Lyrics for future games by fleetwood mac mac#
So, it is with a lineup of Kirwan, McVie, Welch, Fleetwood, & McVie that Fleetwood Mac is heard on Future Games. Spencer's place was filled, more or less, by American singer-guitarist Bob Welch. If I had to go to Los Angeles again I might join some strange religious cult). Last year while on tour in California Jeremy Spencer quit, defecting to one of the many strange religious cults so popular in Southern California. While Fleetwood Mac was often very good at this stage, with Green's departure they had suffered a discomforting loss of intensity. John McVie) formerly of Chicken Shack joined the band. Kiln House was released and Christine Perfect (Mrs.
Green quit and the happy balance of English Rose was lamentably short-lived. With Then Play On and increasingly in their live performances the band began to show rather disintegrative tendencies, torn between Green's hard-driving intense style, Spencer's imitations of old rock stars, and Kirwan's growing predilection for mush-mouthed balladry. This event was marked by the release of a single, "Oh Well," which had been quite successful in Europe, but flopped in the US, followed shortly by an album entitled Then Play On. It was not long before the band left Columbia and the tutelage of Mike Vernon and after nearly signing with Andrew Oldham's Immediate Label found a home with Reprise. One of the album cuts, "Albatross," was released as a single and rose to the top of the world charts. The band's second album, English Rose, most certainly rates as one of the best British blues albums, handily fulfilling everyone's expectations. Not long after releasing their first album the band was augmented by Danny Kirwan, a mere slip of a lad, who if he progressed at the expected rate seemed well on his way to becoming God Jr. The other band members were Mick Fleetwood, a comically attenuated drummer John McVie, Mayall's longest lasting bass player and Jeremy Spencer, a fanatical admirer of Buddy Holly and Elmore James, whom Mike Vernon had discovered playing piano at a seedy blues bar in a seedy British town. It came as no surprise when in 1967 Green left the Bluesbreakers to form his own band, Fleetwood Mac. Indeed, on much of Mayall's second American album, A Hard Road, Green was the dominant personality. During his tenure with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Green had distinguished himself as a fine singer and guitarist - a worthy successor to Eric Clapton. Of the many second generation British blues musicians who remained active Peter Green was among the most promising. After all with so many people in unsuccessful blues bands how could anyone afford to buy anyone else's records? So the boom subsided as the less accomplished musicians in the lot went on to find some measure of economic stability as light bulb designers, pop artists, members of hard rock groups, or what have you. But by its very popularity the blues boom insured its own destruction. Beginning with a small corps of dedicated musicians in the early Sixties, blues bands proliferated at a fervish pace until by 1968 nearly every person in the British Isles between the ages of 16 and 35 was in a blues band. Back in the Bar-Mitzvah days of the drug culture the British music scene was shaken by what came to be known as The Blues Boom.
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