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  • I have wartched this previously and I have wrongly remeembered him an

  • Peter Green IS Fleetwood Mac, Lyndsey Buckingham et all can exit stage left

  • Dates from that period around Detroit

    12/5,6/1969 Eastown theater

    12/19/1969 The Palladium

  • Dave Dixon, one of the original "Air Aces" here in Detroit. Two legends.

  • i think he looks like cat stevens, another great

  • this guy is fucking hardcore.

  • Has Peter Green recovered his health? Can anyone post any recent information about him or his health, please?

  • so glad peter green has recovered his health after the ordeal he went through

  • What a sweetheart. He still is.

  • Cool guy...looks SO much like a male Amy Winehouse! East End Jewish....produces the tastiest music!!..

  • incredible musician.

  • a rare interview with a superbly talented guitarist. better than the later days with nicks and buckingham

  • This interview is in Detroit as WABX was a Detroit radio station at the time of this interview. If someone knows when Fleetwood Mac was in Detroit in this period that would be the approximate date of this interview.

  • Lol look at that place.. its like its being held in someones basement

  • this is a PBS channel in detroit the dude is ( i think ) dave dixon a dj from WABX

    best fm station da motor city ever had detroit city iz da place 2 b madhouse muzac

    gunna set u free

  • lovely to see Peter talking instead of singing; the interviewer is not very good however, a bit nerdy 'that's good, that's good' whad?? - talking too much himself as though its a job interview. I love Pete's dress sense, ahead of his time. Thanks for posting.

  • Far from snobbish, he seemed very shy and un-celebrity-like.

  • i really do like peter green and i think hes an incredibly talented musician with a very sad tale to tell but i gotta say he may be drugged up here but he comes across very blunt. almost snobbish about himself and yh someone said it below but i heard when he was srsly ill that he gave away his money and sold his iconic gold top '59 les paul to gary moore for like 50 quid then he got sectioned :( terrible shame although hes ok now :)

  • @jimjim506 - you may be right about peter green being on something in this interview as he doesn't seem 100% with it. it is true about him selling his guitar and giving his money away. he seemed to have had a bit of a conscience about the amounts of money he was making and that various parts of the world were (and are) starving.

  • @aewd1980 I don't think he was on anything, he always was a reserved relaxed person, and he was just waiting for the interviewer to shut up... very much like his playing!. I find it's often the bits he doesn't play, and the spaces in between the notes, which are most interesting. He was never in a hurry to engage his mouth before the brain. General belief is that he was spiked in Munich, rather than voluntary, and that could destroy anyone, especially a sensitive soul like Peter. A lovely bloke.

  • @Tornfreedom - i agree with what happened to him in munich, a shame the people responsible weren't prosecuted. peter green doesn't seem to come across as being one of these arrogant, big-headed types, he comes across well in this interview and later ones. i didn't mean to imply that he was always on something.

  • @Tornfreedom I agree. What's with this interviewer anyways? He's talking to Peter Green like he's a toddler who just finished a finger painting...

  • Acid can be the best medecine...but not for someone witha schizoid bent, Mr. Green never needed it....up tight asholes like Bush and cheney really need it bad.

  • @Deadfreeeak Thanks for the info. I never knew his story. I guess he is kind of a Syd Barrett type person.

  • @Deadfreeeak What did he go through?

  • THE GREEN GOD!!!!!!!!

  • Dave Dixon interviewing?

  • @Deadfreeeak other people have been through worse, like me

  • @Deadfreeeak other people have been through worse

  • They were lamenting the commercialization of rock in 1969, arguably the best year in rock. This is either really depressing or a little edifying.

  • PG looks like he dont give a shit about charts .

  • The interviewer is Dave Dixon, who was a dj at WABX (early FM "underground" radio) in Detroit in the late 60's early 70's. This was a show ABX had on the local public TV station. I saw some great stuff on that show, like Alice Cooper, Johnny Winter & Rick Derringer doing "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo" acoustic. And a very drunk Gordon Lightfoot.

  • thanks for this !

  • an amazing talent and slight uner-rated guitarist. peter green can more than hold his own against the likes of hendrix, page, clapton, blackmore and many others. thank goodness, peter green has made a near full recovery after his long bout of illness. you are a legend greenie!

  • Amazing. What a talent.

  • Peter's got such an aura about him.

    I wonder if it has anything to do with him being a scorpio.

  • Fat guy compensating for his low self-esteem by being a pretentious ass...funny how times don't change

  • @stinzo89 the assumption being that if you are fat then by definition you have low self-esteem. That's maybe the most ridiculous assertion I have ever read on YouTube .. and that's saying something!

  • this was a weekly pbs show in detroit with local fm wabx broadcasting the sound ,in those days thats how u got stereo sound. if anbody has any of these old TUBE WORKS shows i would love to see episode with humble pie doing GOING TO ALASKA.  IT ROCKED

  • thanks for posting this!!!!!!

