In 2008 I was living in a tipi up a mountain in Spain when Peter was staying with a friend for a week. He had no bass player and I was asked if I would do it. How that happened I still don't understand but I played with him in a private house all day for a week. I was 58 and he had been my hero since I first heard him in 1967. I have a photo of him having breakfast with me, shirt off in the morning sun discussing art. A beautiful, gentle man. A treasured memory of a miraculous meeting with a most loveable and humble man. .
That was a blessing I was blessed to see my nephew play drums with Link Ray on Conon O'Brien they played Rumble it was in Pulp Fiction Blow Independents Day n desperado's it's on RU-vid
Few guitarists (if any) are capable of that searing tortured feeling that Peter could convey so well. This solo is the pinnacle of blues expression, a man baring his soul. Sublime playing.
I swear Peter was the ultimate black blues musician trapped in a white mans body. All the great blues musicians looked up to Peters music. Viva Peter Green where ever he is now. His music will live forever. He went through a lot of emotional hurt and transmuted it into music. He was never insane, he was just real and most people cannot understand that.
Jeff Beck. Eric Clapton, Brian May, Gilmour, Jimmy Page...fair call. Gary Moore...gee thats a tough call. Rory Gallagher....no way ...Rory No1... Peter no2...Gary Moore no 3.its very tight
This recording alone puts Peter up among the greatest, not just because of his incredible playing but listen to his vocals. His timing and phrasing is out of this world. No offence to Eric, Mick, Jimmy and Jeff but this is the business.
That’s what always floored me about him was his timing and dynamics. Could go from warm beautiful whispers to the angriest screaming Les Paul sounds I’ve ever heard. Him and Bloomfield will always be my biggest influences as a guitarist.
@@mononoaware1960 My favourite guitarist just fantasyic feel. So underrated as a vocalist so much better than Clapton. If you can get listen to Raw Blues ( CD with \John Mayall) etc
Alan Bohm Yea his voice was something else too, very authentic blues. I never got the feeling that Peter was forcing his blues, he always sounded like a true bluesman to me. A huge factor of that is his voice. Oh man I love Eric too but for different reasons. The stuff he put out from 66-70 is all some pretty searing guitar work, especially all of Creams live shows.
Dont get me wrong I love especially Eric Clapton. I bought the Beano in MOno (shows I am old). Peter had something special. If you can get a copy of Raw Blues you can hear Peter backing some old blues guys. Also his singing is great on this album.
No one like him. His intensity is not of this world, he plays every note as if it were an inseparable part of his soul. Every time I listen to it it's like the first time, I always notice nuances that I hadn't caught before and every time it moves me to the point of almost making me cry. R.i.p. Greeny, your music live forever.
A bit like Duane Allman on Boz Scaggs' Loan me a Dime. which is great. However, I am not a fan of blues/rock but for a few songS like ...... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oTFvAvsHC_Y.html Boz and Duane are great. I dunno .. too many blues/rock songs need this organ and a fresher sound. I know She's a good girl but at that time I just didn't understand. can somebody loan me a dime I need my baby.
What are you talking about he was one of the most loved people on earth, Soft and gentle, misunderstood because he was unwell at times for sure, but people liked him.
Talking with my 22 year old nephew who loves the Led Zep..etc who never heard of Peter Green so introduced him with this and he had tears in his eyes❤❤❤
Just came from the "Incredible emotional solo by Guthrie Govan" video. Patterns, shapes, phrases. Nothing really there. On the other hand, the first three notes from our boy Pete hit me like a brick.
Not only was Peter Green the greatest Blues Guitarist but he possessed a great Singing Voice! I believe every word he sings because it is so soulful and heartfelt! REST IN PEACE PETER ALLEN GREEN
His tone comes from his heart......of course, playing a '59 Les Paul like his certainty helps.....Peter was So far past Any of the younger generation players at that time.....Nothing but Respect and Appreciation for his Music.....
Peter Green is the greatest blues guitarist/singer I have ever heard. His ferocity, emotion, and phrasing is excellent. I have always been a big Clapton fan, but Green was able to channel the blues better.
Man, please don't take offense, but I just don't hear it. I've been playing guitar professionally for almost 45 years. I'm not great; I haven't toured the world; but I have a good ear and have listened to literally hundreds of guitarists (maybe thousands). I've had the pleasure to gig and record with some of best musicians in the SE US. And when I hear Peter Green I just hear the same 5 notes played over and over and over, the same way thousands of "blues" guitarists have done it thousands of times. I hear players in Memphis and Nashville every week that make Peter Green sound like a bedroom amateur. He knew pentatonic blues scales and he could play them pretty fast and accurately. But a player like Gary Moore or Rory Gallagher did is SO much better. I do not intend to offend. If Peter Green is your man, then so be it. I won't tell you you're wrong. I just DO NOT hear it.
