One of the best emotional soloists ever, I dont know if thats too specific but no guitarist has ever made me grit my teeth like that, One of my top guitarists of all time
Peter Green seems to have a direct connection between his heart, head, his fingers and a Higher Power. I believe that Peter Green is the best white blues guitarist ever!
Don't forget there was a kid of 18 next to him called Danny Kirwan that was a beast. The initial arpeggio and the rhythm of this one are played by him.
You are SO right- Danny, God rest him, was exceptional. They played off each other and developed a very great sound, especially in minor blues playing.
@@Jahnink Absolutely great songwriter too. From Black Magic Woman to Albatross to Green Manalishi to Oh Well parts 1 and 2 . . . from where he starts with that song to where he ends, always blows me away. The pain and honesty of his lyrics in Man of the World . . . don't get me started . . . sorry, I guess I already did.
@@andrewpereira9271 Yeah. I love Long Grey Mare. Then there's Oh Well, Love that Burns, Looking For Somebody, I Loved Another Woman, The World Keeps On Turning, Sandy Mary, Merry Go Round... Now you got me started. I listen to Peter all the time. Deep stuff. Impeccable spacing and dynamics. It never gets old.
I'm one of the old Peter Green fans who stopped listening to Fleetwood Mac when he left. He was the one who turned me on to the British blues movement of the sixties and seventies. Other than his virtuoso and emotive guitar playing and his stunningly pure blues vocals; he just seemed to have this special sincerity that radiated from everything he did. He was definitely one of the big ones, just like Stevie Ray Vaughan, where the whole package seemed to be the sum of all numbers and not just the separate parts. Just hearing his distinctive style again has got me covered in goose-flesh.
Not this one. I know amazing but everyone isn’t a clone of you. Sounded horrible. Nails on a chalkboard bad. Tone was shit! Didn’t do anything but cringe like listening to a school talent show. Embarrassingly off key with his bends and vibrato sounded like a kid playing. Damn son. Get a clue.
@@forester057 Wow - your comment is really uninformed. Peter Green’s playing is simply amazing, He is truly a guitarist’s guitarist (and I am guessing you are not). If it is simply a matter of taste, then you are entitled to your likes and dislikes. But to claim his playing sucks is simply ridiculous and needs to be corrected.
BEST GUITAR PLAYING I EVER HEARD, ITS PERFECT! IT HAS IT ALLLL! HIS DYNAMICS ARE CRAZY, NOTE CHOICE, AND MELODY, IS HEAVENLY, HIS TONE IS THE BEST I EVER HEARD! PERFECT FOR THIS! HIS TIMING IS AMAZING, HIS VIBRATO, IS FLAWLESS! HIS LIGHT PLAYING OVER THE VERSUS, IS AS GOOD OR BETTER THEN WHEN HE GOES HARD! AND HIS SINGING IS FANTASTIC, GREAT CONTROL, AND FEELING, TON OF SOUL! HE PLAYS LIKE HE SINGS AND SINGS LIKE HE PLAYS, EVERY LICK IS A BEAUTIFUL VOCAL LINE, THATS THE KEY! IF YOU CAN HEAR A CHORD PROGRESSION, AND SING THE NOTES WITHOUT BEING TOLD OR READING ANY MUSIC, YOUR TALENTED, HE HAD IT IN SPADES! TY FOR PLAYING THIS!
Had the privilege of seeing Peter play twice in the 60s with Fleetwood Mac..once in a little blues club as they was starting out in 1968 without Danny and again with Danny at a blues festival in 1969...also saw Peter play on his comeback in 1997 at Ronnie Scots in Birmingham...the best blues guitarist we have EVER produced..a true legend...RIP Peter and Danny
Danny is just as amazing as Peter I’d say honestly a little more raw lacking some emotion but he played with such power and his vibrato is insane I’m glad he still gets the props he deserves
I'm 67 in 25 days, I grew up with Peter Green as my favorite guitarist of all time. LSD and other drugs messed him up and we lost out on his great potential. He came back for an awesome resurgent until his death. This to me was the glory days of Fleetwood Mac. I mean it was his band but he named it after two of his friends and fellow musicians Mick Fleetwood and John McVey and i cried the day the music died. RIP PG.
this is an insight into the construction of many differing blues expressions over decades of different performers, not just peter green,surely you don`t imagine mr palmisano would ever goof on being anyone but himself? what a talent peter green has,, and we must appreciate the paralell talent needed to analyze the quality and expression from any given performer,,reach peter green,? clear understanding of what exactly is going on in the rendition is the intention i dont think its imitation, an amazing job too, from both .
This is my favourite solo I’ve ever heard. The pure emotion of Peter’s playing out him in a different class to everyone else. My favourite bit about Peter’s solo is the crowd applauding when he finishes. Because they knew they had just witnessed a truly magical moment in music history.
@@Guitargate Thanks for drawing my attention to this one. But let me get this straight: you'd never heard of Peter G. before? I'm betting you have now.... :)
Got a little choked up myself. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac was one of my 1st introductions to the blues back in the 70's and I've been hooked ever since.
You forget he was constantly switching between neck and middle pickup position, then when he bursts into green flames half way through he switches to bridge, then back to neck at the end. Totally fighting that amp and winning. My hero RIP Peter x
One of my all time favourite solos with so much emotion. Interestingly I swear if you listen with headphones you can hear him singing along with the solo, singing the notes he plays. This would feed in to his ethos of eschewing short licks and instead thinking in phrases while playing, so he can play more fluid lines but he still has to stop playing when he has to breathe. It's an interesting technique that really changes the way you play.
