Peter Green has been my hero guitarist for as many years since 1968 as today 2022 we all know he is gone to the big stage in the sky. I hope I get to see him playing when my time comes. R.I.P. Peter Green.
Saw this version of the Splinter Group in the summer of '97 at the Wiesen Festival in Austria. Couldn't believe my eyes when I witnessed Neil Murray and Cozy Powell on stage with the legendary Mr. Green as I had no idea they were in his band at the time. They played Black Magic Woman, Albatross, Green Manalishi ... great songs, great memories. Little did I know that this would have been the first and only time I'd see Cozy on stage ... interesting to note that he was not just one hell of a (hard) rock drummer drummer but could also fit into a blues oriented outfit like this easily - and quite wonderfully.
When Cozy first started I met him while he was in Turkey. The next fall I spent three weeks at his home in Cirencester. I was 17. We became best friends and for years we wrote each other. We never saw each other again but it was a friendship I will treasure forever! I miss you Cozy! I am now 68 but it was like it was yesterday.
As an old musician of no importance, I remember Peter playing with the Looners, John Mayall's Blues Band & the Mac, he never regained his skills & mastery of the guitar, although there were flashes of it now & again. He also never attempted any composition as part of the Splinter Group, his vocals were shot & other guitarists filled out & compensated for him. Fellow musicians felt a lot of compassion for Peter & tried to ignite the old fire within him. Even Carlos Santana, who covered Black Magic Woman & made it a hit in America, by giving it a Hispanic twist, tried to coax the musical genius back out of Peter, by having him play on stage during the song Peter had written, but it just didn't happen ! Before the inception of the Splinter Group, Snowy White had played most of the guitar work on Peter's Slabo Day Album. Peter himself admitted, once he'd recovered as much as he was going to mentally, that he'd never come down from his last acid trip from years ago & had done far too much acid & mescal. He'd also still carried on using both prolifically & as a functioning guitarist, after the so called Munich Incident, which according to Mac band members, he never recovered from, Peter denied this, saying it was the most spiritual music he'd ever played. He'd already decided to leave Fleetwood Mac after Munich & had originally named his band after Mick Fleetwood & John McVie, because as he told them, he might want to move on & they still had a band, with a name they could use for as long as they liked. Peter's is a long, tragic story, which has affected not only him, but his family & loved ones, he never knew his American daughter or British son, nor did he try. He just wasn't capable of being a father to either of them, due to his own mental fragility & after finally finding a comfort zone after years of torment, he wouldn't/couldn't step out of it !
@@theseeker4642 Thankyou. Yes, also the documentation on YT gives not only a flavour of it. What I meant (and my phrasing was inadequate enough) was just that camera angle on his profile while playing. I have no words for that whole 'miracle' anyway. But that few black and white clips and what can be read on sessions in Chicago etc. do speak to me. I think when one tries to play guitar and the Blues in particular he or she might stumble over such magic connection. 🌻
Just found this. Thanks for posting. I always was a big fan of Cozy's truly one of the great Rock Drummer's ever. I think people unfortunately forget how great he was.
Was very fortunate to have seen Mr. Peter Green with Fleetwood Mac...He was such a soulful Guitar player...He is certainly in the group of the "greatest to ever play guitar", I was wondering if he's gone back to the Hollow Body Gibson yet...it was his great and unique sound...Love Peter Green.
I can't believe people are slagging this off.. He looks really animated here and you can see glimpses of the old Peter, plus his guitar playing was ace..
+Heather Stewart I agree. We have to consider what this man has been through. Try electric shock and see what that does to you. I think that he looks great and all things considered - job well done :)
+Dean Murphy Agreed. It's astounding anyone would dose this legend and then put him in the hands of psychiatrists to pretty much finish him off. I'm amazed at how well he did do. God bless him. Seems they usually go after the greats.
I saw Splinter Group on one of the nights Cozy wasn't with them - he was rehearsing with Page and Plant for a possible Zep thing. Little did I know then, that I wouldn't get to see him again. Him and Bonzo were percussion masters. RIP both of them.
