A good song from early Fleetwood Mac.

And a quote regarding influencing of metal:

While the Mac is revered for its early material such as “Black Magic Woman” and “Rattlesnake Shake” and the glorious instrumental “Albatross,” Spencer points out that the music had already begun to move in strange directions with Peter Green’s acid-soaked 1970 U.K. hit “The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown).”

“I wasn’t keen on the direction we went into with ‘Green Manalishi’ and all that, which led to the birth of heavy metal,” Spencer says. “It’s such a shame that metal sprouted from that stuff. Death-metal bands give credit to Fleetwood Mac today.”

According to science:

Humans likely inherited their ability to laugh from apes, British researchers studying primate evolution said.

Laughter follows an evolutionary trail that could date back as far as 16 million years, said Marina Davila Ross, who led the study at the University of Portsmouth.

Laughter likely began as the “grunt-like” noises heard when gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans are tickled and evolved into the higher-pitched laughter heard in humans, Ross’ team reported in the journal of Current Biology.

Read the rest here.

I had always wanted to see what these guys sounded like. Then I remembered that YouTube existed. I wasn’t disappointed by them on my first listen, by any means.

I’m not sure why I like this video so much. It’s just really good.

I’m not really trying to rip on these guys, cause I like all kinds of different metal and these guys are pretty good. But man, I bet they’re into Dungeons & Dragons.