Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - The Early Years,

This documentary charts the course of the early years of Fleetwood Mac between 1967 and 1970.

Despite Greeny's objection to it, the early Fleetwood Mac was initially known as:

'Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac'

The early members of Fleetwood Mac were:

Peter Green, Guitar, Vocals;
Mick Fleetwood, Drums;
John McVie, Bass Guitar;
Jeremy Spencer, Guitar, Slide Guitar, Vocals;
Danny Kirwan, Guitar, Vocals.

For those viewers who know, appreciate and revere the early Fleetwood Mac as much as I do, you will be entirely familiar with the contents of this documentary. Enjoy!

However, whilst many viewers will appreciate the enormous talent and mainstream success (1975-87) of the later Fleetwood Mac (Mick Fleetwood, John and Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks), typically they will have little or no appreciation of the band's formation and early years (1967-70).

And so it is; a documentary of the early years of Fleetwood Mac, whose devotion to the blues music of America was so deeply felt and appreciated from the period between 1967 and 1970.

But their work didn't stop there. Songs like 'Oh Well', 'Man Of The World' and the very dark 'The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Prong Crown)' set new standards that would inspire others in the British Blues Rock genre and beyond.

Peter Green as a blues guitarist is unique. Whilst EC was delivering the most blistering rendition of Robert Johnson's 'Crossroads' with Cream, Greeny seemed to enjoy a more fugal and restrained style that was altogether as equally enjoyable and fresh.

A small British blues band, Black Cat Bones, supported Fleetwood Mac on several occasions, and it is no surprise to those familiar with their young guitarist, Paul Kossoff, that Peter Green would form an integral part in that young guitarist's development. Within a year, Koss would go on to shine so brightly in the band Free and later with his own band, Back Street Crawler.

I post this after an exhaustive search conducted over the past three years to try and secure additional copies of this material for my library. But, to no avail. I therefore hope that this body of work can be enjoyed by others, for whom the likelihood of ever viewing the content is now all but near impossible.

No copyright infringement is intended. Given that it appears commercially unavailable, I hope that it might find a home here for purely educational purposes. I've met many of the great guitarists since the 1960s, but I cannot think of one that wouldn't tip their hat in recognition of the great contribution Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac gave back when... "Those were the days!"

Nigel Baird, April 2013