  • Yeah ! seen him Belfast last night ,He was fantastic and I took my son to "educate him" and boy did he learn !!!

  • Went to hear the legendary Peter in Belfast last night, at last I got to hear him live - always regretted not going to the 1967 performance in Belfast - I was 11 years old then. I brought my two sons and their friend last night and they thought he was awsome. Its great to have seen him play, hopefully not for the last time.

  • @fulcrumfowler Good read, went M'ownself to the Royal Albert Hall Gig With John Mayall & All.

    Very Very glad to have made that real, in ones own experiential inner.

  • @Deadfreeeak - yes it was pretty heartbreaking but at least he's come out of it now. he looks a lot better than he was

  • @Deadfreeeak - yes it was pretty heartbreaking but at least he's come out of it now. he looks a lot better than he was

  • The interviewer is the late, great Dave Dixon. He was one of Detroit's WABX's original Air Aces... One of the original album oriented rock and roll stations.

  • Peter Green ,, excellent tunes .... excellent , just plain excellent .

  • @KDZigZag - amen to what you said about peter green. an under-rated guitarist who can play with the best of them. certainly better than ritchie blackmore or eric clapton. peter green really put fleetwood mac on the map.

  • @aewd1980 hardly underated. BB King once said that Peter Green was the greatest blues guitarist in the world.

  • @skillzdatkillz900 - oh i know that, yes. i recall that b.b king made that comment when peter green was in fleetwood mac. i was referring to nowadays, as he hardly seems to get mentioned.

  • i can confirm that this interview with the one and only peter green was conducted at about the end of 1969. this is because of the fact that fleetwood mac's latest album "then play on" had just been released and the interviewer is holding a copy of the album during the interview.

  • I love when guys with talent fry their brains with acid. That shit cracks me up!

  • @greeniem - you may like it when people do that but i happen to think it is a sad waste of a talent. it is lucky for peter green that he has made such a recovery over the past decade and i'm sure he wouldn't want to return to those dark, days of despair.

  • oh get over it. No big deal. Life is life; death is death

  • @greeniem - i agree with the life is life bit and what have you but it's still a waste of life as well as talent. how about we agree to disagree?

  • How can life be wasted? Is that waste measured in years or accomplishments? Just because something doesn't turn out the way you wanted, or someone for that matter, doesn't make a bit of difference. There's nothing to measure it to as comprable. So how can it be wasted?

  • @greeniem - i think the waste is measured in terms of one having the potential to achieve something(in this case in music) but squandering it by indulging in things like narcotic abuse. for peter green, once his drug habit kicked off, he was never the same person again and that affected him artistically as well as affecting him as a person. in terms of accomplishments, no, i don't think that applies for the most part. in terms of years, yes i certainly think it does.

  • What potential? If it's potential, you don't know what could be, either way. Of course , he wasn't the same person, he changed his brain. You're not the same person you were ten years ago, either. He did, like you probably do, his best. And that's it. No sense in what might've beens

  • @greeniem - i think you missed my point: there was no chance of peter green being the same person after becoming brain-damaged due to acid, that's what i meant in my last comment. sure, people aren't the same after say, 5 or 10 years down the line but being addicted to narcotics will certainly a person's character, and not for the better. look at how peter green suffered for it afterwards before FINALLY coming out of it the other end. as a result, he can't play the guitar the way he used to.

  • LSD doesn't cause brain damage or schizophrenia, which he has. It may precipitate the process, however. They psychiatric meds affect the muscles etc and cause dystonias. He's doing great.

  • @greeniem - again i agree, peter green is looking and sounding much better judging by his interviews for the "man of the world" documentary. the man himself said that the shock therapy and the medication he was on, affected his long term memory. a shame but at least he has recovered a lot of the way. on this interview from 1969, he looks and sounds rather shy and probably not used to appearing on public t.v.

  • @greeniem - also, i enjoy a lively debate and discussion, let's keep it up shall we?

  • I like nachos

  • let me tell you something you obviously don't understand: drugs aren't the problem, mental disease is the problem. and if you want to take away the only relief available to someone with a staggering mental disease by being a small-minded discriminating idiot, then i'm sure Peter Green would gladly never play for you again, not for any amount of your judgemental "praise". maybe people with too many opinions about things they know nothing about are what made him so upset, not "narcotics".

  • @fangrinmagirl - first of all, there is no need to be so aggressive. as it happens, i know one or two people who have mental illnesses(including me as it also happens). yes, i don't mind if someone doesn't agree with me about something but that does not give you the right to be so hostile. i understand that it is you who is judgemental and i am perfectly sympathetic towards peter green and his situation without being arrogant or patronising. and no, i don't discriminate against anybody!