@@jacksondrew960 Check out his version of Jumping At Shadows live at The Boston Tea Party. There are two versions out there, recorded on successive nights, although only one of them made it to the CD of the gig that was released. For me - and it's an objective opinion only - these are two of the most emotive moments in blues guitar history. czcams.com/video/Q3ure6_pa2M/video.html&ab_channel=SilverWolfMoon
@@jacksondrew960 just a note, it's not Peter Green playing lead on Slabo Day, it's Snowy White. Peter played rhythm on that track. Great tune none the less!
Peter playing that track really does give me goose bumps. The version from The Warehouse is the best sound quality, while the version from Stockholm 1970 is the best performance. Don't know who Peter is and you play guitar, thats like a Christian saying he's never heard of Jesus of Nazareth 😭
Another very soulful song Peter performed was his cover of a Little Willie John hit, "I Need Your Love So Bad". Green wrote "Black Magic Woman" which was performed by Fleetwood Mac, later covered by Santana and became a huge hit. Peter Green & Mike Bloomfield are two of my favorite guitarists from the 70's.
I have seen a wonderful documentary about the British blues players and B.B.King is interviewed in it... Of all the players, Eric included, he says the only one he feared was Peter. And no wonder.
This is my favourite reaction to any music video out there. I love to see your expression when Peter touches your soul, when he truly makes it ring. This is what guitar is all about. Thanks for showing me how Peter's guitar always makes me feel I'm both dead and alive.
That guitar is a legend! Is a 59 Les Paul commonly know as "greeny" burst. He sold it to Gary Moore for a couple of bucks and it was his main guitar for almost his entire career. Currently it belongs to Kirk Hammett who bought it for US$2M!!! you can currently see it live using it a lot. The neck pickup was flipped and out of phase, so had that special single coil like tone in the middle position big part of his distinctive tone in many Fleetwood Mac songs. He plays with Orange and Fender amps mainly.
..yeah peter green felt it.. his singing is something else as well as his playing i think.. the young 18/19yr old danny kirwan who was there with him, also a sensational guitar player and singer, (just so young).. as soon as danny joined F.M. bam! albatross came out and then they were flying.. man of the world, oh well (pt 1 and 2!), the album `then play on` green manilishi etc.. try danny`s `something inside of me` a great bluesy number.. also, check out `jumping at shadows` (i prefer it to `gotta a good mind to give up..`) on their live in boston albums and i think the track that immediately follows, `cant hold out` (elmore james song) by their slide player, jeremy spencer, just has me on the edge of my seat! falling off.. and head banging air guitar status quo style like an idiot! what a superb band they were.. for a while.. thankyou for sharing the video, really good and interesting.. peter`s name caught my eye..
Yes sir,...you're facial expressions say it all! "That's the real stuff right there"! Expressions of powerful truthful emotions that Peter plays & sings are beyond descriptive words. Thanks for your tutorial breakdown, very useful 👍
He didn’t say he’d never heard of him, he said he’d never learnt anything by him. In fact in the very next sentence he says he’s aware of who he is so it kinda shows where your ears were.
I hope you will learn over time that PG was the finest blues guitarist ever. His tone, timing and touch are second to none. Even the best of FM 2.0 does not compare to the best of Peter Green’s FM.
Thank you, Peter's raw emotion just blue my mind! As the teaches says as he's almost brought to tears to"awesome". I would like to say this is Peter at his best but I say that so many times listening to the Green God.
Little factoid for you. Mac opened for the Dead on this night at the Warehouse. After the show, the Dead were famously “busted, down Bourbon Street” and thrown in the clink for carrying.
DUDE! So awesome. Always wanted to hear a breakdown of this track. I should have mentioned, a large part of Green's unique tone was due to his PAFs being wired out of phase from the factory. Kind of a happy accident that resulted in a guitar with super pronounced and unique dynamic qualities. Cheers!
Sean Nielsen the pickups were wired just like any other LP from the factory. What is supposed to have happened was an inept repair man messed with the wiring when he put the pick ups back. Peter realized this,liked the sound and duly kept it.
@@maxcuthbert100 ah yup I guess we both got it wrong, Green put it back wrong, full story here: www.guitarworld.com/gear/deep-secret-behind-peter-greens-magic-1959-les-paul-tone
@@Absraction It was the magnet, not the wiring. Gary Moore said they took apart the pickup, and the magnet was in the wrong way around, and had clearly not been tampered with, so it was like that from the factory. They switched around the correct way, and that tone vanished, so they unfixed it. The pickup being re-installed upside down has no effect in that realm, as far as I'm aware.
@@bfish89ryuhayabusa Not putting it upside down, but I've done this to one of my les pauls. I have a push/pull pot that reverses the polarity of the neck pickup, and when you play with both pickups active they become out of phase with each other. Upon further research it seems like Green's guitar had the magnet reversed and the wires switched.
Peter Greens guitar was special in it set up on the pole pcs and the reversed magnets of his neck pick up and the three way switch in the center position it would become out of phase with the bridge pick up, One very special guitar. Peter was an outstanding musician and song writer. R.I.P. Peter Green. Never gona be forgotten.
You were correct. Loud tube amp Drenched in reverb. Masterful touch and dynamics by Cranking the amp and playing soft then digging in. Jimmy Page very similar I thought Peter was the best. I was at the Tea Party concert unforgettable
I absolutely love this song by P.G. I've had this recording on my playlist for a few years now. So emotive, so casual yet perfect. Micheal, keep up the good work.
