#Danny Kirwan

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Moonstruck by Apollonia Saintclair // "Sands of Time" by Fleetwood Mac

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Look at the coolest band of all times — 🥹🥹

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Fleetwood Mac photographed by Bob Gruen, October 1971.

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Fleetwood Mac: before the Rumours began.

So, I've had early Fleetwood Mac playing on repeat recently, and those albums released between 1971 and 1974, the post-Peter Green blues rock years and pre-Buckingham Nicks blockbuster years, are all, for the most part, great pieces of soft rock.

The spaceyness of Bare Trees (1972) and the funky '70s R&B of Heroes Are Hard to Find (1974) elevate them above everything else the band did, bar Rumours and Tusk. So melodious, mellow yet strangely groovy, like Rubber Soul-era Beatles but with a distinctly early '70s atmosphere of patchouli oil and incense. A relatively underappreciated transitional era of the band's development that, despite its patchiness, produced a scattering of polished gems.

What on earth were they thinking with the Mystery To Me album cover? It was 1974 is your answer, but there is beauty within. Bob Welch's "Hypnotized" is a seductive trip and is about ancient aliens/ufos/drugs??? Like I say, 1974.

"The Ghost" is equally airborne and sundazed, my current favourite track on the atmospheric Bare Trees.

The Heroes are Hard To Find LP is the final one of the Bob Welch era and sounds like a bridge to the band's next stage. "She's Changing Me" even seems to anticipate the ethereal whirlwind that is Stevie Nicks, who would come and help send the Fleetwood Mac of 70-74 flying off into oblivion.

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Christine McVie Dead at 79

- “She was the best musician anyone could have in their band and the best friend anyone could have in their life,” Fleetwood Mac says

Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie has died “following a short illness,” her family said in a statement.

McVie died Nov. 30 in a hospital with her family nearby. She was 79.

“We would like everyone to keep Christine in their hearts and remember the life of an incredible human being, and revered musician who was loved universally,” McVie’s family said.

“Gutted to learn about the passing of Christine McVie,” Garbage said in a statement. “Just gutted. Songbird forever.”

“This is so unbelievably sad,” Foghat wrote on Facebook. “RIP, Christine McVie. Such a beautiful soul.”

Born Christine Perfect, the singer/songwriter/keyboardist played first with Chicken Shack. She joined Fleetwood Mac after contributing to 1970’s Kiln House and was the band’s third-longest-serving member after Mick Fleetwood and her ex-husband John McVie.

“We cherished Christine deeply, the band said in a statement.

“She was truly one-of-a-kind, special and talented beyond measure,” Fleetwood Mac said. “She was the best musician anyone could have in their band and the best friend anyone could have in their life.”

McVie played alongside every member of Fleetwood Mac save for Peter Green and appeared on all but four of the band’s 18 studio albums.

Living Colour’s Vernon Reid eulogized McVie as his second-favorite Mac member after Green and quoted her lyrics to “You Make Loving Fun” as some of her best.

“No other voice … captured that feeling of the narcotic stage of love better than Christine McVie,” Reid said.

“What a tremendous loss to the music community,” Bret Michaels said on Twitter. “My deepest condolences to the family, friends and fans of Christine McVie.”

She recorded three solo albums between 1970 and 2004 and released a 2017 duo album with Lindsey Buckingham that was followed by a tour.

Her death is “terribly heartbreaking” and an “enormous loss,” Ron Sexsmith wrote on Twitter.

“She wrote my favorite Fleetwood Mac songs and I also loved her solo work,” he said.

11/30/22

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1/ Danny Kirwan & John McVie of Fleetwood Mac pictured in the Chess Chicago studios during the Blues Jam at Chess session (1969). 2/ Peter Green and Mister Willie Dixon. Photos : Jeff Lowenthal.

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Fleetwood Mac (1969)

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Finding Fleetwood Mac's Mysterious, Enchanting, and Haunting Energy (Part 1)

As I've dived deeper into Fleetwood Mac's discography, I've realized that you can't pin most of the band's mysterious, enchanting, and haunting energy to Rumours. It's always been in the band.

The type of blues with Peter Green / Danny Kirwan / Jeremy Spencer that Fleetwood Mac was putting out naturally had dark and mystical themes, a prime example being The Green Manalishi (Then Play On - 1969). It's literally the same thing as Gold Dust Woman (Rumours - 1977), as he uses a witchy figure (and her effects) to describe his issues at that time with the struggles of money and drugs that come with being a musician, as well as shrieking instruments and howling throughout the song.

Other songs, like Albatross (1968) and of course Black Magic Woman (1968) also have ethereal and bewitching themes too.

It's also worth mentioning that the band was on drugs like LSD at this time too. Peter Green eventually Syd Barrett'ed out of the band; mental illness and drugs made him spiral and leave in 1970. So obviously, trips, delusions, and the users pretty much losing themselves to addiction during the creative processes, in addition to already being rooted in a dark and mythical genre means that the music is going to have an eerie, almost grieved, edge to it.

In my opinion, after Peter Green leaves the band, only a few songs between the end of his era and the beginning of Buckingham/Nicks carry the same heavy sound and theme I want to discuss. So before I next post on this topic (dealing with after Rumours), I suggest listening to the album Then Play On (1969) as there are many other songs I didn't bring up but still have the Fleetwood Mac sound mostly associated with Rumours. My favorites are Oh Well, Pt 1., World in Harmony, Closing My Eyes, One Sunny Day, and Before the Beginning.

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Danny Kirwan in the 1971 documentary Black, White and Blues

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Rain, Steam, and Speed by Joseph Mallord William Turner // "Station Man" by Fleetwood Mac

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• O C T O B E R 1 0 T H •

Happy Fleetwood Mac Day

Here‘s to the best band that ever existed

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Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

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Fleetwood Mac, 1971.