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Originally Posted by David
Pretty amazing. Not only that, but to see only anger in it is to miss a lot of its appeal. There's also a great deal of love in the song, as well as humor.
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And, let's not for get a hint of desperation.
That's why I've never understood why the Green era fans dismiss this album as pop fluff. I mean, maybe the only thing that ties THIS album with something like "Then Play On" is perhaps the strongest quality of most of the Peter Green songs: Both are brutally honest and full of raw emotion. I get the exact same chill from Stevie and Lindsey's harmonies on "I Don't Want To Know" that I get from Peter's guitar playing on "Before The Beginning." My hunch is that the honesty and emotion in the music is why Peter Green and the "Rumours" band continue to be the biggest draws of Fleetwood Mac. (Or, to put it cynically, they like to walk around in their personal demons, and we're all voyeurs.)