I was there, stage right. In a couple of shots you can see my left arm. There is a shot of me right at the end but it's covered by the tribute to Cozy. I was Peter's guitar tech during the Splinter Group period and I have fond memories of the time spent with him, the band, Neil, Cozy, Spike & Nigel & the crew, Howard, Tim & Bevo!
Peter Green at his best exhibits a direct connection between his head, hands his fingers and a higher power. Peter was always a spiritual person and and played with his soul letting his pain come from his fingertips. His love of Chico and Delta Blues is always Everdent.
Oh god, this is epic but I will be honest here... The first couple of seconds were the song began... I thought "Oh... they sound so low" and I was almost disappointed but then... there's a moment when everyone sound so young... Cozy was still too powerful and Peter Green with his soul on his guitar and my jaw dropped down when I heard Cozy's drumming... I'm speechless right now.
As suggested by Bob Harris, I can say 'I was there'! The band I was in was booked for the Guildford festival, at the time the headline act was Eddi Reader. A few weeks before the festival there suddenly appeared slapped over all the ads "And Peter Green Splinter Group". After our set I met up with my girlfriend & we watched Peter's set, a wonderful moment I never thought would happen, and he was great, My band supported him a few years later, and I've met him a few times. Nice bloke.
Saw Peter Green at Whitley Bay a couple of years ago in a small venue called the Dome, he's voice and guitar playing were subdued but it was great to see a true ledgend
Sounds like this is part of a documentary. And the "make or break" folk & blues festival they were playing at was my home town. Pity I'd left it by then. But Eric Clapton was also a local. Born and brought up 7 miles north of Guildford and now living about 10 miles south of it.
I saw Peter a few times in the years since this initial comeback and I'm still not sure whether he's lost his mojo or whether he just adamantly does not want to tread ground he has already trod. Mick Fleetwood in his new book subscribes to the latter view. Me, I'm afraid I have to conclude the former, i.e. that the Munich LSD stole his mojo.
I get the gist of what your saying, but the reality is more complex than that. Clearly the LSD incident in Germany affected both Peter and Danny, but I don't think it can be denied that both released excellent albums after 1970. The primary cause of PG's inability to play to same level as he did with Mayall and FM was increasingly severe mental illness; namely paranoid schizophrenia. The ECT therapy he received to counter this clearly didn't help matters.
He didn't look ready. looked like he'd rather be anywhere but there. In his day, brilliant. But leave the guy alone to do what HE wants at his own pace.
I have very fond memories of seeing them play in Whitesnake bake in the 80s. It remains one of THE very best gigs that I have ever been to (and I've seen plenty of bands).
Hi everyone! Cozy Powell fans have launched a petition to remember him with a memorial in his home town. Please join us and sign: www.change.org/p/councillor-joe-harris-a-plaque-to-remember-cozy-powell Thanks. :-)
Watching this is like having a beautiful dinner (Mignon/Lobster), and then...washing it down--WITH A BOTTLE OF PISS!!! BB King said a long time ago, when Green was in his prime, Peter was the only guitarist that made him sweat!! Having seen the original group and the Kirwan lineup--once at the Eastown(Detroit), and at the Grande Ballroom(Detroit)--this band was about the only English group that could legitimately pull off American Blues---Bar None!!! When they were firing on all 8, nobody could touch em'. Fortunate to see them at the Grande BallRoom, the Mac were Super Popular in Detroit. With maybe 150 people in attendance(Blizzard), they put on one Helluva Show!!! God bless them All.
Jim Lujack here.......seen fleetwood mac with peter green same venues....i heard fleetwood mac...too smoky. seen a lot of groups at Eastown and Grande ( original one and the 'newer Grande.).......I did a lot of drugs back then and messed up my brain. I think....Jethro Tull, Traffic, etc and for like 3.00 or 5.oo ...those were the days I thought would never end!
Our favorite band at the Grande Ballroom was Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. We went every time they were there and also saw them at the Birmingham Palladium. That night, Peter borrowed John Cory's Strat, with sky-high strings for finger picking "Blackbird" and made it sound like his '59 Les Paul. The true master of volume and tone. He said he forgot to bring his guitar. A lot of drugs in the old days.