The Great Peter Green!!! I'm new to your channel. I'm very impressed Michael. Very impressed. Great ear and explanation of his magic . Thank you so much.
Sounds like the whole band is in the space we all know exists but it’s difficult to explain with words. Finding that place alone is cool enough but when a group of people are there, the band and the crowd, is extraordinary.
This is what I always think of our (UK) blues style after the US greats but Peter ad a special way. I saw him many times both with Mayall and with this band, we supported him twice in Bristol and Bath and he was a delightful man and completely self effacing. He even let me use his LP when my tele broke down. Lovely man and boy did he feel his music. I was priviledged.
"I think Its all G minor Pentatonic" This is the best and most emotional guitar piece ever! #PeterGreen was and always will be the greatest thing to ever happen to guitar...
Michael, This is a summary of what I read on Peter Green over the years as a fan. He played mainly a specific 1959 Les Paul “Greeny’ in the early days. There is something known as Peter Green mod. Basically, the rumor goes while tinkering with the guitar he wanted to flip the front pickup cover. When he got the pickup out, he broke it down out of curiosity to see who it worked. When he put it back together it sounded different. Peter liked the sound so he left it. Years later a guitar tech inspected the guitar around the time Peter Green sold it to Gary Moore and it turns out that when Peter was messing with the pickup, he accidentally flipped the magnet when he put it back together which took the guitar out of phase when in the middle position giving it a strat type tone. Rumor is he toggled between front pick and middle position a lot and some songs stay in the middle position. Later years and when I saw him in early 2000’s he only played a strat. Gary Moore hit some hard times and sold Greeny with it eventually ending up in Kirk Hammatt’s hands, who has no plans to sell it. Also, check out Black Magic Woman and Albatross.
Good guess. Peter played a1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard. HIs guitar playing sends a chill down my spine. It is poetry in motion. No no one like him on God’s green earth.
This is terrific. Oddly, my favorite electric blues guitar solo ever is Michael Bloomfield's in the Butterfield Blues Band's cover of this same song on the East-West album. It's strange when one thinks about it that two of the greatest blues guitarists ever were urban Jewish guys. I thought you made a very good point at the end of Green's solo here when you said it was raw emotion. He is my favorite British blues guitarist, although Rory Gallagher has his moments. In the each case it was the emotional power that moves these guys to a higher level. To make a jazz comparison, many of the best British guitarists were all about technical brilliance, like Ella Fitzgerald - Beck, Page, Clapton to an extent - whereas Green was Lady Day. It wasn't that he was short on chops, but the music was about pain. He was wonderful,
I noticed that you posted this 50yrs (to the day) after the live 'take' you analyzed. Jan.31st.1970-2020! And Peter Green died 😢 😕 💔 😔 😞 six months later, July 25th, 2020. Beyond coincidental! Such a valuable video for me. ✌️🤞🤘🤟🖖🤙LOVED IT!!!!
Us Green fans understand his pain and the courage it took him to express his demons using his power of his emotions through his fingers. He was an intrevert who had the gift of an alternate way to express his suffering. He is laying his feeling's on stage for all to see and I can feel his tears as he explodes knowing he owes the audience all he can express regardless of the price he will have to pay. His playing is top shelf but his courage is to be applauded. As said "Green is a badass" and rises to his potential as the Green God. Their is no other that effects me the way Peter does. I was sold on Peter when he was a Blues breaker.
Michael, you have a great ear 👂, perfect pitch, very fluent vocabulary of arpeggios, scales ⚖️ and chord voicing. You've earned my subscription and I look forward to advancement of my knowledge of the fretboard
I will say what some other dude said in the "Apache" video. I can't believe that as a guitar teacher you didn't know Peter Green. If you take time to listen to more stuff of his, you will probably agree with me that this guy surely was one of the greatest blues guitarist ever, pionneers included.
I’m 41 barely found him a month ago Watching this knowing I was you so short ago. I teared up then laughed now I know how right I was. **Don’t you touch that button
The guitar is a Lee Paul hooked up to a Marshall amp. The guitar is famous for it's tone sound which is said to have had the polarity changed either at the factory or by Peter himself. The guitar is named "Green" and was sold to Kurt Gannett of Bushes Priest fame, the guitar was given to Gary Moore in 1970 for a few hundred dollars as a gift. Kurt Gannett paid two million dollars for the guitar after Gary sold it to a private dealer. Nobody has ever played Green like Peter has especially in this BB King song here. Peter was able to understand the pain of being an outsider due to his Jewish heritage he interprets the mournful tones with a truthfulness that allowed emotion to pour from his fingertips. These attributes that Peter displays is why many original black blues guitarist consider Peter one of a few white men who has endured the pain to be a true blues guitarist. Being a Jew in London was similar to the pain a black man endured in America.
I know this is an old video, but i cant beleive this went under the radar for me...NobodY EVERRRRRR played guitar with so much emotion, like this! You can feel his pain, and the singing is just as good....Its GM F eb D...Then it goes into a 12 bar blues, gm cm d7#9 So that beginning progression, acts like an intro, and then chorus...He was out of his mind for years already when he did this song and it sounds to me he was at his best....I notice he can make the blues svale sound like classical guitar lol...theres a live version where you can hear the crowd sighing and applauding at once, he takes it to another level, B.B. KINg, said out of all the young blues guys, in the 60s coming from london and America, That Peter Green was the only guitar player he ever felt something supernatural from And the only one that gave him the chills! If that doesnt hold water? what does? lol? AMAZINGGGGGGGGG! had a tough life!
