Quote Originally Posted by SPACE GLIDER View Post
Now that is something I've NEVER EVER known. And it really make the band (Mick especially) even more interesting than I'd thought. I don't know why I'd had it in my head that the band really didnt exist long before "Rumors" or whatnot! And did EVERY English rock band start off as a blues band?


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It's okay, most people think the band started out with Rumors (even forgetting that one of their most famous songs, Rhiannon, was on the album before Rumors). I don't know the history of other bands, though. My music Geekdom is pretty much around Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks.

There is a great 4 disc retrospective of Fleetwood Mac called The Chain. You can probably find it relatively cheap at some used music stores these days. Each disc is from a different era of their music with one whole disc devoted just to their early blues stuff. There's a song on there called "Man of the World" that Peter Green wrote just before leaving the band. It is one of the saddest songs I've ever heard in my life because in Mick's book he was talking about how horrible things were going for Peter and how the lyrics are really true to life as to how he was feeling. There's a part where he sings "I just wish I had never been born" that gives me chills every time I hear it.