So many great blues players worthy of recognition but Green was a great songwriter as well. I like Clapton and Rory as well but because Clapton was psychedelic and Rory created a heavier sound more rocked up. Love it all stoner music for me.
@@timothygrayson On You Tube there is plenty of "quieter" Blues by Rory Gallagher 👌. . Early stuff with " Taste" . Recordings in Ireland in the 80's . Keep Browsing 🎵🎶🎼🎸
Music fans migrate to the tonality, tempo and lyrics that resonate. Rightfully so, whatever sounds good. It is incredulous that these ‘fans’ without any musical skills or talents cast judgement : this guitarist is better than this other. It is more incredulous that Eric Clapton seems to be a foregone target here. Being an accomplished blues guitarist I can attest that, without comparison, the musical ability of Clapton far outreaches that of anything Peter Green has ever done. I can easily replicate most of what Peter Green has done ( except his soulful commitment) but I fall far short of the depth of Clapton. People simply need to enjoy without all this judgemental comparison. Just enjoy Peter’ fabulous blues.
Never saw either versions of Fleetwood Mac, but one night many years ago Peter Green appeared at the White Rock Theatre Hastings and held us in the audience spellbound. What a privilege
I agree with you, I was only 15 or 16 back then, but when the new Fleetwood Mac came out I didn't like it much at all because it didn't have the same hard core Blues I was used to from them. I never did get into their new sound much at all.
Peter green is still my go to guitarist for melodic emotional blues. He didn’t need speed or flash. It was what he didn’t play as much as what he did. He could use space to create real dynamic. A legend 😊
Went to school with John McVie, and was so priveliged to have seen the band many times in this fantastic early Peter Green era. Jeremy Spencers Elvis impersonation was sublime!
He did whole songs with the voice of Elvis in some of their live gigs, not in this video. B side on one of their early singles was 'Someone's going to get their head kicked in tonight' which was Jeremy doing the Elvis thing on record. Can't remember which single it was, I will check my collection when I get home.
The 1967-1970s we're some turbulent years. This was Vietnam war time era. But the music continued. WOW we missed something. I keep forgetting I was 12 when this was going on. I'm still listening and learning. What an incredible time. I can't believe I'm sitting here patting my feet as if I have heard this before. But I haven't. WOW!! Music history revisited. Leave it to the UK to keep the good stuff to themselves
You....... are the REAL deepest soul & senses.... very rare to perceive those Greatest Guitarists as the EXTRA separated Outstanding Originally Set / agree u ....ALL
I'll add in my four penny worth. Wonderful times, Marquee Club in Wardour Street , College gigs around London, Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac, Ten Years after, Chicken Shack, Alexis Korner (?), Cream, and in the background, Tamla and Soul. The world was ours. Many thanks for putting this clip on RU-vid, and bringing back so many good, good memories.
This early fleetwood Mac is the band I. Grew up listening to , and for English guys they got really close to authentic electric blues , And no one ever got closer than Peter green
I was 8 then in school in black and white Ireland ....this looks so cool !....Jeremy Spencer was a bloody great singer !..anyone else cop how really gorgeous the ladies are here ? The original Fleetwood Mac were a great blues band
I never liked them after Peter left, he did some great stuff by himself after but they had it right during this time, there is no doubt...............look up Black Magic Woman live in Boston and you will never listen to Santana's version again
....0:00 Shake Your Money Maker 2:41 Homework 6:01 My Baby's a Good One 9:57 Dust My Broom 13:17 When Somebody Leaves You 14:12 Oh Well 16:49 Like Crying 19:06 Albatross 20:38 I'm Worried 24:36 Like It This Way 28:54 Man of This World 32:51 Rattlesnake Shake
Yeeeeeay!!! What a band!!! Can you imagine? "Saturday today? Well, let's go dancing! What band is playing? Fleetwood what? Well, let's see what they're up and about." And 50 years later you know you were that lucky one to see them, just like that! The cheer pleasure they all show, band and crowd, man, fantastic!
I never imagined the death of Christine Mcvie would lead to me, a blues guitar lover, finding the late 60s blues inspired Fleetwood Mac and these incredibly talented guitarists. Some times you think you know but you really don’t know sh!t…WOW, my mind is blown!!