This is by far the most underrated guitarist of all time. Black magic woman I've got a good mind to give up living Oh well The green manalishi A hard road Double trouble The man was a genius
Not only was he the Green God he was a beautiful person with no ego . He shared the stage with his band mates and stepped back. He shared his LP giving first Jeremy then Danny an opportunity to have their songs on record. Every early Fleetwood Mac LP's best songs were Peter's. He was blessed and he passed it on. I was lucky to purchase the Then Play On LP at the age of 13 and became committed to Peter's work.
@@franciscobarragan8862 no comparison SRV was technically a master but lacked soul and compensated by complex overplaying. Greeny played from the heart
@@megadave1197 srv got soul what u mean lol I understand about the Greeny part he’s just in his own level he’s not to be compared other wise it just an insult for instance can u find someone cover any green songs with that same warm but hollow tone I think not haha
@@socalganjafarm4208 The only SRV cut I like is his version of Little Wing. Gary Moore who owned Greens Les Paul for many years cut an album called Blues for Greeny which comes pretty close
Most likely, the greatest electric blues guitar solo ever recorded. Ever. By anybody. Any time. As far as I know, nothing Freddie, Albert, B.B., Jimi, Stevie, etc. is even close.
It's disappointing and a shame that a solo like this will never be heard by most fans of the blues/rock of this era. I stumbled on it by accident several years ago and come back every so often to listen to it again. The emotional content is so overwhelming that it becomes almost frightening to listen to, you understand that he is tapped in very deeply to a place that very few if any artists can ever reach. It's not a place that anybody can dwell in for very long, it just takes too much out of you to play at that level. At a certain point, artists have to move on. They continue to play their songs, just not with the type of intensity that can be summoned in their youth. Of course with Peter, his "demons" were well known, so it's not a stretch to hypothesize that his heightened abilities were aided and abetted by them. All I know is I've never heard anything quite like this, it defies description and categorization.
You're right. It's a soul surgery in public. I was often thinking that this emotional intensity and urgency, which made Peter such a player and singer was his way of coping with his inner demons. In other words without having his mental predisposition which finally caught him, he would be probably just another skillful guitarist but not Green God.
@@alesmichalek9454 I think until his fateful trip to Germany, where he indulged too much in LSD, he was a pretty normal person and if hadn’t been for that trip, he might have continued with Fleetwood Mac and together they would have perhaps gone on to create some truly amazing music.
I have a huge music collection. Lot of blues and rock, but also flamenco, cuban music, bluegrass, soul, funk, reggae etc etc. Beside that I'm a musician for many years. I can say I know a lot about music. My point is that the solo Peter Green is playing here is not from this world. I have never heard something like this, not in this genre anyway. I can 't mention a guitarist who can lay the heart and soul in his playing like Green did. Paco de Lucía could and despite he was much more a technical player than Green, I scale Peter Green at the same level as de Lucía. The absolute top level thus. R.I.P. Mr. Green
even by peter's already-incredibly-advanced standard, the emotional intensity of his playing here is off the charts. amazing, heartbreaking playing here. stunning.
+Michael Power And I'm hardly "blissfully ignorant," but now thinking you might be. Peter Green, a friend and family member of friends, was not called The Green God for nothing. You sound uneducated.
Peter Green is a Badass! Their seems to be a direct connection between his heart, head, his fingers and a Higher Power. I can't describe it any other way. This kind, noble man is the best white blues guitarist
If you REALLY wanna sledgehammer to the heart listen to Johnny Cash's version of 9 Inch Nails Hurt and watch the video. Rick Rubin produced it. Gut wrenching
Peter green is the greatest..hands down no arguments. He is just not playing a guitar and singing. This is Peter green making the guitar cry while he bares his soul
Peter green is a great guitar player no doubt but Danny I think play with more feeling. They way he bends a note is as good or better than Stevie Ray Vaughn. Everyone forgets about Danny so I made a list of his best. Something inside of me , street walking blues, hardwork with tramp, own up better than Clapton, somebody's watching me and many more he played with Green in Fleetwood Mac and Tramp with Mick Fleetwood.
Back in 1978, aged 14 , i walked into a guitar shop looking to buy my first electric guitar.The owner and his mate behind the counter asked me who was my favourite guitar player, i replied Jimmy Page.They fell about laughing and told me to go listen to Peter Green.I'm still grateful.
I would have stuck with Jimmy... because of his ability to do everything not just blues. Of course, if you just like the blues then they were probably right.
As a guitarist, I doubt if any fair minded critics would dismiss Jimmy Page. I saw him live in the early 70s and can`t doubt his ability. Peter though,was inspired....
