What is your favourite Mick Fleetwood solo album?

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Street_Dreamer

I'm Not Me ranks first for me but The Visitor comes in a very close second.

Matt

Me too, Matt.
While I really enjoy about half of The Visitor(some of the african choir stuff, is too far out there for me to really appreciate), I'm Not Me is a more solid effort. I dislike the sax parts on INM, though. They make it sound very dated.

On The Visitor though, I MUCH prefer the version of Walk A Thin Line, to Lindsey's!

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by chriskisn

Wow I'm actually surprised at the love for I'm Not Me especially given that it is generally the hardest to find of the MF solo albums...

What's frustrating is that it's the only album that hasn't been released on CD. I have a French BMG Music issued CD of The Vistor.

[sjpdg]

What a shock!!! A Mick related thread in the "Rumours" area!!!! I'd almost given up that any discussion on this forum would ever include the "Tall Man".

Anyway, here's my votes, in order of preference:

Blue Again
The Visitor
Something Big
Shakin' The Cage
I'm Not Me

Never heard anything form the Total Drumming stuff.

As a drummer, Mick has to surround himself with other musicians. It's very difficult to just do a drum album. Even Micky Hart from Grateful Dead on his Planet Drum stuff has had to surround himself with other percussionists. So, no surprise that Mick has a slew of other musicians around him when he records. And why shouldn't he go for the best? I'd be shocked to hear of a musician that wouldn't want to work with him.

[jbrownsjr]

I love I'm Not Me... Visitor close 2nd..

I will have to say I couldn't put Shakin the Cage down for a long time... Bekka was amazing on that album..

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by chriskisn

All three of them are out of print as far as I am aware - Shakin' the cage was the only one to officially make it to CD that I know of, although that too is now out of print I think. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this...

The Visitor was officially released on CD, but is now out of print.

Originally Posted by chriskisn

Wow I'm actually surprised at the love for I'm Not Me especially given that it is generally the hardest to find of the MF solo albums...

Probably because it is the one that actually sounds the most like a Rumours era Fleetwood Mac album....each song sounds similar to your typical song by a member of the Rumours era...Mick probably could've gotten them to do the lead vocal on each track and nobody would've known the difference:

Angel Come Home (Lindsey)
You Might Need Somebody (Christine)
Tonight (Stevie)
I Want You Back (Lindsey)
I'm Not Me (Christine)
State Of The Art (Lindsey)
Tear It Up (all)
This Love (Stevie)
I Give (Christine)
Just Because (Lindsey/Christine)
Put Me Right (Stevie)

[Street_Dreamer]

I've never understood why Fleetwood Mac/Lindsey haven't performed I Want You Back live before.

Matt

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by Street_Dreamer

I've never understood why Fleetwood Mac/Lindsey haven't performed I Want You Back live before.

Matt

I know Matt!!! I would have loved to see them do this live...

[sjpdg]

So, I just don't get why there has to be a comparison to Rumours. As Lindsey has said many, many, many times, why make a carbon copy of that album? They did that, now let's do something different. Thus, Tusk.

Why wouldn't Mick want to do albums that are nonRumours sounding? We can all pretty much guess what a Lindsey album is going to sound like, the same with Stevie and Christine as well. With Mick and John, being rhythm players, not singers or "front men", they need bands and singers to work with. We got a very small taste of how John works with other musicians on his "Gotta Band" project and now we've had various versions of what Mick is into with his several projects.

Can't they all just be appreciated for what they are and not compared to Rumours????

I'm actually pretty shocked (and then again not so much owing to the lack of blues love on this forum, no offense, just a fact) that Blue Again hasn't gotten more votes. It's a fantastic CD and a real tribute to the PG/original era of FM that really pours out the love for the music that the MFBB has.

[TrueFaith77]

Originally Posted by sjpdg

So, I just don't get why there has to be a comparison to Rumours. As Lindsey has said many, many, many times, why make a carbon copy of that album? They did that, now let's do something different. Thus, Tusk.

