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View Poll Results: What is your favourite Mick Fleetwood solo album?
The Visitor 5 22.73%
I'm Not Me (Mick Fleetwood's Zoo) 12 54.55%
Shakin' The Cage (The Zoo) 1 4.55%
Something Big (The Mick Fleetwood Band) 1 4.55%
Blue Again (The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band) 3 13.64%
Totally Drumming (got to love those 2 second loops) 0 0%
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Old 06-20-2010, 01:56 PM
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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.
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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.
You could argue that the Visitor gave a nod to that era, it even had PG appear on the album - what more could you ask for?

While the comparisons can probably be made between Mick's solo work and the BN era, I doubt that is not why most people enjoy it. If Miss Witchy Nicks appeared on the album then it would probably be a hell of a lot more popular than it currently is...

Oh ok I'll make up a poll about Blue Again if it makes you happy...

Don't feel too bad though, even the Splinter Group didn't get enough love when they did the old PG songs, so Rick Vito is hardly likely to get it...
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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.
Well, if you REALLY want to get picky about which rockers set the standard of recording with African musicians, Cream's drummer Ginger Baker was really the pioneer. Recorded with many African musicians as early as '70. He even built his own recording studio in Lagos, Nigeria in '71(where Paul McCartney recorded his Band On The Run album in 1974)

If you're into Mick's The Visitor, check out the DVD Ginger Baker In Africa.
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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...


http://rapidshare.com/files/149398800/The_Visitor.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/145950898/I_m_Not_Me.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/14661120...__the_Cage.rar

Although I have since obtained I'm Not Me on a bootleg CD the file here is (I think) the one that Matt provided a couple of years back, just downloaded/reuploaded by me.
I have tried to download these but my computer does not have an application to play them. Does anyone have any of these that can be played on I-tunes?
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I have tried to download these but my computer does not have an application to play them. Does anyone have any of these that can be played on I-tunes?
After you downloaded them, did you "extract" them (via WinZip or similar application)? ".rar" are compressed files that expand into .mp3 files when extracted.
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After you downloaded them, did you "extract" them (via WinZip or similar application)? ".rar" are compressed files that expand into .mp3 files when extracted.
Ah, thank you!
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Went back & revisited The Visitor album last night. It's a damned great album!! Still, though, I prefer I'm Not Me, but the gap between them is a whole lot narrower this morning.

The track "Super Brains" (or "Superbrains" as it was listed on the original album cover) sounds as if it could've been on one of Peter Green's PVK label albums (In The Skies. Little Dreamer, etc).

I really like George Hawkins' vocals...both on The Visitor & I'm Not Me. Need to revisit his own album again soon.
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You could argue that the Visitor gave a nod to that era, it even had PG appear on the album - what more could you ask for?

While the comparisons can probably be made between Mick's solo work and the BN era, I doubt that is not why most people enjoy it. If Miss Witchy Nicks appeared on the album then it would probably be a hell of a lot more popular than it currently is...

Oh ok I'll make up a poll about Blue Again if it makes you happy...

Don't feel too bad though, even the Splinter Group didn't get enough love when they did the old PG songs, so Rick Vito is hardly likely to get it...
You are correct, yet again sir!!

I'd love to see a Blue Again poll!! Hopefully it would show that there is an appreciation of Mick and Rick. I'll be looking forward to it!

Saw the Splinter Group here in San Francisco a number of years ago. Was a great show. Sadly, you are correct about that point as well.
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