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  • Carlos Santana - You can fuck right off!

    Peter Green is god.

  • why did the unedited video of fleetwood mac performing this song got taken down?

  • This is so soulful and mystical at the same time to me

  • Most people are just shallow like that...

  • I have always liked 'Peter Green's' Fleetwood Mac - I still have the cassettes as well. A great Blues band. I still liked their soft rock years as well. I was telling people about Albatross long before 'Fleetwood Mac' became 'popular'. Hers to real music.

  • playing this at the last few minutes until Christmas and might play although the sun is shining on new year

  • Fucking amazing song. How could he possibly have come up with this? It probably took him a couple of hours at most, but it alone is worth more than anything I (or anyone reading this) will ever hope to accomplish. But he didnt just do it once, he's got about 20 equally amazing songs. Best musician on earth? Maybe not, but Defiantly my favorite.

  • @IceCubeJohnson Theres a documentary about Peter Green here on You Tube,in it he says this song is about his then Girlfriend and the verse"Dont turn your back on me",is about him turning his back on her in bed!!Genius!!

  • six months before they disbanded?

    so thats five years before they recorded their best album!

    man that must burn your ass!

    lol

    vastly different music from the different lineups - and for sure if i was stuck in an elevator with lindsay or stevie i'd prolly chew my own arm off to have something to hit them with in order to stop them whining about how hard their lives are, but the mid 70's lineup made vastly better records.

  • @naughtyhorse WRONG! I saw Fleetwood over a dozen times in the seventies, they always sounded great. The albums that became hits were com mercial, and even if as you say they were 'better records', that only speaks to mainstream sensibilities. Nice sentiment about the 'arm chewing', though.

  • @naughtyhorse If you prepare their 70`s cheese,you need help.Badly

  • Peter Green: The best Blues Guitarist that has ever been :')

    Simply love this song!

  • @AutoTerror Couldn't agree more.

  • @AutoTerror My vote would go to Rory Gallagher, but Pete Green is fantastic too. Also Jimmy Page could play the Blues a bit.

  • Rebecca Black crushes this.

    

  • 4 people turned their backs on peter!

  • Andy Fraser, Mick Taylor...

  • Thank God for John Mayall for puttin guys like him to work when they were young. Clapton, John Mcvie, Peter Green, Jack Bruce, Check out Mayalls, Lookin Back LP.

  • Amazing, what a touch Green has..

  • how could 4 people dislike this?!?!?

  • oh man i miss the filmore

  • Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer -- guitar gods.

  • The greatest white blues guitar player...a real genius..like Hendrix he valued the space between the notes.

  • @169nht I'm sorry, but the greatest white blues player has to be Mike Bloomfield.

  • @Guitarmike25 no stevie ray vaughan is the best.... who cares every body is differnt

    srry if bad inglish

  • I fucking love this gem *⋄*

  • REALLY, THIS IS THE ONE AND ONLY ORIGINAL PETER GREEN'S VERSION!!

  • this is real blues, great!! you can't compare this to santanas watered version!!

  • Smoldering.... nothing less....

  • He is singing and he makes the guitar his perfect foil!

  • THIS IS IT! THERE IS ONLY GREEN'S FLEETWOOD MAC VERSION AND NO OTHER!

  • @67Stu You're wrong, there's a much more famous version performed by Santana.

  • YES!!!!!!!!!!!HAA

    

  • If you like this you should listen to Jimi Hendrixs' Blues album, electric blues is the best

  • Brilliant guitar work --- what an under-rated player Peter Green was! And the longer stop-time during the choruses, like that original arrangement.

  • That's magic!

  • I met with BLUES when I was 15 and I'm still in love. It changed all my point of view to the life. Thanks Peter Green, BB King, Gary Moore ......

  • just one other thought,Savoy Brown was very blusey and the members got more into mainstream with "Foghat".they put out about 12 LP's and i bet almost no one knows who they are.there stuff is all good including some R&B covers.

