This came up on a playlist today. I could be wrong, but I think this song is a masterpiece . . . leads, licks, rhythm, tone.
Future Games ~ Fleetwood Mac
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SnidelyWhiplash
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Love that era of FM. No Green, Buckingham or Nicks. Danny Kirwin is an unsung member. Great player, songwriter & vox. 
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I think of Danny Kirwin...Love that era of FM. No Green, Buckingham or Nicks. Danny Kirwin is a unsung member. Great player, songwriter & vox.
( and I was very 'late to the party' with early or 'mid' Fleetwood Mac- but caught up!)
...as being a creative guitar/songwriting genius, who kind of reminds me of Jimmy Page-at least I hear parallels!
At the start, he is this young kid, who IMO, played blues guitar as good as Peter Green- his tone/phrasing and vibrato could slice your head off. I think Peter heard it, and loved it!
Then, with Then Play On and forward>
he starts going into completely different directions, with all kinds of guitar sounds, effects, layering...Songwriting:
" Coming Your Way", "Station Man" ( practically Little Feat!) , "My Dream", "Bare Trees" ( with of course Bob Welch), Future Game
Danny was something else!
SnidelyWhiplash
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I kinda wish DK had stayed with FM. But of course, the modern incarnation of FM might not have come to pass. His life afterwards was a long, slow spiral into anonymity & sadness. 
R.I.P.
R.I.P.
LindaCas81
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I haven't dug too far into early mid-ish Fleetwood Mac, but I feel like I really *need* to...
I was exactly the same...
( I had actually heard some of the really early live blues they played, and say " Rattlesnake Shake" and "Oh Well)
...when about 5-6 years ago, a guitar buddy of mine gave me a cool birthday gift of a ( cheap) 5-CD bundle:
Then Play On
Kiln House
Future Games
Bare Trees
Mystery to Me.
This was eye opening, as Fleetwood Mac is charging/morphing on every album as there are personnel changes...
I don't like all of it but feel it was essential listening. Very creative band!
They made so much music BEFORE Buckingham/Nicks, with Mick Fleetwood, John, and Christine McVie ( she played keyboards on some early stuff, uncredited) being the constants.
mr natural
Friend of Leo's
I do love “Middle Mac” the most. They were all over the map stylistically at first. You could hear them evolve and figure out what their thing was over that run of albums. I think Christie was the one who held it all together through all the turmoil. She really is the unsung hero of that band.
Geo
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Future Games is a long time favorite here.
bowman
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I knew, and loved, a few of the early Mac songs, but the first complete albums I got into were the mid-period Mac records, with Welch and Kirwan on guitars. To me, Kirwan was really the bridge between eras. Of course Christine was always there as a writer and singer, and a really good one, but she always wrote mostly pretty love songs. (Again-really good ones) Danny adapted from playing scorching blues rock in FM1 to writing, singing, and playing very melodic songs in FM2. I don’t think they would have made it to FM2 without him.
flowerpunk
Tele-Meister
Bare Trees is one of my favorite albums. It was after that I lost interest in them. Love the early Peter Green era.
Back in the day, we played several songs from "Rumors", but it is not an album I care to have on my playlist.
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SnidelyWhiplash
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BT is an album that i passed on many times when i collected vinyl. Many copies
went by without realizing the sheer beauty of it's content. When i finally decided
i wanted it, it took quite a while to find it. I love the outro Thoughts On A Grey
Day by Mrs. Scarrott. Sad that that wonderful lady is no longer with us, but her
words were captured for posterity on a " rock " album, no less...
