I’m always quick to pipe up an say check out “Rats In The Cellar”, “Round and Round”, or “No More No More”, but then they’re like “Nooo.. we’re going CRAZY” 🤪 So on that count I can totally relate. The important thing about old school heads who “remember when it came out” is that they’re usually RIGHT (for the most part), and unlike a lot of other’s I meet, I couldn’t be more delighted to learn I was wrong all along and that there’s like 10 awesome records I now need that I’ve never heard. However, I’m certain I’ll still always love Buckingham/Nicks and all the wonderful results that spawned from their fighting and infidelity.. and mountains of coke. To me, it’s like completely different bands that happen to share a name.. but I kinda dig that weirdness, and still really love it all.. I just really need MORE of the Peter Green era in general. Probably the very BEST THING about The Peter Green FM is that when people request FM, you can say “THAT’S a GREAT IDEA”, pull this one out and watch their faces melt cause it isn’t “Rumors” and they’re bummed out, but then you play it and they like it. 🤷 An hour later, maybe they’ll thank you like I always do, and say “Man, I’ve never been so glad to learn I was so WRONG!”. 😃
Agree with C-13. Love the sound/soul and rocking blues with this. Possibly my all time favourite Fleetwood Mac song. Forget about those attention seeking, self indulgent, bleeding heart prima donna's average musicians that came later. This IS FLEETWOOD MAC!!!!. Love the acoustic break after the intro. So chilled. A good patreon pick! Peter Green was sublime on this. Great reaction guys.
If you like this version of Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green on vocals and guitar, you would probably also like the next version of htis band..... right before the women joined the band. Check out the cd by them called Kiln House. Check out the songs Tell Me All The Things You Do and Station Man. Really great songs and great guitar work. You won't be disappointed.
I have found that, with the many personnel changes over the years, a good way to follow their discography is to think of Fleetwood Mac in three different incarnations, (at least up until the Buckingham/Nicks years) this being the first. Admittedly a simplification, but a good way to start. I have always loved the raw, live, recorded in studio feel of Part 1. Have always wondered if Part 2 was meant to be a coda, a la the piano coda used in 'Layla' a couple years later. Thanks for upload.
This is from the second incarnation of FM, and nearly six years away from the Buckingham/Nicks version. The cover shown in the video thumbnail is "Then Play On", FMs third studio album, and from whence "Oh Well" came...more or less. It was the first LP with Danny Kirwan, and the last with Peter Green. "Then Play On" was released simultaneously in the UK and US in September 1969 with 14 and 12 cuts respectively. It was almost universal back then for the US versions of British releases to be substantially truncated (the original "butcher" cover of "Yesterday and Today" was the Beatles comment on that practice). Anyway, neither of those versions included "Oh Well", which was first released two months later as the double sided single, "Oh Well (Parts 1 & 2)". When Part 1 became a monster hit in the US, Reprise Records reissued "Then Play On" with the combined version heard here, replacing two other songs.
This is a brilliant song. Very good reaction. I remember the single, very late 1969. IIRC it did so well in the charts it was even on UK TV. This, "Albatross", and "The Green Manalishi" were my favourites FM songs. The acoustic part feels "Spaghetti Western". I don't remember FM after Peter Green left until I heard "Rumours". I think of that incarnation of FM as half the musicians (rhythm and keyboards) went off and formed a new band, but had rights to the FM name. Best Wishes for a Happy, Healthy, Joyful and Peaceful New Year. ☮ (I had unusual music tastes for a young kid, I heard my elder brothers music, and liked that more than most "Pop", except, of course, The Beatles' "Helena Rigby" and "A Day in the Life".
It is the last of the Peter Green wra. They were a blues ban when they lft John Mayalls band. ´Rattlesnake Shake`Green was notorious for leaving spaces. ´Green Manhalishi` `Albatross`
This was the first single I ever bought aged 13 in 1969. I always loved part one but thought that part 2 ,while good, dragged a bit. I think it was their version of an Ennio Morricone western soundtrack number.
