Who played studio bass for fleetwood mac mac#
The blues element seemed to go with Green, the band spending the first half of the 70s charting a mellow-rock trajectory with guitaristcomposer Bob Welch: the calm before a mighty storm which blew in with the arrival of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, resulting in the massivelysuccessful Fleetwood Mac and even bigger Rumours followed by further triumphs, traumas, failures and line-up changes. The rise of Fleetwood Mac was rapid with three landmark albums (1968’s Fleetwood Mac, Mr Wonderful and 1969’s Then Play On) and the chartbusting string of singles which ran up to Peter Green’s shock departure from the band in May, 1970 (Albatross, Man of The World, Oh Well, The Green Manalishi). “Amen to John Peel: he really did do a job for us.” “He put us on the map”, declares Fleetwood.
Like many, Fleetwood Mac got their first exposure from John Peel. The name was hijacked when Fleetwood and fellow Bluesbreakers refugee Peter Green formed their new group with Elmore James freak Jeremy Spencer and bassist Bob Brunning (soon replaced by John McVie). Even amidst the soapstyle turmoil which spawned Rumours and the heroic excess which followed its huge success, Fleetwood never lost his love for the music which took him away from a career in interior decorating, starting in the mid-60s with bands including Peter B(arden)’s Looners, Shotgun Express with Rod Stewart and a month in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers before he was sacked for, ‘drinking a bit too much’ Fleetwood Mac was the name of a track resulting from a studio session which, according to Fleetwood, was, ‘a birthday present from John Mayall to Peter: three hours of studio time with Gus Dudgeon’. The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band realises its leader’s longstanding desire to revisit the original mission which motivated himself and Green in 1967 when they formed Fleetwood Mac. Four bonus studio tracks explore the early Mac’s ethereal instrumental side, two Vito excursions nestling easily against shimmering takes on Albatross and The Supernatural. The cryptically-titled Blue Again! is a live album recorded in St Louis which mixes burning renditions of Mac classics like Rattlesnake Shake, Love That Burns and Black Magic Woman (plus a barnstorming Shake Your Moneymaker) with Vito originals like When We Do The Lucky Devil and the affectionate Fleetwood Boogie. Joining Mick are singer-guitarist Rick Vito (Lindsey Buckingham’s replacement in Fleetwood Mac between 1987-91 who has since toured with Bonnie Raitt and Bob Seger), bassist Lenny Castellanos and Mark Johnstone on keyboards. In another move recalling the late 60s, the new project is defiantly called the Mick Fleetwood Blues Band. 40 years since Fleetwood Mac spearheaded the British blues boom, sheer coincidence sees the anniversary peaking on a spectacular note as Peter Green’s first self-assisted anthology appears the same month as his old bandmate Mick Fleetwood releases an album and tours the UK with a band paying tribute to the legendary guitarist and the blues which first inspired them both. The eternal spirit of the blues moves in mysterious but sometimes delightfullyunpredictable ways.
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