Peter Green lifted Fleetwood Mac to a whole new level which they never achieved again. He brought a rare visceral raw spiritual honesty to the band and we should be all feel blessed that he graced the rock n roll world with his stellar talent.
Absolutely! 🙌 I personally think he was the BEST blues guitarist Britain ever produced (yes, I think Peter was a better blues guitarist than Eric Clapton).
BB King said Peter Green was the only one who gave him the cold chills, and that's good enough for me. I'm old enough to remember Fleetwood Mac playing Albatross on Top of the Pops.
@@jeremybennoch4338 No, Peter was not a member of The Yardbirds. The only band that both Eric Clapton and Peter Green played in (at different times though) was John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Eric Clapton joined the Bluesbreakers after he quit The Yardbirds, and when Clapton quit the Bluesbreakers, Peter was his replacement. The iconic Yardbirds guitarist trio was Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page-Peter Green was NEVER in The Yardbirds, nor did he ever play on any of their songs.
THE ORIGINAL FLEETWOD MAC ... AT ITS BEST !!! PETER GREEN Guitar & Vocals DANNY KIRKWAN Guitar JEREMY SPENCER Guitar JOHN McVIE Bass MICK FLEETWOOD Drums ... WHAT A BAND !!!
I saw these guys live in 1969, Houston TX. Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwin. The original FW. Awesome blues band!
Peter Green has passed. My deepest condolences to his family and friends. The first time I heard this it was the Judas Priest cover and I thought it was great. Then I heard Peter Green playing it and the song took on a whole new life. I really love this song and am grateful Peter Green wrote something so ethereal for us to enjoy.
Peter Green will always be my number one source of musical inspiration. What a talent, and what a gift to us. Rest in peace, dear Peter. And thank you.
I'm the exact same. Was my all time favorite Priest song as a teen. Then I head the Fleetwood Mac version, and you know, I thought it was totally different, but equally great!
The raw feel and emotion that Peter Green put into it cannot be duplicated by anyone. This song was crushingly heavy by 60's standards and is still much heavier than the Judas Priest cover. I love Priest's version of this song and they can usually elevate any song they cover to make it better but they failed to do that in this instance. Peter Green cannot be replaced or topped.
This is probably the darkest a rock song has ever got ...glad I´m not alone in sensing this. To most people it´s just some notes with some guy made "crazy " (lol ) by having toured with The Grateful Dead and all that circunstancial bs ...
@@mikemclean676 Those themes ...and given room for deeper interpretations ...also it´s got this dreamlike quality to it which no song ,imho ,has ever ,before or after ,captured, ...a very unique song ,inspired song basically. I´m not 100% sure now if this was the last thing he created for Fleetwood Mac ,but if it was ...what a way to go.
They were both the proper Fleetwood Mac just different. Let’s not forget that both Green and Spenser spaced out and were basically gone. Things run their course and things change… simple as. I was a huge Green Fleetwood Mac fan, saw them live at various pubs back in the day and actually sat next to Green at breakfast at my tour managers apartment in the 80’s. I didn’t recognize him until we were introduced, a shadow of his former self, almost an empty shell. The continuation of the original Mac would have been impossible after those bloody German idiots screwed Green up.
What friggin nonsense you talk. Rumours and the eponymous album are great. Blues bands had had their day by 1974 and Mick et al realised this. The tedious coda here reflects that reality.
@@TrevorBarre hey buddy! You should regulate your tone. Nobody is questioning your opinion but some people think differently. The aggression is a little unnecessary, especially when talking about the music we love. This ain’t football!
My generation that were teenagers in the late 60's, early 70's with having all these great bands and musicians with the calibre of Peter Green. Boy were we the lucky generation. And no ugly technology or CCTV eirher. It was total freedom 🤗🎸🌃
In the space of a couple of years, you got Black Magic Woman, Albatross, Man of the World, Need your love so bad, Oh well 1 and 2 and this. All timeless brilliance, Peter and Danny RIP to both
I wish Peter had never gone to Munich and took that L.S.D. it spoiled a great, great , enormous talented genius who knows what he could have achieved in his career what a tragedy it was for him and all of us fans. R.I.P. THE GREAT PETER GREEN.
Underrated?No way! If BB King writes the foreword in your biography, you are on Mt Olympus, in the Pantheon, up there with all the Becks,Breaus,Pass,Hendrix, etc…..
Three brilliant British blues-rock guitarists unselfishly and seamlessly sharing lead and vocals - no prima donna egos - even from the generous incomparable Peter Green
This is an absolutely stunning song - full of atmosphere and passion, and brilliant playing. The later FM weren’t a patch on this lineup - without Peter Green, how could they be?
