GROOVES
GOLDMINE|November 2020
THE LATEST ON MUSIC COLLECTING, MEMORABILIA & NEWS
DAVE THOMPSON
GROOVES

SPIN CYCLE

EVER-GREEN SETS

Although we continue to mourn the recent passing of Peter Green, the gods of synchronicity at least offer us one small consolation, in the form of a lavish, and richly deserved, deluxe edition of his final album with Fleetwood Mac, 1970’s Then Play On (BMG).

It’s spread over four sides of vinyl, doubling its size from the first time around; first by splitting the original 14 track U.K. pressing over three sides (the original U.S. edition dropped two tracks) and then appending both sides of the band’s last couple of singles across side four. Remembering that two of those tracks, “Oh Well” parts one and two, were also added to later pressings of the LP (replacing two more of the original’s contents), it really is the whole thing in one place.

The immediate consequence of such benevolence, however, is to open out the sound way beyond what we are accustomed to.

While a 14-track album offered great bang for the buck (or stomp to the sterling, if we are to be strictly accurate), the sound quality did suffer as all that music was crammed on to one disc. Here, it broadens out, and even if one must make allowances for the digital, as opposed to analog, mastering, this is a lovely sounding disc.

Adding the single “Green Manalishi”/“World in Harmony” also completes the picture of Green and Mac at their absolute peak. In fact, the only complaint can be that these last two songs should have been flipped; “World In Harmony” is not the great conclusion such a magnificent album deserves.

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