  • Belfast ,,,Ulster Hall,,,19,,,,cant remember the date !!!!

  • incredible!!!

  • i love this version never knew it existed

  • sexy song danced to this on Halloween don't think my husbands recovered still!

  • Having heard Santana's version of this song------which is pretty good, actually-----I think that Peter and irwin and Spencer really nailed the song the 1st time around.

  • Sublime version, Peter Green and Danny Kirwan must be the best twin lead guitarists ever. Superb tone and feel to their playing.

  • 2 people must play for Santana. But this song with the up beat blues break down rocks!!!

    Peter Green the real deal .

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  • That was my first post...hope I wasn't out of line>

  • I was there my friend ...this song was written in 1967

    Michael

  • what a great song! 

  • santana can never touch what he did with this song FIRST

  • why are there comments about justin bieber at a PETER GREEN video??!!!!

  • @LesPaulLover93 The boy pops up everywhere. I'll be glad when he grows up and nobody likes him anymore, like Little Jimmy Osmond.

  • does anyone know the link to listen the LP version of this song? peter green version of course... bye 

  • Peter Green may have gone mad due to drugs, but while he was creating he was pure genius!

  • PG was the BEST white boy player ever! SlowHand wishes he could sign as well as PG!

  • Santana,s version is great but Peter Greens the boss its a pity he could not have heald his head together a bit longer and we would have had many more iconic ground breaking songs. Who the fcuk is going to remember justin bieber or rebbeca black songs in 40 years time

  • y aunqe la version de carlitos fue mas reconocida por sus mesclas latinas estilo casi vúdu. debemos reconocer la genialidad en la guitarra de green.

  • He has perhaps the best sound and feel on the guitar I have ever heard.

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  • ahaha,security sys. U re rite!

  • ahaha,security sys. U re rite!

  • peter green is a music making machine.

  • This song is so smooth, chilly and just fine. I can't explain why Santana earned so much credit for chopping this masterwork to pieces with a mambo bell.

  • @securitysystem guitar hero

  • Santana aint got nothing compared to this

  • Thanks so much for making this available

  • Beautiful song, so deep and full of blues. People will never understand what is real music. This was uploaded 3 years ago and has only 100 comments, while some rebbeca black or justin bieber songs are uploaded this year and in less than a half month they have thousand of comments and billion of views.

  • @Thrasholocaust this is real music for sure!

  • @Thrasholocaust

    Yes no one these days anyways.. its all about fake beats and dance music, its really sad that some people cant tell what true talent and music is. By the looks of how its going.. it appears to be getting alot worse aswell, Maybe one day people will learn to respect straight feeling and intensity of a man his voice and his guitar.. I sure hope that day will come soon

  • @Thrasholocaust the real reason is the music industry has always been run by the people who decide who will be a star and who will play at the corner tavern.hype is what its all about and of course people need to feel entertained.these are "sheeple" then there are those who disregard that approach and look deep for talent and meaning in what they ingest.i feel this music and i never knew about it when it was current.but i love it now.Ten Years After was another sub-terranion group,

  • @Thrasholocaust no one knows how greatpetergreen is and the real story of his creation of fleetwood mac . they should come back and rock the world with mick,spencer,kirwan,vito,mcvie­,perfect,weston,bob welch,stevie nicks,lindsey Buckingham who is the most talented finger player in the world. It sounds like he is playing 2 guitars at the same time. Give them the respect and credit when you play there songs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Most people think Santana originated this song. I've won MANY bar bets on this one LOL

  • @SithLord908 You are an ignoramus.

  • @SithLord908

    Carlos Santana is just a watered down version of Peter Green.

  • Everything just feels so right, that guitar tone arrgh.. no words to explain.

  • i had john mayall and the blues breakers vinyl record and i really noticed how badass pete was in the supernatural sustaining that e forever man i was like who is this cat and found out all i could

  • How great Peter Green, Black Magic Woman - talent OMG! blows santana away!

