Music Info/Trivia

[jfkbengals]

(10-23-2021, 11:15 AM)BengalsRocker Wrote: The topic of this thread spawns from recent info I discovered about a certain song.  

While researching the blues standard song "All Your Love(I Miss Loving)" which was covered by Blues/Rock legend Gary Moore I found that the song was originally written by Otis Rush.  This song's feel and tempo was the inspiration for other future music.  One most notably is "Black Magic Woman".  Most of us know this as a Santana classic sung by Gregg Rolie who would later form Journey with his bandmate Neal Schon.  Probably the most iconic songs of Carlos Santana's repertoire and until his modern Rob Thomas & pop star collabs the most widely known.  What I didn't realize... is this is actually a cover itself.  The original was written by Peter Green who was then the lead vocalist/guitarist of Fleetwood Mac.  So here I go down the Fleetwood Mac wormhole now.  LOL  Now I find that Mick Fleetwood was looking for a replacement guitarist/singer when he discovered Lindsey Buckingham playing in a folk duo.  Mick really wanted Buckingham in his band, but Lindsey insisted that his duo partner Stevie Nicks be included.  Christine McVie was only a session keyboard player for Fleetwood Mac and was in a relationship with their bassist that she married.  The band not only completely changed their sound but their look as well that lead to hits and Grammy success.

I find this kind of stuff extremely fascinating and thought other board members might want to share findings and generate more discussion on music history/trivia/info/whatever.

I'm sure there is a music trivia thread but I thought it was interesting the process in which it leads to the knowledge as well.

Please share what ya got!

I knew all of the bolded.  I've always like Fleetwood Mac, but there is something special about the Peter Green stuff.  Oh Well was absolutely brillinat, and his experimental blues sounds have influenced many other groups.  His song Green Manalishi, for example, has been covered by Judas Priest and Corrosion of Conformity.