A couple weeks ago we were sitting around the house relaxing and I decided to fire up the YouTube app and queue some old live music to play on the big screen. It’s something I’ve always enjoyed, playing DJ, from both my own collection and what can now be so easily found online through the various streaming sources, YouTube and the like. Sometimes it just turns into reminiscing and other times introducing a friend to new-to-them music that I think they will like based on other mutual interests. (Or such as sucking in a non-KISS fan using the brilliantly recorded MTV Unplugged live show).
For whatever reason, we had recently been talking about old TV shows and Don Kirshners Rock Concert came up in the conversation, so I went looking for some archive shows, which thankfully, there are a ton of on YouTube and also available to purchase in collections. While looking for those shows I also came across archives of Burt Sugarman’s, The Midnight Special. Just wow, between those two shows, what a collection of amazing live performances from the 70s and early 80s from across just about every genre of music during that decade or so that both shows aired. I highly recommend checking out the history of both of those shows, some very rare live TV performances.
One of the live performances I found was of “Black Magic Woman” from 1974, by the early Peter Green led Fleetwood Mac. At the time we watched it, I actually thought it was them covering the Santana classic, honestly just not being that familiar with the Fleetwood Mac era prior to the Stevie Nicks/Lindsey Buckhingham/Rumours that started the huge popularity of the band. I was certainly aware of Peter Green the musician and of the earlier generation of the band, but not much of the specifics of his writing and the bands discography.
Bored and can’t find something to listen to? Fire up YouTube and do a search, it will lead you down a rabbit hole for an hour two of queued up music you might not own or have listened to in a long time.