If you could ask Jeremy Spencer ONE question, what would you ask?

[Moz]

How many of your concerts, both solo and with Fleetwood Mac, have been filmed? I've seen some old black and white clips of Albatross, etc. but I can't recall seeing anything else.

Also, what happened to the gold lame suit?

[jeremy spencer]

Originally Posted by Alan Olson

Jeremy,
Question for you.... When an Original Fleetwood Mac album is released like the Shrine 69 concert from Dinky Dawson or The BBC Sessions, or any of the other 'unreleased recording sessions' that have been released to the public in the past 10+ years or so, are you ever asked about your material that is to be included? Do you have any input into which of your songs are used?
-Al

In answer to your question, nope!

[jeremy spencer]

Originally Posted by bretonbanquet

And related to the above question - do you get proper royalties from these collections of old material? Sometimes it doesn't seem all that clear who owns the music. I'd like to think that when I buy this stuff, the musicians still see the benefit.

Royalties on stuff like this? Nope.

[macpai]

Jeremy, thanks so much for answering all these questions. It's really a treat.

I'm very much enjoying In Session and I'll just keep out forking out the dough as long as you keep releasing!

Do you have a trinket or anything you treasure from your days with FM? That seemed to be a long time before the likes of eBay, but I was wondering if you held on to anything the way I like to clutch to my own memorabilia.

paige-

[bretonbanquet]

Originally Posted by jeremy spencer

Royalties on stuff like this? Nope.

That's a shame, but somehow I'm not surprised At least it gives people pleasure though, and hopefully it serves to turn people on to music that DOES earn you royalties

[BklynBlue]

Hello again, Mr. Spencer,

This has always bugged me, because it seems that whenever there is piano heard on a BBC recording of the band during the Green era, it is automatically assumed it must have been Christine McVie playing.
There are maybe a couple of BBC sessions where Christine McVie is listed as having been part of the session - yet, I can hear no evidence of her presence on any of the available recordings - the few tracks featuring piano on the sessions is demonstrably you -
That would seem to settle the question except for the fact that there is always at least one track from each of the sessions which are not available, leaving open the (imho,slight) possibility that she may have played on that particular missing track -

So my question to you is, Do you have any memory of Christine ever having joined the band (prior to Green's leaving) for any BBC sessions?

Also, do you have any recollection of you, alone, having played with Alexis Korner, backing Duster Bennett on his instrumental, "Hot Roddin'" for a BBC session? The session in question was from March of 1969. (one of those Christine is said to have played on) There is no piano on this track, you would have been on guitar, along with Korner, but the poor quality of the bootleg makes distinguishing the guitar work rather difficult, and it just struck me as surprising that you, who have often stated that you were not always keen on "sitting in" would have done so on this occasion.

There is also another recording where both you and Green back Alexis Korner, singing Leadbelly's "Good Morning Blues"; you are on piano and Green is on guitar. I have not been able to find a listing anywhere for this particular track.
The obvious answer would be that it was recorded during the same session as the Bennett track above, only that was done for Symonds on Sunday, and the DJ who speaks to Green and Korner on this "mystery" track is Brian Matthews.

Any idea at all? I do realize that this was forty years ago and probably just an impromptu session done for the radio.

thanks as always

[ash1]

according to the bbc database this track was recorded 17 march 1969 and is one of the few tracks they actually kept. wish they'd put it on live at the bbc. it's not on any of the tapes i have. any chance you could torrent it or similar ? It's credited to peter green, jeremy spencer and alexis korner and timed at 3mins 30 seconds.
just for the record here's the complete entry for fleetwood mac of surviving appearances still held by the beeb.