I'm late to this party, I know. I was also at the Eastown gig and rate it in my top concerts ever. Here's a link to all the Eastown shows: www.motorcitymusicarchives.com/eastowncal.html.
He so called lost his mind as you put it. Do you know what really happened? After just landing in Germany Peter was invited and push to go to a party during which many at the party would drop LSD-25 into his glass three whole days of these assholes tripping Peter up he never recovered from that party nor did Danny kersner if I’m spelling his name correctly. I hate what those cheap fuxks did to Peter . I’ve seen a video telling about the party and what happened to Peter, interviewing Mick Fleetwood and others who recalled that missing weekend and what Peter came back as a lost manic mind. I hate what they did to this brilliant guitarist.
Hell, i just noticed something in this video---AT 0:08 a Jet plane flies into the backside of Greenbaum's Head and then exit's his nostrils? It's No wonder why this guy is invincible?!!!! hahaha **R.i.P. Cozy
Wow, this shows how drugs really killed his playing. He was such a force in '67-70. His tone has some remnants, but technique wise he's either burned out or really rusty. As good as he was, I'm thinking it's the former.
Peter can no longer play with the power and pain coming thru each note. Peter put his pain into his music because he had no other outlet. Peter paid the price and had to move on in 1970. He no longer wants to live in the pain surrounding the blues, he is content to live on at a older age and get back to playing his immortalized hits . He paid his price, it's time we rewarded him with our love
wenn peter spricht versteht man als ausländer kein wort, denn er murmelt so unverständliches englisch, das war aber immer schon so, denn in seinem video aus den 60igern redet er auch so das man nichts verstehen kann. ich habe cozy p. beim ersten splinter group konzert in deutschland sehen können.
I think Peter should play with Aynsley Dunbar again, he's amazing. I found Cozy too heavy handed especially here, he wanted to play like Bonham but this needed more finesse or sympathy for the band
+zionisimkills True Zion', but for the most part, the early Mac were a boozing' band--Blame the UN/gRaTeFools Dead for hooking most of Fleetwood on Acid when they toured with them! Also, Peter Green was a Schizophrenic--giving Green aCiD was like pouring Thermite on the Sunn!!!
+aminor1950 Ya', the Sunn Amps reference was used only because of it's musical content. Sunn never made speakers, but the early amps had a Smiley Sun face--haha. Thermite is used in very High Temperature applications, like incendiary Bombs and World Trade Towers demolition!!! A combination of fine aluminum and iron oxide.
God bless Cozy and Peter both of them were otherworldly in their talents, absolutely beautiful players of their respective instruments
Peter Green has been my hero guitarist for as many years since 1968 as today 2022 we all know he is gone to the big stage in the sky. I hope I get to see him playing when my time comes. R.I.P. Peter Green.
I am not going. I just want to be know as that old man that just would not die with my strat in my hand
Saw this version of the Splinter Group in the summer of '97 at the Wiesen Festival in Austria. Couldn't believe my eyes when I witnessed Neil Murray and Cozy Powell on stage with the legendary Mr. Green as I had no idea they were in his band at the time. They played Black Magic Woman, Albatross, Green Manalishi ... great songs, great memories. Little did I know that this would have been the first and only time I'd see Cozy on stage ... interesting to note that he was not just one hell of a (hard) rock drummer drummer but could also fit into a blues oriented outfit like this easily - and quite wonderfully.
When Cozy first started I met him while he was in Turkey. The next fall I spent three weeks at his home in Cirencester. I was 17. We became best friends and for years we wrote each other. We never saw each other again but it was a friendship I will treasure forever! I miss you Cozy! I am now 68 but it was like it was yesterday.
WOW! I would have loved to have met Cozy. He is a hero to me.
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It is amazing to see Peter Green regaining his former self while doing ... I deeply love his guitar playing and singing within the old Mac 🌻☮️
As an old musician of no importance, I remember Peter playing with the Looners, John Mayall's Blues Band & the Mac, he never regained his skills & mastery of the guitar, although there were flashes of it now & again. He also never attempted any composition as part of the Splinter Group, his vocals were shot & other guitarists filled out & compensated for him. Fellow musicians felt a lot of compassion for Peter & tried to ignite the old fire within him.
