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[slipkid]

Originally Posted by sharksfan2000

Thanks for the clarification, slipkid. I agree with some of your take on the interview but not on other things.


A lot of people dismissed - and still dismiss - "The End of the Game". Fleetwood would hardly have been alone in that viewpoint. And being so different from Green's work with the band, you can see how Fleetwood might have been particularly disappointed with it, maybe even seeing it as Green being dismissive of his own past with the band. If, as you note later in your post, Fleetwood was "crushed" by Green leaving the band, it's not hard to see how that would have colored his opinion of Green's new album.

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I have a hypothesis about this album, and it's directly involved with the "night in Munich". That was the night Peter Green discovered "Krautrock". "Krautrock" is German progressive rock, and were they ever progressive. King Crimson would be seen as The Beatles in comparison to Krautrock.

If you are aware of a show in the UK (I see it on Youtube in US) called "Nevermind the Buzzcocks", one of the regular captains from the past four years, Noel Fielding named the German Krautrock band "Can" as the best band from the 1970's. Look up the band "Can" on Youtube, 1) You will then realize "The End of the Game" was not completely insane, and 2) Krautrock broke up Supergrass, my favorite 90's-00's rock band.

Would he have chosen Green over Buckingham/Nicks after Bob Welch left the band? I think he would have made every effort to find room for all of them. As you noted, Fleetwood has been the main "protector" of the "FM franchise". At that point in their history, with the band being far more popular in the (much more lucrative) US market, where Green was little-known, going with Buckingham/Nicks would have been the direction that was more likely to carry them further there - that choice obviously turned out all right for the band! And Green might very well have been happier not to have to carry the weight of the band at that point too - integrating his talents with those of B/N might have proved challenging, but not impossible. All speculation, but an interesting scenario.

If you watched the Peter Green documentary, Mick Fleetwood actually admitted to playing old Peter Green era FM tapes in front of the Rumours era band while he was depressed. I'm sure his cocaine come-down had something to do with that, but Mick Fleetwood's first love is blues shuffle drumming. You do realize the song "Don't Stop" is a blues shuffle drum beat?

In my silly "what-if" scenario, I know MF would choose Green over B/N because FM with Peter Green would've been "rock stars" AKA Stones, Zeppelin, Who. If Peter Green only stayed with the band another six months, the best live rock album next to the Allman's at the Fillmore East would've been released in America in late 1970, almost a year before the Allmans album. Those Boston Tea Party tapes weren't released officially until Lindsay Buckingham left FM in 1985. Do we even have to wonder why?