John Mayall - Peter Green "The Stumble" LIVE 1967
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2010
- John Mayall used to record his concerts on a simple reel-to-reel recorder. Surprisingly little material with Peter Green on guitar has emerged, but here's a lengthy version of Freddie King's "The Stumble", incidentally with future Fleetwood Mac rhythm section comprising John McVie and Mick Fleetwood. So this must have been early 1967 as Fleetwood was only in the Bluesbreakers for a couple of weeks in the spring of that year.
I can't believe how long he sustains the power of this solo. I saw Freddie King in his prime and though he was wonderful, he couldn't have gone on with layer after layer of actual solo ascending in intensity like Green here. Broomfield had that capacity as well. A great tape. And remembering John Mayoll tonight. Beano changed my life.
John Mayall should have a statue, an award named after him, certainly be in the RRHOF. Truly a great musician.
He should get a Grammy anyway. And be considered among the jam band blues players.
People forget just how great Freddie King was. Everyone talks about The Stumble, Hideaway, Have you Ever Loved a Woman, Someday You Will Be Sorry and not realize they are all Freddie King songs. I love all of these versions. My first turn on to the blues was seeing Freddie King on a PBS show called Sound Stage and I was awestruck. From that day forward I have loved the blues. This is all awesome!
A few guitarists have inspired me in my 69 yrs. The first was Duane Eddy, closely followed by Hank Marvin. Then I discovered Blues... Jeff Beck became my favourite for a long time, until I got blown away by a guy called Jimi Hendrix. I thought Clapton was good, but he just didn’t do it for me. In the late 60’s, the Manager of my band played me ‘ Need your love so bad’ by Fleetwood Mac. The feeling that Peter wrung out of every note left me struggling for breath. For the next couple of years, no other guitarist existed... Rest in Peace, Peter, one day I hope to jam with you in a place we know as heaven.
Jeff Beck is separate category👌
Mayall was the stepping stone for blues musicians, half of Fleetwood mac went thru his band. Plus Taylor played for the stones. Saw Mayall with green at the whiskey often when I was a kid.
Do people know just how valuable - in musical terms - this is? No wonder Green was held in such high esteem. Amazing post.
This is one of the best jamming session i ever heard!!!Rest in peace Peter Green!!!
Don't forget Rory Gallagher man he is probably one of the most under appreciated musicians, yet one of the greatest
I was really fortunate to see him playing at Lanchester Polytechnic. The only guitarist I have heard who made time stand still. Amazing
I was probably at the same gig, we travelled over from Rugby College of Engineering Technology. Great times and we were at Lanchester Poly when Mick Taylor played with John Mayall. That year the Rag Ball was at the Matrix and Cream were the main act.
The hairs on the back of my neck are standing on end so much feeling in Peters playing, this is British blues at it’s best. 👌🎸
I've never heard Green put down Clapton or vice versa. It's just the fans who fight over it. They both speak well of each other.
Holy crap he rung that les Paul's neck with no effects just a cranked up Marshall and god given fingers, wish I had been there. there are now 2 gods to worship. rip Peter
Peter Green was in a class all by himself. Spectacular playing.
Anyone who's ever recorded themselves playing a gig or at a rehearsal room with a full band knows how exciting this is. Factor in that it's PETER GREEN playing for seven minutes straight and it gets even better! A whole world of difference between PG and EC as Bluesmen!
One of the best guitarists of all time, Peter was just a genius.
Had the good fortune to see this line up just after PG joined the band in 1966. The impact on my 17 year old mind has lasted to this day, totally unforgettable. Also saw the original Fleetwood Mac several times, marvellous, but to me the Buesbreakers will always be something extra special. What a star Greenie was.
That tone is to die for
Rhythm section to die for! Mayall always has drummers that can play a blues shuffle and boy can Mick!
NO words for that, Green is superb, no one can match him.
He's like a perfect Clapton. All the tones/pitches Eric couldn't hit. Peter nailed it ❤
I mean damn he’s what 21 here? That’s insane to be playing this good and sustain a solo like this for so long. I’m 47 been playing for decades and can’t play anywhere near this haha. It’s crazy how great at such a young age and the maturity in the playing.
Carlos Santana once said his mother watched him play his guitar and asked "Where do you go?". Sometimes when you play a beam of energy seems to come down from somewhere, shines right through the top of your head, filters down through to your fingers and lights up everything you play with inspiration. Sounds like the beam was shining bright as it ever could here. Fantastic playing.
I once heard Carlos Santana say that, whenever Fleetwood Mac (the original FM) played in the USA, he would always go see them if he could as he loved to listen to Peter Green.
Incredible! Wonderful to have this version.
Blues is ALL about the feeling...
