Greenie

The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac isn't a 100% satisfactory album but then no recordings from that early era of Fleetwood Mac come close to conveying the experience of hearing Peter Green live. I saw that original band live more than any other group, in venues ranging from run down pubs to free outdoor festivals and in style from undiluted downhome blues to freeform psychedilia. It was a tight unit and Jeremy Spencer's Elmore James impersonations were always fun but the flawed genius of the band was Peter Green. The only guitarist who ever made BB King sweat according to Mr King ( saw them both at the Albert Hall ). A great vocalist too. His problems have been well documented and it is good to see him making some sort of recovery in the last ten years. This is something of a greatest hits compilation and is fine but if you never heard the band live you might say, it's ok but...It does however include the sublime full six and a half minute version of Need Your Love So Bad and plenty of other hints to what the band was about.