Peter Green Amsterdam 2009 Black Magic Woman

[katooey]

I saw him playing live and rehearsing several times "back in the day" before he 'became lost inside.' He was a great talent. The best blues musicians here in Chicago respected him as much as he respected them. He left us decades ago. Now there is not even a shadow left to hear or see. How sad. God bless his eternal soul.

[alexandholland]

"Then Play On"

[holzindien]

Dear Peter Green, We love Your speech longer than 40 Years .Thanks!

[penfloyd]

Tone and style like no other............A legend in the long line of Blues guitarists.

[heutsz73]

het is jammer maar helaas zei de jager tot de haas. dit geen schim van wat eens was .ik ben 58 jaar,heb alles mee gekregen van hoe mooi het allemaal was in die jaren dat hij in mijn oren de enige was die een les paul kon laten lullen .nu wordt er bij elke rake noot geklapt en dat is toch een beetje circus. kijk bij ons naar gelling,ook het zelfde verhaal. ik luister met veel plezier naar het oude werk van deze meesters maar al die aanbidding is een heel beetje overdreven.kijk eens naar oberg .

[andreasglumm]

danke amsterdam fürs mitsingen.

[lesleypaul59]

...his condition makes me sad...!!! ooh, PETER ..., what did you do ??? LES from berlin/germany

[flexfvb]

nope ,its like bb king

if ure a big fan remember them not like this

if u saw em live in tha days i can imagine it s nice to visit again

but the guitarplay is a shadow of what once was....

[Lbnsalas18]

Sucks to me when I see legends like this. He's still good! But it seems like he wants to feel that spark again where he could just flip that guitar INSIDE OUT but can't! I guess that's just what happens when time catches up to you. I can tell it's still in his soul though.

[clikityclak]

@Lbnsalas18

Yeah you can feel it in his playing, but he still has some great phrasing. I just think hes shy to actually let out what he has inside, cause my guess is that he used the acid to fully express himself and with out it he might be as good or expressive? maybe..

[batka71]

Ő és BB King... Melyik iskolák találkozása a két zene-istenség? Na erre mit mondhattok??? Utálhatjuk egymást a bőrszínünk miatt?...

Tátrai Tibusz(T.B.) talán nem ismerős...???

De a legnagyobb tanító: Szabó Gábor - nem ismerős???

[chicomusico1]

mmm pero si santana no la hubiera retomado esta cancion seria un churro cualquiera

[NikoConstantinidis]

Carlos Santana inmortalizó el tema en Abraxas. Pero Letra y Música pertenecen a Peter Green. Podemos verlo en Wikipedia, citando el nombre de la canción

[NikoConstantinidis]

Letra y música pertenecen a Peter Green Santana tomó e inmortalizó el tema en Abraxas.

[megafaded69]

Peter Green>Fleetwood Mac.

[eggymoo]

Classic! PG seems quite bemused by the 500 delirious fans singing along.....

[handspeedsteve]

@idwtsasoj "grrrrr! Every one should know that altough guitars can be great value at 500,000 dollers, euro or pounds it's the man (or woman) behind guitar that matters. Guitars are instruments. An instrument is something to which an action is done. I agree les Pauls are tastier than strats but I hope you agree peter green is better than his guitar.!" ..i 100% agree......if peter green wants to play one of his songs on a strat then who the hell are we to say otherwise...play want you want peter!

[deltablutim]

Love Peter Green love The Paradiso, wish I'd been there but thanks for posting this!

[sheddski]

from what i read awhile back maybe 5 or more years ago he was willing to find the forgotten members spencer and danny maybe even mick and john but i guess that ship sailed

[JeffKnight]

Awesome.

[billyseru666]

LO MAXIMO PETER GREEN

[TomDempsey1]

WOW! THE GREEN GOD!!! Thanks for posting....glad he's back playing music! I had no idea, thought he was lost...

Best guitar player of the late 60's....(sorry Clapton!)

[ghostofblues]

Oh I wish I was there ! Peter Green is a great artist; Such a sensitive blues guitar player ! I wish people could be aware of that ! I'm french and I say he is one one of the best british guitar player. He once lived a life of a monk ! Thanks for posting that.

[naditales]

El compositor de un temazo que algunos creen que es de Santana..

