Rating: 2/5
Review:
Poor sound quality
This is one for real fans and completists only, I think. I tried it
because I will listen to anything played by Peter Green, but it’s
not great.
The problem is the
sound quality. It’s not as absolutely terrible as some of the
stuff foisted on us over the years (buyers of some Canned Heat and
Clapton “lost” or “unofficial live” recordings, for example,
will know what I mean), but it varies from the dodgy to the awful.
Some of it is worth it – there’s a terrific solo performance by
Green of Dead Shrimp Blues, for example, which I’m glad to have in
spite of the crackles, scrapes and overall dismal quality – but a
lot of it isn’t really. You can tell that the issuers haven’t
taken this compilation at all seriously from the comic font on the
cover (what??) and it shows.
The music itself is
mostly pretty good without being brilliant with a nice mix of solid
blues, odd covers like Peggy Sue Got Married (yes, really) and some
of Jeremy Spencer’s enjoyable knockabout Rock & Roll parodies.
There are flashes of genius from Green and the band is always very
good, but most of these tracks aren’t as good as the versions
already available either on original albums or compilations like Live
At The BBC.
I’m a massive
devotee of the original Fleetwood Mac and even I’m not over-keen on
this. It’s basically an exploitative cobbling together of
poor-quality recordings with no effort at cleaning them up or
meaningful curation. On balance, I’m glad to have it in my
collection, but I can’t really recommend it.
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