Fleetwood Mac - Coming Your Way (Live1970)

[GodfreyTempleton]

I have a suspicion that Peter Green went off and noodled into his navel, but if this is so

does he really exist? Is he plausible?

Tel Pimlico 228

[guitarboy12123]

man just discovered then play on , only thing i want to say : it's a masterpiece

[smokiebird06]

Ah Danny, we sure could use you now.

[sheremorama]

Just about the best rock-rhythm team (Fleetwood, McVie) ever. Just about the best guitarist (Peter Green) on the planet. And they played together...! Love the memories. Thanks. Fans need to go back to John Mayall who spawned a whole raft of other soon-to-be famous musicians.

[woodstock19751]

KIRÁLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[pielover352]

I like this better i feel it

[oclero]

Dan is the man!

[boombox5000]

Wow, this is so cool. I never realised how much Fleetwood Mac had changed, and I was raised on them :$

[ihrescue]

I have always wondered about the similarities in Coming Your Way and early Santana. I have tried to find evidence that maybe they collaborated but have found no indication. This song and original album was released almost simultaneous with Abraxas which has the Mac song Black Magic Woman. Anyone else have comments about the similarities?

[Justa1SBG]

@ihrescue actually Black Magic Woman was originally on the English Rose album. that was on the epic label & would have been their 2nd album. if i'm not mistaken that would have been released in 1969

[rupilan]

GREAT FUCKING DRUMMS. LOVE THE FLEETWOOD-MCVIE SECTION ON THIS CUT . WOWOWOWOWOW

[marloyd505]

Very good instrumental ,the drum of Fleetwood really keeps the sound rolling.and I agree Peter Green's  music is wide ranging .The album Rattlesnke Guitar(Music of Peter Green) shows how much it did range.With other player playing his songs.

[MsOndine]

@marloyd505,

It did range that much, because this and many other songs were written by Danny Kirwan - actually half of the songs from the moment he was in the band until he was fired 4 years later, when Peter was long gone...

[mrgordons]

Kirwan was Green's sparring partner. Green once said that he could not have made Albatross without Kirwan. Both were needed in order to move FM away from all Elmore James songs.

[NaughtGinger]

Definitely timeless as mentioned before-the clear tones of the instruments could almost make you believe you were in the room listening-wish I could have seen them live but so happy to have "discovered" this music-

[PhilK1231]

Peter the Great was better than Clapton.

Peter Greenbaum.

The Green God.

[NaughtGinger]

Love it Love it! Love it!-this line up of Mac-the very finest! Danny Kirwan knocks it out of the park with this song! The instrumental version kicks ass too! The licks and tone are nearly unsurpassed!

[tubahead16]

Peter Green RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NikkoYM]

one of the best songs ever written and played

[tubahead16]

@NikkoYM One of the BEST EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Barnekkid]

A major part of that driving blues force you hear is Danny Kirwan. Don't forget it.

[NaughtGinger]

@Barnekkid AMEN! Kirwan was a guitar god-sad he is never credited with the huge contribution he made whether it was the magic with Green or with Spencer and Welsh and of course McVie and Fleetwood but he was so overlooked-he ROCKS it out whether great old fashioned blues or blues/progressive rock! Ahead of his time in a sense.

[PhilK1231]

@NaughtGinger Don't think he was actually. He was always looked on a s a great guitarist playing alongside a great guitarist.

[PhilK1231]

@Barnekkid Who brought Kirwan in ? Peter Green. This was why.

[Barnekkid]

@PhilK1231 This was why what?

[PhilK1231]

@Barnekkid Sigh....he WASN'T overlooked - ever. He was highly thought of at the time, and got as much praise (almost) as Green. Green brought him in to add to the sound, he thought he was needed. He DID add to the sound.

I thought that was obvious from the start.

[Barnekkid]

@PhilK1231 He wasn't overlooked in English blues circles, but he was then, and is now largely unknown by the general public, especially in light of the contribution he made to the original bands sound. The blues intensity came from Kirwan, not from Green who was a far more subtle player. My comment above was for a more general audience and not directed towards blues guitar people, to whom this information is known. To openly say it should be "obvious" would be stupid and naive, so I won't.

[PhilK1231]

@Barnekkid Matter of opinion of course. You rate Kirwan over Green, which is bloody laughable.

That DOESN'T however make Kirwan a bad player.

