I must say this song is fantastic...  I love every phase of Fleetwood Mac...

This song be berry berry good...

I like the santana version, but this is also not bad!

love it...

This song is soooo good for the ears...

 mandolin wrote: 

Tragic.  I wonder if he and Syd Barrett went off on the same trip.

 Limpopoking wrote: 

I hear you Limpo! I have to coorect myself, it was late 70's not 80's. Actually, "In The Skies" came out in 1979. And you are right, we are not worthy! 

My favorite years for Fleetwood Mac are those with Peter Green. The later stuff is ok, big in my high school years, but not as edgy as this material.

 pdjpirate wrote: 

Way back when, before all the West Coast pop garbage, there was a Fleetwood Mac album, called Black Magic Woman, if memory serves correctly, that was all blues, and far better than what they ended up as.

If you like the guitar work here, you need to pick up a copy of "In the Skies" by Peter Green from 1979. Not sure if was one of his last before going completely off the deep end. But it is a fantastic hauntingly brilliant album. Green's guitar work was unique, kind of sound that would send a chill up your spine.

 alfer wrote: 
Huh?  this SMOKES Santana's cover.  Turns out Carlos stole a lot of his sound from Peter Green, who he freely admits to idolizing.

Fleetwood Mac did a whole bunch of VERY cool stuff before they got famous, thanks to two genius schizophrenic guitarists, Peter Green and Danny Kirwan.  It's worth checking out.  Peter Green was on the same talent level as Clapton, Page, Beck, and yes, Santana.  Unfortunately, his mental illness cut his career short.

Love it...

we all love the mainstream magic of "Rumours", when the addition of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks catapulted the MAC to pop/rock stardom up somewhere in the stratosphere...........but.....nothing compares to the early classic moments of Fleetwood Mac under the inspirational genius of Peter Green and Robert Welch.........check out classics like "Hypnotized", "Emerald Eyes", and "Sentimental Lady"....no one makes music like these tunes anymore.....or even back then.....these classics stand alone, frozen in time

Peter Green wrote it, Carlos made a hit out of it, early Fleetwood Mac was fantastic band love both versions

Hey, isn't this that tune that Santana totally threw in the dumper?

 RedGuitar wrote: 
Back in the day, WABX (Detroit) simulcast the FM stereo portion of a TV studio "concert" these guys did on channel 50. Pretty revolutionary stuff back then and, yes, it was amazing to watch Peter, Jeremy and Danny trading licks! This wasn't your big sister's "Ed Sullivan Show", "American Bandstand", "Shindig", or "Hullabaloo".

(Bear in mind this was easily 15 years before VHS tapes, never mind DVDs.)

This is one of the cases that the cover is better than the original, and when Bill puts it right after another Santana song, I just can't help remembering this.

Way better than the Santana version.

 Danny_G wrote: 
you shouldn't compare them

No está mal pero la versión de Santana es mejor, más sabor

...i can never get enough of peter green's fleetwood mac - sad, really, that...

 Stefen wrote: 

Perhaps he re-claimed it.

Ah, the original.
This needs more airplay, not bashing santana but his cover has been played to death.

Stefen wrote:
you know it

Carlos Santana definitely added zip to this.

Never heard this song before (besides the Santana version), but I like it.

Also, I like the transition from the previous Santana song to this.