Fleetwood Mac have a lot in common with Cream. Both Band's lead guitarists were previously in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. In fact Green replaced Clapton. Clapton had played with McVie on The legendary "Bluesbreakers" album. Both bands atarted out as blues outfits, but soon moved to a more psychedelic sound. Both bands were burnt out by the end of the 1960s. The later Fleetwood Mac had nought to do with the original incarnation apart from the name (bass & drums hardly make for a band's core identity!)

The original line up for Fleetwood Mac was:

Peter Green lead guitar vocals
Jeremy Spencer 2nd lead guitar, slide guitar, piano & vocals
Bob Browning bass
Mick Fleetwood Drums

The name was taken from an earlier session that Green had done with Fleetwood & McVie whilst still in The Bluesbreakers. As a 21st birthday present John Mayall gave Peter a free paid for studio session to record anything he wanted. The resulting, mainly instrumental tape had "Green/Fleetwood/Mac scrawelled on the side by a sound engineer. When Green formed his new band Mike Vernon of Blue Horizon christened them Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac after the original instrumental session.

Wouldn't it be great to get that original line up to appear alongside Cream at the RAH!

Yes I'm sure that this was originally a BLUES site - I mean the name Mudcat certainly rings with a bluesy sound to me.

I love all types of music, as I'm sure most catters do.

Ellie