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I discovered that Fleetwood Mac album with the dustbin picture on the cover when I was about 14 about five or six years after it was released. Pure blues with lots of covers of old blues artists and plenty of lead and slide guitar. A real eye opener or should I say an ear opener.
I much prefer their stuff without any strings. Edgier, rawer sound.
The best British blues player. Met him a few times, mostly at the Nags Head in Battersea where he famously gave away one of his Les Paul Gold Top guitars. RIP Peter.
Sad news. Great guitarist. Sadly I saw him in Dublin many years ago and he just didn't function as a musician on the night. Looked very troubled and didn't want to be there. If only I saw an untroubled Peter Green. Played in Fleetwood Mac when they were a credible band unlike the bland rubbish they became after he quit. RIP
I used to get guitar lessons from a guy called Nigel, who I knew from the pub. He was Irish and moved to London sometime in the 60s.
First guitar lesson I had was an hour long . Instead of going through the basics of playing guitar all he did was tell me about Peter Green. To be honest I already knew the guitar basics anyway.
Most of what he told me went in one ear and out of the other.
To summarise Peter Green was a bit of a cnt who fell out with almost everyone around him...... but
Yeh sad news. Connection with my family as my uncle was good mates with him back in the day and was in the same bands (before fleetwood mac). Peter Green actually quoted my uncle as the guy that influenced him in a radio interview. My dad has the recording of it still . Unfortunately my uncle sadly passed just before the interview so never got to hear it. Used to see him around Richmond. LSD sent him over the edge sadly but good to see he made a bit of a come back in his later years albeit a shadow of his former self. A guitarist legend. RIP Peter Green
Agree. Up there with Gallagher, Clapton and Hendrix for me - there's even a touch of the BB King about him. Rock guitar as its best - no self-indulgent histrionics aka Page and Slash et.al, just sounds from the soul. Fabulous.
Peter Green was the reason I wanted to play guitar and get a Les Paul ! The pain in his voice and his phrasing on solos was unique "Love That burns" still gives me the chills another hero gone :(
A documentary about him made in 2009 is on BBC 4 tonight from 9.30.
Liked this piece about it in the Radio Times: "Guitar legend Carlos Santana and guitar holder Noel Gallagher are on hand here to assess Green’s legacy."
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