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The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac | 
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| Artist: Fleetwood Mac
Label: Columbia Europe
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 6517
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 766482225248
EAN: 0766482225248
ASIN: B000075AJ1
Release Date: November 14, 2002
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Condition: Brand new. Shipped from the UK by Airmail direct to 5 airports in the United States. Delivery takes approximately 5 working days from posting - we're frequently faster than a lot of US based sellers.
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| Tracks:
| • | Albatross | | • | Black Magic Woman | | • | Need Your Love So Bad - Fleetwood Mac, Little Willie John | | • | My Heart Beat Like a Hammer - Fleetwood Mac, Spencer, Jeremy | | • | Rollin' Man - Fleetwood Mac, Adams, Clifford | | • | The Green Manalishi (With the Two Pronged Crown) | | • | The Man of the World | | • | Something Inside of Me - Fleetwood Mac, Kirwan, Danny | | • | Looking for Somebody | | • | Oh Well | | • | Rattlesnake Shake | | • | Merry-Go-Round | | • | I Loved Another Woman | | • | Need Your Love Tonight - Fleetwood Mac, Spencer, Jeremy | | • | Worried Dream - Fleetwood Mac, King, B.B. | | • | Dragonfly - Fleetwood Mac, Kirwan, Danny | | • | Stop Messin' Round - Fleetwood Mac, Adams, Clifford | | • | Shake Your Moneymaker - Fleetwood Mac, James, Elmore | | • | I'd Rather Go Blind - Fleetwood Mac, Jordan, Ellington | | • | Albatross |
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Album Description
Full title - Very Best Of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. 20 tracks assembled here on this excellent retrospective which also adds 'I'd Rather Go Blind' by future Mac member Christine McVie's band, Chicken Shack, and Chris Coco's 2002 remake of 'Albatross' featuring Peter Green. Slipcase. Columbia. 2002.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Best of Peter Green baums Fleetwood Mac cd review November 3, 2008
Joseph Morris (Elmwood Park, NJ)
Does what it says on the tin: lot of great album tracks (Rattlesnake shake, Oh well parts one AND two)
Most by Peter Green, but the rare standout single like Dragonfly, which Green also thought highly of
Someone's gonna get their head kicked in tonight if they don't get this one!
Nice to have the Christine McVie track (Chicken Shack's I'd rather go blind, which is an Ella James track I believe). I like the guitar solo on that
Speaking of guitar players, all 3 of the Mac guitar players (Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan, Peter Greenbaum) are very well represented herein. Shake your moneymaker (it was a hit in Sweden!) is a hoot - from the first album of the Macs (Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, 1968)
I'm leaving a star off cos String a long's not on it; oh, who cares? Great stuff. Albatross, Man of the World, Oh Well, Dragonfly: these are all great tracks to sample if you haven't heard the early group before
WARNING: this is Mac up to 1971 (Dragonfly single) so no Buckingham/Nicks on this package! The Chain is what you want for a compilation of that bands material!!
 Excellent but not without a few flaws February 8, 2008
H. Howorth (Chicagoland)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm with David W. Darby (see his "Nice compilation, but not complete or flawless" review) on this one. While this set is easily the best single disc compilation of Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac released to date, hitting nearly all of the highlights with inclusions from several different record labels, it nevertheless still falls ever-so-short of being the perfect set that it could have been. For starters, I would gladly dump the Chicken Shack tune and the re-make of "Albatross" in exchange for "Long Grey Mare," "Show-Biz Blues," and "Love That Burns," which, in my estimation, was the best track on the second album. And "Homework," it could be argued, was the highpoint of the double Blues Jam in Chicago LP, with absolutely smokin' lead guitar from Greeny, yet unfortunately was not included. And how about "Jumping At Shadows," one of my very favourite slow blues tunes with more exquisite guitar from Mr. Green? I realize that one can't have everything, but I'm guessing most long-time fans of the band would make the same trade and ditch those fairly meaningless tunes stuck at the end of this disc.
Greeny's Blues January 17, 2008
Mr. Mambo (Burnsville, MN USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am the same age as Peter Green. I was a fan way back when he was leading the British blues band called Fleetwood Mac. I had purchased tickets to see the Mac at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis--this would have been about 1969 or 1970. Unfortunately, they never made it. The tour had to be called off after both Jeremy Spencer and Peter Green went off the deep end out on the west coast. Disallusioned with success and perhaps with the criticism he had received--British white kid plays black American blues; how presumptuous!--Green got religion and dropped out of the scene. This was a gigantic loss to music.
It's great he's back playing again, and I am very happy for him.
If you want to hear what he could do at the top of his game, this is the disk for you. There is an entire pantheon of British guitar gods, and Peter Green belongs there up near the top. Not slighting any of the other greats like Jeff Beck, Albert Lee, Rory Gallagher, Mark Knopfler, Gary Moore and Clapton and so on, but for my money, when it came to blues, "Greeny" was the greatest of them all. I cannot think of a single person who possessed so much talent and feeling, such great vocal ability, and so much sheer technical virtuosity. The great BB King once stated that Peter Green was one of the best he'd ever heard (or was it THE BEST he'd ever heard?? I don't remember. Oh well.....).
And he was not simply a "blues guitarist"; his amazing composing ability is demonstrated in such diverse classics as Albatross, Oh Well, Green Manalishi, Black Magic Woman, etc., as well as the fabulous Then Play On LP.
The late sixties Mac was quite a lineup with three lead players and so on, but they did not really reach huge success until Peter's departure. The band grew, and evolved, moved away from the blues foundation which they had established. This is a good thing; one should grow and change and mature; it's the mark of a true artist.
Peter Green has grown and matured as well. He chose to do it away from music. That he's returned to us is a true blessing.
Nice Compilation, but not complete or flawless January 3, 2008
David W. Darby (Davenport, IA United States)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Where's "Love That Burns"? That is a track that is every bit as important as the others, and should have precluded the Chicken Shack cut. Not to mention "Homework", "Shake Your Money Maker", "Long Grey Mare, Show-Biz Bluesand a slew of other great tracks. Its a nice start, but you will find yourself wanting more. That said, when it comes to Fleetwood Mac, it's good to be Green. Keep 'em coming!
Awesome December 12, 2007
Jennifer J. Davis (Hawaii)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a new fan of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac (after being admonished by my older brother that the Fleetwood Mac I knew of wasn't the REAL Fleetwood Mac); now I know what he meant; enough said.
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