Who Did It Better???

[Prince of Darkness]

 

[Bill Ashton]

As much as I really like Tim Hardin ("Reason To Believe"), I gotta give it to FM...is that really Christine Perfect (RIP) with a Les Paul ??

What is really kinda lost, shown in this tune, what a good piano/organ player she was, kind of lost in the pop FM "wall of sound."

 

[Bill Ashton]

Fleetwood Mac/Peter Greene



Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth

 

[GGJaguar]

Tim Hardin, Mother Earth.

 

[JohnW63]

Bill,

That is pre-Christine Fleetwood Mac on the Best of album cover. Now, could they have used her on this track, I guess that could be. I don't recall what year John married her.

 

[JohnW63]

This a more extended version from FM, that I practice with.

 

[Prince of Darkness]

As much as I really like Tim Hardin ("Reason To Believe"), I gotta give it to FM...is that really Christine Perfect (RIP) with a Les Paul ??

What is really kinda lost, shown in this tune, what a good piano/organ player she was, kind of lost in the pop FM "wall of sound."

That's Danny Kirwan with the Les Paul. Although not yet in the band, Christine did regularly play piano on Fleetwood Mac recordings at the time, but I don't think she played on this. I think it's Jeremy Spencer, who is also the singer

 

[Prince of Darkness]

Bill,

That is pre-Christine Fleetwood Mac on the Best of album cover. Now, could they have used her on this track, I guess that could be. I don't recall what year John married her.

She did often work with Fleetwood Mac in the studio at this time, including the BBC sessions that this recording came from. In this case, I think it's Jeremy Spencer on piano.

 

[Bill Ashton]

After closer look, of course its Danny Kirwin...duh!...his name is even below him in the picture!

 

[chazmo]

That's news to me. I only know of Fleetwood Mac with Christine McVie as part of the group. I guess these groups often have long histories! Those recordings don't even sound like Fleetwood Mac to me.

 

[Prince of Darkness]

That's news to me. I only know of Fleetwood Mac with Christine McVie as part of the group. I guess these groups often have long histories! Those recordings don't even sound like Fleetwood Mac to me.

It's a band with a long history and many personnel changes along the way. Perhaps the biggest surprise is that John McVie wasn't an original member, though it was always intended that he be the Mac A pivotal moment leading to the band's formation was Aynsley Dunbar leaving John Mayall's Bluesbreakers to join The Jeff Beck Group. Guitarist Peter Green suggested Mick Fleetwood as a replacement, having worked with him before in previous bands. Mick didn't last long before being sacked (I think it may of been for drinking), but during this time John Mayall gave Peter Green a gift of some recording time with the rhythm section, during which they recorded an instrumental called Fleetwood Mac. Soon after this, Peter Green left Mayall to form Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green, recruiting slide guitarist Jeremy Spencer and bassist Bob Brunning (on the understanding that he would only be there till they could persuade John McVie to leave Mayall).

 

[Bill Ashton]

That's news to me. I only know of Fleetwood Mac with Christine McVie as part of the group. I guess these groups often have long histories! Those recordings don't even sound like Fleetwood Mac to me.

I dunno Chaz, maybe you just aren't old enough! To me its that insipid 70's pop stuff that doesn't sound like one of the seminal UK blues bands!

Christine (Perfect) McVie was piano/organ for another great but forgotten band called Chicken Shack; its listening to their few recordings that opened my eyes as to how good on keys she really was.

 

[Bill Ashton]

OK, to kind of get back on-topic, lets try this...

 

[GGJaguar]

Etta James

 

[Prince of Darkness]

OK, to kind of get back on-topic, lets try this...

The second video is showing as unavailable for me. Is it the Chicken Shack version? If so, I would have to go with the Etta James version, though I really like the Chicken Shack version as well; one of my favourite bands!

 

[chazmo]

I dunno Chaz, maybe you just aren't old enough!

I certainly feel old enough, Bill!!!!! Although today I feel young, having had my first real ride around the area on my fat e-bike.

 

[HeyMikey]

Heard this today on the country station.



Nice copy but for me it will always be the one and only…

 

[GGJaguar]

Oh Tom Petty for sure. The Bentley version loses on two counts for me - he's playing a Tom Petty Signature Ric 660, but there's no jangle (it's a jangle pop song). Also, Mike Campbell's guitar hook at the end of the song is absent. To me that hook makes the song and would work really well in a country version like Bentley's. Opportunity lost, IMHO.

 

[walrus]

Tom Petty. Of course.

 

[davismanLV]

Dierks is very talented, but I found his version..... uninspired. So Tom Petty all the way. I bet someone could come up with a really good version of this song!!!