  • i'm sorry, but being passive aggressive doesn't mean you aren't just as judgemental, it just means you have a safe defense. you can't just quietly slander a loved person and think no one will be offended. saying something in a "nice way" doesn't make it a nice thing to say. i won't "agree to disagree" so that you can act like you're right. you're not right to say he wasted his talent and you're not right to act like you could have done better. i didn't mean to shock you, but that's how i feel.

  • @fangrinmagirl - wrong, i haven't slandered anybody. when i watched the recent documentary about peter green and heard about his drug and other health problems, i showed some compassion for someone who had gone through an awful lot. i'm not saying i could do better than him and no, i'm not saying i am right. i am not trying to offend and no, you didn't shock me. i am not saying i am right either, i respect other people's opinions. i wish other people could do the same.

  • @fangrinmagirl - furthermore, i meant to say that peter green would have had a lot more important things to think about, such as trying to recover his health, rather than being in a position to record music. i didn't mean to say that he had lost the talent to play the guitar. it never ceases to amaze me how people like you are quick to twist another person's words.

  • oh and no bama!

  • sounds to me you're just bitter you don't have any talent of your own. you aint half as raw, you need to practice more

  • @noscholar - i'm not saying that i have the talent and no, i'm not in the least bit bitter. i'm sparing a thought for a man who has gone through a lot in his life but has happily come out the other end.

  • your balls smell like raw onions, so you have enough raw for everyone!

  • @greeniem - how would you know that then? they can't be any worse than yours!!

  • Thanks so much for posting this rare footage. It is the post-German LSD events for sure and you can tell that Greenie has trouble putting thoughts together. So sad, because he was one bad-ass guitar player. Kirwan was just getting really good too when the whole thing fell to pieces.

  • Peter was probably thinking " Archies? Monkees? I outta kick this idiots ass".

  • WABX - that was here in Detroit. Great radio station back in the day, Dave Dixon was a big name in these parts back then. Thansk for posting - cool to see any interview with Peter. Just finished watching the Peter Green Story 12 parter on YouTube - GREAT stuff. If you're a Green fan that's a must-see.I sure wish there was more live footage around of them performing. And it would be cool to see a Danny Kirwan story as well. Thanks again for posting!

  • Thanks for posting. These rare interviews are important glimpses into the history and human side of these bands - like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, small, but very important, revealing sometimes a bigger picture than the music tells. Pity there are no interviews featuring Danny Kirwan. If anyone knows any better, please post......

  • Interesting to hear about the Archies and The Monkees - "funny how times change" If only he knew...

    Probably the best guitarist I ve ever heard - there is something truly special and unique about him. A classic tortured genius - very cool.

    thanks

  • When I first saw this clip over a year ago, I looked up Dave Dixon. He was one of the first AOR Rock DJ's in the U.S.. In fact his station illegally broadcast acetates of the Beatles "White Album" before the official release in 11/1968. They were quickly reprimanded with "cease and desist" letters from lawyers representing the Beatles. What get's me is that Dave Dixon in this video looks over 40, yet he's only 30!?!? He died at the age of 60 in 1999.

  • the journo had a hard time here but he could have helped himself by not interrupting...

    anyway, a classic old clip, thanks!

    just watched the Peter Green story - nice to see his fellow band members and others like Santana and BB King realised what a genius he was

  • he is surely trippin' here...

    these guys were the best.

  • Great to see this. As someone says a pretty awkward interview. Peter seems a bit uneasy & the interviewer seems decent but a bit all over the place.

  • Kinda awkward interview...

  • HOLY SHIT THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS UP

  • Thanks for oploading Andrea 260807! The interview was made in Detroit on the 4th of December 1969 on FM's third american tour for a television show on Channel 62. The interviewer is a Dj called Dave Dixon. (Source: Christopher Hjort's book about the British Blues Boom).

  • I have a vague feeling i had seen this!

    thank you so much for uploading this.

  • Wow! This is awesome, Thank You for posting this!

  • This was the same guy who interviewed a young Ted Nugent as well. I believe you can find it here on Youtube also.

  • This was probably the tour when the band fell apart, right? When Jeremy split to join the Children of God?

    Did Danny Kirwan actually do the solo album mentioned here?

  • YEP

  • No I don't think it could be during the tour when Jeremy disappeared He did that after Peter had quit the band in 1970 though it is true Peter then went to the US to help them out . He would hardly be taljking about Jeremy's solo album in this way if Jeremy had just walked out ,and the interviewer would surely have mentioned such an event ,and that Peter was helping them complete the tour !

    THD

  • This was during there second tour in Amercia 1969?

  • Really great Andria! I think this is in Detroit. Thanks so much for the post!

  • Hey Andria, nice view. Thanks.

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