This was the band I knew as Fleetwood Mac from day one; saw them in Sacramento in 1969. Later versions were fine but this line up was a guitar player's dream. Christine came around later but before Buckingham/Nicks. I miss her, as well as Danny and Peter. So glad the internet was born so we could see these performances.
The fabulous Peter Green well supported by Danny Kerwin and Jeremy Spencer as someone else has remarked this is the true Fleetwood Mac. May there music live on.
Excellent video, THANK YOU!!! I always loved Peter Green FM. As far as im concerned there was no other. 👍 I had a friend back in the day went same way, so sad. RIP PETER🥀
Oh my god this is so incredibly amazing god bless you Peter you are a legend this is music as it should be not the rubbish there is now. This is my teenage years music and the sixties was the best time ever . Rest in peace Peter Green. X
This was to true Mac afficianados,THE LINEUP.Taking no prisoners,they were the best live band of their time.Peter,simply the best interpreter of the blues,ever.....ask BB KING........tone,deluxe,out of phase neck pick up,he was ahead of himself....if like myself,you were able to see them between 1966,and 1970,you know. If you are just discovering the Mac,this is the Mac.
@@davidevans3227 ..... Absolutely...Jeremy,the slide/ Elmore James man,and Danny,Peter's progidy. Jeremy, slightly limited to Elmore James,yet an integral part of the Mac.Danny,more actively playing off Peter, a more dynamic guitar duo.He went on to write some nice songs,after Peter's departure....great in their write,and execution...but,...Greenie,for me was the focus,the virtuoso,that after his demise,the band,was simply,another of many incarnations backed by Mick and John. Just an opinion,based on my preference. If there is a spirit world for the great guitarists,may you be there Peter Green.
@@chrisehrlich3514 brilliant.. great to encounter a lover of the early fleetwood mac ..And peter green, Definitely The man.. i just like to remember the other two, too.. 🙂 you mentioned bb king earlier i think..? i was very lucky, got to see him here in Cardiff, twice! fantastic gigs both.. probably still got a plectrum from one of the shows somewhere.. also saw peter green round about the same sort of time (mid eighties) He also came to cardiff.. played a proper dive- bar (think i saw uriah heep in the same place lol lol) i used to have a live album called Cerulean.. such amazing versions.. green manilishi with bass and bongo solos.. 🙂 sorry i could ramble on for hours!
@@davidevans3227 ....happy to ramble with you man...Mac lovers,are solid folk. I am American,but I was in prep school in Kent,England,from 1964 to 1967....so even at a young age,I got to see Peter with John Mayall,and then the Mac Attack. I have a large collection of Mac,and Peter Green on cd..... probably 8 versions of the most popular songs.What makes that so interesting,is different guitars and different amp settings..... can't remember off hand which CD it is,but one contains a version of Rattlesnake Shake,with Danny playing a Les Paul,but the kicker is,he has the crunch turned up,so when it comes to the bridge,man,it kicks that riff into the best version of that track.Makes a huge difference.
@@chrisehrlich3514 well my reaction is oh my god! (sorry 🙂) ..you lucky person! assumed u were British, oops! i always believed i was born fifteen to twenty years too late.. believe i came into the world the month danny joined the band (August '68?) so maybe they were only a four piece when you saw them? and a heavy blues band.. the record i mentioned with an incredible 'manilishi, had a twenty minute version of rattlesnake shake. Just one huge jam off..
Fresh from leaving John Mayal's band, this lineup had an energy that was never to be repeated. This was basically an outrageously talented Blues band....
I saw them, the original Fleetwood Mac, doing these same songs at the Philmore in Summer '68. They opened for the Paul Butterfield Blues Band but they stole the show. Great memories of two fabulous blues bands performing live!
I'm not sure about that last statement...have you ever seen the BLUES BROTHERS 2000 Movie, the Battle of the Bands? BB King, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Koko Taylor, Jimmy Ray Vaughn and the list goes on....Lol!
Peter and Jeremy are the greatest blues guitarist.Each and every notes of their Les Paul speak the moods and emotions of the particular gig they were into it.Hats off .....
So this is what was being played oversea. It sounds like my father who was a musician back when I was fourteen. He died the first of this year. He play his guitar on the front porch and amazing how it sounds like him and his friends all over again. Thank you who ever posted this historic gem.
