Fleetwood Mac - Cue Club, Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-2-1969

I've delved very deeply into early Fleetwood Mac, posting 36 albums of their music from 1967 to 1971, so I don't know how I missed this one until now. This is peak Peter Green-era, with fantastic sound quality.

(A couple of years ago, I actually put one song "Gothenberg Improv" (which is just a guess at a title) from this exact concert on the album "Live and Rare, Volume 2," and yet I missed the whole concert somehow. Maybe I got that from some compilation and failed to find the rest of it, until a few days ago.)

This is a complete concert that either is a soundboard or was broadcast on Swedish radio at the time. Either way, the sound quality is as good as it gets for the era. Better still, the band was firing on all cylinders. Peter Green, the band's main singer, songwriter, and lead guitarist at the time, was at the height of his creative powers. (He would have increasing troubles in early 1970 and leave the band in the middle of that year.) At the time, the band had another lead guitarist, Danny Kirwan, and their guitar interplay was peaking here as well.

The band had released the hit album "Then Play On" a couple of months earlier, as well as the hit song "Oh Well, Part 1." But this concert also includes the hit song "The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)," which wouldn't be released until May 1970. It's possible this was the first time it was performed in concert. (Setlist.fm lists the first performance later in November, but it sometimes is incomplete.)

There was only one problem with this concert, and that has to do with the last song, "The Green Manalishi." The entire first three minutes were missing. The recording began right as the vocals part of the song ended, and a long instrumental jam began. I used another version (from the Warehouse in New Orleans in January 1970) for those three minutes. The last minute or so was missing as well. I used the same source to fix that also. So that's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title.

This album is an hour and 21 minutes long. 

01 Rattlesnake Shake (Fleetwood Mac)
02 Underway [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
03 World in Harmony [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Red Hot Mama (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Got to Move (Fleetwood Mac)
06 Gothenburg Improv [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
07 Coming Your Way (Fleetwood Mac)
08 Stranger Blues (Fleetwood Mac)
09 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
10 Albatross [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
11 Oh Well, Part 1 (Fleetwood Mac)
12 The Green Manalishi [With the Two-Prong Crown] [Edit] (Fleetwood Mac) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/jqYAECRo

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NXXZ9uK3jSWqeVZ/file

The cover photo of Peter Green is from an appearance on the "Top of the Pops" BBC TV show (not to be confused with the radio show of the same name) at Lime Grove Studios, in London, on October 23, 1969. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.