This was the last album and I believe the fifth with Peter Green as has been stated, and the original name of the band was actually Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac (not sure if that was official or not) the next album was Kiln House and Christine Perfect's (AKA Christine McVee) first album, then shortly after Bob Welch joined as lead guitarist until inner band affairs blew up,then Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckinham joined in 75 May not be exact but very close...And has also been stated the Peter Green era is much different and in my opinion much better...Albatross, Black Magic Woman, Showbiz Blues, Need Your Love So Bad are some highlights of thiers.
It was simply Fleetwood Mac. Record company added Greens name afraid the public would not know. At one point he company hired a sound alike band and sent them on tour but the fans saw right through that.
@@cravinbob absolutely, Peter was very well known and the reason they got the contract, they wanted his name recognition on this new group., but I believe after the first album, his name was left off.
You need to react to the Mick Fleetwood and Friends versions. Steve Tyler and Billy Gibbons on vocals and for part two Dave Gilmour! Just realised I’ve already pirates this the first time I listened!
"Then Play On" was their 3rd album, "Rumours" their 11th. "Oh Well" was originally a singles only release, later added to "Then Play On". The band's very first album is eponymous, often referred to as "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac". Their 10th album, often referred to as the "White Album" (not THAT white album) is also eponymous and the first with Buckingham & Nicks.
There are not many things happening in part 2 but there is so much going on. It was so unique when it came out and still there are not many pieces of music that say so much with so few means. It does not need the skills of a Satriani to be a great guitar player (nothing against Satriani - that is not what I want to express.) . But Peter Green was great in his own right. I think that the band was still good with Nicks and Buckingham. The only thing that connects them is the name but it was a different band with completely dfifferent music and they never came close to the emotional depth of "Oh Well", "Man of the World" or "Albatros". There are reasons why Steve Hackett named Peter Green and Danny Kirwan as some of his rolemodels. Btw. There are so many good songs on this album that it comes to my mind among the 10 albums for the desert island.
In fact the sixtynine lineup of F. Mac was a completely different band compared with the last lineup. Two alltime members, Mick Fleetwood on drums and John McVie on bass were accompanied by at least three guitarists, Peter Green, Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer. Bluesman Green dominated songs and composition and faded himself out of the band by heavy drug abuse. Most recently Deep Purple paid respect to the song Oh Well and its composers. In addition they produced a funny video where they stole the notes of this and other old songs: th-cam.com/video/lTfNINPcjU8/w-d-xo.html Another funfact: Gary Moore was for years the owner of Peter Green's legendary Gibson Les Paul. He used it to cover the Mac song Green Manalishi.
Definitely doper music from 60’s -70’s. Those early Mac songs were stellar. The band with Bob Welch was pretty good but then the Stevie Nicks era destroyed FM forever. I don’t know anyone who likes that band.
Wonderful choice! Only problem is this sloppy edit! The song was released as a non album single, but as it started to do well, the American label decided to re-release Then Play On to add this song. They simply put the entire A side followed by the B side, with no regard to the fact that the first minute of part 2 is already on the A side. So for part 2, you hear the intro, one run of the main theme, and the first phrase of a second run cut off by the song starting over! There has never been a corrected version released, either.
Sergio Leone spaghetti western soundtrack stuff. 1969. About six albums and seven years difference. Different (better) band early on. Different days too. Definitely not Hollywood. Definitely not cocaine.
I am so glad I was born in the 50s, to grow up with masterpieces like this.
It was Peter Green "at the helm." Mick was just the drummer lucky enough to have been in his band and Peter gifting him and John McVie the name. No other incarnations of Fleetwood Mac could touch this one.
Thanks for the correction!
They were in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. He gifted Peter some studio time ( knowing he’d leave and form a band, after all Greens predecessor was Clapton and he was replaced by Mick Taylor pre Stones)
Mick Fleetwood
In 1967 he founded "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac" with drummer Mick Fleetwood
@@adelbertomuggler372 Peter Green founded Fleetwood Mac and gave his band that name. The "Peter Green's" addition was made by the record company. They were never billed as such with Peter's permission who absolutely did not want it that way.
