Fact #159471
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Short story:
Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac plays a benefit concert for local musicians in Accra, Ghana, Africa, at the start of recording sessions for his solo album The Visitor.
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Mick Fleetwood : I did this just for me. A lot of what I do is for Fleetwood Mac, so I suppose I indulged myself. Rattlesnake Shake is an old Peter Green song about my ample habits as a young masturbatory male. I'd leap out of the van, they'd turn the lights on me and I'd mimic the art of wanking.
I redid it in Ghana with a fantastic drum ensemble. I took a mobile studio to Ghana at great expense, because I knew I'd find great drummers there. The eldest guy was just fourteen and the master drummer was seven years old, and it absolutely blew my mind.
I took it back to England, put the London Philharmonic on at the end, and I even got Peter to add a little bit of guitar at the very end. It's that same old magic, one note reverb sound just put in the right place and, of course, he sang it.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, 1995)
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I redid it in Ghana with a fantastic drum ensemble. I took a mobile studio to Ghana at great expense, because I knew I'd find great drummers there. The eldest guy was just fourteen and the master drummer was seven years old, and it absolutely blew my mind.
I took it back to England, put the London Philharmonic on at the end, and I even got Peter to add a little bit of guitar at the very end. It's that same old magic, one note reverb sound just put in the right place and, of course, he sang it.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, 1995)