Even Carlos Santana, who covered Black Magic Woman & made it a hit in America, by giving it a Hispanic twist, tried to coax the musical genius back out of Peter, by having him play on stage during the song Peter had written, but it just didn't happen !
Before the inception of the Splinter Group, Snowy White had played most of the guitar work on Peter's Slabo Day Album.
Peter himself admitted, once he'd recovered as much as he was going to mentally, that he'd never come down from his last acid trip from years ago & had done far too much acid & mescal. He'd also still carried on using both prolifically & as a functioning guitarist, after the so called Munich Incident, which according to Mac band members, he never recovered from, Peter denied this, saying it was the most spiritual music he'd ever played.
He'd already decided to leave Fleetwood Mac after Munich & had originally named his band after Mick Fleetwood & John McVie, because as he told them, he might want to move on & they still had a band, with a name they could use for as long as they liked.
Peter's is a long, tragic story, which has affected not only him, but his family & loved ones, he never knew his American daughter or British son, nor did he try. He just wasn't capable of being a father to either of them, due to his own mental fragility & after finally finding a comfort zone after years of torment, he wouldn't/couldn't step out of it !
@@theseeker4642 Thankyou. Yes, also the documentation on YT gives not only a flavour of it. What I meant (and my phrasing was inadequate enough) was just that camera angle on his profile while playing. I have no words for that whole 'miracle' anyway. But that few black and white clips and what can be read on sessions in Chicago etc. do speak to me. I think when one tries to play guitar and the Blues in particular he or she might stumble over such magic connection. 🌻
Just found this. Thanks for posting. I always was a big fan of Cozy's truly one of the great Rock Drummer's ever. I think people unfortunately forget how great he was.
Everything Cozy played on sounded great just because of the way he plays and his amazing sound and dynamics/The whole band sounded great.
Great music! Great people!
RIP Cozy Powell
De los mas grandes entre los grandes, unico e inimitable Peter Green!
Don't stop, Peter!That gift for you, the ability to play and sing like that is the gift to the people who love your talents.
I remember watching this on tv years ago. Good stuff.
I think if you know the story of Fleetwood Mac and Peter Green most were just glad to see him there and okay, the playing for me really came second.
FANTASTIC
Thanks so much for share Renato!)
Thank you for your comment, Katya
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With only 2 rehearsals it's pretty good. A band needs to rehearse and play for months before it starts to cook.
Was very fortunate to have seen Mr. Peter Green with Fleetwood Mac...He was such a soulful Guitar player...He is certainly in the group of the "greatest to ever play guitar", I was wondering if he's gone back to the Hollow Body Gibson yet...it was his great and unique sound...Love Peter Green.
I can't believe people are slagging this off.. He looks really animated here and you can see glimpses of the old Peter, plus his guitar playing was ace..
+Heather Stewart I agree. We have to consider what this man has been through. Try electric shock and see what that does to you. I think that he looks great and all things considered - job well done :)
+Dean Murphy Agreed. It's astounding anyone would dose this legend and then put him in the hands of psychiatrists to pretty much finish him off. I'm amazed at how well he did do. God bless him. Seems they usually go after the greats.
I saw Splinter Group on one of the nights Cozy wasn't with them - he was rehearsing with Page and Plant for a possible Zep thing. Little did I know then, that I wouldn't get to see him again. Him and Bonzo were percussion masters. RIP both of them.
I've got a copy of that album now - amazing stuff. Thanks for the reply though.
I was there, stage right. In a couple of shots you can see my left arm. There is a shot of me right at the end but it's covered by the tribute to Cozy.
I was Peter's guitar tech during the Splinter Group period and I have fond memories of the time spent with him, the band, Neil, Cozy, Spike & Nigel & the crew, Howard, Tim & Bevo!
Steve Wollington Fancy finding you on here!
That's really cool man!
Oh yeah. I could just about see your left arm. That's amazing.
That is awesome. It's hard to believe the guitar he sold to Gary Moore for $300 ..greeny.. sold for 2 million dollars now Kirk Hammett owns it ..