I wouldn’t say that . Just a different version with Christine M , Stevie. And Lindsay but still they did some pioneering of their own between the pop hits . Think Tusk with USC Trojan band
Hell yeah, Priest performs it very well too. How do you like Diamonds and Rust by them ? Man, getting old I can see that I started to look like a vampire like them. Body becoming garbage but thanks that soul remaining still young listening to these great guys...
Yes, this version is so much better. Despite the fact that Priest is an actual heavy metal band, this version is so much heavier. The Peter Green era is my favorite era of Fleetwood Mac.
Love ❤️ Peter Greens voice and guitar 🎸 playing it’s everything! I’m 71 and been listening/ playing this all my life and never tire of it. It still Rocks !!
I'm nearly 70, and remember the first time it was played on the radio in my parents home. You'd have thought the devil had made a personal appearance at Sunday dinner. I loved it, but was a solo thing.
@@zeuhltube "Child of Mine" off BareTrees and "Jewel Eyed Judy" off Kiln House. "Station Man" too. They way they put pretty melodies together with powerful guitar was unique, there never was anything else quite like it. And it ages rather well.
I saw them performing this live at the Palais de Beaulieu in Lausanne Switzerland in very early February or March in 1970; to a half empty luxurious hall. The audience had been seated according to the price of our payed entry ticket but upon the realization that most of seats had remained empty because of that fact Peter Green decided to allow the whole crowd to ignore the ‘rules of the house’ and to chooze to sit wherever they wished ; needless to say the whole crowd moved up close to the performing band and in this way communicated their affection and appreciation of the group. Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green gave that night one of the best rendition of “the green Manalishi” ever; I shall never forget!
Better management . Great music in United States. But they were being used by the music industry. Bands played record companies got rich, musicians got checks.. in UK. Bands got famous. Played, made records, got rich. Record companies got checks. All management
Sometimes you hear a guitarist play so emotionally and heart-wrenching you feel like they could completely control you if they wanted to. Peter was one of those guys for me
Greeny as it best!!! I really love Peter Greens songs- They are so unique, and bringing me down immediatly. Maybe its only the sweet tone thing…. For me its magic….. RIP Peter, I miss you.
How have you reached the conclusion that he was under rated! That is so far from the reality which is that he was recognised by his peers as one of the greatest exponents of the blues and rock guitar
When I was a teenager back in the 80s I showed interest in learning to play guitar. The first person who gave me advice was a worker in the local youth club. He happened to be a childhood friend of the great man himself and turned us on to his playing saying that you need look no further for feel technique and tone and he was 100% right. Peter was just starting to get help with his personal issues at the time and stan took a couple of us to meet him. Being so young I didn't fully appreciate the significance or opportunity of the meeting and I remember him playing a little bit but he had a thing about cutting his finger nails and that they were so long it hindered his playing but what really did stay with me was his warm and gentle nature a really lovely soul got the feeling that he felt he wasn't worthy of his own talent but of course I could be way off
Three minutes in and Green gives a master class,his tone brings tears,so much soul.For me he was and still is the greatest British blues player EVER...forget Clapton(although i love his stuff) Peter is the man.
BB King once said, of all the White Blues players, P. Green was the only one that gave him "cold sweats..." Clapton was great, but no-one had such soulful intensity as P.Green. . . and not a single wasted note.
Unfortunately they both went the same way. Tanked in the early seventies because of drugs. Neither of them were ever the same. Danny and Jeremy too actually. It happened to many. Kossoff. More and more names come to me. Don't do drugs.
What I remember from this era is that Fleetwood Mac was Peter Green(the soul), Mick Fleetwood and John McVie(the rhythm) accompanied by Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan on guitars. They were and still are a great band.
Peter Green will always be my number one source of musical inspiration. What a talent, and what a gift to us. Rest in peace, dear Peter. And, thank you.
Only magic , what a special man&musican he was 💚💚💚uncommon in any way and such a humanbeing was destroyed from 😈😱😭 unbelieveable and incomprehensible 🖤
Brilliant song by a brilliant guitar player. This was the beginning of the end for the original and only FM. First Peter, then Jeremy, then Danny all had their issues and left. I believe this was the first group to feature 3 guitarists.
