FLEETWOOD MAC : STOCKHOLM 1970 : GOT A MIND TO GIVE UP LIVING .

[strangeones4]

Fleetwood Mac post Peter Green; had to hide the fact they had the best white British blues guitarist of all time. That meant the Boston Tea Party tapes weren't released until Lindsay Buckingham left FM in 1985. Had Peter Green waited another year to leave FM, those Boston Tea Party tapes come out in 1970! It completely changes the future of FM!!

[clikityclak]

Listion to that guitar cry!

[strangeones4]

This was post Munich 3/70. Is Peter Green an acid casualty? Peter Green's demise was not like Roky Erickson, Skip Spence, or Syd Barrett.

Green's problems happened later.

That guitar solo could change lives!

[clikityclak]

Fucking amazing.. excuse the swear but it is fucking amazing..

[fieldfullofthistles]

Chilling. The soul exposed through a guitar. Brilliant post.

[RosaLichtenstein01]

Incredible and spine-chilling guitar work! Thanks for posting!

Only BB King, Gary Moore and Snowy White at their best come anywhere near.

[benroo89]

@RosaLichtenstein01 Mate, Gary Moore is the worst guitarist ever. All he did was rip off Peter Green and play his songs with a horrible tone and shredding. How can you compare him to Green?

[RosaLichtenstein01]

@benroo89

I disagree Gary ripped Peter off -- no more than Peter ripped off BB King or Duster Bennett.

Gary was an original; as his 'Midnight Blues' and 'Jumping at Shadows' shows. Sure, Peter is still the best blues guitarist the UK has ever produced, and by a huge margin, but Gary is certainly a great blues player in his own right.

The tone of Gary's guitar isn't all that bad either -- and what's wrong with shredding? In 'Still Got The Blues For You', it's absolutely perfect

[benroo89]

@RosaLichtenstein01 Well he covered loads of Green's songs with the same guitar and a shit tone. He's a cheesy bastard. He's not a guitar player at all. He has no feeling. He's the fucking Michael Angelo Batio of blues... look at his face when he's playing! Pure cheese. Gary Moore never played one note of blues in his life. What he plays is cheese.

[tbuddystrat]

the blues will never die

[RosaLichtenstein01]

@tbuddystrat

Dear me, so emotional!

Peter also covered songs too, in fact, far more than he wrote.

Gary's tone was perfect, and his facial gestures show he was putting emotion into his playing.

But, this is always a matter of opinion, and certainly not worth getting upset about.

[RosaLichtenstein01]

@RosaLichtenstein01

Sorry, posted in reply to the wrong individual!

[alfgarnet8]

There was me thinking so many roads was the pinnacle of his solo-ing career,how little did I know ?lol Truely ferocious Greeny here unleashing raw power and emotion here - Spose to most ppl listening to this gives the impression of a troubled and genious mind at work here!

[alfgarnet8]

Can anyone tell me if its Greeny or kirwan solo-ing on this one ? At a guess I would say Greeny due to the tame vibrato?? but WOW !!! incredible inovative emotional playing there !

[clikityclak]

@alfgarnet8

Yeah its Mr Green, you can tell by his ghost like tone and amazing connection of licks

[mrswimmyboy]

This is the absolute peak of Peter's blues playing IMO

[rodcsh1]

The best thing about the internet is the unearthing of lost music like this. What I'm trying to say is that 30 yr old Peter Green stuff that was just unearthed and shared with the world is better that all the free porn ever on the net put together.

[atkinsont]

@rodcsh1 Amen...Heard them play this in 1970 at the University soccer field in Miami. The whole set was so mesmerizing that all I can remember was people leaving in a state of ...WOW, not "loud".

[cryrocker]

I never saw BB king in concert but i did see janis joplin and this tune reminds me of both of them. this song is KILLER.

[tnekkc]

I used to play this song in the 60's but I associate it with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

I always like Fleetwood Mac better, but I never heard them do this song until now.

[hendj13]

Very nice one! Thanks

[littlepenguin57]

where is this fantastic material from stevie????please do u add me?????

[AndPlus]

Simply wow.

[TheRAZOR66]

Thanks for posting this, Peter Green was just incredible, far cry from the current FM,

Kriwan and Green were great in the day !!

[phddddd]

This may just be the single finest performance on electric guitar in history. At the peak of his performance skills, he let heaven know there was a new Job to take from, and heaven, always selfish, did. The fall was greater in person than any prose to be found in Milton, and harder to watch. There will be no need for checks and balances when he arrives at the gates of paradise. "Reserved" is already there for the one white face in Blues Heaven.

[NaughtGinger]

@phddddd Is hard for me to almost pick a favorite live performance of this music-I just want more more more-they make the music go right through and speak to this white woman's blues soul -thankful for the amazing amount of inspired talented work they accomplished so quickly. Contributions of Spencer and Fleetwood/McVies talents of course but the real magic happened between Peter & Danny! Truly stood the test of time; a priviledged feeling listening to it if that makes sense.

[phddddd]

@NaughtGinger It makes perfect sense, Ginger. "Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Le Petit Prince. The last time I saw Peter I was with him in a used guitar store in San Fran. Behind the cashier were three posters: Eric Clapton to the left, Jimi Hendrix to the right. In the center was Peter Green. Pointing to it, Peter asked" "Is that me?" "Yes," I said, knowing sadly it was no longer.

[NaughtGinger]

@phddddd Sorry but would you mind interpreting what you wrote for me? You are correct at the supreme sadness of what transpired for Peter and Danny. But I am still so happy I got to listen to what they created together. Along with the fact there is so much material in comparison to other artists for the relatively short time period they played together. Thanks for responding-still want to hear more and more and more of this music! :*D

[phddddd]

@NaughtGinger From the French text ,The Little Prince. At the point where the Fox is giving his life's secret to the aviator. It reads: "Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the human eye." Peter Green's continual fight for sanity -- his a similar disease to John Nash of "A Beautiful Mind" -- portrays wrongly as a lost and confused man; in his heart, Peter is as clean and pure as his guitar playing.

[vincentlyons]

Wonderful!!!

[Jenscool]

Wow, the sound is awesome!!!

[screwmaster404]

Speechless!

[vanu49]

Wohohooo!!!!....no one is the best guitarist, but Peter Green is just better..!!!!

Tks so so much for this great great upload.

My heart is still pounding.....

Have a nice day.

Vanu.

[steveuk17]

@vanu49 Will be uploading more from this show tomorrow, but just had to get this one posted. You can almost hear the audiences attention . Beautiful . :-)

[sanderhoffhansen]

Yeah!

Right now in my mind:

this´s years before The great gig in the sky -- ............

Thanks for that in lightning