[chicomusico1]

@naditales la letra es de peter green pero la musica es de santana saca tus deducciones jajaja la letra es lo que menos sobresale en este tema asi que ya sabras

[NikoConstantinidis]

@chicomusico1 "Black Magic Woman" is a song written by Peter Green that first appeared as a Fleetwood Mac single in various countries in 1968, subsequently appearing on the 1969 Fleetwood Mac compilation albums English Rose (US) and The Pious Bird of Good Omen (UK). In 1970, it became a classic hit by Santana, as sung by Gregg Rolie, reaching #4 in the U.S. and Canadian charts, after appearing on their Abraxas album, becoming more closely associated with Santana than Fleetwood Mac.

[naditales]

@chicomusico1 Bueno sino recuerdo mal el tema con música incluida está grabado antes que en el Abraxas. Y que conste que me encanta todo ese disco de SAntana pero me da que la música es de Green. Lo buscaré para cerciorarme. Igual tienes razón.

[matias87ar]

@naditales la canción es de fleetwood mac, pero fué popularizada por santana

[Paulsworks]

It sounds better played on a Les Paul. A Strat just sounds too thin for this song. IMHO

[bertfrantic]

IMHO the greatest English blues guitarist of them all. Nice to see him still playing. He is a genius.

[cikoge]

?... no video here!

[SHYHI45]

Shit he is hot. and this is a black woman.cool shit!!!!!!!!!

[sandal101]

He IS the "Black Magic Woman" man... He wrote it! How awesome is that! :D Sandal

[MrRoyable]

@deborahknight20 No ! they do not care! Sqeeze the last drop blod of him!Solicitor as manger directing Peters life when to do gigs,whom to see,directing Mike to take Peter to have his haircut! There are people commenting nailpolish on yt! Peter said him self that it was Mikes idea!

[Sejaynus]

Is this THE Peter Green who went south mentally after his initial fame and fortune? The Oh Well Peter Green?

[MrRoyable]

@Sejaynus .Yes and Peters solicitor does everything to make Peter south mentally again.Money ,money.hat is why they force Peter on tour-the legend with hurting finger tips and fingernails falling off.Mike takes Peter to polish fingernails to cover it! That is how they treat living legend! Greedy solicitor/ manager and all of themwho know what is going on but dont do a thing!Hope guys you can live with yourselfs for the rest of your lifes!Peter doesnot want to tour!

[TomDempsey1]

@MrRoyable Gee....how are you the arbiter of all this information????

[TwangEmHigh]

Yep...That's The Green God himself.

[andzwe]

Very moving that the audience is happy just to be there with him, helping him sing the song.

[Damion5488]

Any one who was a John Mayall fan back in the sixties/seventies knows who he is ... same as Jack Bruce, Clapton etc ... that blues band new what it was about!

[hendrix950]

just like eric he switched to a strat hmm i wonder why?

[ianlycee]

It's so sad to think that Peter Green was once Eric Claptons replacement for the Blues Breakers. Now so many people dont even know who he is. What a guitarist he was tho!

[r3inhout]

@ianlycee I never heard of him but he's so fucking good :s I feel sorry for him santana went walking with the fame :s

[ChaliQ1]

@ianlycee I I think Eric was Peters replacement

[norwayfinland]

there was a time long long ago that he was singing god is a black magic woman awesome love green you heave made awesome stuf and stil do

[EZIOTHEMASTER]

He still has an unreal tone, I love him.

[anycolouryouwant]

i am going to be lucky enough to see mr green at hop farm festival this summer... going to be quite and experience for me

[idwtsasoj]

grrrrr! Every one should know that altough guitars can be great value at 500,000 dollers, euro or pounds it's the man (or woman) behind guitar that matters. Guitars are instruments. An instrument is something to which an action is done. I agree les Pauls are tastier than strats but I hope you agree peter green is better than his guitar.

[gatorcarter]

This is beautiful! May he live for decades more and never stop playing!

[jimmydanpage]

grrrrrrrrr sum1 like peter green should know that the gibson les paul sounds way better

[EclecticDiscus]

Dam I miss that sweet sound, Sad, so much we didn't hear from him.

[Uggybow]

The man was put into institution but he didn't harm anyone!!! How cruel this society can be...Poor Peter, I hope that at the end he get's to laugh at their stupidity.

