Thread: Vale Peter Green - Co-Founder of Fleetwood Mac

Many years ago a favorite LP was the Hard Road album by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. Peter Green penned and played one of the better songs on that. The Super natural.

Ah! Peter Green, where do you start. Beautiful guitar tone with loads of reverb. A vibrato technique to die for. Stunningly fluid single note solos. Songs that every budding blues guitar player in the '60's tried to emulate, (and some of us still do). Composer of the ethereal "Albatross".
Not to mention "Black Magic Woman" "Man Of The World" et. al. All I can say is "Oh Well" there goes another guitar icon.
He bought the "Greeny" Les Paul for $300 equivalent in 1966 then sold it to Gary Moore ,insisting that Moore only pay what he had paid for it originally because it was going to a "good home". The guitar then went to a dealer and was bought not long ago for $2,000,000!! by Kirk Hammett from Metallica. Not sure what Peter would have thought about that.
Pour a whisky and listen to" Albatross" then" The Supernatural" then "The Same Way" then" The Green Manalishi" then" Need Your Love So Bad" then..... A man with a few personal demons finally gone but leaving an amazing musical legacy.

Peter.

Originally Posted by TasD90

He bought the "Greeny" Les Paul for $300 equivalent in 1966 then sold it to Gary Moore ,insisting that Moore only pay what he had paid for it originally because it was going to a "good home".

Which Gary used on the “Blues for Greeny” album to bring it full circle. Worth a listen if you haven’t.