Jeremy Spencer about P. Green and musical "pictures"

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Originally Posted by kowk

Lately I bought a very nice CD - Jeremy Spencer - Bend In The Road.
Here is a quotation from Jeremy's description of a beautiful instrumental called Aphrodite:
In the early days of Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green and I, outside our blues passion, shared an understanding of painting musical "pictures". That is seeing the images in our minds' eyes that the music was depicting, especially in instrumentals.

How do you think which Greeny's and Jeremy's compositions are musical "pictures"?

Well, maybe "Underway" is a good example. I think the idea was to describe a boat/sailboat on its way. Peter's straight and clean tones representing the boat itself. Danny's chopping chords together with Mick's cymbals representing the waves crashing against the boat's gunwale.

Of course, it's easy to imagine the great albatross gliding far above the sea, when listening to "Albatross".

I read an interview with Peter in an old musical magazine (perhaps NME or MM)from around the time he left Fleetwood Mac. He said he'd been in the US during the winter, and had written a musical piece about the snow falling quietly in Chicago. Could have been the start of "Heavy Heart", but I'm only guessing wildly here...