[mcddtlc]

Uggy - He went into his accountants office with a gun in hand because he didn't want that "devil" money and why

was it showing up in his bank account.

He was committed shortly after - sad story

[Uggybow]

What's wrong with that? He should've been given a fuckin medal not commited. This world is insane. Lsd brought certain bottled-up things up deep from his (un)consciousness but c'mon he didn't lost it. Maybe he just realized how rotten this society is hence he went living on his own...

[mcddtlc]

He walked in with a GUN and threatened

a guy!! what's wrong with you??

It wasn't just LSD, it was some BAD

LSD and he was given too much, on

purpose - hense he was SPIKED..

[kassx1]

@Uggybow Really? While I don't believe he should be committed here is my paraphrase of the facts: While on some type of drug trip his dead dog appeared to him and it was green. So he knew that meant Fleetwood Mac was to focused on money. Then insisted all members give away their profits and so ended the real Fleetwood Mac.

[sherriffofhongkong]

I saw the Splinter Group and Peter

didn't really contribute much...... It's good to see him "fronting" this

group and actively playing guitar.....

He still has a very nice touch.....

[diatroptoff94]

he sure did take to many acid trips. Still, i really like how he changed his whole view of music from just blues and rock stuff to this mellow jazz types of stuff with his old blues stuff. Great

[MrRoyable]

Why suggest to ask the band about Peter's situation and point of view? He can SPEAK for him self! Does not need few more Nigels around!!!! It is 2010 and it is acrime against Peter qand his human rights not to letting him live the life HE wants! Read my other comments and please do not keep quite !! Peter deservs better life!!!!

[ronk489385]

Very cool and he still has it after all these years.

[canada2love]

That his genius is unbroken you can take from the few notes he drops so casually toward the end at about 4.00. Even modern medicine cannot stop it.

[lancers46]

Very cool

[SIRONEDRAGON]

cool

[Galvestoner420]

Peter Green = Rock Royalty. He is a living legend. I just wish more people were aware of him.

[Xelanderthomas]

@Galvestoner420 Yeah, it's a shame really. Poor Peter lost the plot there for a little while and it's great to seem him alive and well working his magic. Even B.B. King said that he was the only guiatrist that makes him sweat or something like that. That's a pretty powerful endorsement to greatness.

[Pac2011]

"He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats."- That's exactly what B.B has said.

I agree that he's a great and original guitarist, who knows what would have happened if he didn't "almost loose his mind"... Peter's story is a good example of how drugs are destructive.

[o1kric]

@Pac2011

it wasn't only the drugs, Peter was given electroconvulsive therapy :( great to see him back up on stage playing again anyway and many thanks to all the great kind musicians who have helped him to regain himself :)

[deborahknight20]

@Galvestoner420  they are , spread the word, he used to be a mate of mine.

[MrRoyable]

@Galvestoner420 incl his greedy solicitor.Peter cancelled tour because tricked on tour by his greedy solicitor!His fingertips are hurting and fingernails falling off!That is why Mike takes him to polish his nails!Dont ask for Peter on tour!They stressed him too much!Solicitor and all greedy people are cause of Peters bad health!Peter is not allowed to live the life he wants! Hope all greedy who are slowly killing Peter can live with them selfs!Free Greeny!

[MrRoyable]

@Galvest@DirtyDeck that is same who pisses Peter off too!Solicitor is not aware.Peter cancelled tour because tricked on tour by his greedy solicitor!His fingertips are hurting and fingernails falling off!That is why Mike takes him to polish his nails!Dont ask for Peter on tour!They stressed him too much!Solicitor and all greedy people are cause of Peters bad health!Peter is not allowed to live the life he wants! Hope all greedy who are slowly killing Peter can live with them selfs!Free Greeny!

[loansumboatman]

go to myspace:steamywindowsbluesband for a top cover of this track as good a cover as you will ever hear.

[osiangwynedd]

loansumboatman: I thought you'd fallen out with Steamy Windows after they put that statement on the site to stop you from claiming to be their agent? "F--- um, their loss not mine" is what you said!

[bafzzz]

large classic.....

[jamemarsh]

Sod comparing this guitarist to that guitarist you mugs. They were all great guitarists in the 60s/70s.