  • How great Peter Green, Black Magic Woman

  • what a talent , i would have sold my soul to be able to play half as good as peter .

  • The original Black Magic Woman by Fleetwood Mac is much better than their cover of Santana

  • the mac never got any better than this :) with peter green leading the way, the band became a force to be reckoned with in the music industry. songs like "black magic woman" prove this.

  • Carlos who???

  • Between in that and next fleetwood is almoust 10 years sadly!Nomore Peter just American ways and good life and wifes and kids...fucking great life,,, says fuck of

  • This IS FLEETWOOD MAC!!! Compare this to Bob Welch era FM, or the LB/SN years. The Carlos Santana version of this GREAT song was ruined. Actually seek "Roundhouse Fleetwood Mac". That is the best "Black Magic Woman".

  • Truly Awesome ! What a musician !! Long Live Peter !!!

  • Green is beating Clapton at his own game here.

  • FUCK YES this IS the best version. The original always is. Why do you think Carlos dug it so much that he had to cover it? Carlos paid "homage" to Peter Green by covering it.

  • I don't like to compare people but how can you say Santanas' version is better. Santana said the song is perfect the way it is and played it note for note.

  • @boutsiqueen This is the original, however the cover by Santana is totally the best.

    "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). It became a classic hit by Santana and sung by Gregg Rolie in 1970,.

  • @boutsiqueen Your a twat muncher.

  • @boutsiqueen santana covered the ORIGINAL This version was and still is The Best! 

  • @SuperBluesystem Yeah, like the "Pretty Woman" from Gary Moore and the "Thrill's gone" from BB King.

    This is blues - so, you cannot really steal it.

    In other words ... yeah, it's wonderful. :-)

  • For those looking for more, this is the version from Live in Boston, Vol. 1. 

  • Whoa. I knew this wasn't an original Santana tune, but I didn't know until just now who and how awesome the original composers/performers were. Rock on! Oh wait, you're all in your 60s now... Fuck it, rock on!

  • This kicks Santana butt !

  • @itsnotinthisbox then you would be correct. peter green did indeed write it. an d in my opinion this song could be rejuvinated once again if peter green would team up with the Lady Gaga and do a remake of it. just my opinion. KISSES!!

  • i loved it when danny and peter were soloing together

  • Wonderful what you can do with a Otis Rush song!

  • Huh? Thought PG wrote this

  • @vkuhl The music is exactly the same as All your love by Otis Rush only the lyrics are different

  • boskie!!!!

  • i think it's amazing that fleetwood mac went on to make millions.this was marketability.kinda sounds like the blues in the 50's.don't ya think?

  • The original line up was great! I love there version of BLACK MAGIC WOMEN..

  • this ok shows santanaTWATS got no songs!

  • thanks for this

    just great...

  • Class..................., 5*...............

  • parca te furnica pe sira spinarii...

  • Amazing!

  • I'm sure it's been said 100 times, but yeah Fleetwood Mac did not disband. Unfortunately with the loss of Peter then Jeremy they might as well of.

  • Jesus! what a band Fleetwood Mac were with Pete in the line up! This is a helluva good gig - wish I'd been there. As BB said of Pete, "That's my boy!" And that drum and bass rhythm section is second to none proving my theory that good rock should not merely rock but swing and bounce too. To hear these guys at the top of their game is pure magic!

  • try this song now and it would be slaughtered by jay mcnizzle dizzle fizzle feat. some other bunghole. Im happy for the ones that find it in 2000-2010 cause I couldn't stomach any of it.

  • Filmore 1968 Paul butterfield with bloomfield and pigboy. Ten Years After, And the boys your listing to right now. 2 sets.

  • What key is this in?

  • @revgen88

    dm with drop tuning i think.

  • It kind of sucks that I heard Santanas version 10,000 times before I discovered the 67-70 period of FMac. I grew up thinking that was a Santana orig. Ive been schooled since thank god!!