Peter Green at his best exhibits a direct connection between his head, hands his fingers and a higher power. Peter was always a spiritual person and and played with his soul letting his pain come from his fingertips. His love of Chico and Delta Blues is always Everdent.
Oh god, this is epic but I will be honest here... The first couple of seconds were the song began... I thought "Oh... they sound so low" and I was almost disappointed but then... there's a moment when everyone sound so young... Cozy was still too powerful and Peter Green with his soul on his guitar and my jaw dropped down when I heard Cozy's drumming... I'm speechless right now.
For anyone interested , this is a Freddie King number
Has any other drummer played with as many legendary guitarists and vocalists as the late, great Cozy Powell did ?
I'll hedge my bets and say no
Ginger Baker but I think Tommy Aldridge would be close
Peter Green's one of my biggest guitar idols.
As suggested by Bob Harris, I can say 'I was there'!
The band I was in was booked for the Guildford festival, at the time the headline act was Eddi Reader. A few weeks before the festival there suddenly appeared slapped over all the ads "And Peter Green Splinter Group". After our set I met up with my girlfriend & we watched Peter's set, a wonderful moment I never thought would happen, and he was great, My band supported him a few years later, and I've met him a few times. Nice bloke.
Saw Peter Green at Whitley Bay a couple of years ago in a small venue called the Dome, he's voice and guitar playing were subdued but it was great to see a true ledgend
Sounds like this is part of a documentary. And the "make or break" folk & blues festival they were playing at was my home town. Pity I'd left it by then. But Eric Clapton was also a local. Born and brought up 7 miles north of Guildford and now living about 10 miles south of it.
Love p.g. !!!!!
Cozy playing traditional grip again
I saw German but if you wondered you can google. I know it’s out there. Peace
Love to see Greeny playing. And great to see the fantastic Cozy. Much missed...
Was it really so long ago?
Unreal how his Aura seemed to have changed. Dude was BURNT
I saw Peter a few times in the years since this initial comeback and I'm still not sure whether he's lost his mojo or whether he just adamantly does not want to tread ground he has already trod. Mick Fleetwood in his new book subscribes to the latter view. Me, I'm afraid I have to conclude the former, i.e. that the Munich LSD stole his mojo.
I get the gist of what your saying, but the reality is more complex than that. Clearly the LSD incident in Germany affected both Peter and Danny, but I don't think it can be denied that both released excellent albums after 1970. The primary cause of PG's inability to play to same level as he did with Mayall and FM was increasingly severe mental illness; namely paranoid schizophrenia. The ECT therapy he received to counter this clearly didn't help matters.
Adore those moment when Cozy walk on stage) 2:28
Yeah, it's Cozy's former bandmate from Whitesnake...and Black Sabbath....and The Brian May Band...
@Monty Cantsin" That's "Drifting" from the album "The Original Fleetwood Mac".
He didn't look ready. looked like he'd rather be anywhere but there. In his day, brilliant. But leave the guy alone to do what HE wants at his own pace.
Cozy's former Whitesnake bandmate, Neil Murray' on bass there?
drumdude46 you are right, Neil Murray on bass. Long Live \m/
Cozy and Neil played together in Cozy Powell's Hammer, Whitesnake, Black Sabbath and Brian May Band.
I have very fond memories of seeing them play in Whitesnake bake in the 80s. It remains one of THE very best gigs that I have ever been to (and I've seen plenty of bands).
Hi everyone! Cozy Powell fans have launched a petition to remember him with a memorial in his home town. Please join us and sign: www.change.org/p/councillor-joe-harris-a-plaque-to-remember-cozy-powell
Thanks. :-)
Watching this is like having a beautiful dinner (Mignon/Lobster), and then...washing it down--WITH A BOTTLE OF PISS!!! BB King said a long time ago, when Green was in his prime, Peter was the only guitarist that made him sweat!! Having seen the original group and the Kirwan lineup--once at the Eastown(Detroit), and at the Grande Ballroom(Detroit)--this band was about the only English group that could legitimately pull off American Blues---Bar None!!! When they were firing on all 8, nobody could touch em'. Fortunate to see them at the Grande BallRoom, the Mac were Super Popular in Detroit. With maybe 150 people in attendance(Blizzard), they put on one Helluva Show!!! God bless them All.