The transition from part 1 to part 2 is actually around the 3:50 mark of this video, a minute or so after the quieter section begins. Part 1 was released as a single in the autumn of 1969, and after a fairly slow start it climbed to #2 in the UK charts as people began to realise what a magnificent piece of music this was. I understand why the later incarnation of the band became so popular, but they never produced anything that belongs on the same planet as Oh Well.
Not quite right. That's the transition from the A side to the B side. The A side has the first minute of part 2 and the end. This is a bad edit that repeats that entire minute of audio.
Someone needs to play this for Stevie Nicks and then ask her to explain again how there would be no Fleetwood Mac without her. They were an amazing band long before her.
This particular track ( part 2) reminds me a lot of a spaghetti western with Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood staring menacingly at each other.🤠👍👍👍
☺️ thanks for your take Bill!
Nicks got full of herself for sure.
@@denroy3 yeah, she got pretty full of talcum powder too, if you get my drift.🤣
FINALLY some Fleetwood Mac before those 2 people joined the band. Thank you!
Haha! Thanks for watching!
@@SightAfterDark Many great songs from the pre-Buckingham/Nicks band. Future Games, Station Man, Rattlesnake Shake, Jewel Eyed Judy, Woman of a Thousand Years, many more.
What two people??
@@cravinbob Buckingham and Nicks. Look, I love them but they did not join the band until their 10th album. There was a whole lot of great music that basically gets ignored .
Masterpiece once upon a time in Fleetwood Mac.
The Mac before they were falling into mainstreams deep traps - beautiful
This is the definitive Fleetwood Mac line up. Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan. Three guitarists in one group.For me Fleetwood Mac died when Peter Green left. I didn't like what they became. They started out as a British Blues band, and for me they will always be that. Check out Need Your Love so bad.
Not many will agree with that, but I do. They were a banging blues band who went off the rails, and made a fortune from it. 😕
@@ArtieFufkin546 All British blues fans have.
@@ArtieFufkin546 I always have.
Remember, however, that Peter Green wanted to move beyond being a blues band, which is a primary reason he brought Danny Kirwan in to co-write songs.
This is from FM's revised 1969 album, Then Play On (the song was released as a single but later added on to later pressings of the album). That album is a masterpiece, imo. At that time the band was led by Peter Green, and Danny Kirwin had just joined as a co-lead guitarist (he was about 19 years old at this point). Both Peter Green and Danny Kirwin were gifted musicians/songwriters. Arguably, the worst thing to happen to them were Buckingham and Nicks. ;) Just because the music world seemed to forget all about the old songs and records when the new era Fleetwood Mac became a phenomenal hit. Coincidentally, folks, I requested a different early Fleetwood Mac track for next month, so there's more to come.
More early Fleetwood Mac forthcoming? That's great news An Cat! Looking forward to it.
Thanks for sharing An Cat. We’re so ready to dive deeper into this era!
“Green Manalishi” and “Albatross” are some standouts for me, but honestly I’m not too familiar with the Peter Green era as I would like to be.
@@CANDOKNOWHOW Don't forget Black Magic Woman.
Hmmm. OK, if you say so. I bought the album when it was released in late 1969 and the Oh Well part 1 and 2 were on it. Just saying. Bought all of their albums. Adding Christie Perfect McVie to the band really opened up their sound. Once they added Bob Welch and released "Mystery to Me" and "Penguin" were awesome albums. After Welch left they nailed it big time adding in Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to the band. The three part harmonies of Buckingham, Nicks and McVie were stunning. Really three different bands with three distinctive band sounds. All versions were pretty incredible but different. IMHO.