Peter Green exhibited a direct connection between his heart, head his fingers and a Higher Power. Peter was in pain and was blessed with the gift to explain this pain though his guitar. Bless The Green God for the music he left behind for the many to enjoy and showed us how to release these demons with his gift as the best white blues guitarist I ever encountered. I would of loved to hear this version without interpretation, even though v I do appreciate the comments. Peter was a special person who gave of himself till he could not give no more, their was too much pain involved.
I am in full agreement I have been following the "Green God"for over 50 years and never has he disappointed I believe his work on the "Then Play On LP conquered all and his work with John Mayall says a lot about his comparisons to Eric Clapton and Mick Taylor.
And Michael Palmisano is demonstrating, & explaining, & breaking it all down for us guitarists 🎸 🎸 🎸 precisely, excellently, right here in this video. Thanks for your excellent, helpful, useful, and informative posting 👏 🙌👐💪👋👍☝️🖖🤙👆🤝🧠
This takes me back to the days. Maybe you could break down Roy Buchanan one of the other great bluesman of the 60s and 70s that died. Depression is a killer but Roy could wail on the Tele as good as any and far better than most
The next three shows they played after this, in Boston on February 5, 6, and 7, were professionally recorded. They leaked as bootlegs in the 80s, and were officially released in the early 2000s, but had a live album been released back then, it would be the standard by which other live albums are measured. The second show includes a 25 minute performance of "Rattlesnake Shake" that is effectively a medley with the instrumental jams "Fighting for Madge" and "Under Way". These feature astounding twin lead performances and great interplay all around. Highly recommended. It's my favorite live recording, bar none.
@@Guitargate Of course! I should note that if you look it up, there are two similar performances from the Boston shows. Both are awesome, but the second night is THE one. The first night, they don't quite hit everything as perfect, and it fades out just before the ending.
And don’t sleep on the Jumpin at Shadows either. Peter is absolute fire. That tone, that tone is just so damn beautiful! In the immortal words of BB King, "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats." 🙏🙏🙏🙏
This was and still is my all time favorite solo of Peter Green at the Ware house, in New Orleans, they had all taken acid just before going on. How they pulled it off, I don't know. But man its killer. 59 Gibson Les Paul, probably the most famous one of them all. Thank You Michael for your in sight on this and how he plays it. I'll check out your website.
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One of the best emotional soloists ever, I dont know if thats too specific but no guitarist has ever made me grit my teeth like that, One of my top guitarists of all time
Peter Green seems to have a direct connection between his heart, head, his fingers and a Higher Power. I believe that Peter Green is the best white blues guitarist ever!
Me too.
Gary Moore and Alvin Lee are up there with him.
Peter Green is was one of the best Blues players ever regardless of color. He was the real deal!
SRV to me is the most talented ever. Insane how fast yet precisely he could play
I’m not sure if he isn’t my favourite blues guitarist overall. I just love his sweet tone and touch ❤️
Don't forget there was a kid of 18 next to him called Danny Kirwan that was a beast. The initial arpeggio and the rhythm of this one are played by him.
...agree
Props to Danny. Very underated player and song writer.
You are SO right- Danny, God rest him, was exceptional. They played off each other and developed a very great sound, especially in minor blues playing.
Very true about DK, but I can listen to PG's solo work and be just as impressed.
Both Danny and Peter were so incredible and brutally underrated. Really quite sad what happened to them both.
Peter never gets enough recognition for his extraordinary vocal talents. Such raw emotion in that incredible voice.
To me he sang as he played guitar...nuanced and shifting from softness to roughness in the wink of an eye :) 02:00
Yeah, the teacher completely missed the beauty of the vocals. Peter wasn't a guitar hero, he was a complete musician.
@@pacofernandez4591Yes, unparalleled dynamics.
@@Jahnink Absolutely great songwriter too. From Black Magic Woman to Albatross to Green Manalishi to Oh Well parts 1 and 2 . . . from where he starts with that song to where he ends, always blows me away. The pain and honesty of his lyrics in Man of the World . . . don't get me started . . . sorry, I guess I already did.
@@andrewpereira9271 Yeah. I love Long Grey Mare. Then there's Oh Well, Love that Burns, Looking For Somebody, I Loved Another Woman, The World Keeps On Turning, Sandy Mary, Merry Go Round... Now you got me started. I listen to Peter all the time. Deep stuff. Impeccable spacing and dynamics. It never gets old.
Peter was simply the greatest blues player ever
Peter's playing is unreal, but his voice and singing are also amazing.
I'm one of the old Peter Green fans who stopped listening to Fleetwood Mac when he left. He was the one who turned me on to the British blues movement of the sixties and seventies. Other than his virtuoso and emotive guitar playing and his stunningly pure blues vocals; he just seemed to have this special sincerity that radiated from everything he did. He was definitely one of the big ones, just like Stevie Ray Vaughan, where the whole package seemed to be the sum of all numbers and not just the separate parts. Just hearing his distinctive style again has got me covered in goose-flesh.
This is what every guitar player wants to play like.
Not this one. I know amazing but everyone isn’t a clone of you. Sounded horrible. Nails on a chalkboard bad. Tone was shit! Didn’t do anything but cringe like listening to a school talent show. Embarrassingly off key with his bends and vibrato sounded like a kid playing. Damn son. Get a clue.
