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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
Peter Green was an amazing guitar player but Fleetwood Mac in that era hardly offered anything new in relation to the multitude of blues rock albums around at that time, they had some great songs but I be hard pressed to say that they put out a great album, in fact "best of" albums from the Peter Green era I think are he best way to listen to them.
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Live at the Boston Tea Party, the full 145 minute version, is probably my favorite blues rock album. You're right. There isn't much to distinguish the blues rock bands that came pouring out of England in the mid 60's. But Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac has just a little bit more of a boogie/groove in their music; compared to the likes of John Mayall or Epic Clapton. Cream did too, put I think was in part due to the psychedelic influences. It's not much, but that slight variation separates them for me.
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Boston Tea Party there are several long tracks that would shrivel up and die under normal circumstances because they lack the hypnotic quality from someone like Junior Kimbrough. What keeps them going is that groove. It reminds me a lot of the stuff from the short lived Band of Gypsys, actually. It slight, but once you notice it, it keeps on going and makes Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac a cut above the other blues bands of the era.
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Sorry to name drop so many artists not named Fleetwood Mac, but they are all fresh in my head from a conversation with my boss.