I love the original "Fleetwood Mac." The average music fan doesn't even realize the Band was a Blues band long before Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were part of the revamped 2nd version of the Band, post Peter Green, Bob Welch, and others. "Kiln House" has some really good songs on that album. "Then Play On", and "Oh Well". Most people think Santana wrote "Black Magic Woman," but it was the great Peter Green.
Thanks folks,
Excellent channel
Wow, so impressed you did this. This is one of the first soloing songs I learned on the guitar. Always was my little song that not many people knew or played.
Now for Green Manalishi, then Albatross to do early FM justice.
Good choice you two, my absolute favorite from them and you did both parts....yay!🤩🤟
We’re glad you enjoyed Emily!
@@SightAfterDark, you guys are awesome 🤩🤟
This early lineup and the Bob Welsh era of Fleetwood Mac are my favorite go to albums by them. I pretty much checked out during their more commercially successful and recognizable years with Buckingham and Nicks.
Yes, Kiln House is a good album. My best friend worked at a record store and I actually heard and bought the album Buckingham Nicks when it was released in 1973. Granted, the main reason we were so 'mysterious' drawn to it may have been the fact that Stevie Nicks was a total FOX. But the album was really pretty good and Lindsey Buckingham is a pretty darned good guitarist. So when they both joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975 I had high expectations for the groups future. My expectations were correct and they became more popular then they could ever have imagined. But after Rumours I was burnt out on Fleetwood Mac going forward from that album.
A great band, theey stole my hart in 1969.
Some kick-ass covers of this out there too - the Rockets and Joe Jackson to name a couple.
Thanks for doing part 2 - we so rarely get to hear it. It doesn’t really “go with” part one but I like it, sounds like music for a soundtrack to a Western.
This album was released in 1969. Great stuff. Rumors was (I think) 6 or so albums down the road. Thanks for posting. Luv this song.
Thanks for watching!
The Peter Greene yrs now that's the way it's done!
I bought this vinyl record back in 1970 when I got back from overseas. I literally wore out the grooves on this record. I'm a huge fan of the early incarnation of Fleetwood Mac that had Peter Green in it. He wrote this song as well as played lead guitar on it as well. I currently own " Then Play On " in the CD format. Thanks for reacting to this track. Take care.
Thanks for being here Rayce!
Danny Kirwan played lead guitar.
My goodness ..... you two musos have SOOO MUCH TO LEARN !! This is
the original line up of Peter Green's (R.I.P.) Fleetwood Mac - Pure Brilliance.
As long as we’re living, we’re learning :)
Nice! I didn’t recognize this by the title but I’ve definitely heard this at least once before. Glad to hear this again.
It was so cool, thanks for being here Amber!
When I put this into the Alternate Reactions Poll I didn't have high expectations that it would be voted in. But hey, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while. Oh well! 😂 The Peter Green era of Fleetwood Mac is by far my favorite version of the group. More blues/rock oriented and very creative. This song is a Peter Green masterpiece in my opinion. Agree with Sifa - Part 2 sounds a little like a soundtrack for a spaghetti western. Exquisite guitar work. Great review SAD!
Well done Chuck for the initial selection!
@@paulfenwick8767 Thanks Paul. When I put it into the poll I was guessing it might get about 3 votes - me, you, and Chazblitz. Ha ha! It didn't win the poll, but got enough to be a runner up. Sweet!
@@shoutinchuck3363 Seems there are more old farts with taste than we thought!
@@paulfenwick8767 LOL! 😂🤣 Oh well!
We’re so glad you did, this was awesome! Thanks Shoutin Chuck!
This was Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac, before the chick's.
Christine started doing some keyboard work on the album before Peter left.
You should check out the live Video where Peter was tripping out and Spencer and Kirwan wanted to have no part of it. Poor soul, Peter was my favorite guitarist from the Mayall Camp. Rest In Peace, "Ethereal Bluesman"!
Thanks for the tip!
I believe Mick Fleetwood also was in one of John Mayall's line-ups. He had so many from Eric Clapton to Jon Marc and Johnny Almond.
