I'm glad it isn't just me who prefers the Chicken Shack version. I remember having to find a compilation with it on. The pre-internet days could be frustrating at times but some much more enjoyable trying to find what you want in a record shop.
I am a big Peter Green fan but cannot recall him ever releasing a version of this. Fleetwood Mac did it on stage but with Christine Perfect/McVie singing and after Peter Green had left. He wasn't in Chicken Shack, which, in my opinion, did the best version of it.
That's the version I have got on my Juke Box, I also bought it as a 45 vinyl. I have a Pete Green CD ( Something like the 'Best Of'...) with the track on which I bought at a cheapo discount shop on Bridlington front a few years back for the ridiculous price of about £3.99
I have no problem with old people. I have no real problem with Rod Stewart, he always choose good songs to cover and usually did a very good job. Some of his own songs were very good as well. I'm sure he put on an excellent concert, I wouldn't have expected anything less. The point I'm making is because of the way the music industry is today Chicken Shack wouldn't stand a chance of being picked up by a record company, neither would Etta James. To be honest I'm a bit disappointed more young people didn't go, or get dragged there by their parents and grandparents. They may have learned something about good music.
Listening to Supernatural makes you wonder where Carlos Santana got his inspiration from. Two of Peter Green's best tracks with John Mayall have been blocked on YouTube, Some Day After A While You'll Be Sorry and the studio version of The Stumble, where he shows his like of Freddie King by playing it like him and note adding too many notes like Jeff Beck and Gary Moore and others did. As B B King said, it isn't the notes but the spaces between that count. Talking of Gary Moore, went off him reading about what supposedly happened with Peter Green's famous Gibson Les Paul.
Must be the best of Fleetwood Mac as Peter Green didn't do that. He left the band in 1970. He might have appeared as a guest, which he did on a couple of occasions before his breakdown and him giving away all his guitars. and done a live version with them later but I haven't come across one. The Chicken Shack version doesn't have him on it. Saw Chicken Shack back in the sixties. Great band live. A lad who goes in my pub, a big folkie and excellent player of acoustic guitar and more obscure instruments, went to see Stan Webb a few years back and somehow ended up in a club jamming with him, an experience he will always remember. Was it the shop on the Promenade opposite Leisure World? He still gets some good, hard to get stuff in there.
When Peter Green had his breakdown he stopped cutting his nails and gave away nearly all his guitars. When, after years, he started playing again most people got in touch and returned them. His famous Gibson Les Paul which Gary Moore had wasn't offered back to him. Whether it was handed to Moore or purchased by him I don't know.It later ended up in a shop in .New York with a price tag of over a million dollars. Green said he wasn't bothered as it was a beat up old thing which was hard to get a tune out of, but you can't help thinking that deep down he would have liked it back.
Don't know where this was held, or when - but saw him in Toronto about 6 or 7 years ago...still touring - as strong as an ox...
Pete Green is on the front of the CD cover which is why I bought it. I think you've got the shop right. Also have a recollection of seeing Chicken Shack in Hull in the very late 60's. Possibly at East Park, maybe Brickhouse or even City Hall. There were a lot of touring bands playing one night stands in Hull and surrounds in those days. Saw Joe Cocker one Sunday night at a coffee bar down Little Queen Street. Could it have been 'The Parlour' ? Opposite the old Hull Daily Mail Building ? Remember coming across the gig by accident and the bloke on the door asked if we had a ticket, which we didn't, but the place was hardly full and he said just put what you can afford in the ashtray doubling up as a till near the door. I think I put a shilling in. No beer on sale either, or they wasn't selling it to us 16 year olds.
It may well have been. I get Gondola mixed up with Gothenberg which was on Prince Street. So yeah, I think you are right it was Gondola. I might have imagined it but someone said Marc Bolan once played there and so did The Human League.
Stan Webb's Chicken Shack appeared in the same gig along with John Mayall's Bluesbrakers at the City Hall a few years back, can't remember how many, and making a guest appearance with Chicken Shack was ex-Rolling Stone Mick Taylor, a fantastic nights entertainment.
So did the Rolling Stones, honouring a contract made before they had a hit record. Not widely publicised, probably to avoid the place being swamped.
surly the gondola was well closed by time human league was founded? i saw the sutherland brothers at spring street theatre in the mid 70s.it was at the sunday folk club and i believe gavin sutherland got married the day before. sutherland brothers later joined up with a band called Quiver,who also seemed to play hull quite a lot. ahhhh happy days!!!!
I'm off to see a great band in the local boozer tonight. If it wasnt for that evil bastard Rod Stewart they'd be top of the bill at Glastonbury. FACT
