Peter Green Like To Play Slowly And Feel Every Note, It Comes From Every Part Of My Body

Everybody knows the name Fleetwood Mac, but few may know that the band's fame was built on the talents of a man who left the group after its third album and fell off the face of the Earth. Peter Green died in his sleep July 25 at the age of 73. His warm voice and distinctive guitar playing propelled the first incarnation of Fleetwood Mac to stardom in the UK His best-known composition Black Magic Woman, barely cracked the charts there but stormed the Top 10 in the US when Santana covered it. And that's pretty much the story of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, as it was originally billed stars at home in England, and an obscure blues band with a cult following in the US. Which is a shame, Simply put Peter Green was one of the most soulful British blues singers of his generation, and he was a guitar god. By the time he stepped into the spotlight, as lead guitarist for John Mayall's Bluesbreakers in the mid 60s, graffiti describing his predecessor in that role was already dotting London buildings Clapton Is God. It didn't take Green very long to convince audiences that he, was worthy of the mantle and for Green God to become a new tag. But Green did not fancy being a guitar hero, as he told Martin Celmins for the authoritative biography, Peter Green Founder of Fleetwood Mac. Green said, I like to play slowly and feel every note, It comes from every part of my body. Peter Alan Greenbaum was born Oct 1946 at home in the Bethnal Green neighborhood of London's East End. His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland and Ukraine, Fascism and anti Semitism were on the rise in England as well as Germany in the years before World war 2, thugs threw bricks and bottles through the windows of Jewish homes in the East End. After the war, Peter's father officially changed the family name to Green. Peter started playing a hand me down guitar when he was 10 years old and wrote songs with his older brother Michael, remaining completely self-taught. As a teenager Green was gigging, as a bassist in local bands before moving on to lead guitar and eventually joining Mayall. But he was restless in the Bluesbreakers, and by 1967 he left to form his own band with drummer Mick Fleetwood, who'd been fired by Mayall.
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[@weejim48]

Peter Green was one of the greatest guitarists ever. His style was easygoing but very melodic. BB King said that Greenie was the only player that made him sweat. 👍

[@patrickreilly7256]

There are many musicians of the greatest caliber that just never became a household name. Peter Green was one. I saw him in the late 60's w Fleetwood Mac at Swing Auditorium. Magnificent. Nicky Hopkins was another. The list goes on...
but I have that list
and I remember ❤.

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