Fleetwood Mac A Mind Of My Own 2'57" 27.08.68
Fleetwood Mac Albatross 2'45" 09.10.68
Fleetwood Mac Although The Sun Is Shining 2'25" 06.10.69
Fleetwood Mac Baby Don't You Want To Go 3'08" 09.10.68
Fleetwood Mac Blues With A Feeling 2'45" 10.03.69
Fleetwood Mac Coming your Way 2'25" 10.06.69
Fleetwood Mac Crazy About You Baby 3'10" 10.11.70
Fleetwood Mac Down At The Crown 3'10" 10.11.70
Fleetwood Mac Dragonfly 2'20" 05.01.71
Fleetwood Mac Hang On To A Dream 2'57" 09.10.68
Fleetwood Mac Heavenly 2'30"
Fleetwood Mac I Can't Believe You Wanna Leave 3'20" 06.10.69
Fleetwood Mac Jumping At Shadows 3'35" 10.06.69
Fleetwood Mac Leaving Here Blues 3'50" 27.04.70
Fleetwood Mac Like Crying, Like Dying 2'33" 09.10.68
Fleetwood Mac Linda 2'20" 10.06.69
Fleetwood Mac Man Of The World 2'45" 10.04.69
Fleetwood Mac Oh Well 2'25" 06.10.69
Fleetwood Mac Only You 2'50" 27.04.70
Fleetwood Mac Preachin' 3'05" 05.01.71
Fleetwood Mac Preachin' The Blues 1'55" 27.08.68
Fleetwood Mac Purple Dancer 5'20" 24.11.70
Fleetwood Mac Sandy Mary 5'00" 27.04.70
Fleetwood Mac Start Again 4'05" 05.01.71
Fleetwood Mac Station Man 4'10" 24.11.70
Fleetwood Mac Tallahassee Lassie 3'20" 10.03.69
Fleetwood Mac Tell Me All The Things You Do 2'50" 10.11.70
Peter Green/Jeremy Spencer/Alexis Korner Good Morning Blues 3'30" 17.03.69

hope this is useful.

[BklynBlue]

thanks for the list of BBC recordings -

while all evidence points to March 17th, 1969 as the recording date, I have never seen the title "Good Morning Blues" in any reference book or Internet site - if you have seen it listed somewhere I would be very interested in knowing where - I'm not being smart, I am genuinely interested and would like to see what other information the book / site may have

there were supposedly three tracks cut that day at an "All-Star" Jam session after Fleetwood Mac's regular set for "Symonds on Sunday" on March 17th, 1969:

Two were lead by Duster Bennett, "My Shady Little Baby" and "Hot Roddin'"

and one lead by Alexis Korner, "New Worried Blues" - never released (even on bootleg) to the best of my knowledge -

"New Worried Blues" was a completely different song than "Good Morning Blues" so I do not believe it was simply of the wrong title being logged -

And again, while there is no intro or outro by the DJ on "Shady Little Baby", Dave Symonds introduces "Hot Roddin'" and the interviewer heard before "Good Morning Blues" is clearly Brian Matthews - thus my confusion

As to posting a "torrent" - I'll unfortunately have to leave that to a more tech-savvy Ledge member

[ash1]

hi...for a short time it was possible to access the bbc's database of recordings. this was from the bbc itself. for some reason it disappeared i think towards the end of last year. i saved the information as it contained details for many bands i like and collect like the animals,manfred mann etc. so the info i listed above is actually from the bbc itself. of course they could be wrong (like they were when they destroyed almost all of the 60's recordings by my favourite bands-what a disgrace) but that list is what the bbc holds so i'm not gonna argue with it. why they haven't put it all out is another question and no i've never seen good morning blues listed anywhere which is why i was surprised (and pleased) that it has "escaped" from the archive. if you want i could send you the excerpts from the database i kept.

[ash1]

just had a quick look and the database is up with slightly more info

http://www.bbcradioint.com/ContentFi..._catalogue.xls

good morning blues is under peter green

btw new worried blues is circulating. haven't come across years roll along though.