Far, FAR from it. But he needed Green far more than Green needed him

His subsequent work while good, is hardly inspiring.

Don't pull the "I play a blues guitar therefore know" bullshit please.

[MsOndine]

@PhilK1231, I also think Kirwan is a more intense - although certainly not better - player than Peter Green. And I happen to think he did some of his best work (for Fleetwood Mac) on Future Games and Bare Trees.

Anyway, like someone else already said: this is Danny Kirwan's song, and it's him on lead guitar & vocals.

[TheBitterSweetgr]

@PhilK1231 sorry that I interfere but nothing is "laughable".....there is a widespread notion that Green is GOD and over any criticism....the flawless one....and don't mistake me...I LOVE HIM....but....if you are a professional guitarist or a cat with any musical and melodic instinct you cannot ignore the fact that Danny was far superior in melody and phrasing to Greeny....Green had the soul...Kirwan was the melodisy and the brain...

[TheBitterSweetgr]

@TheBitterSweetgr the melodisT

[MsOndine]

@TheBitterSweetgr,

Great comment. Although I admire Peter Green, I kind of getting sick of this need to uncritically putting him on a pedestal, by at the same time putting Danny K. down. I think they were both very talented guitar players, singers, composers and arrangers - although I indeed prefer Kirwan's more melodic approach. Just each in their own way. With the difference that Green gets all the critical acclaim and Danny, Fleetwood Mac's whipping boy, gets eternally ignored or bashed....

[TheBitterSweetgr]

@MsOndine Couldn't agree more.....when I first started listening to the early Mac I was astonished by the guitar work and I attributed it all to Greeny...so I worshipped him like some kind of deity.....and you know what???To my utter surprise and by means of a more thorough research I realised that EACH AND EVERY note that I'd loved was played by our boy Danny....and all the songs that I adored so much in Mac's lps where his contributions!!!There was no turning back since then...Dan was the man

[TheBitterSweetgr]

@MsOndine and don't get me wrong..."Man Of The World","Closing My Eyes","Oh Well Pt.2" and "Before The Beginning" are the products of genius....but I never could compare it to tracks like "Dust","Earl Grey","Coming Your Way","Although The Sun Is Shining","Sands Of Time","Sunny SIde Of Heaven" and so many more....Danny had a real melodic touch.....in a sense he was a poet of the instrument...and to me he was a more accomplished MUSICIAN...Greeny was a fantastic guitar player...that's all

[TheBitterSweetgr]

@MsOndine ....even his soloing I prefer....oh Jesus!!!!This having said I'm most probably now considered an "atheist"....and I'll shout it once again:"I LOVE GREENY!"....cause I really do....it's in the very small musical details that Danny grabs my soul....

[johnhors]

@MsOndine Didn't the Rolling Stones try to recruit Danny after Mick Taylor left?

[MsOndine]

@johnhors,

Yes, I believe they managed to get his wife on the phone (twice, I think) , but she wasn't able to reach him in time. Unfortunately they lost interest after that... A big shame in a way, but the question remains if The Stones were the right band for him. Keith Richard probably would have treated him in the same unfair manner as he did with Mick Taylor.

[rwnfrd]

@TheBitterSweetgr The fact you think Kirwan has superior phrasing to Green indicates you`re not much of a guitar player

[TheBitterSweetgr]

@rwnfrd I am a guitar teacher Dear Ignorant Friend.....and i lead my band in which I sing and play all kinds of guitars...Danny's vibrato is unique....Green was never even close.....and mind you....Greenie's poster decorates my room....you Irrelevant People...you seem to have an opinion about everything....you Youtube Fighters....gonna write a song'bout you someday....you make me sick....shame on you....btway Greenie is a Titan....so pls doncha bother me no more

[TheBitterSweetgr]

@rwnfrd btway are you spending your nights looking for youtube fights?????Get a life man....music's open to different perceptions,opinions and angles.....everyone's got his opinion and the right to express it....if you were close to having a musical ear you would instantly pay tribute to this underrated genius...overlooked and glorious....even his voice I prefer...and I repeat...I GREW UP TO GREENY...leave music to the conoisseurs please...and don't criticise what you cannot understand.

