Gestation difficult for the publication of this post ... Lacking in youtube a video of the time when Fleetwood Mac released Penguin (Spring 1973), I decided to create a program using the Pinnacle. I matched images retrieved from the network and two songs in mp3 to allow my readers to hear the kind of music that the group filed at the time. I got the video uploaded on youtube in HD High Definition. After several hours of processing the result was that I could see images in a good quality, but I could not have the sound "thanks" to the veto of the WMA that I inhibited the use of licensed songs. I tried to redo the procedure, but nothing has changed. So I decided to upload, the system made available by Blogger, from my computer, the video I had done to transform and save with Real Player. The result of the conversion, unfortunately, has given a satisfactory outcome is not just about video quality, but at least allowed me to post it on my blog with audio. So I decided to keep the two movies. Starting at the same time making them, you can hear the first audio track and still see the video in low resolution, while with the second, on youtube we can taste the difference in image quality (and we realize now ... even if the photographs are of poor quality in origin) but the audio is prohibited.
This tape I bought from my ex-colleague Ferretti, I mentioned how he had worked at the studio of a small publishing house Ducale Brebbia (VA), along with seven other titles, back in 1974 when I was at the beginning of the collection of my tape library. I declare here my complete ignorance of that time as to who were the Fleetwood Mac I was still bound to listen to "light" radio and my only musical instrument at the time of update was based, and trusted reading "Smiles and Songs TV" ... so my lack of knowledge of the whole musical world was conceivable extra Sanremo ...
I think this tape after a couple of steps in my tape player, has been squeezed out soon. I was not prepared for the type of music you could listen to. And to think that it's not so difficult to assimilate! The sounds that came, however, were strangers to me, strange and unknown then. I was not enticed to listen again. Besides, at that time used every opportunity to enjoy Baglioni, Jesus Christ Superstar and Tubular Bells, which bought my first tapes. So Penguin did not have the right space to be heard and appreciated. Poorly the tape was made ahead of time to rest and was not even offered to play for his friends. If you did not like me .... It 's been almost a virgin, untapped. Played back even more because, over the years, the new technology of the CD I had ordered the filing of all the boxes. Therefore I do not even linked to her memories of life.
I resurrected for this occasion, to take pictures to be included in the blog.
And I must say that I'm enjoying some of the compositions, especially those sung by Christine McVie, and I was impressed by the instrumental, which I also mentioned in the video, Caught in the Rain by Bob Weston.
me back to mind the atmosphere in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid Bob Dylan, with those touches of guitar and choir in the background. Ideal for a soundtrack to documentary film.
At that time, music critics considered it a bad job. He did not lose the abandonment of primitive roots with Peter Green, a founder with Mike Fleetwood and John McVie, gave life and vigor to the movement of British blues. The ups and downs, and above all personal, group at that time gave rise to several lineup changes, of course, involved changes of musical direction. I will not be here to tell the story of the group because it would take me away and not in the spirit of my post. I remember some rather more personal memoir about the discovery of Fleetwood Mac, next to my first meeting with the group. After
enriched my collection with more than 400 boxes, I was starting to documents for a possible purchase of a turntable and then pass the collection of vinyl. To do this, monthly, bought two magazines at the time, as the gospel for every audiophile who considered such. Sound and its sister Stereoplay.
already helped me to improve my musical culture with Hello 2001, New Sound, but the two aforementioned journals, as well as trained in the field of hi fi, were a tremendous source of information "different" for the extension of my knowledge. Especially with the pages of Sound Music Box which, incidentally, were prepared by the group of future founders of The Wild Bunch, offered some especially fine articles on the American scene. It was from those pages that I knew the story of the Byrds and I was infatuated (Jailbird was Raffaele Galli ...), was a full-page photos of Stevie Nicks that I fall for that wonderful "Gypsy" Fancy listening to it. When I could finally hear the incredible voice with the band Fleetwood Mac in the newly formed "American", he became an enthusiastic fan of his.
discs that I was brought closer to the new Fleetwood Mac Rumours and Tusk were, and Belladonna was the first solo album Stevie Nicks on which was engraved a beautiful duet with Don Henley, "Leather and Lace", which was for a long time, but still ... one of my favorite songs ever. At that time I had Eagles and Fleetwood Mac in the top of the list of groups that I loved to listen more.
back to Penguin, I can say that putting it in the CD player, nowadays, has become almost a habit. Having discovered, I stop to those compositions that pleases me most. So listening to the voice of Christine McVie in Remember Me, and Dissatisfied Did you ever love me (compositions) I find it fascinating and not monotonous like maybe I had seemed at first hearing of many years ago. And the "country" by The derelict tells me that even then were very close to certain American atmosphere that will make their future with the training he got the resounding success in the late seventies. And even the instrumental mentioned Caught in the rain is coming overwhelmingly from the songs in my mind at every turn.
Finally place a photo of the components that were part of the group in that period 1973-1974.
are, from top to bottom and from left to right.
Mick Fleetwood (always part of the group), Dave Walker
below and Bob Welch Bob Weston and sitting
spouses Christine and John McVie. There is also
un cane... , ma sarebbe offensivo dire che fa parte della band...