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The Best Of Peter Green!
12:38 PM GMT 07/10/2008
IN THIS MONTH’S MOJO magazine, guitar legend Peter Green delves to the bottom of the crisis that undid the original line-up of Fleetwood Mac, after four top-20 albums and a Number 1 single (Albatross, of course) between 1967 and 1970.
He tells MOJO’s Phil Sutcliffe of the dream that spelt the end of the band: “In the dream I woke up and couldn’t move… I had a fear, a general fear come over me. The next day I went to Richmond Park and wrote a song about it. The Green Manalishi [With The Two-Prong Crown]…”
A volatile cocktail of LSD, guilt and doubt that he had the right to play the music of America’s dispossessed blacks had done its worst, and there followed 30 years in and out of psychiatric institutions, interspersed with sporadic professional revivals.
But Green’s work with Fleetwood Mac, and earlier, with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, remains a benchmark in guitar rock music, with Green’s soft, sad sound a unique voice amid the fury and volume of late-’60s blues-rock. We’ve compiled some of his best bits below…
1. Homework (live in France, 1968)
The triple-threat Peter Green/Danny Kirwan/Jeremy Spencer guitar line-up whip up some Gallic frugging. Formidable!
2. Man Of The World
The sad, swoonsome gorgeousness of Green’s greatest pop song.
3. Need Your Love So Bad
As if to expose how gauche and overplayed UK blues guitar had become by 1969, here’s Green’s walking-on-eggshells paean to the Little Willie John tune.
4. Oh Well
How exciting is this?
5. Albatross
Not the best audio, but the best visual we could find on Youtube. Bathe in Green’s beatific glow!
6. Rattlesnake Shake
From Playboy After Dark. Pseudo-sophisticate Hugh Hefner interrupts his own blather re: the architectural concepts of Buckminster Fuller to introduce the Mac smoke PG’s blues original. Cue typically wild Playboy After Dark go-go “action”.
7. World Keep On Turning
Kirwan breaks a string, obliging Green to take the solo spotlight with this exquisite blues impromptu from the Mac’s debut album.
8. Heavy Heart
The spooky genius of Green’s post-Fleetwood Mac project. The sound of a man unravelling?
Compiled by: Danny Eccleston
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 12:38 PM GMT 07/10/2008
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Peter Green remains the most emotional Guitarist to ever walk the earth! Green say more with 1 or 2 notes then other people say in there entire career.
Posted by ReV RuSSeLL NYC at 6:34 AM GMT 08/10/2008 Report Abuse
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Fatastic!
Posted by ReV RuSSeLL NYC at 6:35 AM GMT 08/10/2008 Report Abuse
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Anyone know why the spooked Reprise stuff like Heavy Heart (kewl clip!) don't appear to be on the new comp?
Legal problems or summat??
Posted by Scott Hardy at 10:40 AM GMT 08/10/2008 Report Abuse
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RE: ReV RuSSeLL NYC
eter Green is in my eyes the best ever guitarist , while others could be better technically he mastered the art of less is more , not to mention the honnesty and truthfullness of his feelings
any news on him nowadays after Splinter Group?
Posted by karim Raydan at 2:41 PM GMT 05/12/2008 Report Abuse
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I sooooo miss that version of Homework on youtube.
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RE: karim Raydan
B.B. King thought he had 'the touch' too
Posted by Anonymous at 10:14 AM GMT 06/04/2009 Report Abuse
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really great music what revelation it is !
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