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Originally Posted by SteveMacD
It's Mick. John Mayall gave Peter Green studio time as a gift, and Green recorded five tracks with McVie and Fleetwood. He called the last track "Fleetwood Mac" in honor of the rhythm section, and actually wrote the song's title on the canister the tape was kept in. (Why would he have called a song that featured Aynsley Dunbar "FLEETWOOD Mac?" That wouldn't make sense.)
Later, when he hooked back up with Mick to form a band, they used the name Fleetwood Mac as a way to con McVie into quitting the Bluesbreakers to join their band. It didn't work, of course. What's especially funny is that they played the song (most likely with McVie in the audience) during their first gig, probably trying to coax him further still. Thank God Mayall decided to add a horn section, or McVie might never have left Mayall.
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Yeah, I know this story well. But I'd also read Mike Vernon's rubbuttal of it somewhere. I'd like to think you're right, otherwise the "genesis" FM woould be somewhat of a fiction!