“I’ll probably be playing ‘Albatross’, ‘The Green Manalishi’, ‘Black Magic Woman’ and a lot of the blues tunes.” “They do the first half and I’ll come on in the second half for the Peter Green era and stay on for the rest of the show. “They are such lovely people and it was really great fun, so we decided that I would join them thus year on some dates.” “Well, a mutual friend got me into the International Guitar Festival of Great Britain in Liverpool last year, they approached me and asked if I would make a couple of appearances with them while I was there.”
So, how did he get to be involved with ‘Rumours of Fleetwood Mac’? “It was a very happy time for me and I was instantly more famous than I’d ever been.” I’d just done a year and a half with Bob Seger, so I was pretty much prepared for playing on the big stages.
“People don’t normally get the chance to join a ‘supergroup’.
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“He liked the way I played and when Lindsey left abruptly my friend Billy Burnette was asked to join, but he wasn’t really a lead guitarist so he said he would join if they also included me – and I was named lead-guitarist.”Įven though he was a ‘newbie’, he had creative input on both albums he recorded.Īlan added: “I was a bit late for ‘Tango’, but for the ‘Behind The Mask’ record, we were all writing and they all liked three of my songs which went on the album, plus another couple turned up on ‘The Chain’, the 25th anniversary collection.” “I had met and played with Mick (Fleetwood) a few times and I was a big fan of Fleetwood Mac, especially the early years with Peter Green.” Rick tells me from his American home. Rick was in Fleetwood Mac from 1987, when he replaced Lindsey Buckingham, until 1991 and was a part of the line-up that recorded the albums ‘Tango in the Night’ and ‘Behind The Mask’. “Since than he’s seen us perform and even joined us on stage.”Īnother link with the original band comes with their forthcoming tour when they will be joined on stage at some gigs by ex-Mac guitarist Rick Vito. He’d been a mate ever since I was in The Merseybeats, and he gave us the thumbs up.
It was then that the idea of a tribute band came to Allan, but he needed the blessing of the original band.Īllan continued: “We later recorded a couple of songs off Mac’s album ‘Rumours’ and sent them off to Mick Fleetwood. “When we heard the playback the producer Brian Rawling, who has worked with the likes of Cher and Tina Turner said that we sounded more like Fleetwood Mac and we agreed.” “The five core members of the band, who incidentally are still the core of the band today got together to record an American advert and had to sound like the US band Heart. Amazingly though, the tribute band came about by accident as drummer Allan Cosgrove tells me.Īllan said: “It was never really planned that we be a tribute to Fleetwood Mac, even though we are all fans of their music.
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