so damn good. How Clapton can be revered by many as one of the great blues guitar players over Peter Green, a far more interesting and subtle musician in his heyday, remains a mystery to me...

Has Oh Well ever cropped up in lists of the Greatest Singles Of All Time? I don't think it has, but it is definitely one of my favourites. Along with the profoundly melancholic Man Of The World.

I've just dug out my incredibly crackly 7" of Man Of The World. What a fantastic song! All done in 2 1/2 minutes or so.

Need Your Love So Bad

A beautiful melody over the simplest chords. Unworthy of being used for a bloody M&S ad.

Maybe, but still great to hear it again. And I hope Peter can get a few royalties out of it, if he didn't sign 'em all away, when less well.
He seems to have faded from view again. Is he again succumbing to his demons?
Here is his accoustic version ( I think: I have it on the i-pod and it sounds the same)

...I did read somewhere he became ill again and thus disappeared from view after a fairly prolific period of new recordings and live gigs (various blues package tours). I have two of the solo albums he did with The Splinter Group and I can't say I was blown away, though it seems churlish to complain about them.

A masterful player though. I felt Fleetwood Mac were the most inventive band of that slightly later 60s blues-rock era; certainly 'Oh Well' or 'The Green Manalishi' are a long way from the plodding twelve-bar of, say, Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation! There's real emotion on 'Man Of The World', especially that heartbreaking 'How I wish I was in love' refrain. 'Albatross', whilst it's probably become an apt title considering how closely it's linked to this period of the band at the expense of their other work, is a work of genuine beauty.

Hi everyone, first post here so here goes....

Was debated over a pint with a mate that a lot of the lead guitar on this and other clips (plus the Boston live CD) is actually as much Danny Kirwan as Peter. A hugely underestimated player, whatever happened to him?

Here is Danny in action:

Back in the very early 1970's, when records cost a small fortune relative to today's prices, only the very fortunate could afford to indulge in buying lots of albums or singles by the same band.
Most of my school friends spread their pocket money thinly over a wide array of works from a wide array of artists.
There weren't too many "Greatest Hits" albums around, either, at least, not ones containing killer material from start to finish.
Then there was "Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits" (and this is long before "Rumours") which was bought by almost everyone I knew.
The ultimate British Blues album, never mind John Mayall or anyone else, this was the real deal, seriously ace stuff.
I can't think of another greatest hits album that has had such an effect on both the band's career and the listening public.

I bought a cassette collection of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac some time in the late '80s and it was never out of my Walkman. It led me to try out The Bluesbreakers and other types but they were just not the same. Peter Green had a flow to his playing that Mayall and Clapton lacked.

Add to that the sense of melancholy that pervades a lot of their stuff - here was a man who played and sounded like he understood something deeper about the blues, rather than just knowing how to play blues guitar.

I could never give the '70s Fleetwood Mac a chance because I was so knocked out by their predecessors.

A number of Peter Green albums are available to listen to for free or download for free with a short ad at the beginning on
http://www.we7.com/public/artistDetails/Peter-Green?artistId=11260

My memory may be telling me lies here but I seem to recall an interview with BB in the late sixties where he was asked who his favourite Uk blues guitarist was and everyone expected him to name Clappo. He replied that it was Peter Green because of the sweetness of his playing. Later when Peter was asked to name his greatest influence he said "Hank Marvin". I believe him and it shows in the melodic side of his playing. He produced an absolutely gold string of singles as listed above and its a damn shame he got so sick. I often wonder, as we all do with players such has Hendrix and Green, what would they have gone on to produce if things hadn't gone so tragically wrong?