[TheBitterSweetgr]

Απάντηση σε αυτό το βίντεο... I will give you some examples to make my point clear.."Jigsaw Puzzle Blues" "Coming Your Way" "Dragonfly" "Earl Grey" "Only You" "Dust" "Although The Sun Is Shining" and lots and lots more....Greeny couldn't have dreamt of writing stuff like that...."Man Of The World" is Greeny's greatest musical achievement in my opinion..."Closing My Eyes" another masterpiece....Yeah I'm definitely NOT into the blues anymore.Danny showed Mac the way forward....I love him

[TheRAZOR66]

This is great ,,,,,,yes Mick is great on the drum here, these were the good old days !!!! Fleetwood mac is the best band ever !!!!!!!!! thanks for posting this !!

[slackersnowboarder]

Overlooked on these comments is the stellar drumming by Mick Fleetwood. Amazing drummer.

[NaughtGinger]

@slackersnowboarder yes is stellar drum work by Mick fersure!

[misterbracks]

.....all those Peter Green fans (including me).....remember that this is a Danny Kirwan song,....as are a lot of the great tracks on Then Play On.....I think he gave a great deal of colour to the basic blues rut of the original line up....e.g.. my dream, although the sun is shining,..and stuff like jigsaw blues....respect due to the then young Danny boy!

[Barnekkid]

@misterbracks They say Danny's still around, somewhere.

[musicfreak1967]

Just in this late-night time (in Germany it is just 3:58 o'clock) I hear this magnificent work the first time after years again from the German Reprise Records pressing of the 72nd "The Best of Fleetwood Mac" LP - and am inspired!! Rhythm as with early songs of Santana, in addition song and guitar of Peter Green - heavenly!!! Affectionately yours from Germany!!

[sparkyization]

High in the Kalifornia Sierras throwing frisbees from rock to rock. Trippin with the refugees from Haight Ashbury. They had the garden in and life was sweet. "Then Play On" was our signature anthem & kick ass eL was the sainted sacrement. I rather miss those eloquently simple carefree times

[baliscotsurf]

@sparkyization same doc here and shroomz on kauai surfin da bay 10' solid. Danny K is King

[melchizedekism]

Takes me back 40years,could anyone improve this early blues! its just superb!.

[thebluesrockers]

I love those Peter Green years. not taking anything away from Lindsey....and Stevie

it's just that Peter Green sure played those blues. a real asset to blues rock. it seems most people forget how much he really had to do with the southern rock movement. he had so many different types of styles too. I really love it. to me it's timeless.

[YoGroucho]

Now I understand the influences of Fleetwood Mac in Santana. The whole rhythm section is the use then Santana Jingo, Samba Pa Ti and others.

[mmandmm9]

@YoGroucho Actually, it was the other way around. Greeny's guitar influenced Santana and Santana's band sound influenced Greeny. Notice how different the 1968 Black Magic Woman sounded from the 1970 live versions. FM had toured and jammed with Santana and other SF bands and came back with an expanded sound.

[strangeones4]

I agree with most of what you posted, yet the live 1970 BMW's are still pure Fleetwood Mac, they always had the blues jam to end the song. C.Santana asked Peter Green in person for permission to use BMW for "Abraxas" in early spring 1970. Kirwan's "Coming Your Way" is obviously influenced from Santana. Carlos Santana's guitar solo phrasing post 1968 is influenced heavily from Peter Green.  I direct you to "Homework Fleetwood Mac" on Youtube. It's from late '68 in France.

[mmandmm9]

@strangeones4 I did say that Greeny's guitar playing influenced Santana. But, the original BMW ending was a riff on Otis Rush's "All Your Love I Miss Loving". In fact, the entire song was different lyrics to that Otis Rush classic. There were NO recordings of FM doing BMW before the Boston concerts in the 70's. Peter even says that they only performed the number a couple of times after they recorded it and then stopped doing it until they "got it together again" for Boston.

[strangeones4]

@mmandmm9 The entire song is based on Howlin' Wolf's "Who's Been Talkin". Yet it was created from Green's "I've Loved Another Woman". As for the live BMW jam, there is NO way it copies the Cobra single of "All Your Love" by Otis Rush.

[Tex259]

haha this beat is groovy it reminds me of jet moto 2 on playstation

[mmandmm9]

Thnak you SO much! I do vibrational sound work and this is a piece of music that is SO incredibly cathartic! I've had this on CDfor years but can noe share it with friends!

[DonRodrigoHigo]

When Then Play On was launched I was broken so I wait for weeks to save money enough to buy the Album. After almost 40 years I like it as the first day

[tubahead16]

@DonRodrigoHigo one of the best albums of the past 50 years