What is best early Fleetwood Mac stuff?

The Peter Green blues years.

Fleetwood Mac - Preaching The Blues

"Black Magic Woman"

Oh Well

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Oh Well

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Part 2

I used to think it was the theme to a Western movie

The Green Manalishi

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It was few and far between before Lindsey got there.

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That initial Fleetwood Mac lineup was the only band capable of charting a number one, thus ending a near five year top of the charts hegemony by the Beatles. I'm talking about the UK.

They, and especially Green, were a VERY big deal.

Shame what happened to Green, he's a shell of his former self. Many said we'd today be talking about him and Hendrix incessantly. I believe there's a few documentaries that talk about the incident (one, Green's autobiography, and another, a Fleetwood Mac bio with McVie and Fleetwood).

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Shame what happened to Green, he's a shell of his former self

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He had a lesser Syd Barrett type breakdown, didn't he? Seems like he went over the edge and was replaced.

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He had a lesser Syd Barrett type breakdown, didn't he? Seems like he went over the edge and was replaced.

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Two very elegant, odd, dodgy and satanic Germans in Munich, collected him at the airport and whisked him off to their Bavarian castle. He wasn't expecting them, didn't know them.

He was slipped some really hard, experimental hallucinatory drug, under the guise of it being LSD (according to McVie and Fleetwood, as this attempt to identify the drug and how it may have been identified seemed to be posterior information. It's also fair to mention that it seems Green never messed with LSD, nor had the intention to..... though I believe he later became a tremendous LSD consumer).

It was like he had a lobotomy. McVie and Fleetwood talk about how they had to put him in the car like a catatonic baby, and he was a zombie for weeks. Literally, a zombie.

I saw him in a documentary, and he's like a peaceful village simpleton now.

Very sad.

Just googled, and found this from a fan:

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"While touring Europe in late March 1970, Green binged on LSD at a party at a commune in Munich—an incident cited by Fleetwood Mac manager Clifford Davis as the crucial point in his mental decline. Communard Rainer Langhans mentions in his autobiography that he and Uschi Obermaier met Green in Munich, where they invited him to their Highfisch-Kommune. Their real intention was to persuade Green to help arrange for Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones to perform as headline acts at a Woodstock styled festival, in Bavaria. Fleetwood Mac roadie Dinky Dawson remembers that Green went to the party with another roadie, Dennis Keane, and that when Keane returned to the band's hotel to explain that Green would not leave the commune, Keane, Dawson and Mick Fleetwood travelled to the commune to fetch Green."

what I have heard from other sources (I think in the BBC Green doc) was that Green did not "binge" but was instead intentionally given an extremely heavy dose by the "cult-like" commune members so they could let their tapes roll and get a personal thrill from seeing a great musician pushed to the limit.

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Isn't Peter Green a diagnosed schizophrenic?

I personally have a hard time believing drugs gave him schizophrenia, but I get the appeal of that narrative.

Green was decent and Kirwin was also pretty good, but they didn't really evolve until Buckingham joined. He also produced records like nobody else was capable.

They were a pseudo blues/rock band, which is fine, but if you watch Buckingham closely, he doesn't have too many peers.