Like It This Way

[Melack]

I really love the song "Like It This Way"

Just wonder if anyone have any cool info about this song.

Well any info at all really.

When was it recorded? Was it ever considered for an album and which?

This should have been an album track i think, it's just that good.

[doodyhead]

it was released on "Blues Jam In Chicago"

that is an official release


doodyhead

[dansven]

Ooh, I just luuuuv it when they push it from minor to major on a couple of verses during the Kirwan/Green solos ... on some live occasions, Boston Tea Party for example.

[slipkid]

I'm guessing the Chess sessions is where the rest of the band heard this tune for the first time. Peter Green's response doesn't mimic very well to Kirwan's call. I think when the band recorded an early version of "Man of the World" in New York a week or two later they re-recorded "Like It This Way". That version can be found on "Jumping At Shadows...The Blues Years", or "The Vaudeville Years". By then the song is polished.

I think of all those songs that went wasted because Peter Green left the band: 'Sandy Mary' (Green), 'World in Harmony', 'Loving Kind', 'Like it This Way' (done properly), 'Only You'. None of these songs made it to a proper album. Then there's "One Sided Love" which was never recorded in the studio. Danny Kirwan was a well of ideas, that's for sure. You combine the above with Kirwan's songs from "Kiln House", and you have a very strong album. I'd even throw in Hi-Ho Silver, and This is the Rock.

[zoork_1]

Originally Posted by slipkid

I'm guessing the Chess sessions is where the rest of the band heard this tune for the first time...[...]

I've got a recollection of it played at Falconer Centret 1968-11-17. Anyone heard it performed earlier than that?

/z

[BklynBlue]

I actually think that the date for the Falkoner Center is incorrect - I think the show was probably taped during their third Nordic trek - in April / May of 1969
Hjort pulls quotes from a number of contemporary local papers in Denmark which made a point of detailing that Taste stole the show that night in November of 1968, and if the recording attributed to that night was an example of how they played, it would be hard to imagine Gallagher’s power trio not winning the night. The recording finds Fleetwood Mac playing well but not sounding particularly inspired. During the seemingly endless tune-up at the start of the show, (the show was repeatedly brought to a grinding halt as the band retuned during this particular set) Green tells the audience, “…this is going to be a very casual evening, we’re going to do what we like and you do what you like…” before opening the show with Bennett’s ‘Jumping at Shadows’, hardly what one would expect from the headliners after a high energy performance by a band on the undercard. Green might not have ever wanted to be a "guitar God" but he had enough professional pride to not allow himself to be upstaged that easily.
Further undercutting the probability of these numbers having been recorded on the night in question, is the fact that it is obviously a non-English speaking M.C. who brings the band on, introducing them as “The Peter Green” (as the band is tuning, Green also uses the time to introduce each of the members of “Fleetwood Mac” individually). Mike Vernon, had joined them on for these dates to act as the compre for the shows, and he can be clearly heard making the introductions at the show recorded in Orebro on 11 / 23 / 68.

[aleuzzi]

I can't help but think this awesome song and performance were inspired by the tempo and call-response guitar-horn bits on Rollin' Man.

Anyone else think so?