Re-evaluating End of the Game

[michelej1]

Mojo's Blog lists the album as "Disc of the Day"

http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2010/06/peter_green.html
Peter Green
The End Of The Game
(Reprise, 1970)

Is it time to reappraise the Fleetwood Mac man's freeform guitar burnout?

In the most recent MOJO profile of Peter Green, in November 2008, his debut solo album was dismissed in passing as "a mainly instrumental solo album that nobody bought." Look for more information on the All Music Guide and you'll find The End Of The Game described as "incoherent drivel from an immensely talented guitarist. Sad." I beg to differ. Released in June 1970, The End Of The Game arrived barely a month after Green's farewell to Fleetwood Mac, the LSD-infused 7" riff attack of The Green Manalishi, had hit the top ten. The album was, however, born in the trauma of the Mac's European tour earlier that year.