@@forester057 lol you probably suck at guitar bud
@@forester057 but think you're better cause you can play faster or some dumbass shjt like that
@@forester057 your opinion is that of a child for the guitar community
@@forester057 Wow - your comment is really uninformed. Peter Green’s playing is simply amazing, He is truly a guitarist’s guitarist (and I am guessing you are not). If it is simply a matter of taste, then you are entitled to your likes and dislikes. But to claim his playing sucks is simply ridiculous and needs to be corrected.
BEST GUITAR PLAYING I EVER HEARD, ITS PERFECT! IT HAS IT ALLLL! HIS DYNAMICS ARE CRAZY, NOTE CHOICE, AND MELODY, IS HEAVENLY, HIS TONE IS THE BEST I EVER HEARD! PERFECT FOR THIS! HIS TIMING IS AMAZING, HIS VIBRATO, IS FLAWLESS! HIS LIGHT PLAYING OVER THE VERSUS, IS AS GOOD OR BETTER THEN WHEN HE GOES HARD! AND HIS SINGING IS FANTASTIC, GREAT CONTROL, AND FEELING, TON OF SOUL! HE PLAYS LIKE HE SINGS AND SINGS LIKE HE PLAYS, EVERY LICK IS A BEAUTIFUL VOCAL LINE, THATS THE KEY! IF YOU CAN HEAR A CHORD PROGRESSION, AND SING THE NOTES WITHOUT BEING TOLD OR READING ANY MUSIC, YOUR TALENTED, HE HAD IT IN SPADES! TY FOR PLAYING THIS!
Yeah but do you think he's any good?
Had the privilege of seeing Peter play twice in the 60s with Fleetwood Mac..once in a little blues club as they was starting out in 1968 without Danny and again with Danny at a blues festival in 1969...also saw Peter play on his comeback in 1997 at Ronnie Scots in Birmingham...the best blues guitarist we have EVER produced..a true legend...RIP Peter and Danny
Danny is just as amazing as Peter I’d say honestly a little more raw lacking some emotion but he played with such power and his vibrato is insane I’m glad he still gets the props he deserves
I'm 67 in 25 days, I grew up with Peter Green as my favorite guitarist of all time. LSD and other drugs messed him up and we lost out on his great potential. He came back for an awesome resurgent until his death. This to me was the glory days of Fleetwood Mac. I mean it was his band but he named it after two of his friends and fellow musicians Mick Fleetwood and John McVey and i cried the day the music died. RIP PG.
It's so good it hurts
This was live, Peter was 22 years, singing and playing. You will never reach him!
this is an insight into the construction of many differing blues expressions over decades of different performers, not just peter green,surely you don`t imagine mr palmisano would ever goof on being anyone but himself? what a talent peter green has,, and we must appreciate the paralell talent needed to analyze
the quality and expression from any given performer,,reach peter green,?
clear understanding of what exactly is going on in the rendition is the
intention i dont think its imitation, an amazing job too, from both .
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This is my favourite solo I’ve ever heard. The pure emotion of Peter’s playing out him in a different class to everyone else. My favourite bit about Peter’s solo is the crowd applauding when he finishes. Because they knew they had just witnessed a truly magical moment in music history.
Hell yes!
Hendrix's Hear my Train from Berkeley and this are probably the most emotional solo's I have ever heard in all my 50 years. I never tire of this tune.
This is my second favorite solo in the history of music. First place goes to Rainbow's Catch the Rainbow live in Munich 1977.
@@Guitargate Thanks for drawing my attention to this one. But let me get this straight: you'd never heard of Peter G. before? I'm betting you have now.... :)
Hear, hear !!
I'm saddened by how few people know about Peter Green.
R.I.P Peter Allen Greenbaum. We miss you!
Got a little choked up myself. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac was one of my 1st introductions to the blues back in the 70's and I've been hooked ever since.
RIP Peter Green - his sound and control of tone and bends was just unique - you know its him immediately
One of the greatest guitar performances of all time! Thank you for this.
"Peter Green is the only one to make me sweat" said B.B.King once. This is why. Oh, and he also makes you cry if you have a soul.
You forget he was constantly switching between neck and middle pickup position, then when he bursts into green flames half way through he switches to bridge, then back to neck at the end. Totally fighting that amp and winning. My hero RIP Peter x
I saw them a bunch of times around ‘69-‘70
They always had these big Orange amps (the color and the name)
It's one of the most used quotes, but It's apt. "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats." B.B King.
Yeah, I read the that, too. I borrow a lot from his playing
there was a whole lot of British cats who loved and played American blues music and then there was PETER GREEN!!! God rest his tortured soul.
That song still chills me all over! Best friggin solo EVER!
One of my all time favourite solos with so much emotion. Interestingly I swear if you listen with headphones you can hear him singing along with the solo, singing the notes he plays. This would feed in to his ethos of eschewing short licks and instead thinking in phrases while playing, so he can play more fluid lines but he still has to stop playing when he has to breathe. It's an interesting technique that really changes the way you play.
This guy seems like one awesome guitar teacher.
good reaction . However those moments on stage for Peter Green weren't rare. Peter Green is a guitar GOD.
RIP he died last pm ...the green god has passed
Do you know any other good peter green solos like this. I know slabo day and fool no more
@@jacksondrew960 Check out Fleetwood Mac's Shrine '69 album. He was really at the peak of his game there. His best stuff was all with Fleetwood Mac.
@@jacksondrew960 Check out his version of Jumping At Shadows live at The Boston Tea Party. There are two versions out there, recorded on successive nights, although only one of them made it to the CD of the gig that was released. For me - and it's an objective opinion only - these are two of the most emotive moments in blues guitar history. czcams.com/video/Q3ure6_pa2M/video.html&ab_channel=SilverWolfMoon
@@jacksondrew960 just a note, it's not Peter Green playing lead on Slabo Day, it's Snowy White. Peter played rhythm on that track. Great tune none the less!
