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FM Album never released
Back in the 70's my local record store used to issue every month a list of expected new releases. In December 1976 they had listed the following:-
FLEETWOOD MAC--PLUS. DJM DJF20484 Before the Beginning Uganda Woman Heavy Heart Beasts of Burden Man of the world Homework Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight Love it Seems Trinity Tell Me From the Start Man of Action Does anybody have any information as to why it was never released. Obviously with the record being released on the DJM label ( Danny Kirwan's solo label) I expect Clifford Davies was behind it rather than FM, but other than that I don't have any further info. Anybody out there who can shed some light on the subject? Cheers, Blue Horizon. |
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Blue Horizon,
How did you happen to keep that album information for so long? Are some of these songs Danny solo? I've heard of "Trinity", seeing it on The Chain Box, but I'm not familiar with "Uganda Woman", "Heavy Heart", "Love It Seems", "Man of Action"? Where do these songs fit in the FM equation? Maybe there was a legal issue which came up at the last minute and prevented the album from actually being released. I hope someone else knows more about this. Last edited by greenfire; 02-03-2004 at 07:45 PM.. |
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Uganda Woman, Beasts of Burden, Heavy Heart: Solo Peter Green singles recorded in '71 Love It Seems, Tell Me From the Start: "Then Play On" session tracks by Danny Kirwan (both on "The Vaudeville Years") Man of Action: Jeremy's '68 parody of John Mayall (also on "The Vaudeville Years") Man of the World, Before the Beginning, Homework: Probably the Clifford Davis versions from '69 & '70 - Peter Green is listed as playing all of the instruments while Clifford Davis sings Trinity As you noted, a Danny Kirwan song from '71 Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight We all know this one, the B-side to Man of the World I don't know for sure, but I suspect you're right that there was some sort of legal action preventing DJM from releasing this material. |
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Sharksfan2000,
Thanks for filling me on those tracks! I knew I had seen the song name "Uganda Woman" somewhere, kind of odd name and one not to easy to forget. It makes sense when you said it came from PG's first solo album, as do some of the other tracks. How does look for an album list? Would this have been a great album if it had been made, just curious? |
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The Peter Green Splinter Group re-recorded "Uganda Woman" for their Time Traders album.
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Sharksfan2000 & ChiliD,
Thanks for the further info.! If you guys have those singles "Beast of Burden", "Uganda Woman" & "Heavy Heart", are they more in line with what Pete did on his End of the Game solo album or are they more like what he did with FM or different from both? I haven't heard End of the Game and am only going by the reviews, which basically say that the songs are unstructured and more free form or improvisation type playing. Has anyone read the review of the album on AMG? I don't even know if End of the Game has any vocal parts or all instrumental. Anyway, I was curious if those three singles were more structured songs with vocals? |
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"Heavy Heart" was the first solo single from Peter, and had a b-side called "No Way Out". Both are instrumentals and are similar in feel to parts of End of the Game, not surprising as I've read these were also taken from a jam, this one in January '71. I think "Heavy Heart" is easily the better side and ranks with Peter's best work from End of the Game. "Beasts of Burden" and its b-side "Uganda Woman" are more structured songs, both composed and sung by Nigel Watson (I think Peter is co-credited for writing "Beasts"). Neither song is remarkable IMHO, neither really awful nor very good either. And unfortunately there's not much notable guitar work from Peter on either one. The sessionography in Martin Celmin's book lists the session for this single as also being in January '71, but the text mentions that it was recorded following Peter's appearance on BB King's "Caledonia" in June '71, which I think seems more likely. Not sure how that compares with other sessionographies - maybe someone else can help with that. |
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Hi,
I am 100% sure that Nigel sings the "Uganda Woman" and that Peter sings the "Beasts Of Burden" track. I think BoB has some great guitar moments, especially the solo over the verse chord structure. I also agree that Heavy Heart is a great track, although it should have been longer. I seems that Peter is "starting on something" in the last part of it, and then it fades out. Peter has later mentioned that he was very pleased by the song. Daniel |
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I'm hoping that if and when Rhino gets around to releasing an expanded version of "Then Play On" (Fleetwood Mac '75 / Rumours & Tusk are scheduled for march 22nd) that maybe the 2nd disc will look something like that DJM line-up -
With their myopic view of the current quarter's profit margin, the powers that be at Warners were completely beaten to the punch on the release of full disc's worth of vault material from the "TPO" era on the two Receiver comps. Hopefully they won't just recycle it themselves, but if they do maybe they'll be a little more information on the tracks in the liner notes - I'd like to see them do something similar to what MCA did with the expanded "A Hard Road" - release the single versions of "Green Manalishi" & "World in Harmony" - release the two Clifford Davis singles and the two Green solo singles - plus any other session work that may have done from that time they have the rights to and have no intention of releasing otherwise - If they're not going to release Jeremy Spencer's first solo album on CD, pull the highlights from that - Why cede all this material to bootleggers? Beat 'em at their own game - It's not as if they have to bargain over the rights this material - they own it!
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Hey BklynBlue, did you ever get my email replies to you? |
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Sharksfan2000,
Just "found" your messages! Man, am I red-faced! Thrilled, but red-faced all the same...My apologies! see what happens when you "share" your computer with a ten-year-old! Sad thing is, I need him to explain to me how most of the functions work! I'll be back to you soon
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Rhino's done wonderful remaster/re-issues for other artists, I don't see them "going cheap" with Fleetwood Mac. "Dragonfly" & "Purple Dancer" will probably be among the Kiln House bonus tracks.
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I hope Rhino does a good remastering job on the earlier albums. I think Then Play On and Future Games in particular are badly in need of improved sound. |
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Considering the short running times of both Future Games & Bare Trees, Rhino could almost put both albums on one disc, and then use the second disc to pack with bonus tracks from BOTH albums.
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