Fleetwood Mac Guitarist Danny Kirwan Dead at 68Danny Kirwan joined Fleetwood Mac in their early days as a great blues group, for part of their
English Rose album (a U.S. hybrid of two British albums,
The Pious Bird of Good Omen and
Mr. Wonderful; he became founder/leader Peter Green's best guitar teammate when Jeremy Spencer---he of the incessant Elmore James cloning and insipid old-time rock and roll parodies (including his rather disgusting habit of hanging water-filled condoms from his guitar's tuners during live performances of those parodies)---decided he didn't want to play on Green's material. Kirwan was eventually sacked from the group (Green and Spencer were long gone by then, and they were becoming a
very different band) over his alcoholism after the
Bare Trees album and, after making four albums on his own, all but disappeared, being reported homeless at various times in his life.
RIP . . .
Fleetwood Mac, "Like It This Way" (written and sung by Danny Kirwan with slick call-and-response jamming between himself and Peter Green)
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