Just watched a doc on Peter Green on BBC4. Makes the hairs on your arms stand up.

[ViddyOMG]

Fantastic to see him Ok once again!

I heard the other day on TV, that this song, which he wrote, has had over 4 million radio plays,

which is alomost unbelievable really.

Rock on dude!

[freeatlast1963]

Still a master bluesman - still outstanding!

[interstategar]

Peter looks like Alfred Hitchcock here. I knew Hitchcock would rock one day!

[weekevypeepants]

CORRECT. peter green has been in all of hitchcock's films... often short roles of no consequence.... hitchcock guested on one of mac's albums......he was SHIT AT GUITAR! x

[joealanouf]

well dont forget the alfer hitchock expirence back in 76. his hit single hit 97 on the billbord charts. a country classic about hunting turkeys.

[bertfrantic]

Great video, all hail the Green God! Saw him 4 or 5 years back with Splinter Group. IMHO the best brit guitarist from the 60s blues era, sorry Eric!

[RensStella]

Eric who? lol jk

[Islwynpaul]

Eric Crapton thas who!!! Lol

[DirkjeA]

As I said before, "Old soldiers never die".

[sisterdiggins]

I would JUMP at the chance to witness him in person!

I am so happy he is back .

[unlockthepower]

I saw him live once a long time ago, unfortunately i was too young to really appreciate it

[Cheeese16]

am going to see him on the twenty second so will be ringing in sick to work....i've been waiting along time for this

[somekindonut]

People don't understand , they are singing along, like they don't care to listen to his voice and soul, and just let him perform his jazz

[theCAcashRefund]

Long live Peter Green!

[SIZZERB15]

woooooooow!

ALL RISE!!!!

THE GREEN GOD IN THE HOUSE!!!!!!

THANKS A MILLION FOR THIS.....

[zerominusminus]

Even after all of the shit he's gone through, and the garage band-y sense this video provides. This version isgorgeously, sublime. Amazing. Thanks for the post.

[geedavey66]

Here's a true legend folks!!! This man is so talented is scary. Even after all the stuff he went through, he's still the Green God!!!!!

[RensStella]

P.G. is The Supernatural...

[MrRoyable]

@RensStella Peter cancelled tour because tricked on tour by his greedy solicitor!His fingertips are hurting and fingernails falling off!That is why Mike takes him to polish his nails!Dont ask for Peter on tour!They stressed him too much!Solicitor and all greedy people are cause of Peters bad health!Peter is not allowed to live the life he wants! Hope all greedy who are slowly killing Peter can live with them selfs!Free Greeny!

[Hemulen40]

Back on track , Peter ! LUVS it !!!!!

[MJM153]

awesome to see a great musician now enjoying playing in front of a crowd. great song and still, for my money, the best tone in guitar playing history despite not having the les paul anymore.

[garrym417]

Lovely. This seems to be a genuinely joyous occasion. With. I note, Geraint Watkins on keys. Friends like that, I could do with.

[petet2222]

Great to see . 40 years on . What a classic

[midislseguy]

always wonderful ! his playin still takes my breathe. the best of the best...period.

[voormeij]

i met him in den haag he sain ,you remind me of someone, who?i thought,

a lovely man in this rotten world

[phddddd]

Absolutley well said, voormeij ... peter has a sensibility that no record executive could understand. That said, my time with him at Denny's after he headlined the first John Lee Hooker concert at Filmore West was the longest meal of my life. The demons are still there!

[MrCaribbean]

Thanks for sharing this harpslide,peter green is fantastic and always will be.

[backfromthedead22]

This has made my day - Thank you

[plebriquir]

The Master Green is back!!

[plebriquir]

I forgot: thanks a lot for this video harpslide!

[knobstick]

Do you know what, I'd LOVE to hear him do an album with JJ Cale! Their voices and guitar styles would compliment each other perfectly.

[Bleadbelly1]

Well done that man. Enjoy yourself

[BlindLemonJaffaCake]

Well said Bleadbelly. Hope all your days are full to the brim with happiness Peter, you deserve it. Good luck to you mate. Keep playing that guitar! We all love it.

[Bleadbelly1]

Here is hoping he will tour the UK once he completes his present tour of Europe

No Pressure, just a love to see and hear him play and enjoy himself

[vincentlyons]

Very nice!