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Originally Posted by BklynBlue
...does anyone know when (and why) the band decided to bring Green's songs back into the set-list?
They did not play any in concert (that I know of), after Green first left, building their shows around Kirwan, Spencer and Christine until Welch joined the band -
Did they feel they needed the Green songs to fill out the set after Spencer's departure until Welch had enough new material to fill the gap?
What might have been going through Kirwan's mind when the idea was first broached? Here they were trying to move forward, and now they were looking backward again...
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I would think it was because neither Danny nor Jeremy wanted (or felt capable) to do Peter's material. (Jeremy could probably shed more light from his side of things) I think Welch felt those songs needed to be done and he felt up to the task of doing them; especially, since those were songs that were the UK Hits and were the most "known" of their material to that point.
During those first tours with Welch (71/72), Kirwan took the lead vocal on "Black Magic Woman", Welch took "Oh Well"...little by little, more Green tunes got added to the set and Welch took over lead vocals on Peter's tunes.
In '74, the band was in crisis due to the challenge of ownership of the name "Fleetwood Mac" (due to the whole "bogus band" fiasco), so besides having new material, they dug deep into the catalogue to perform those songs as "proof" that they were "THE REAL" Fleetwood Mac.