I only met him once but it changed me and my playing. Great review.
Peter Green is the best blues guitarist of all time.
Amen
B. B. King said Peter Green was the only blues player that ever made him sweat 😓.
Not Really
This is true
@@trevorgwelch7412 so, who is?
Peter playing that track really does give me goose bumps. The version from The Warehouse is the best sound quality, while the version from Stockholm 1970 is the best performance.
Don't know who Peter is and you play guitar, thats like a Christian saying he's never heard of Jesus of Nazareth 😭
Stockholm version is mind blowing. Way better than this
Another very soulful song Peter performed was his cover of a Little Willie John hit, "I Need Your Love So Bad". Green wrote "Black Magic Woman" which was performed by Fleetwood Mac, later covered by Santana and became a huge hit. Peter Green & Mike Bloomfield are two of my favorite guitarists from the 70's.
I heard Peter and Bloomfield on the same day. I will always associate them together. I bought me a Les Paul not to long after
Greatest guitar solo of all.
Opinions are like buttholes I guess!
Greeny was such a monster...technique, tone, feel, he had it all.
I have seen a wonderful documentary about the British blues players and B.B.King is interviewed in it... Of all the players, Eric included, he says the only one he feared was Peter. And no wonder.
His tone is truly extraordinary, and his ability to switch between hard and delicate just so in touch with the music
This has to be his best live performance
'I love that tone' said.....everyone that has ever heard Peter Green.
Gosh, that playing brings tears to my eyes.
This is my favourite reaction to any music video out there. I love to see your expression when Peter touches your soul, when he truly makes it ring. This is what guitar is all about.
Thanks for showing me how Peter's guitar always makes me feel I'm both dead and alive.
Great run down on my absolute HERO Peter Green. Awesome Michael you the man!
one great guitar player, R.I.P. peter.
That guitar is a legend! Is a 59 Les Paul commonly know as "greeny" burst. He sold it to Gary Moore for a couple of bucks and it was his main guitar for almost his entire career. Currently it belongs to Kirk Hammett who bought it for US$2M!!! you can currently see it live using it a lot. The neck pickup was flipped and out of phase, so had that special single coil like tone in the middle position big part of his distinctive tone in many Fleetwood Mac songs. He plays with Orange and Fender amps mainly.
Felipe. Mate. I stole your thunder. I have mentioned the "Greenie" story. Didn't see your post first. Apology to you man. Sorry.
..yeah peter green felt it.. his singing is something else as well as his playing i think.. the young 18/19yr old danny kirwan who was there with him, also a sensational guitar player and singer, (just so young).. as soon as danny joined F.M. bam! albatross came out and then they were flying.. man of the world, oh well (pt 1 and 2!), the album `then play on` green manilishi etc.. try danny`s `something inside of me` a great bluesy number.. also, check out `jumping at shadows` (i prefer it to `gotta a good mind to give up..`) on their live in boston albums and i think the track that immediately follows, `cant hold out` (elmore james song) by their slide player, jeremy spencer, just has me on the edge of my seat! falling off.. and head banging air guitar status quo style like an idiot!
what a superb band they were.. for a while..
thankyou for sharing the video, really good and interesting.. peter`s name caught my eye..
Yes sir,...you're facial expressions say it all! "That's the real stuff right there"! Expressions of powerful truthful emotions that Peter plays & sings are beyond descriptive words. Thanks for your tutorial breakdown, very useful 👍
How can one be a guitar teacher and have never heard of Peter Green? To my ears the best electric blues guitarist ever existed...
To my ears and heart too
He didn’t say he’d never heard of him, he said he’d never learnt anything by him. In fact in the very next sentence he says he’s aware of who he is so it kinda shows where your ears were.
I hope you will learn over time that PG was the finest blues guitarist ever. His tone, timing and touch are second to none. Even the best of FM 2.0 does not compare to the best of Peter Green’s FM.
Thank you, Peter's raw emotion just blue my mind! As the teaches says as he's almost brought to tears to"awesome". I would like to say this is Peter at his best but I say that so many times listening to the Green God.
Peter Green founded Fleetwood Mac and wrote Black Magic Woman and other great hits
almost forgot he wrote Green Manalishi With the 2 Pronged Crown - covered by Judas Priiest
Little factoid for you. Mac opened for the Dead on this night at the Warehouse. After the show, the Dead were famously “busted, down Bourbon Street” and thrown in the clink for carrying.
DUDE! So awesome. Always wanted to hear a breakdown of this track. I should have mentioned, a large part of Green's unique tone was due to his PAFs being wired out of phase from the factory. Kind of a happy accident that resulted in a guitar with super pronounced and unique dynamic qualities. Cheers!
Sean Nielsen love it! Thanks again for the track!!
Sean Nielsen the pickups were wired just like any other LP from the factory. What is supposed to have happened was an inept repair man messed with the wiring when he put the pick ups back. Peter realized this,liked the sound and duly kept it.
@@maxcuthbert100 ah yup I guess we both got it wrong, Green put it back wrong, full story here: www.guitarworld.com/gear/deep-secret-behind-peter-greens-magic-1959-les-paul-tone
@@Absraction It was the magnet, not the wiring. Gary Moore said they took apart the pickup, and the magnet was in the wrong way around, and had clearly not been tampered with, so it was like that from the factory. They switched around the correct way, and that tone vanished, so they unfixed it. The pickup being re-installed upside down has no effect in that realm, as far as I'm aware.