Now, you know, if you didn't already, why Peter Green was considered by his musical peers to be the finest Blues guitar player in England in 1970. Not Page, not Clapton, not Beck; the Green God........
Interesting. Could be the feeling of a tortured soul resonating from his guitar that captured his magic as better than Clapton, Beck, and Page? I'm no fundi, just know what i like/know what i FEEL.
I got confused between the two, about who was playing and singing on each song. Jeremy was great too, but Peter was the best blues guitar player AND singer I ever heard from back in the day. His raw emotion emanating from his voice and guitar is awesome.
Listen to eric in the jam with duane allman in 1970 dont think so but this version is one the greatest blues solos of all time could be the best who no's
Love all the Page enthusiasts ... yup, Page was a good enough guitar player to be the rhythm guitarist behind Jeff Beck in the Yardbirds. That said, none of them could touch Peter Green on the blues guitar. Further, I don't think Peter gets as much credit as he deserves for being a great blues vocalist too ...
I'm a massive Page fan - I love near him and have met him a few times and he's an absolute gent - but his talents laid in riffs and production. Peter just had that blues feel (not to mention an almost accidental amazing tone) that just can't be replicated. Listen to Gary Moore playing 'Blues for Greeny'. It's Peter's LP but just goes to show the tone was in his fingers and his phrasing. I've been playing for about 20 years and been focused on this particular area and I've never heard anyone play as he does. Danny clearly had a lot of Peter in his playing but nobody, Page, Clapton, Beck, could come close.
Page is not a blues musician in the way peter was page is great in his own right in riff making and composing. That being said green was the best player when it comes to pure feel if the whole lsd thing wouldnt have happened i wouldnt be suprised if fleetwood mac had became led zeppelin before zeppelin was a thing at all.
Agree...Page learned and nicked a lot from this brilliant player....but...I am 60 now and picked up the guitar a long time ago....we need heros to get us trying and playing...it never ends, always something new....the way this man played, it is just an endless road....beautiful and so many thanks, Peter
This is god like. To reach this level takes something beyond technical ability: Call it ineffability, instinct, intuition or pure feeling. THIS is the best guitar solo ever. Period.
Just heard that Peter has passed. Sadness I am feeling is only helped by listening to his genius here. Underappreciated by some but truly an amazing performer with so much great material to hear. THEN PLAY ON brother.
Your post is So Good !! , made me laugh and smile. I love Peters music and feel. The more Iisten to him the more I want to hear. _Fool No More is exquisite.
Today the Green God has returned to the great pantheon in the sky, where he will once again be head of the pack - the single greatest blues guitarist of all time... Tone to die for - go give BB King and all the other guitar gods the cold sweats all over again! Rest easy Peter - the legends legend! Peter Allen Greenbaum - 1946-2020
Haunting guitar work. The man is a genius. His feel and touch are second to none. Makes my hair stand on end. For a Jewish man to play the blues, must take some doing....... Peter Greenbaum, I salute you. People are beginning to realise at last that you were the greatest white blues player we will ever know. I also listen to Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, SRV, Gary Moore to mention a few, but I am in my 60's and I still keep coming back to Mr Peter Green. I have been playing the guitar since I was 14 on and off and when I hear the blues like this I just think to myself Hell, I might as well give up..........
I'm 20 and I love this stuff! (I've really gotten into the Peter Green era of Fleetwood Mac as of lately) The blues just really reaches into your soul and latches on like no other genre of music! I do really enjoy classic rock/rock 'n roll and hard rock as well, though.
Peter Green exhibits a direct connection between his hands, heart his fingers and a higher power. His music was an expression of his emotional and spiritual being. He's a deeply spiritual being and that was his main crawling force, to express this spirituality. His lack of ego and not wanting to be a star left him living in a chaotic world where due to his skills he had nowhere to hide. His fame showed him that the music business was a road he would rather leave and find religion. His music will always live on with us and emulated by many that followed I'm happy his last years were spent in a good place with Peter finding a place in life. RIP Peter Greenbaum
Surely the greatest blues guitar solo ever recorded echoing the heartfelt lyrics, so well describing a heart broken into a million pieces. Peter Green x
wozzlepop I think that’s more to do with how loud the amps would’ve been, and how close the band would’ve been to them. Kirk Hammett can play high-gain metal on it nowadays without any problems.
Most of the volume came from the backline back then, and old valve amps had to be really REALLY loud to get to the sweet spot - this is just natural overdrive from the amp, which is why it sounds so alive. I'd take this over the processed, clipped, synthetic sound most guitarists use now any day. Hammett uses a rack with god-knows how many effects, this is using none at all.
Even nearly 50 years have passed since he played this, and after listening to many modern blues/rock players nowadays , I always have to come back to hear the great Green again...and again.