  • Clapton cant hold a candle to Greeny

  • spectaculor!

  • yeh someone said that BMW and the Supernatural are similar think there both in Dm but have the A (?) note in there i think, its a weird progression, like cream white room or tales of brave ulysses its that Dm, C, Bflat kinda thing. where does this come from?any clues?i cant seem to attribute it to any of the delta guys but maybe i just havent heard it yet, musicologists get back to me, cheers

  • Which song came first - Balck Magic Woan or The Supernatural? The songs sound similar.

  • @dreed007 supernatural came abt when he was in the bluesbreakers. black magic woman was during fleetwood mac. but i do know where ur coming from... he prob used the same progression and changed it around. supernatural's eerie as hell...but black magic's like some sorta hypnotic trance...still, awesome stuffs both songs

  • @dreed007 Supernatural was 1967 (Bluesbreakers' Hard Road album). BMW was a Fleetwood Mac single in 1968, then on their 1969 compilation albums (English Rose-US/The Pious Bird of Good Omen-UK). BMW was a hit for Santana in 1970.

  • great song ! only i was lookin for another one of peters songs, BLACK WOMAN ! hmm oh well

  • love this version, nothing beats the flow of the original.

  • I don't know... who would argue that Peter Green did not influence Carlos Santana? Carlos covered "Black Magic Woman" and claimed in an interview that he "took it to another level". Even if he had taken the cover to another level, that would not amount to an outright denial that he was influenced by Peter Green. If you cover someone else's song, you are hard put to argue that you are not influenced by the original artist. So who is making a statement like that?

  • @reubenvabner0 Santana merely took it to another genre (added Latin influence). He had a hit with it and made the money; why did he have to be arrogant about it?

  • @reubenvabner0 so that just makes Carlos an admitted Plagiarist a brilliant one but a plagiarist nonetheless he stole all his technique from Peter.

  • @nintendonut100 Sorry dude, Santana's version is an interpretation, his phrasing is completely different. This absolutely rocks it though. It belongs to Green.

  • Sorry dude, Santana's version is an interpretation, his phrasing is completely different. This absolutely rocks it though. It belongs to Green.

  • @herndonrobertk This is beautiful - the sound Peter got with just a Les Paul and a Fender amp (no effects) was just amazing (you can understand why Carlos latched onto to this song)

    Thanks for posting.

  • @herndonrobertk I think he didn´t use Fender amps... It´s Marshall JTM-45 and Gibson Les Paul Standard 59... The Genius Peter Green... God save him...

  • @LEmygdio I think another poster made mention of the Fender amp. I would have assumed Green used a British amp at that time. It's all good man. It seems we all enjoy Peter Green's sound!

  • @LEmygdio

    Hmm i thought he used a fender vibrolux?

  • How can someone argue that Peter Green did not influence Carlos Santana?

    BTW: this version is much better! Amazing musician!

  • Legend!

  • right so like the solos n that, whats he doing there?its like dm pentatonic but has this mysterious 'latin' quality that i just cant suss out even with my big sussing stick

  • THE ORIGINAL THE BEST

  • Black magic woman was the last song peter performed with Fleetwood mac in new york and that was after he was druged by the germans.

    I heard that in that concert he played this song for 4 hours and played his hear out. That was the last performace of his career before going to mental hostpital. I feel for him, bloody germans druged him.

  • Check out "the Peter Green Story" 12 part youtube before it gets taken off again. It will answer alot of questions. I saw them live at Eagles auditorium, Seattle 1969. He is truly the best ever!

  • The original and best version of this wonderful song. peter green a real guitar hero.

  • Drinking vodka and listening to Peter Green........mmmm........ i'm in heaven. thank you jimbostity007

  • 22 Dec 2009; I heard Mic Fleetwood interviewed on the wireless today. FMac are in Australia finishing a tour. He talked about this song, about Mr Green, and then they played it. Mic Fleetwood sounded so passionate about this, he tours with his blues band, now, doing lots of the early songs. Very respectful of Peter Green's influence, input etc. before drugs took hold. Wow, wish I had known of this before I saw FM in Sydney early December. Fantastic.