[Norton]

Originally Posted by ash1

according to the bbc database this track was recorded 17 march 1969 and is one of the few tracks they actually kept. wish they'd put it on live at the bbc. it's not on any of the tapes i have. any chance you could torrent it or similar ? It's credited to peter green, jeremy spencer and alexis korner and timed at 3mins 30 seconds.
just for the record here's the complete entry for fleetwood mac of surviving appearances still held by the beeb.


Fleetwood Mac A Mind Of My Own 2'57" 27.08.68
Fleetwood Mac Albatross 2'45" 09.10.68
Fleetwood Mac Although The Sun Is Shining 2'25" 06.10.69
Fleetwood Mac Baby Don't You Want To Go 3'08" 09.10.68
Fleetwood Mac Blues With A Feeling 2'45" 10.03.69
Fleetwood Mac Coming your Way 2'25" 10.06.69
Fleetwood Mac Crazy About You Baby 3'10" 10.11.70
Fleetwood Mac Down At The Crown 3'10" 10.11.70
Fleetwood Mac Dragonfly 2'20" 05.01.71
Fleetwood Mac Hang On To A Dream 2'57" 09.10.68
Fleetwood Mac Heavenly 2'30"
Fleetwood Mac I Can't Believe You Wanna Leave 3'20" 06.10.69
Fleetwood Mac Jumping At Shadows 3'35" 10.06.69
Fleetwood Mac Leaving Here Blues 3'50" 27.04.70
Fleetwood Mac Like Crying, Like Dying 2'33" 09.10.68
Fleetwood Mac Linda 2'20" 10.06.69
Fleetwood Mac Man Of The World 2'45" 10.04.69
Fleetwood Mac Oh Well 2'25" 06.10.69
Fleetwood Mac Only You 2'50" 27.04.70
Fleetwood Mac Preachin' 3'05" 05.01.71
Fleetwood Mac Preachin' The Blues 1'55" 27.08.68
Fleetwood Mac Purple Dancer 5'20" 24.11.70
Fleetwood Mac Sandy Mary 5'00" 27.04.70
Fleetwood Mac Start Again 4'05" 05.01.71
Fleetwood Mac Station Man 4'10" 24.11.70
Fleetwood Mac Tallahassee Lassie 3'20" 10.03.69
Fleetwood Mac Tell Me All The Things You Do 2'50" 10.11.70
Peter Green/Jeremy Spencer/Alexis Korner Good Morning Blues 3'30" 17.03.69

hope this is useful.

I looked for John Mayall for the time period when Peter Green was with him, and found these :-

John Mayall's Bluesbreakers Leaping Christine 23.01.67
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers Riding On The L And N 23.01.67
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers Sitting In The Rain 23.01.67

According to Christopher Hjort's book Strange Brew, there were several songs recorded for Saturday Club, four of which were prepared for BBC Overseas Transcription Service.

The list is :-
Riding On The L & N
Sitting In The Rain
Dust My Blues
Curly
Top Of the Hill
Leaping Christine

'Curly' was said to have been influenced by Greens encounter with Hendrix 10 days earlier.
The two that did not make it to the BBC Overseas Transcription Service were 'Dust My Blues' and 'Top Of The Hill'.
I wonder what happened to that version of Curly?

[ash1]

curly can be found on john mayall the first five years (boot) over at Pink Roberts site.

[dino]

Originally Posted by ash1

curly can be found on john mayall the first five years (boot) over at Pink Roberts site.

And there are two BBC versions of Curly.

[ohwell]

You guys know anything about the song 'Dead Shrimp Blues'? Also BBC.

http://halsprogressiverockblog.blogs...ves-vol-1.html

[ash1]

dead shrimp blues is a Robert Johnson song rec. 27 may 68 and broadcast on top gear june 2 1968. it has appeared on a number of boots.
Dino's right- curly was recorded twice,first for saturday club on 23 jan 67 and again on feb 3 1967 for the bbc world service show Rhythm and Blues broadcast 27 feb 67