"Greatest Song" is such an individual perspective thing. . .a good friend swore that Robin Trowers' "Bridge of Sighs" was it. Both songs are totally "one of the greatest," but I think that we can agree the Lipps Inc. interpretation of "Funky Town: is the gold standard in song. . . at least between the middle ages through current times. Tongue-in-cheek, but it IS my guilty plerasure ;)
if we're talking guilty pleasures i'll see your funky town and raise you a love shack by the b52s 😁 if we're talking purely pop then abba and stevie wonder both wrote objectively perfect examples of such - according to my old man and i make him right in all seriousness though i would probably throw something like beethoven's sonata 8 pathetique or appassionata in there and on another day id just say pretty much any one of fifty beatles songs could take the cake for me; help, a hard day's night, a day in the life, hey jude, etc etc
@@jackssmirkingrevenge9365 Regarding the B-52's. . . to me the most absurd-yet-irresistible tune they ever composed (as well as the performance) was "Planet Claire." Not a hit, but man oh man. . . check it out if you haven't. Regarding serious rock, I'm one of those Stones guys (in particular Beggers' Banquet through to Exile. . . my fave deep cut: Factory Girl). The "law of diminished returns" regarding the Beatles catalogue set in about 10 yrs. ago (though that's saying something!) Early Beatles: "I'll Cry Instead," later Beatles: "I got a feeling." Thanx for responding ;) Speaking of "I got a feeling," I got a feeling that we're a couple of dinosaurs. . . I pretty much gradually lost interest in the current stuff after grunge (mid-90's)
thanks, youre right planet claire is funky as hell! and being as we're in an unabashed b52s trip, i reckon this is my favourite song of all; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Hl_EEpRfrkk.html and i know what you mean regarding diminishing returns. i think the beatles suffer greatly from their mastery being overplayed and thus losing some of the magic they undeniably had. hence why i stick to the lesser played gems when out and about getting my groove on - the night before, things we said today, rain, polythene pam, dear prudence, yer blues, you cant do that, hey bulldog etc but i still break out the big daddy hits every once in a while actually im 'only' 34, lol. so dont feel too disheartened.. good music is still being appreciated by folks my age and younger! in fact some days i stick on my sixties stuff, blue cheer, velvet underground, stones, etc when i want to hear modern music after getting down to my early twentieth century blues all day - robert johnson, leadbelly, son house, blind willie johnson et al 😊 and by your grunge comment i dont know whether or not you like it or that was the final straw for you, lol. but there is some modern music that still rocks. do me a favour if you have the time? plug some good earphones in and check this link out for me, if you havent heard much by these guys youre in for a treat. enjoy 😊 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fpG8-P_BpcQ.html and if you like that check out their first album; ru-vid.com/group/PL7A6C8DB82556B5DF nice reminiscing with you! take care brother 👍
I don't know about greatest song ever, but greatest guitarist ever is certainly right. Now if only we could clear his head of marijuana, alcohol, and LSD along with the concept of giving up all money and joining a hippie commune there in Sweden where he blacked out and went into complete psychosis just after this performance. Then we could have really found out what a guitar could have been capable of being.
Powerful tube amps, raw lyrics and live, one take, no wonder why Peter made so much money, what an artistic performance, never to be duplicated by current acts on prime time tv ever again, at that time you actually had to be talented to get recognized.
Ironically enough, Peter left the band because the rest of the band refused to give away their money like he was doing. This song (The Green Manalishi) is actually about an LSD-induced nightmare Peter had of a green dog with horns that relentlessly barked at him and attacked him. In his nightmare the dog symbolized the evils of money, and from that time forward, Peter wanted NOTHING to do with any money that seemed more than enough for him to survive on. Ofc a lot of his reasoning for doing some of the odd things that he did (he pulled a gun out on a guy who was trying to deliver a royalty check to him in 1977) were due to delusions and auditory hallucinations that were a part of Schizophrenia (which he was diagnosed with). Excess drug use, stress, and random genetic susceptibility will get you that (“that” as in the development of a lifelong psychotic disorder).
He's the most beautiful man I've ever seen or heard. I wish I could go back in time and stop him going to that house in Munich. We lost the most talented musician the world has ever seen.
Siân Ishmael the munich party didn’t wreck him. he was just mentally ill. danny kirwan, interestingly, was arguably even worse off than green, and yet there’s not much mention of him.
Steve Davis .... The Munich incident didn’t help him or Kirwan. Mick, Jeremy and John all agreed that whatever they took sent them both deeper into loopyville. That entire story of the Munich entities is trippy, their ties to Beider Meinhoff etc. no matter what, Greeny and Kirwan would have been much better off not frying what little grey matter they had left.
You are looking at a recording less than 10 days after the Munich party. Peter walked away from that party fine. He just exposed the rest of the band, and they were scared.
@@richardjohnson7379He said he's “the only living guitarist to make me sweat" and that he had "the sweetest tone I've ever heard.” That's a compliment of his playing.
Hands down my favorite song it’s so deep and it’s brilliant how all the guitars compliment each other and McVie & Mic hold it all together. Light one up close your eyes and just feel it 😎