This was pretty heavy back then, still is.
Such a cool song! A band I was in covered it as a power tri. We did a major jam in the middle and made it into a 17 minute song.
The summer of love ''68'' baby. I remember it well.
I’m surprised anyone is reacting to this, it’s relatively obscure compared to other recordings from the same period.
My dad told me about this single and I didn’t think much about it until I came across it on my own. Peter Green was unusual in his music ideas, but he was humble to a fault. He once said he formed the band so Mick Fleetwood and John McVie could have their own band, that’s why he named it after them. I think he never intended to stay long and he didn’t. A troubled soul, but what a genius.
Too true in all aspects.
Everyone else here may be older FM fans and initiates, but I didn't become at all really aware of their previous body of work until 1980, when a friend played me the original 'Black Magic Woman', me knowing only Santana's early hit version.
I knew, peripherally, that Bob Welch ('Sentimental Lady"-1977 solo hit for Welch, original FM version 1972!!) had been in Fleetwood Mac, but had no idea what that sounded like 🤔 😅 😕 😳
If Oh well part 2 is a dusty desert, "Albatross" from the same period is out at the sea. Was sort of a hit.
The girl group Haim made a nice live cover of part one in 2014. Peter Green left for mental illness during many years. After he recovered he formed the Splinter Group 1997-2004. Nice blues music!
I like your analogies: Oh Well = desert. Albatross = ocean. Nice. Albatross is another meditative instrumental masterpiece. Oh Well could've been the sound track for The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly. Albatross could've been the soundtrack for Endless Summer (60s vintage surfing movie).
Great share, thanks Erik!
"Albatross" was their chart topper which surprised them all since they were strictly blues imitators with occasional credits but most English bands were. Others were trying to be The Beatles. Peter's tone and melodies were unequaled. Jeremy Spencer did not want to cover any blues artist other than Elmore James. Danny Kirwin was a protege of Peter's and Kirwin's mental health went even farther out after Peter left. Mick managed keeping a band together over the years and deserves most of the credit just for being a solid drummer and without him the band would have ended when Peter left. It was Peter who named the band before he even started it. It was his two bandmates in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers John and Mick he wanted to take with him and assured them they would still have the name when he quit eventually.
Dig part one. Part two is like the music from a 1960s spaghetti western, beautiful and cinematic.
I loved that early bluesband Fleetwood Mac and I got this song as a single record at Christmas 1969. Really liked it. Saw Peter Green live many years after with another band and he was just not the same person anymore.
So sad
Here you go Pete, and you Syd, taste this...OH Well now!
What a fantastic set of tunes to react to; and that zappa t is stellar!
The petergreen Mac was my fav period of the band, though I also loved Christine McVie, and saw the band on the green while attending UC StaBarbara... I learn to enjoy beer, at age 30 (!) at that concert cuz it got very hot. Cheers
Cheers Fred, cool memory!
Green Manalishi (with the tin horn crown) is another great track from this incarnation of the band.
*two pronged crown
Cause you're the Green Manalishi with the two-pronged crown
"He was the only one that gave me the cold sweats." - B B King on Peter Green.
Peter Green wrote Black Magic Woman. Jeremy Spencer played slide. Danny Kerwin played the rock style leads. Peter Green was the lead singer.
Danny Kirwin did often sing lead on his own tunes such as "Dragonfly".
How cool!
Peter was THE guitar player. Others were guitar players. Spencer played excellent Elmore James slide guitar.
@@An_Cat_Dubh All three guitarist took turns on lead vocals, Spencer, Kirwin and Green.
The only way you could hear this song was on underground radio.
I know you guys didn't ask what I think of you, but I love you cool beautiful people. This is an EPIC song.
You’re so sweet Renee, thanks 🤗 ❤️
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What an incredible thing! Apropos, Peter Green definitely was inspired by Concerto de Aranjuez in Part Two.
There's a cover of this by The Rockets which ROCKS!!!!
