The End of the Game

For other uses, see The End of the Game (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Endgame.

The End of the Game
Studio album by
Peter Green
ReleasedDecember 1970
RecordedMay–June 1970
GenreInstrumental rock, jazz fusion
Length33:17
LabelReprise
ProducerPeter Green
Peter Green chronology
The End of the Game
(1970) 		In the Skies
(1979)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideD[2]

The End of the Game is an album by British blues rock musician Peter Green, who was the founder of Fleetwood Mac and a member from 1967 to 1970. Released in 1970, this was his first solo album, recorded in June of that year, only a month after leaving Fleetwood Mac.

The style of this album is a radical departure from his work with Fleetwood Mac, consisting of edited pieces of a long studio jam. The jam was experimental and free-form, and the six tracks taken from it have very loose or non-existent musical structure, with all the tracks being instrumentals. Apart from Green's two singles from this period, "Heavy Heart" / "No Way Out" and "Beasts Of Burden" / "Uganda Woman" (recorded with Nigel Watson), this album bears little resemblance to any of Green's other recorded work.

The bassist on this album is Alex Dmochowski, otherwise known as "Erroneous", from The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation and Heavy Jelly, who also played bass on the Frank Zappa albums Apostrophe ('), Waka/Jawaka, and The Grand Wazoo.

The album received mostly negative reviews. AllMusic gave it one star out of five, calling it "directionless jamming...[with] no coherent vision...It's drivel, from an immensely talented guitarist."[3] Robert Christgau remarked, "Maybe [Green] has lost his marbles."[4]

  1. ^ "The End of the Game - Peter Green | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: G". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 24 February 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  3. ^ "The End of the Game - Peter Green | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  4. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: G". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 24 February 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)