Let us all give a big Thank You to Freddie King !! He was surely an inspiration to all the Great English and Irish Guitarists. Clapton , Beck , Taylor, Green , Dave Edmunds , Gary Moore and Rory Gallagher have all covered his song .
Freddie enjoys himself when playing guitarist. More over he smlies when playing .
As far as i'm concerned Rory never played The Stumble.
you have forgotten Stan Webbs chicken shack, he should be mentioned too
@@mrgordons Sorry for the super late reply , I never mentioned that he cover " The Stumble . "
I said that he covered Freddie King.
@@hans-rb9dd Christine Mcvie band right ?
What you have to remember is that Peter Green was only 20 years old and was previously a bass player when he did this.
John McVie was 21 as was Mick Fleetwood. None of them went to "Institutes of Modern Music" or the like, either.
Are you youngsters of today listening?
grazza2 bass I certainly am
He was great because he respected the music comes first ✌🏿✌️
RIP Peter Green - what an inspiration!
Actually: How can ANYONE be this good??
Peter was the best man ,John ever had 💚💚💚
Only Freddie does it as much justice.
Bravo, man.
Gary Moore Dave Edmunds both have great versions.
That's right. Edmunds' Love Sculpture rendition is a (the) high lite of the album.
With all the versions I have heard over the years, this still remains my favorite even with the horrendous audio. Whenever I hear this version, I am humbled to hear a young kid play a guitar like this.
In the early sixties in England every village had a band or two let alone the towns and city's they had a band on every street. ...out of the passion for the music and drive to be the best the likes of Peter Green and many others appeared. ...I despair when I think of the youth of today playing fortnight and not feeling as one with many others shareing and enjoying live music....
Pete Green absolute brilliant
I keep finding Peters stuff on here and he is astonishing is there anyone out there today who can play this good ?? Long live Peter Green your truly amazing
I am not sure there was anyone out there in Peter's day either
@@lyndonlisk8961 yeah out of the blues purists in that day I think Green was the best, I just feel like the Fleetwood Mac wasn’t the best band for him, I felt like his guitar playing would’ve stood better if it was just him playing, I felt like the other guitars were distracting in that band
This is the best blues era. Shortly after this blues died, only to be encapsulated for people living in later centuries to behold its legend.
What a great bass line superb rhythm section here
A spectacular moment in music.
Couldn't agree more. Peter love Eric...and Eric has praised Peter. It's all part of that great scene....we're lucky to have them both!!!
Wow, one forgets what a monster Peter Green was in those days.
I foir one never forgot..
This is an absolutely incredible performance! This is over 7 minutes of fiery soloing! anyone that plays an instrument and knows how to improvise will recognize what an amazing thing Greeny has done here. To sustain our interest for all of those 7 minutes and hardly repeat himself is astounding and outstanding. Proof that Peter Green did not get his just deserts in the Blues world. He never craved it like any true artist. He had and has a real Blues heart.
Jim Labos put, brother
Jim Labos meant WELL put
a real blues heart. seriously. i listened to a version of this he did in 2009, on youtube. same heart, same things you said, not lost in advancing age, if anything, more richness and texture, i wouldn't call it firey, but thick rich tone, flowing expressive improvisation, just unforced creativity, playing moves that are first nature to him, from his heart and soul.
the amt. of on the spot improvisation is completely incredible..best o' the lot...by far..
beautifully put, and now that he's gone!
This guitar playing is astonishing - despite the poor recording. No one on the planet could equal this in 1967. Not Hendrix, not Clapton, not Beck. The accuracy, tone, feel and speed is other-worldly. I knew he would play the improvised parts very differently to the 'Hard Road' version of this song - and here we have it. The young PG who was working between '66 - '70 was a giant.
and he wasn't even 21
Don't agree Eric could and did but that really was great thank you 🎸🙂
Peter Green r.i.p
When Peter hits that vibrato on top of a tone bend ! It’s the greatest sound ever 🎶✌🏻 The man was a blues God
All I can say is thank you thank you thank you. I have been a Peter Green fan all my life, and to my ears there is no one, not anyone, who ever played blues guitar with the feel and phrasing he has. I have never heard this recording before, and although I have listened endlessly to most of his output, there are bits of this that just made my heart sing. Thank you!
If there ever was a real British blues cat that everyone can respect,. including B. B. and all the dudes he played with on Blues Jam in Chicago, it's Greeny. And on this track, he just keeps going and going and going....
How good does it get..... this good, thank God.
This the most amazing version of Freddie King's classic instrumental; chorus after chorus of inspired playing. Truly phenomenal!