Thank you for reacting to both parts. There are a lot of good covers of Part 1 and F in play it live as well. However, apparently, they have never played Part 2 live so check out the live album Mick Fleetwood and Friends celebrate the music of Peter Green. Recorded just before the pandemic lockdowns and released a year or so later. Fleetwood on drums with Steve Tyler and Billy Gibbons for Part 1 They also played Part 2 with David Gilmour!
Thanks for the info David!
It's not a sequel, it's the second part of a two part song.
It turns into a spaghetti western soundtrack at 2:50.
Nice reaction. The Peter Green Fleetwood Mac is like the Peter Gabriel Genesis, in that they are completely different bands compared to what came later.
Thanks for watching!
@@SightAfterDark Try 'Green Manalishi' next.
Peter Green! What a guitarist. What a story. Check out The Stumble (on John Mayall's Hard Road album.). One of the finest blues instrumentals ever recorded.
The Supernatural is even better!
@@davidblake5415 The Supernatural is the precursor to Albatross. (But, as a blues track, it cant, in my opinion beat The Stumble)
Fleetwood Mac was founded my Peter Green. It was never Mick Fleetwood's band while Green was there. He left shortly after this. Fleetwood then took up the pieces. Rumours was about 7 albums and 7 years after Green left.
Thanks for the details!
Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac was simply awesome. The three guitarists, slide sensation Jeremy Spencer one day just ended up joining the Children of God cult, awesome incredible teenage guitarist Danny Kirwin went BS crazy, and Peter Green had a lsd experience that fried his brain. All sad losses to music. Great to hear this tune again. FM in Chicago is a must listen. Peter Green's legendary killer tone out-of- phase reverse p/u magnet, guitar "Greeny" eventually end up in Kirk Hammets after Gary Moore had it for a number of years. The early FM also did a pullin your horn blues number "Rattle Snake Shake"
Thank you for doing both parts. Part one by itself is just incomplete! Peter Green was ...
We’re glad we did too, thanks for watching Robert!
Lots of great covers of Part 1 out there, including Joe Jackson and Tom Petty. This album was about 8 albums before Rumours.
Cool, thanks for the info Brumley!
Ah great stuff - from the days before Fleetwood Mac sold out completely to FM radio.
Well, they were actually not a group before they added Stevie and Lindsey, so calling them sell-outs is fucking absurd.
@@bartstarr100 What do you mean they were not a group? They were one of the biggest bands in Europe.
This is harder and edgier then the later sappy stuff this band displayed.
Though I’m mostly familiar with Buckingham/Nicks era of FM, I love everything I’ve heard from this version of the band and really wanna hear a lot more (might Spotify from the beginning today.. idk).
What I really like is how so many old school heads pop up in the comments and trash Buckingham/Nicks, saying “This is the REAL FM!”. 😂😂😂
I really do love that, and can totally relate as I feel the very same way about Aerosmith (for instance) where I think they were a much better band when they were all strung out on Coke and fighting with each other. People often request newer, more radio friendly, Aerosmith (LITE)- but I’m always quick to pipe up an say check out “Rats In The Cellar”, “Round and Round”, or “No More No More”, but then they’re like “Nooo.. we’re going CRAZY” 🤪
So on that count I can totally relate.
The important thing about old school heads who “remember when it came out” is that they’re usually RIGHT (for the most part), and unlike a lot of other’s I meet, I couldn’t be more delighted to learn I was wrong all along and that there’s like 10 awesome records I now need that I’ve never heard.
However, I’m certain I’ll still always love Buckingham/Nicks and all the wonderful results that spawned from their fighting and infidelity.. and mountains of coke.
To me, it’s like completely different bands that happen to share a name.. but I kinda dig that weirdness, and still really love it all.. I just really need MORE of the Peter Green era in general.
