Although a second guitarist - Jeremy Spencer - was enlisted in hopes that Green could deflect the hot spotlight his excellent shredding was attracting, the success of their self-titled 1968 debut caused Green to crumble under the expectations associated with being band leader. Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac begins with a short primer from Egan on the band’s beginnings as an English blues rock band formed in 1967 by guitar virtuoso and vocalist Peter Green, who named the band after his fave rhythm section: Mick Fleetwood (drums) and John McVie (bass).
Mac story is fascinating, too, it turns out. It’s simply hard to care that they used to be a blues band or whatever when you’ve got ALL THESE LOVERS WITH BEAUTIFUL HAIR BREAKING UP WITH EACH OTHER AND THEN WRITING SOFT-ROCK SONGS ABOUT EACH OTHER THAT THEY THEN HAVE TO PLAY ONSTAGE, WITH EACH OTHER.īut the early F.
I only really have time for the lineup: Fleetwood, McVie, McVie, Buckingham and Nicks.Īs a modern Fleetwood Mac fan who loves 1977’s Rumours and 1979’s Tusk as much as the next person who has ever heard the radio, I knew the band had been through a complicated maze of lineup changes, but I never bothered to untangle it because - spoiled early millennial that I am - I only really have time for the lineup: Fleetwood, McVie, McVie, Buckingham and Nicks. This is a part of the “Musicians in Their Own Words” series, and though a more accurate title would be something closer to “Musicians in Their Own Words That Were Answers to Specific Questions that Were then Transcribed and Edited by the Original Publication Before Being Chosen for This Book, Anywhere from a Few Years to Several Decades After the Fact,” it’s nice of Egan to dig these up for us. The pieces are in chronological order from 1967 to 2014 and have been chosen by author/editor Sean Egan, who prefaces each one with a few sentences of context and even throws in an unpublished F. Finally, a book about a band whose members are as talented as they are dramatic! Here we take a break from the standard autobiography/biography rock-book genre and dive into Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac: Interviews and Encounters, four hundred and ten pages of interviews spanning the entire career of one Fleetwood motherfucking Mac.
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