Fleetwood Mac - Shrine 69
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Artist: Fleetwood MacBrand: FLEETWOOD MAC
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 1999-06-22
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
- Tune Up
- If You Be My Baby
- Something Inside For Me
- My Sweet Baby
- Albatross
- Before The Beginning
- Rollin' Man
- Lemon Squeezer
- Need Your Love So Bad
- Great Balls Of Fire
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Music Review: got dem blues?
Rating: 3 Stars
Most Fleetwood Mac discs from the Peter Green era feature a wide divergence of musical genres, given the varying interests of Green, Danny Kirwin and Jeremy Spencer, but this January, 1969 performance at the 4,000 person capacity Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles is deeply rooted in the blues. The band was playing a warm-up set for Frank Zappa that evening, from which sound engineer Stuart "Dinky" Dawson has culled nine tracks totaling just over forty minutes. I don't consider the opening "track", 'Tune Up', to be a legitimate number as it is, literally, the band tuning up before being introduced.
Fleetwood Mac's 'Shrine '69' can be divided into three segments. In the opening trio of songs, each of the band's guitarists takes a turn performing a traditional blues track. Peter Green opens with the classic, slow-tempo, slightly funky blues sounds of 'If You Be My Baby'. Danny Kirwin, not generally known for his blues compositions, offers up 'Something Inside of Me', and third guitarist Jeremy Spencer follows that with a rendition of James Williamson's 'My Baby Sweet'. Green delivers some guitar leads straight from the gut on the first two tracks, while Spencer's smooth slide guitar graces the third.
The middle segment features three Peter Green compositions, beginning with the familiar, rich and lofty 'Albatross', which Green introduces as "our latest single". Track six, 'Before the Beginning' indulges us in more of Green's blues, with lead guitar runs that seem to make welling tears audible. The final song in this trio is 'Rollin' Man' a jumpin' blues-rock number with a fat, fuzzy lead guitar from Green and a great foundational bass hook from John McVie that drives the tune. It's a five and one-half minute workout that breaks into a raging blues guitar fest for the last two minutes or so.
The closing segment features three covers, the first being James Lane's salacious 'Lemon Squeezer'. It's a bit comical that Amazon reviewer Steven Stolder finds 'Great Balls of Fire' to be the provocative song here, when Green is offering up lyrics like "I'm gonna ride you on the floor, ride you on the bed, ride you lovely Mama, till this thing turns cherry red" on 'Lemon Squeezer', while Jeremy Spencer only uses the word "screw" on 'Great Balls of Fire'. Spencer adds a decent (but uncredited) mouth harp to 'Lemon Squeezer'. Squeezed between the squeezer and the balls of fire is a fantastic seven minute rendition of Willie John's 'Need Your Love So Bad', rendered fantastic by Green's towering lead guitar runs and heartfelt vocals.
A number of people reviewing this disc cite the weak fidelity of the recording as a significant problem. I don't believe the acoustics of the exposition hall, the low-key nature of many of these songs, or the 2-track Ampex recorder being used to document the show could ever add up to a crisp recording. Also, since the recording is decades old, there are a few noticable drop-outs scattered among the selections. But all-in-all the recording quality is certainly not a reason to avoid this release. If you enjoy traditional electric blues, you should find 'Shrine '69' an interesting performance to hear. The artwork is a little strange, but certainly not out of character for the late 1960's.
Description of Shrine 69
No Description Available.Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 22-JUN-1999
Don't buy this from-the-vaults salvage project to hear a live version of "Songbird." Shrine '69 documents a 1969 performance by the storied 1968-1970 lineup led by guitarist Peter Green and featuring only two members of the outfit in its famous mid-'70s incarnation--bassist John McVie and drummer Mick Fleetwood. Green was Eric Clapton's successor in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and, like Clapton, he was a piercing B.B. King-influenced guitarist and agreeable vocalist. Early Mac boasted a three-guitar attack with Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan complementing the gifted Green. A live version of the English hit "Albatross" showcases the talent of the English blues band. On the other hand, the set ends with a bizarrely smutty cover of "Blue Suede Shoes" as Spencer bangs away at the piano and boasts about the size of his johnson. The rant is all the stranger considering that within two years he'd leave the band in midtour to join a religious cult. By then, Green had already quit and announced he was giving all his money away. Kirwan was fired in 1972, leaving Fleetwood and Mac to soldier on. And the rest, as they say, is history. --Steven Stolder
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