Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green has passed away age 73. To be honest, I was under the impression he was dead already.
This is him playing my absolute favourite song from his version of Fleetwood Mac, “The Green Manalish”, which I first heard in Judas Priest’s version on Unleashed in the East. The original turned out to be even better. Priest’s one is fun but this is so much heavier and sinister. It’s always a bit sad to imagine what he could’ve been, what Fleetwood Mac could’ve been had he not taken that acid hit on tour in the same year this was filmed, had he not left the band. Don’t get me wrong, I like the Fleetwood Mac as it actually existed as well and Rumours is still the best album recorded by people who really shouldn’t have been in the same room together, but there was so much promise in Green’s version of the band as well. Imagine if it had kept up that heavy blues sound and refined it further. As it is, it took Fleetwood Mac the better part of a decade to get over his loss.