Sounds like you had a very musically privileged upbringing , Mary. I envy you that, and the special, irreplaceable times you clearly had with your father.
Peter Green exhibits a direct connection between his head, hands his fingers and a higher power. I am a fan of their first three years and their debut is the greatest British blues album ever. The Green God is the greatest white blues guitarist ever, luckily Peter left behind some of the best music of the late 1960's.
Great point, they are both loved, underated and tremendous guitarists that left behind plenty of music that will be enjoyed and used as templates for past and future songs. .Bless them both for being great human beings with little ego.
@@davidbeckerich4792 yep. They were stylistically different but they had the same heart - and they were great singers into the bargain - Kindred spirits in fact.
@@DerekCastleSr. Agreed, I saw Johnny Winter back up his brother Edgar along with Rick Derringer on guitar at The Fillmore East and as much as I respect Derringers guitar work I saw Johnny Winter smoke Rick on their marque sing "Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo". Johnny rocked like nobody else but I feel Peter Green is the King of the Blues. Their were many great guitarist in the 1960's to the 1980's. To my surprise Stevie Winwood put on one of my favorite guitar performances with Traffic in the 70's. Thanks for bringing me back to a time when everyday was a Saturday. Also underated was Kim Simmons of early Savoy Brown, not one of the greats but very entertaining.
I first saw this fantastic band and the truly wonderful Peter Green in a marquee in Welwyn Garden City in 1967 in a field which I remember as being King Albert Playing fields. Thanks to my friend at the time, Roddy Cox, who told me about them and we both went to watch. My introduction to the blues which I have loved ever since.
Anybody else see these guys at Mother's Club in Erdington, Birmingham UK? Very rude and very brilliant!!! Young Danny hadn't joined yet. Jeremy did a fine impersonation of Elmore James. I think I paid 2 shilling (10 pence) to see them. Absolute bliss. RIP Peter.
Mothers ! Ha forgot about that place Some great venues around brum in those days Peter Green was so talented but a humble man unlike other white blues men of the time
they tore the roof off the Gardens in Vancouver in '68 rude and raunchy but oh so good.....the "new" band did not deserve the name....lame Mac would would better describe them we waited two years for Peter to come back but he never did big disappointment in 1970 not the MAC..anymore thanks for posting this....
Crikey, it's Christmas and I've just been through some of my old VINYL albums. I've refound an old, cheap compilation LP of blues tracks. It's called The World Of Blues Power and cost me 14 shillngs and 6 pence in old money. Would you believe that there is an amazing track on there by Peter called GREENY. incredible or what!! Happy days.
Saw them at the Eastown Theater in Detroit Sept 1970. Still remember how intense yet loose they were, especially Mick. Of course I remember PG’s Les Paul and his amazing voice. Believe it or not The Stooges opened for them.
So much energy in the music and the audience dancing.... Real people not pro dancers pretending to be ordinary folk... What a fantastic era .. Only thing missing is Cathy Megowen
Elmore James was on the threshold of an overseas tour when he died of a heart attack on May 24, 1963, in Chicago. Only 45 years old. A real loss to music. Love this version of this band so much. Listen to any live recordings you can track down. Joy.
The comments on this video are so great. So much respect (and knowledge, at least from a few old timers) for this amazing line up. Having seen three different versions of them, from 1969 Black Magic Woman time to 1972 Future Games to 1975 self-titled album with Buckingham/Nicks in the first big Day on the Green in Oakland (they were four acts below headliner Robin Trower) it is a pleasure to read so much love for the original Peter, Danny, Jeremy, Mick and John.
Danny's the sleeper on this one, at least in the beginning. He's laying back, being the tasteful player he is, but also as an 18 year old kid, i'm sure having just joined the band he's learning the ropes. Cool seeing the musicianly techniques of these guys. "Oh Well" always takes me there: the way Peter Green laughs after that "phrase-landing" that they completed there at 16.00. The playing in that song is 'right there'. And him laughing at that moment is a reminder of what it was like musically at that time ;The open-endedness, and yet disciplined playing. "Albatross" is Green's writing at its most melodic. This era around '68-72' was Fleetwood Mac's greatest Blues-Rock point. I like music with a lot of holes in it. Strung together like a string of beads that are great to hear once again.
