The final Boston Tea Party volume...

This one - although not as strong jamming wise as the previous two volumes - is just as strong.

Featuring some steaming blues from Peter Green on tracks Jumpin' At Shadows and If You Let Me Love You, this set is sure to please.

Other outstanding tracks on here include an instrumental Coming Your Way, Sandy Mary, Great Balls of Fire, and On We Jam.

But again, the whole thing is excellent!!

It does sound though that the archivers were grabbing at the "leftovers" on this one, for a couple of tracks, most notably If You Let Me Love You, sounds like it was taken from an audience source (though I'm sure it is the best quality possible) and also the lacking of more stronger jams like on the first two volumes) - Coming Your Way fades out right when they really start to cook.

Other than that, it still is a truly great CD to listen to.

Eclectic Electric Blues/Rock

The band that refused to be labled, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac shows off some of its eclectic nature in this final volume of the legendary 1970 Boston concerts. The great Peter Green's guitar work was better featured on the first two volumes of this series. But, Greenie still shows the intense tenderness his playing was always imbued with on Jumping At Shadows and If You Let Me Love You. Green was THE best blues guitarist because of his feel. His guitar playing was spare and beautifully vocal. He could reach depths of emotion and express it with an incredible, soaring openness. The live performances in all three of these volumes are among the finest examples of this virtuoso's work.

One of my favorite tracks is Coming Your Way with Green and Danny Kirwan trading guitar licks and pushing each other over an intense Afro/Surf beat. Way ahead of its time!

Most of the remainder of this volume features the sweet yet strong slide guitar work of Mac's third guitar wiz, Jeremy Spencer. Spencer's joy was to cover Elmore Jmaes and Otis Rush along with almost anything from the 50's.

The band won over its audiences with a bizarre mixture of the best British Blues around, the most focused and inventive jamming of the time AND a rock and roll show to boot! Imagine the best British blues guitarist at his zenith shifting from sensitive blues to proto heavy metal to Afro/Latin grooves to Little Richard and ending with Twist and Shout! That's what you'll get on this cd.

But, get the other two FIRST!

Just Buy This Album

This is jamming blues based rock at its best. Well before Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks interjected their pop influence on Fleetwood Mac, it was "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac", a group of five enormously talented musicians who rivaled any of the blues-based British rock bands of the late 60's.

Starting off with the classic "Black Magic Woman," written and sung by Peter Green, the band goes bluesy with "Jumpin' At Shadows," then rocks out with a couple of Danny Kirwan songs. The three guitar line-up of Green, Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer on slide guitar adds a wall of sound that just resonates.

When the 24 minute "Rattlesnake Shake" starts out so true to its studio version, you wonder how they'll fill all the time. Don't worry. Included in the jam are "Searching/Fighting for Madge" and "Underway" off the classic "Then Play On" album. This is jamming the way you wish Cream would have done it: playing off and with each other rather than against each other.

The CD is capped with "Green Manalishi", a cult classic that Green must have visited the devil to write. Listen to the prolonged jam and see if you also don't think Freddie Mercury and Brian May lifted it to write "Another One Bites the Dust."

Fleetwood Mac had established itself as a "pure" rock blues band that could switch over to great mainstream stuff as needed. Critically and commercially coming into their own in the early 70's, Peter Green--who had been labeled a "Blues God" to offset Clapton's "God"--suddenly left the band. The rest is history. Enter the pop-rock success of latter day Fleetwood Mac.

If you want to hear brilliant musicians playing blues-based rock 'n roll at its best in the finest setting--live--buy this album.