R.I.P. Peter Green

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In 1967, my Barrington Rhode Island high school blues band, "Sonic Wallpaper," (Jim Carr, Rick Rohde, Jim Whittle, Geoff Thomas) learned Peter Green's cover of Freddie King's "The Stumble" right after Mayall's "A Hard Road" LP was released.

I always loved Peter Green's playing after that. He was a great artist.
 
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Eddie LeBlanc said:
And "End of the Game" was one of the most amazing LPs ever recorded at the time.
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Agreed. After reading a review describing End of the Game as sonic mess, and another one outright calling it a masterpiece, I bought it the instant I saw it in a store. I dug it and still do.
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In 1967, my Barrington Rhode Island high school blues band, "Sonic Wallpaper," (Jim Carr, Rick Rohde, Jim Whittle, Geoff Thomas) learned Peter Green's cover of Freddie King's "The Stumble" right after Mayall's "A Hard Road" LP was released.

I always loved Peter Green's playing after that. He was a great artist.
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Well said. I was lucky to see Peter live in my neck of the woods, about a decade ago. Worth it. Read the news on here half an hour ago, cried, and scrambled for videos of his softer side. But as someone sardonically wrote on another thread..."Oh Well" - how about I remember him kicking rear end instead? Here is Mr. Green, relicking his Les Paul, hard:

 
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Lowendtech said:
I just heard he passed away at 73.
A tortured genius. I’m Saddened by the news. Another joins the Great Gig In The Sky
RIP Peter.
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Very sad to hear this. I started following Fleetwood Mac after I stopped touring in late '73. Penquin was still out. I was managing a record store in the LA area so pretty soon I had a collection of Fleetwood Mac including everything from "Then Play On" forward. Then I started watching our cut-out shipments (label clearance usually with a hole or a slot cut into the cover to differentiate them for any old Fleetwood Mac albums. I foung Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac and then "English Rose". If you ever see English Rose, you'll know it immediately because Mick Fleetwood's face takes up the entire cover and he's made up as the ugliest woman you ever saw.

All the earlier albums are British Blues and Peter Green's guitar work shines throughout them. The "Then Play On" album had "Oh Well, part 1 and part 2. Part one was the short blues/rock song that is well known. Part 2 though, sometimes called just "Then Play On" goes on for another 5:19 with an almost ethereal feel to it and three guitar parts playing together and at times a flute. Then, in May of 1970 Peter Green left and literally disappeared. He bounced around a lot after that and, after taking LSD 8 or 9 times, had developed some mental illness that he consonantly fought. Sad to see him go but hopefully he's at peace. He'll always be remembered as one of the finest blues guitarists ever.
 
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I had really no clue what blues music really was at 16, even though I had seen the Cream the year before. But though Cream did blues songs or at least blues-based songs, they were in another realm.

Then I joined my first band with no experience whatsoever playing bass. We couldn't even find a bass so I borrowed a Harmony Meteor guitar, took the high strings off and rolled all the controls to "bass."

But what I'm getting at was the guys in the band had the very first Fleetwood Mac album and we listened to it over and over again and eventually learned and played "Shake your moneymaker." My introduction to blues music.
 
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MichelD said:
I had really no clue what blues music really was at 16, even though I had seen the Cream the year before. But though Cream did blues songs or at least blues-based songs, they were in another realm.

Then I joined my first band with no experience whatsoever playing bass. We couldn't even find a bass so I borrowed a Harmony Meteor guitar, took the high strings off and rolled all the controls to "bass."

But what I'm getting at was the guys in the band had the very first Fleetwood Mac album and we listened to it over and over again and eventually learned and played "Shake your moneymaker." My introduction to blues music.
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In a lot of ways, I feel deeply ashamed that it took English guitarists to introduce white Americans like me to their own musical culture. When Clapton and Bruce said their favorite album was B.B. King Live At The Regal, that was my introduction to the real thing. It was a short trip from there to Albert King, Freddie King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Magic Sam, Albert Collins, and on and on.
 
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What a sad and tragic story. What is it about raw musical talent and mental illness? I could go on, but I won't, it's too much.

The blues band I play with was just starting to learn his version of the one song that sorta almost made him famous, and also this one. I will just leave this one here in his honor, everyone else knows that other one.

 
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Weird - I woke up this morning thinking about 'I need your love so bad'. I played that in a cover band in 197? I think it was the first tune we played with more than three chords!

My favourite of those old Fleetwood Mac recordings was always Jigsaw Puzzle Blues - not an original, but I think it was the B side to Albatross.

Thank you TB'ers for sharing this news.
 
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