There was a reason why JM thought (when asked) that Peter may have been the best of the lot of the great guitarists he's had in his stable, at it had more to do with his ability to write, sing, play and produce than just play the guitar. To call Peter a great guitarist is not incorrect, but is certainly incomplete. He was that and a whole hell of a lot more.
Totally agree. For me, both Taylor and Green were unbelievable..... Clapton not so much. Green had that unmistakeable tone and sustain..... Taylor had impeccable melody.... Glad we have them both to listen to!
But without the 'Beano' Clapton both Green and Taylor would have sounded different. EC was a huge influence on both of them.
@@gibson3524 Definitely agree with you. Clapton was the one
who got the English blues rock style and sound star-
ted. That Marshall, dimed up, with the '60 Les Paul burst
is the shit. Greenie, Mick Taylor, Frampton, all of them.
They took their first page from EC's Beano guitar sound
and playing. Peter Green was a great player and com-
plete musician. He made the most of every note he
played. BB King said PG's vibrato made the hair on his
neck stand up. You can say the same about Eric. They
all had the same idea and made it happen, but EC was
first. They beat American blues players at their own
game, really. And not to forget the ground breaking work
of Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. Can you imagine one
band having three lead players like Clapton, then Beck,
then Page, like the Yardbirds did? Crazy.
I agree with @@richardladroga2161 *AND* Gibbo, *AND* Katie, Sssthpok, & Steven Grant [!!!!!]
@@richardladroga2161 Clapton made the British blues guitar solo template. All were getting a lot from Freddie King but it was more about say Clapton's cover of Hideaway than original
Outstanding playing. ... As for the recording, a person named Tom Hussen living over here in the UK at that time, (as a young blues enthusiast) he would attend the John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers gigs at various London pubs, recording several on his small portable tape recorder. Some years afterwards, he offered CD copies of his tapes to fellow blues enthusiasts before eventually being able to have them made fully 'legit' via liaision with John Mayall himself. Seem to recall that John Mayall was then able to arrange high-end studio editing to 'clean them up' as best as could be done 'quality-wise', yet still retaining that vital raw 'essence' of a live late 60's pub gig. ... Concerning Tom Hussen himself, he ended up playing bass in a Dutch band called 'John the Revelator' who would often cover Peter Green's work.
What a rhythm section! Oh and course Greeny!
absolutely brilliant.
I've always thought the version on "A Hard Road" was too short. This is much more powerful. Thanks.
Rollickin' blues from Peter Green! Watch the clips of him with Jeremy Spencer live in Paris circa 1967 wowee.. its exhilarating, greats like Eric, B.B. King, Hendrix, Richard Thompson, Dicky Betts, Duane Allman, Pacific Gas and Electric....there's so many. We're lucky listeners
Yes he was one of the best, still is, I saw this lineup in Stockholm about that time and my perception about guitar playing and tone changed that very day. I still have that feeling of incredible emotion listening to Peter Green, yes he was the "Green God"
fantasic musician
Great ! saw them at the Ram Jam club in early '67 and a blues enthusiast ever since .
Relentless.
I'm lost for superlatives! - such exciting playing - it's almost a relief when it stops (it's all too beautiful! - does sound like Hideaway - hats off to Mr Green!
20 years old...He hadn't been heard of a year earlier. Incredible. From 2.27 on..it's not about the amount of notes, how he feels out each bend. The man was so gifted...and talk about timing. He is constantly pushing the envelope here. Just a slight step ahead of the rhythm. Absolute masterclass in improvisational blues. 6.45 onward...bring it home Peter baby!
John still records his live shows, on DAT when I was in there.
Always appreciated your tasteful and articulate playing with Mayall.
Mental. Just ..... awesome playing. just ... What ? PG stepped into the music, played like the devil, completely one with the frets, the rhythm section ..... so good.
This is propably the best. version I've ever heard of this song
I used to watch Peter play stumble with John Mayal.Pint in one hand ciggy in the other,bliss.
First time I‘be heard this live version. Thought the version on hard road was great but this unbelievable! Over the top! One of the best solos I’ve ever heard If not the best. Peter Green Was and is one of the most under appreciated guitarists that ever played. What an immense talent.
National treasure.....lovely playing...!!!!
Beautiful.
Peter Green feels it.. he doesn't just play the notes.
Oh' Well.
Totally brilliant there's no one out there today can get near this bless you Peter your amazing
Jeff Beck & Yardies covered this ala BBC '66!! As for this version Peter is SMOKIN" !!!!!! Reminds of Clapton's "Steppin Out" from Live Cream Vol. II - NO SHIT!!
Brilliant that it's been captured at all, but imagine what a hifi recording would've sounded like...