Jim Lujack here.......seen fleetwood mac with peter green same venues....i heard fleetwood mac...too smoky. seen a lot of groups at Eastown and Grande ( original one and the 'newer Grande.).......I did a lot of drugs back then and messed up my brain. I think....Jethro Tull, Traffic, etc and for like 3.00 or 5.oo ...those were the days I thought would never end!
$2.50.
Our favorite band at the Grande Ballroom was Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. We went every time they were there and also saw them at the Birmingham Palladium. That night, Peter borrowed John Cory's Strat, with sky-high strings for finger picking "Blackbird" and made it sound like his '59 Les Paul. The true master of volume and tone. He said he forgot to bring his guitar. A lot of drugs in the old days.
I'm late to this party, I know. I was also at the Eastown gig and rate it in my top concerts ever. Here's a link to all the Eastown shows: www.motorcitymusicarchives.com/eastowncal.html.
Such a shame what happened to Green. Fantastic player, the best, but lost his mind.
He so called lost his mind as you put it. Do you know what really happened? After just landing in Germany Peter was invited and push to go to a party during which many at the party would drop LSD-25 into his glass three whole days of these assholes tripping Peter up he never recovered from that party nor did Danny kersner if I’m spelling his name correctly. I hate what those cheap fuxks did to Peter . I’ve seen a video telling about the party and what happened to Peter, interviewing Mick Fleetwood and others who recalled that missing weekend and what Peter came back as a lost manic mind. I hate what they did to this brilliant guitarist.
greenys still here and cozys long gone who would have called that?
Drifting.
Oh Well.......
Yeah, look dude, we live in the same town, most ghosts as well argue this one face 2 face #bingo
1:55 Wow, that went well. Anyone know who's the chick?
Hell, i just noticed something in this video---AT 0:08 a Jet plane flies into the backside of Greenbaum's Head and then exit's his nostrils? It's No wonder why this guy is invincible?!!!! hahaha **R.i.P. Cozy
Wow, this shows how drugs really killed his playing. He was such a force in '67-70. His tone has some remnants, but technique wise he's either burned out or really rusty. As good as he was, I'm thinking it's the former.
What’s the name of the tune at the beginning?
Drifting - from: The Original Fleetwood Mac. A sublime solo by Peter
i can totally guess why clapton was there
Peter can no longer play with the power and pain coming thru each note. Peter put his pain into his music because he had no other outlet. Peter paid the price and had to move on in 1970. He no longer wants to live in the pain surrounding the blues, he is content to live on at a older age and get back to playing his immortalized hits . He paid his price, it's time we rewarded him with our love
wenn peter spricht versteht man als ausländer kein wort, denn er murmelt so unverständliches englisch, das war aber immer schon so, denn in seinem video aus den 60igern redet er auch so das man nichts verstehen kann. ich habe cozy p. beim ersten splinter group konzert in deutschland sehen können.
Taking lessons in how to play the blues, I guess!
I think Peter should play with Aynsley Dunbar again, he's amazing. I found Cozy too heavy handed especially here, he wanted to play like Bonham but this needed more finesse or sympathy for the band
That, was weird.
kenny rogers looks better with darker hair eh?!
wow this guy can't really sing that well and the corny cheesy blues squares i've heard a million times before,oh,and that guitar was well out of tune
He's a shadow of his former self. Tops out at about no more than 30% of the voice & fretboard facility he had in his prime. Pity.
To much ACID, let that be a Lesson to you, and others.
+zionisimkills True Zion', but for the most part, the early Mac were a boozing' band--Blame the UN/gRaTeFools Dead for hooking most of Fleetwood on Acid when they toured with them! Also, Peter Green was a Schizophrenic--giving Green aCiD was like pouring Thermite on the Sunn!!!
+aminor1950 Ya', the Sunn Amps reference was used only because of it's musical content. Sunn never made speakers, but the early amps had a Smiley Sun face--haha. Thermite is used in very High Temperature applications, like incendiary Bombs and World Trade Towers demolition!!! A combination of fine aluminum and iron oxide.
unfortunate choice of backing players