Why wouldn't Mick want to do albums that are nonRumours sounding? We can all pretty much guess what a Lindsey album is going to sound like, the same with Stevie and Christine as well. With Mick and John, being rhythm players, not singers or "front men", they need bands and singers to work with. We got a very small taste of how John works with other musicians on his "Gotta Band" project and now we've had various versions of what Mick is into with his several projects.

Can't they all just be appreciated for what they are and not compared to Rumours????

I'm actually pretty shocked (and then again not so much owing to the lack of blues love on this forum, no offense, just a fact) that Blue Again hasn't gotten more votes. It's a fantastic CD and a real tribute to the PG/original era of FM that really pours out the love for the music that the MFBB has.

chili said "Rumours-era," which means it's the one that sounds most like it could have been made by those 5 people; not necessarily similar Rumours itself.

p.s. -- I'm listening to I'm Not Me right now and chili is uncannily (though not surprisingly) right in his "casting" of the Rumours-era mac members for each song. WOW.

[vivfox]

http://www.roadto2010.com/ghanaian-hip-life/

Ghanaian Hip-life | Twenty Ten
By Francis Kokutse
Veteran high-life musician, composer and guitarist, Gilbert Amartey Amar, was a member of the Ghanaian band, Edikanfo, who recorded an album with Mick Fleetwood in the early 1980s. He thinks that hip-life is, “not constructive”, ...

[wetcamelfood]

Originally Posted by vivfox

http://www.roadto2010.com/ghanaian-hip-life/

Ghanaian Hip-life | Twenty Ten
By Francis Kokutse
Veteran high-life musician, composer and guitarist, Gilbert Amartey Amar, was a member of the Ghanaian band, Edikanfo, who recorded an album with Mick Fleetwood in the early 1980s. He thinks that hip-life is, “not constructive”, ...

Thanks for this Viv, I was checking this against our discography listings for accuracy and I couldn't find Gilbert Amartey Amar or Edikanfo.

There is a Nii Amartey so assuming this is him, he wrote "O' Niamali" & "Amelle (Come On Show Me Your Heart)" but for the musicians it just says Played & Sung by Adjo Group (i.e. no mention of Edikanfo).

I must admit I know nothing about these groups so if anyone can clarify any of this it'd be most appreciated as I wasn't able to find the names of any of the members of Adjo Group either so...

John

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by wetcamelfood

Thanks for this Viv, I was checking this against our discography listings for accuracy and I couldn't find Gilbert Amartey Amar or Edikanfo.

There is a Nii Amartey so assuming this is him, he wrote "O' Niamali" & "Amelle (Come On Show Me Your Heart)" but for the musicians it just says Played & Sung by Adjo Group (i.e. no mention of Edikanfo).

I must admit I know nothing about these groups so if anyone can clarify any of this it'd be most appreciated as I wasn't able to find the names of any of the members of Adjo Group either so...

John

Well, the article actually said he played with Fleetwood Mac but I changed it to Mick Fleetwood because I'd never heard of the band playing with an African Musician in the early 1980's. I hope this helps.

[chriskisn]

Originally Posted by sjpdg

I'm actually pretty shocked (and then again not so much owing to the lack of blues love on this forum, no offense, just a fact) that Blue Again hasn't gotten more votes. It's a fantastic CD and a real tribute to the PG/original era of FM that really pours out the love for the music that the MFBB has.

I'm shocked too...I don't think it is necessarily a reflection on Blue Again...it is just that those old albums have so much to offer (and hey they are original too ). We are a nostalgic bunch!

[sjpdg]

Originally Posted by chriskisn

I'm shocked too...I don't think it is necessarily a reflection on Blue Again...it is just that those old albums have so much to offer (and hey they are original too ). We are a nostalgic bunch!

Very true my friend. Very true. Nostalgia? Yes. But for what? For Mick and his work, or for anything that can be compared to Buckingham/Nicks and Rumours?

I guess I'm just looking for something I'm not going to find in this area of the forum: Love for a tribute to the PG era of FM.

[Richard B]

The Visitor is Mick Fleetwood's finest moment within his solo work. With George Harrison and Peter Green adding their magic, not to mention Mick working in Ghana (West Africa) before Paul Simon (South Africa) made it hip.