Thank you for posting , a great record of those time both in sound and vision . Fantastic and so wish I could have been there myself but I was just a little boy at the time despite Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac playing a club two hundred yards up my road in 1967. I was just four and the students who lodged with my Mother came back and played their record all night .
Craig McTaggart know the feeling
It's beyond epic. The tone, the playing............just so good.
wow this is just amazing never heard any live PG w JM .....GREAT
PG is sure enough ON FIRE!
Amazing Peter Green and only a teenager at the time. He was still emulating the departed E Clapton when playing with Mayall but soon became quite the original in Fleetwood Mac. Good stuff! thanks for sharing..........
It was about this time that I saw them in a greyhound stadium in Plymouth Devon and wow it was wonderful!!!
fantastic, just amazing how such great music has been preserved. Peter Green is fanastic here. awesome!
Just scary. What a force. He had all the tools. Now I know for sure why I stopped playing. I am humbled before the Green God.
Don't give up it's not about being able to play like your the devil Peter would tell you play because it makes you feel happy and that's all that matters
Wow. Blistering. A genius at the top of his game. I think the guy cheering at the end liked it to haha!
The quality is GREAT because it captures the real grittiness of the gig.
Just melted.
Incendiary !!!!!! What a fantastic cover slightly different of the version he did later with Fleetwood Mac
Listening to this reminds me why music today does not move me.
Incredible
This is the probably the best electric guitar solo that I've ever heard- listen to the right hand/left hand coordination. Just a Les Paul into a Marshall JTM 45 (I think that's what it was)… IMHO, Peter Green was the best blues guitarist that Britain ever produced. Thanks for posting.
richard mayers Ive seem and heard that he used a lot of fender amps too
@@maxmunzert9725 He did use Fenders... and later Orange amps, but he was using a Marshall with Mayall.
Let me recommend another one to you. Listen to the live version of "I've Got a Mind to Give Up Living" recorded by Fleetwood Mac in New Orleans. There are several versions out there, but that one, when they were sharing a gig with the Grateful Dead, is the one I point out to people as perhaps the most perfectly developed solo ever.
@@selmer862 I agree, I stumbled across that song 2-3 years ago and it's staggeringly good, need to be in the right mood to give it additional listens as it leaves you breathless and dazed. I have yet to hear a solo of that magnitude before or since. I always knew Peter was one of a kind, but after hearing that guitar work he is for me easily placed in the pantheon of guitar Gods, and maybe even the Zeus! The other rare solo from him where he really let's loose is Otis Rush's "It Takes Time", just brilliant soloing and feel for the tempo in that beat is painfully good! The backing rhythm and groove set down by Danny is out of sight.
This is so good, thanks for uploading this man.
This was brilliant..a revelation...hats off to Gibbo...and for the 9 psychos who gave this a thumbs down..I will pray for your tin ears and heads of shit. I am not a guitarist...but I have been living on this stuff for almost 50 years, and it was a testimonial to Peter Green to play in this genre and not sound like a Clapton copycat.
My hat is off to you for calling out these dumb asses. Thank You
No need to insult people.
@@jean-marieboucherit4716 After all, being a tin-eared imbecile is not a moral failing.
@@jean-marieboucherit4716 After all, being a tin-eared imbecile is not a moral failing.
RManFlint I love I worship Peter Green but I don’t insult people who disagree with me, wi try to convince them. I am a musical democrat
This is awesome real amazing .!
Thank you so much😊
Great, isn't it? Interesting to hear how really great peter was live! Those old Marshall amps were terrific. Thanks for sharing!
This is great stuff. Thanks for such a wonderful collection.
Was lucky enough to hear a good deal of this live, thought I would never
hear some of it again. Thanks so much!!!!
Saw them @ The Shrine in the late 60"s...if you were a player, be prepared to be humbled!
This is the Peter Green song meant to be an update of Hideaway from Eric on the Beano album. Green is amazing, and got even better- as good as they get.
This is the lineup on the first John Mayall gig I ever saw. I think Aynsley Dunbar had left very recently and Pete had introduced Mick Fleetwood to John Mayall. Sensational!
Wonderful stuff. Golden days, gone forever.
this is audio gold. he was SO good..
R.I.P. Greeny
Sensational!
of all the versions I've heard thru the years I always seem to come back to this Mayall version with peter green, It's always been my favorite. the nuance and feeling that green puts into this stumble is not overpowering, but it's the one that has always stuck with me, shame we lost him so early.
Thanks for posting. great vintage pictures and the master at work. I hope John The Revelator will be able to release the rest of his trove one day. If they are anywhere near as good as this we will really be in for a treat.
Really into the vibes of these soundscapes!
GOLD....!!!"!
This what it was all about back then, terrific.
One of the best blues-rock guitar solo ever!
Yest straight from the amp. beautiful