The band was brand new, barely a few weeks old at that point. Green had recently left John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, ready to go out on his own. Fleetwood, who had also played with the Bluesbreakers, sat in on a few early sessions with Green's new group and liked what he heard enough to follow him.
“[Spencer] was something to see, a tiny chap, pretty quiet offstage, who became a whirlwind of raw power once he plugged in,” Fleetwood recalled in his autobiography Play On. “Our fledgling band developed a handful of instrumentals anchored by Jeremy’s slide playing and Peter soloing in the Chicago electric-blues style he loved and tossed off effortlessly.”
They shared the bill with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Cream, Jeff Beck, Small Faces and Donovan. Pink Floyd had been scheduled to appear too, but pulled out at the last minute when Syd Barrett couldn't take the stage.
Watching from the side of the stage was McVie, who was still performing with the Bluesbreakers. Fleetwood remembered knowing McVie was there and feeling as though the new band was “auditioning for him.”
“In a tent playing on another stage was a band called Chicken Shack, featuring a singer and pianist named Christine Perfect,” Fleetwood wrote. “Christine would go on to join our band in 1970 after she married John McVie.”
The group continued to go through lineup changes over the next few years. Then, on New Year’s Eve in 1974, Nicks and Buckingham officially joined the band.
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