There aren't many guitar solos I've heard with this much raw emotion. Every single note is part of a puzzle to a master piece when all of them are put together. He was in the zone during this performance and he played like somebody that really has the blues,.not just pretending too have the blues. His phrasing is very powerful,....almost spiritual,.....and his vibrato is second too none.
steve greene one of the best phased solos of all time in my opinion, is Eddie Hazels - from the bottom of my soul. If you ever heard of Funkadelic, he usdd to be one of tje guitarist back in the day. Honestly, everytime i hear just even a fraction of it my heart beats differently. For your own sake check out maggotbrain by him aswell. 10 improvised one-take. Out of this world. ps. this was not to take anything away from greeny. He's my idol 😊
There is no other guitar solo better on planet Earth in the blues world than Peter's solo on this amazing song.. It's no wonder B B King said he was the best ...
Peter greenbaun was the no.1 absolutely best that ever walked this earth a full miracle with No one even close to his ability!!! i love him saw mac at wiskey go go. March 1970 1/1/2 months to mac's end I'm not gay but I've heard BLUES since 64 Its the very best music more truth feeling no music better my only real love. the BLUES are in my soul can.'t get am out and.don't want to Peter was be on words to good for this world I'm freaked out by his GOD leenus if he never existed the BLUES would of suffered totally i can't express it fully its to heavy I'm lost in awe because of Peter green nobody even came close to his i don't know what to call it because it's way beyond genius i listen to him every day till i die soon or maybe I'll go shopping instead i love u Peter forever from another full blooded poor jew with only my mind to go deep with and you're blue's to feel it's almost like unamagical
I lived in Berkeley in the '60s and '70s. In 1969, we went to see Paul Butterfield blues band at the felmer auditorium across the bay in San Francisco. We spare changed to get. I saw Michael Bloomfield, I was dumbstruck. I didn't know the guitar could be played that elegantly, with that much Heart. His girlfriend began to hang out at our house in Sonoma county few years later. This was after he OD'd. I personally think no one plays guitar better than it was played that day.
There is something in Peter Greens playing here which is in touching distance of perfection. The struggle he is going through elevates his playing and touches something that I seldom get from any other guitarist.
Single greatest guitar solo ever. Nothing else matches this for raw passion and technical genius. This is better than Hendrix, Srv, whoever. Its just another level. What a fucking talent he was. He came so close. Coulda had fucking everything .. And let us not overlook Danny Kirwan's contribution. Best musician fullback ever! God bless him.
@@101stuey Not going to disagree with you, but if you listen to his later stuff (his Jam album 'End of th Game' for example) he was going places, truly amazing places.. Don't do (too many) drugs, kids! :(
Wozzlepop I don't think he wanted everything, ever. So how much of this "solo" is Danny? they usually traded licks. I think Danny was a little more aggressive than Green and didn't tend to roll off and get as subtle, though it's hard to tell between them sometimes as Danny was happily learning from the Guru. I get annoyed by most of these comments full of stupid hero worship with no intelligence. and almost everyone forgets Danny is here too and they attribute the playing of both players to Greeny. Shouldn't Jeremy Spencer be with them at this time too?
Rory Gallagher like but this is just the same has me tingling all over and I'm sitting in me garden listing on me phone what must this be like on vinyl played loud pure emotion wowawoowa
Gut wrenching. Brings tears every time. I can't presume to say because I don't know the man, ( although I've seen him perform) but I have to believe it took something essential out of him every time he rendered a masterpiece like this. Likewise for Jumping at Shadows.
Jumping at Shadows is my favourite live performance of all time. The bend at the 4 minute mark brings tears to my eyes every time. What a soulful performer. He had it all.
I just have to say "oh God"! This is so beautiful..every lick on the guitar is so clear & clean & I have never heard THAT Sound before........I am 60 yrs. born 1961.....and am crying because this is so Amazingly Beautiful!! WOW! I am from Louisana & Memphis, TN...Love the Blues.....Thank you for posting this!!!!
I am speechless... I’ve just been learning the solo to this song all morning.. thought I’d take a 2 minute break and check Twitter... first tweet: Peter Green has passed away. I can’t believe it. Rest Easy Peter x
I was privileged to have seen him and Jimi [goat]. That said, whatever jimi could do, NO, NO man could touch me like this man. The epitome of blues guitar. Utter genius. I write this with tears in my eyes. So much for being a roughty-toughty former HA.lol
Haven't heard this song in years, unfortunately rock and roll has lost another great one today, in my opinion one of the greatest guitarists ever! Rest in peace Peter Green
I know it’s a subjective subject but has anyone ever heard a finer player of the blues guitar ?....as BB said” his playing gives me the chills” i would second that. As a massive Mike Bloomfield/Rory Gallagher / Jimi / AlbertKing fan I thought I had heard it all but this just shakes me to my core.