Probably the very BEST THING about The Peter Green FM is that when people request FM, you can say “THAT’S a GREAT IDEA”, pull this one out and watch their faces melt cause it isn’t “Rumors” and they’re bummed out, but then you play it and they like it. 🤷
An hour later, maybe they’ll thank you like I always do, and say “Man, I’ve never been so glad to learn I was so WRONG!”. 😃
Agree with C-13. Love the sound/soul and rocking blues with this. Possibly my all time favourite Fleetwood Mac song. Forget about those attention seeking, self indulgent, bleeding heart prima donna's average musicians that came later. This IS FLEETWOOD MAC!!!!.
Love the acoustic break after the intro. So chilled. A good patreon pick!
Peter Green was sublime on this.
Great reaction guys.
Thanks Paul!
If you like this version of Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green on vocals and guitar, you would probably also like the next version of htis band..... right before the women joined the band. Check out the cd by them called Kiln House. Check out the songs Tell Me All The Things You Do and Station Man. Really great songs and great guitar work. You won't be disappointed.
I have found that, with the many personnel changes over the years, a good way to follow their discography is to think of Fleetwood Mac in three different incarnations, (at least up until the Buckingham/Nicks years) this being the first. Admittedly a simplification, but a good way to start. I have always loved the raw, live, recorded in studio feel of Part 1. Have always wondered if Part 2 was meant to be a coda, a la the piano coda used in 'Layla' a couple years later. Thanks for upload.
Thanks for sharing Bill!
Hear out Haim covering this song at Glastonbury in 2014. Three sisters , it's awesome.
This is from the second incarnation of FM, and nearly six years away from the Buckingham/Nicks version.
The cover shown in the video thumbnail is "Then Play On", FMs third studio album, and from whence "Oh Well" came...more or less. It was the first LP with Danny Kirwan, and the last with Peter Green.
"Then Play On" was released simultaneously in the UK and US in September 1969 with 14 and 12 cuts respectively. It was almost universal back then for the US versions of British releases to be substantially truncated (the original "butcher" cover of "Yesterday and Today" was the Beatles comment on that practice). Anyway, neither of those versions included "Oh Well", which was first released two months later as the double sided single, "Oh Well (Parts 1 & 2)". When Part 1 became a monster hit in the US, Reprise Records reissued "Then Play On" with the combined version heard here, replacing two other songs.
Thanks for the history!
Dan must have heard it before - look at how he anticipates the transition.
When you’ve played music as long as we have, sometimes you can just feel it.
The funny thing is that Dan is wrong about 90 percent of the time 😂
This is a brilliant song. Very good reaction. I remember the single, very late 1969. IIRC it did so well in the charts it was even on UK TV. This, "Albatross", and "The Green Manalishi" were my favourites FM songs. The acoustic part feels "Spaghetti Western". I don't remember FM after Peter Green left until I heard "Rumours". I think of that incarnation of FM as half the musicians (rhythm and keyboards) went off and formed a new band, but had rights to the FM name.
Best Wishes for a Happy, Healthy, Joyful and Peaceful New Year. ☮
(I had unusual music tastes for a young kid, I heard my elder brothers music, and liked that more than most "Pop", except, of course, The Beatles' "Helena Rigby" and "A Day in the Life".
Thanks for sharing G, what a music era!!All the best for the new year for you too!
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It is the last of the Peter Green wra. They were a blues ban when they lft John Mayalls band. ´Rattlesnake Shake`Green was notorious for leaving spaces.
´Green Manhalishi`
`Albatross`
This was the first single I ever bought aged 13 in 1969. I always loved part one but thought that part 2 ,while good, dragged a bit. I think it was their version of an Ennio Morricone western soundtrack number.
Please listen to tracks on “ Mystery to Me “ album. Keep on Going, Emerald Eyes, For Your Love, The City
This was the last album and I believe the fifth with Peter Green as has been stated, and the original name of the band was actually Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac (not sure if that was official or not) the next album was Kiln House and Christine Perfect's (AKA Christine McVee) first album, then shortly after Bob Welch joined as lead guitarist until inner band affairs blew up,then Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckinham joined in 75 May not be exact but very close...And has also been stated the Peter Green era is much different and in my opinion much better...Albatross, Black Magic Woman, Showbiz Blues, Need Your Love So Bad are some highlights of thiers.