  • This is

    'Live at Boston Tea Party'

    from february 5-7, 1970.

    The greatest performance

    of FM I've ever heard.

    It was my firs live album of them

    and I was totally shocked.

    It was evening but I din't go to sleep . . .

    Listing to 1st CD of this live take me whole night.

    Regards for all Greeny's fans !

  • @Oszych

    The Boston Tea Party is a must have if you're a big FM-with-Green-and-Kirwan fan. I have part I, with this and Jumping At Shadows, etc. fantastic.

  • @NoviJimB - i have part 1 of the boston concerts as well. i also part 2 which is also great, particularly rattlesnake shake: 24 minutes of sheer brilliance from start to finish. quality-wise, parts 1 and 2 about equal. part 3 is harder to come by as the c.d wasn't available for long. i reckon the original line-up saved the best for last with this american tour from february 1970.

  • @aewd1980

    I think that part 3 is mostly the Jeremy Spencer 50s tribute type stuff - not too crazy about that personally. What I wouldn't give to be able to go back in time and see them on that tour, though. Green and Kirwan at their best. I bought part I years ago and forgot all about it. Broke it out after hearing some of the stuff posted here, and man am I glad I did. Black Magic Woman and Jumping at Shadows are just incredible, the rest ain't too shabby either.

  • @NoviJimB - i haven't heard part 3 yet but i will reserve my opinion until i get around to listening to it, if i ever do! i reckon it was peter green and danny kirwan that provided the guitar playing and that jeremy spencer only played elmore james stuff. without kirwan or someone like him, the band would never have broken from being a blues band strictly speaking. i agree, i would standing at the front row and cheering them on. not fussed about the later stuff, although i like stevie nicks.

  • Best version of this song I've ever heard. Thanks for posting it, jimbosity!

  • sockwizardman, so true. For me Fleetwood + mac are one of the top five rythm sections ever, period.

  • Ok. apart from me and my drummer and you and yours who are the others. Cheers

  • Oh should give it a deeper thought but quickly I would mention: Entwistle - Moon, Bruce - Baker,

    Jones - Bonham, Mc vie - Fleetwood, Lee - Peart. I would mention others, like Hammond - Bunker, Squire - Bruford which I like a lot too.

  • @sockwizardman there are no others including you your drummer and charlysaenz

  • and some

  • Green is amazing on this- his tone, note selection ..feel . But its wasnt just him. without the Bass and Drums ( and Danny Ks work)this would only have 1/2 the impact. just listen to what happens on other covers of this song including Peter Greens own recordings later on. Fleetwoood and Mac are the essence of a great section. They didnt earn millions later on because they had a preety singer. Listen to the way that Macvie and Fleetwood swop the control of the beat in Go your own way for example

  • me too. he was fucking awesome. brilliant. genius.

  • Love this this (original) version the best ....FANTASTIC..

  • the album that this comes from Live at the Boston Tea Party Vol 3 is unbeleivable blues start to finish....there's also a really good vid on here of Dave Zito (Fleetwood Mac later) doing Peter Green's song....Let's remember folks....Peter Green wrote and recordedthis song b4 Santana.

    >Ken

  • after 35years of playing, I still get the shivvers when listening to the man and that rediculous tone!

    Jeff makor

  • Santana is gay (but ok, he's quite good too)

  • haha

  • lol

  • Green is a god

  • eargasmic!

  • great song by the great peter green,thanx for posting jim..pete

  • My pleasure Pete. Green is one of my rock idols,not only for his super skills,but my belief he'd play for nothing on a street corner just to spread the gospel of the blues.

    Totally committed to the art.

  • Same, a true guitarist at heart!

  • @jimbosity002 i am loving the faith of peter green there :D 

  • You are very welcome sucretsjay

  • nice love this song from peter green thanks