Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On
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Artist: Fleetwood MacBrand: FLEETWOOD MAC
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Coming Your Way
- Closing My Eyes
- Showbiz Blues
- My Dream
- Underway
- Oh Well
- Although the Sun Is Shining
- Rattlesnake Shake
- Searching for Madge
- Fighting for Madge
- When You Say
- Like Crying Like Dying
- Before the Beginning
Music reviews of Then Play On
Music Review: Shadows of Things Past
Rating: 5 Stars
This album is in my all-time top ten.
Vintage Mac, flying at its highest. With this recording, they moved away from the somewhat confining and very derivative straight blues vein, and into some very new and adventurous territory. Peter Green--Peter the Great--demonstrated that he was ready to expand his horizons, and we are lucky for it. Absolutely magnificent singing and songwriting by Pete and Danny Kirwan, and superbly creative and powerful rhythm, as usual, from Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. And the guitar playing? Words cannot do it justice. Green confirms his reputation as one of the most expressive, tasteful, and technically great players of all time.
I'm the same age as Peter Green, and I bought this LP when it first came out back in the late sixties. I loved it then, and I love it now. The tunes all hold up extremely well. The full-length version of Oh Well is a song for the ages, a masterpiece of the highest order.
The photo of the band gives me a wistful, bittersweet feeling. On the original LP of course, the photo was reproduced inside the cover at full size, and so you could see more detail. I think I once did a drawing of that photo, mainly because I was so enamored of the music and the band. We were all in our late teens or early twenties, so young, so fit, so strong, full of possibilities, and it was a different world. The guys in the group looked happy and carefree, oblivious to what was to come. I hate drugs, and what they did to Peter Green, how they ravaged him mentally and physically, and robbed him of the stupendous skills he once possessed, which were never higher than on this record. But then again, Peter is still with us, still playing, still touring, and so, even though he is a shadow of what he once was, we can be thankful, and raise a glass to him.
Life takes a toll on all of us, and some of us pay dearly.
Description of Then Play On
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Media Type: CD
Artist: FLEETWOOD MAC
Title: THEN PLAY ON
Street Release Date: 05/10/1988
Genre: ROCK/POP
Before they set sail for California and a new life as consummate pop songsmiths, Fleetwood Mac were pedigreed British blues rockers with roots in Britain's seminal John Mayall's Blues Breakers and their hearts orbiting Chicago and the Mississippi Delta. One of the few surviving albums from that ill-fated, earlier Mac, Then Play On captures them at a potent turning point: the original two-guitar quartet, with founder Peter Green's sinuous leads complemented by Jeremy Spencer's shimmering slide guitar, had been augmented by third guitarist Danny Kirwan, a Green prot?g?. Buttressed by Mick Fleetwood's muscular yet restrained drumming and John McVie's steady-as-a-heartbeat bass lines, this edition of the band reveled in moody, compelling guitar showpieces that savor texture and line over sheer speed or volume. Accordingly, the lyrics don't benefit from close study, but the guitars surely do--and when the quintet launches into the best-remembered track here, the classic "Oh, Well" (which reunites the separate electric and acoustic sections originally released as two sides of a single), it's understandable that Green, in his day, was mentioned comfortably in the same breath with Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. --Sam Sutherland
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