It was simply Fleetwood Mac. Record company added Greens name afraid the public would not know. At one point he company hired a sound alike band and sent them on tour but the fans saw right through that.
@@cravinbob absolutely, Peter was very well known and the reason they got the contract, they wanted his name recognition on this new group., but I believe after the first album, his name was left off.
You need to react to the Mick Fleetwood and Friends versions. Steve Tyler and Billy Gibbons on vocals and for part two Dave Gilmour!
Just realised I’ve already pirates this the first time I listened!
Great find. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers have released a fantastic live version...
"Then Play On" was their 3rd album, "Rumours" their 11th. "Oh Well" was originally a singles only release, later added to "Then Play On".
The band's very first album is eponymous, often referred to as "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac". Their 10th album, often referred to as the "White Album" (not THAT white album) is also eponymous and the first with Buckingham & Nicks.
The first2 lps were later released as a double lp set. The first lp had the garbage can picture on the cover
There are not many things happening in part 2 but there is so much going on. It was so unique when it came out and still there are not many pieces of music that say so much with so few means. It does not need the skills of a Satriani to be a great guitar player (nothing against Satriani - that is not what I want to express.) . But Peter Green was great in his own right. I think that the band was still good with Nicks and Buckingham. The only thing that connects them is the name but it was a different band with completely dfifferent music and they never came close to the emotional depth of "Oh Well", "Man of the World" or "Albatros". There are reasons why Steve Hackett named Peter Green and Danny Kirwan as some of his rolemodels.
Btw. There are so many good songs on this album that it comes to my mind among the 10 albums for the desert island.
Thanks for sharing!
Rumours is the 9th album from this one...
Like the new intro sounds :)
Thanks so much!
In fact the sixtynine lineup of F. Mac was a completely different band compared with the last lineup. Two alltime members, Mick Fleetwood on drums and John McVie on bass were accompanied by at least three guitarists, Peter Green, Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer. Bluesman Green dominated songs and composition and faded himself out of the band by heavy drug abuse. Most recently Deep Purple paid respect to the song Oh Well and its composers. In addition they produced a funny video where they stole the notes of this and other old songs: th-cam.com/video/lTfNINPcjU8/w-d-xo.html
Another funfact: Gary Moore was for years the owner of Peter Green's legendary Gibson Les Paul. He used it to cover the Mac song Green Manalishi.
That’s some great info, thanks Joachim!
Peter Green y'all. Black Magic Woman. Green Manilisli.
Every other reactor: Is this Stevie Nicks?
Haha!
I don't like later Mac, Peter Green's version is my go to. Green Manalishi is my favourite.
Isn't this a Jackson 5 cover???? Pretty sure it is.... lmao. One should cover the Mick Fleetwood Blues Band doing Black Magic Woman (Live).
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Definitely doper music from 60’s -70’s. Those early Mac songs were stellar. The band with Bob Welch was pretty good but then the Stevie Nicks era destroyed FM forever. I don’t know anyone who likes that band.
1970.
Wonderful choice! Only problem is this sloppy edit! The song was released as a non album single, but as it started to do well, the American label decided to re-release Then Play On to add this song. They simply put the entire A side followed by the B side, with no regard to the fact that the first minute of part 2 is already on the A side. So for part 2, you hear the intro, one run of the main theme, and the first phrase of a second run cut off by the song starting over! There has never been a corrected version released, either.
Thanks for the info
Sergio Leone spaghetti western soundtrack stuff. 1969. About six albums and seven years difference. Different (better) band early on. Different days too. Definitely not Hollywood. Definitely not cocaine.
Give me the blues Fleetwood Mac and not the pop music Fleetwood Mac 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
This is when Fleetwood Mac played good music not American tripe.
1969
We’ll take it!