@@bfish89ryuhayabusa Not putting it upside down, but I've done this to one of my les pauls. I have a push/pull pot that reverses the polarity of the neck pickup, and when you play with both pickups active they become out of phase with each other. Upon further research it seems like Green's guitar had the magnet reversed and the wires switched.
I love how he didn't even stop the solo once. Just let it play all the way through. he wanted to a few times, but couldn't bring himself to do it :)
Peter Greens guitar was special in it set up on the pole pcs and the reversed magnets of his neck pick up and the three way switch in the center position it would become out of phase with the bridge pick up, One very special guitar. Peter was an outstanding musician and song writer. R.I.P. Peter Green. Never gona be forgotten.
You were correct. Loud tube amp
Drenched in reverb. Masterful touch and dynamics by Cranking the amp and playing soft then digging in.
Jimmy Page very similar
I thought Peter was the best.
I was at the Tea Party concert unforgettable
The "Live at the Boston Tea Party" tracks are legendary.
A truly broken heart that spoke to his guitar
I absolutely love this song by P.G.
I've had this recording on my playlist for a few years now. So emotive, so casual yet perfect.
Micheal, keep up the good work.
The Great Peter Green!!! I'm new to your channel. I'm very impressed Michael. Very impressed. Great ear and explanation of his magic . Thank you so much.
Peter Green ❤
Sounds like the whole band is in the space we all know exists but it’s difficult to explain with words. Finding that place alone is cool enough but when a group of people are there, the band and the crowd, is extraordinary.
So tight 😅
Goose bumps and tears...
That my friend is a '59 Les Paul into two cranked Fender Dual Showmans. One set clean, the other soaked in reverb which he switched between.
Bingo! I was there!
Peter green was definitely the king of feel and he definitely had an ear. I doubt he really knew a ton of theory
Peter Green guitar maestro incredible talent incredible track - god bless you Peter we’re still listening & enthralled - always will🎸🎶🙌🙏🌟
This is what I always think of our (UK) blues style after the US greats but Peter ad a special way. I saw him many times both with Mayall and with this band, we supported him twice in Bristol and Bath and he was a delightful man and completely self effacing. He even let me use his LP when my tele broke down. Lovely man and boy did he feel his music. I was priviledged.
You should listen to live versions of Fleetwood Mac Peter Green’s “Before the beginning” absolutely amazing tone
Amazing analysis of one of the greatest solos EVER! :-)
Peter, rest peacefully.
"I think Its all G minor Pentatonic"
This is the best and most emotional guitar piece ever! #PeterGreen was and always will be the greatest thing to ever happen to guitar...
G minor pentatonic. That sounds about right. I'll go with that.
Michael,
This is a summary of what I read on Peter Green over the years as a fan. He played mainly a specific 1959 Les Paul “Greeny’ in the early days. There is something known as Peter Green mod. Basically, the rumor goes while tinkering with the guitar he wanted to flip the front pickup cover. When he got the pickup out, he broke it down out of curiosity to see who it worked. When he put it back together it sounded different. Peter liked the sound so he left it. Years later a guitar tech inspected the guitar around the time Peter Green sold it to Gary Moore and it turns out that when Peter was messing with the pickup, he accidentally flipped the magnet when he put it back together which took the guitar out of phase when in the middle position giving it a strat type tone. Rumor is he toggled between front pick and middle position a lot and some songs stay in the middle position. Later years and when I saw him in early 2000’s he only played a strat.
Gary Moore hit some hard times and sold Greeny with it eventually ending up in Kirk Hammatt’s hands, who has no plans to sell it.
Also, check out Black Magic Woman and Albatross.
Thanks Jerry!!
Good guess. Peter played a1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard. HIs guitar playing sends a chill down my spine. It is poetry in motion. No no one like him on God’s green earth.
Glad you got some Peter Green. He was so modest and underated, yet so F*&#a** good!
This is terrific. Oddly, my favorite electric blues guitar solo ever is Michael Bloomfield's in the Butterfield Blues Band's cover of this same song on the East-West album. It's strange when one thinks about it that two of the greatest blues guitarists ever were urban Jewish guys. I thought you made a very good point at the end of Green's solo here when you said it was raw emotion. He is my favorite British blues guitarist, although Rory Gallagher has his moments. In the each case it was the emotional power that moves these guys to a higher level. To make a jazz comparison, many of the best British guitarists were all about technical brilliance, like Ella Fitzgerald - Beck, Page, Clapton to an extent - whereas Green was Lady Day. It wasn't that he was short on chops, but the music was about pain. He was wonderful,
Without a doubt, the best bluesman of all time
I noticed that you posted this 50yrs (to the day) after the live 'take' you analyzed. Jan.31st.1970-2020! And Peter Green died 😢 😕 💔 😔 😞 six months later, July 25th, 2020. Beyond coincidental! Such a valuable video for me. ✌️🤞🤘🤟🖖🤙LOVED IT!!!!
The face you made as the guitar screamed says so much lol
I swear I saw it melting bro.. . Rock on
Genuinely upset when Peter left us. One of the greatest players
Us Green fans understand his pain and the courage it took him to express his demons using his power of his emotions through his fingers. He was an intrevert who had the gift of an alternate way to express his suffering. He is laying his feeling's on stage for all to see and I can feel his tears as he explodes knowing he owes the audience all he can express regardless of the price he will have to pay. His playing is top shelf but his courage is to be applauded. As said "Green is a badass" and rises to his potential as the Green God. Their is no other that effects me the way Peter does. I was sold on Peter when he was a Blues breaker.
Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac) with Jumping At Shadows from Live In Boston is my favorite of his.
Ruud van der Stappen my fellow Dutchmen! What a great choice, you should check out Before the Beginning of Shrine ‘69
Michael, you have a great ear 👂, perfect pitch, very fluent vocabulary of arpeggios, scales ⚖️ and chord voicing. You've earned my subscription and I look forward to advancement of my knowledge of the fretboard
I will say what some other dude said in the "Apache" video. I can't believe that as a guitar teacher you didn't know Peter Green. If you take time to listen to more stuff of his, you will probably agree with me that this guy surely was one of the greatest blues guitarist ever, pionneers included.
BB loved Peter Green's guitar playing
Key takeaways, "Greens a badass", love it.
I’m 41 barely found him a month ago Watching this knowing I was you so short ago. I teared up then laughed now I know how right I was. **Don’t you touch that button
There is another killer live version of this song by Paul Butterfield blues band where Bloomfield goes off
The guitar is a Lee Paul hooked up to a Marshall amp. The guitar is famous for it's tone sound which is said to have had the polarity changed either at the factory or by Peter himself. The guitar is named "Green" and was sold to Kurt Gannett of Bushes Priest fame, the guitar was given to Gary Moore in 1970 for a few hundred dollars as a gift. Kurt Gannett paid two million dollars for the guitar after Gary sold it to a private dealer. Nobody has ever played Green like Peter has especially in this BB King song here. Peter was able to understand the pain of being an outsider due to his Jewish heritage he interprets the mournful tones with a truthfulness that allowed emotion to pour from his fingertips. These attributes that Peter displays is why many original black blues guitarist consider Peter one of a few white men who has endured the pain to be a true blues guitarist. Being a Jew in London was similar to the pain a black man endured in America.
People forget what a brilliant voice he ad
RIP Peter Green
I know this is an old video, but i cant beleive this went under the radar for me...NobodY EVERRRRRR played guitar with so much emotion, like this! You can feel his pain, and the singing is just as good....Its GM F eb D...Then it goes into a 12 bar blues, gm cm d7#9 So that beginning progression, acts like an intro, and then chorus...He was out of his mind for years already when he did this song and it sounds to me he was at his best....I notice he can make the blues svale sound like classical guitar lol...theres a live version where you can hear the crowd sighing and applauding at once, he takes it to another level, B.B. KINg, said out of all the young blues guys, in the 60s coming from london and America, That Peter Green was the only guitar player he ever felt something supernatural from And the only one that gave him the chills! If that doesnt hold water? what does? lol? AMAZINGGGGGGGGG! had a tough life!
Peter Green exhibited a direct connection between his heart, head his fingers and a Higher Power. Peter was in pain and was blessed with the gift to explain this pain though his guitar. Bless The Green God for the music he left behind for the many to enjoy and showed us how to release these demons with his gift as the best white blues guitarist I ever encountered. I would of loved to hear this version without interpretation, even though v I do appreciate the comments. Peter was a special person who gave of himself till he could not give no more, their was too much pain involved.
Beautifully played as always, but I just love Peter Green's VOICE.
Peter Green is the absolute GOAT
I am in full agreement I have been following the "Green God"for over 50 years and never has he disappointed I believe his work on the "Then Play On LP conquered all and his work with John Mayall says a lot about his comparisons to Eric Clapton and Mick Taylor.
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Peter Green is the Greatest Blues player God put on this earth. R.I.P.
This takes me back to the days. Maybe you could break down Roy Buchanan one of the other great bluesman of the 60s and 70s that died. Depression is a killer but Roy could wail on the Tele as good as any and far better than most
Michael the guitar used in the song is a famous Gibson Les Paul. It was first owned by Peter Green, then Gary Moore and is now owned by Kirk Hammett.
So great just wish there were more videos of Peter playing live. A master in voice, tone and playing.
I'm sure someone has said, this is Peter's out of phase LP. One of my fave solos EVER. This one can rip your heart out. Great analysis & reaction.
The next three shows they played after this, in Boston on February 5, 6, and 7, were professionally recorded. They leaked as bootlegs in the 80s, and were officially released in the early 2000s, but had a live album been released back then, it would be the standard by which other live albums are measured. The second show includes a 25 minute performance of "Rattlesnake Shake" that is effectively a medley with the instrumental jams "Fighting for Madge" and "Under Way". These feature astounding twin lead performances and great interplay all around.
Highly recommended. It's my favorite live recording, bar none.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing
@@Guitargate Of course! I should note that if you look it up, there are two similar performances from the Boston shows. Both are awesome, but the second night is THE one. The first night, they don't quite hit everything as perfect, and it fades out just before the ending.
And don’t sleep on the Jumpin at Shadows either. Peter is absolute fire. That tone, that tone is just so damn beautiful! In the immortal words of BB King, "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats." 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Yes night 2 is THE one to listen to.
Awesome presentation and analysis of a truly awesome performance. Classic!
Love this guy. His knowledge amazes me, i learn so much by watching these reactions.
This was and still is my all time favorite solo of Peter Green at the Ware house, in New Orleans, they had all taken acid just before going on. How they pulled it off, I don't know. But man its killer. 59 Gibson Les Paul, probably the most famous one of them all. Thank You Michael for your in sight on this and how he plays it. I'll check out your website.
I’m gonna continue to watch this video many times. Because like a song that captures so have you in this.