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  • My father was a Real blues player in those days, and used to say how the British were stealing our Black-Blues and selling it back to people who are too racist to listen to the original players. How right he was. Nothing has changed.Sad

  • @randyreal574 The word music comes from the greek word μουσική and thus music was created by greeks thousands of years ago.Thus the whole world stole music from white greeks right??No! music and blues music in particular doesnt belong to anyone.It belongs to every living breathing person on this planet.The black people should be proud that created blues music and white people immitated it so much

  • @dmantsio .I am white and i am no racist in having blues guitarists that were born black as idols such as jimi hendrix,bb king Albert King etc, but i love Peter Green, Paul Kossof, Leslie West too everyone contributed in the world blues-rock scene in their own way

  • and to think that was a live performance!! stunning Blues by the best!! no question.

  • ....let me echo the others....absolute masterpiece...., no one else, not even Gary Moore, could make it sound like this. Thanks for the post.

  • He's singing about a man who wishes he was dead & I reckon the gut wrenching solo is totally appropriate especially given Green's own thoughts at the time. An absolute masterpiece

  • This is without a doubt the best blues solo of all time!

    I have never heard anything like it.The whole song make me shiver.Now I understand what BB King said.

  • great stuff!

  • Pardon me farting in church but by Greeny's impeccable standards that solo is way over the top. He is overplaying! Admit it. Accept it. Compare with "Love That Burns" or "I Loved Another Woman" or "Watch Out" from the Chicago Sessions album and you can't help but agree. Nice to hear it though. It's always a pleasure.

  • @ab77bluesYes I agree that the studio solos are tight & more succinct but these were times of long live solos (drums, guitar, bass). Nearly every band did extended solos that allowed them to let loose & really do the blues justice. Additionally they were not limited by relatively short length of an LP record. Rory Gallagher's band Taste, for example had to spread solos over 2 sides of the album. You actually had to turn over the record to finish the song. Classic!

  • @ab77blues You play the blues as you feel them. Anything can impact on the feeling you impart to your playing. You and I don't know what he'd been through that day or what his mood was. All I know is that when I hear this solo every single note sounds sincere and deeply felt.

  • @BackToTheBlues Oh no doubt, no doubt. I wouldn't dream of questioning his sincerity or feeling, just that by his own high standards this seems a bit histrionic. This was a style he was developing in his last months before his breakdown, work in progress, you can hear it on the BBC In concert recordings from around the same time where he plays a magnificent "Green Manalishi". It's one of the great tragedies that he succumbed to mental illness just as he was making such a breakthrough.

  • @ab77blues

    Overplaying compared to Hendrix, Beck, Page, and Clapton!?!? This is the most structured overplaying I've heard from this era. There is a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is one of the most logical blues solos' you'll ever hear. Then there's Peter Green 4/1/70 in Stockholm Sweden. It crushes this solo.

  • As BB King said: Peter is the only guitarist who makes me sweat...

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  • amazing stuff, love it:):):)

    been a fan since the 60s

  • WOW So much feeling gave me a rush of shivers throughout my body, it brought tears to my eyes. Its no wonder poor Peter fell into such depression.

  • The climax of the guitar solo made me climax

  • Clapton is nothing compared to Green. Green is something compared to B.B.King. 

  • What can you say to describe that? Unbelieveable - he only uses the blues pentatonic scale for about 95% of this! (thats five notes) - very few passing tones - the truth is this man is a musical genius who absorbed himself in the blues and just became the best at it. Bar none.

  • Greeny has been with me musically since the early days, he never left and this recording is perfect evidence that there was, is and never will be anyone even remotely like him. What makes this even more compelling that soon after this gig he submerged in Darkness, never to return to us........

  • i feel this unexplainable sound through my ears... tingling down my spine finding its way strait to my soul... if that is possible... music like is my escape from life.

  • This performance is so amazing. Where did you find this? Is it available on a CD? Thanks

  • @AndPlus . Check out Sugarmegs for downloads :O)

  • There is a CD out called Fleetwood Mac, Dead Bust Blues. It contains live recorded material from the Warehouse in New Orleans. Jan 30th Feb 1st 1970. HIWATT records.

  • There are 7 people who just do not have a clue......

  • it just doesn't get better than this

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  • @clikityclak

    Sadness and beauty enfused..

  • i listen to this song over and over again, sometimes minutes between each time, sometimes hours, and sometimes even weeks, but EVERY time, it makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. simply wonderful playing and tone, peter must be the only guitar player who although not gone, is sadly missed...

  • Excelente

  • Ive been a guitarist and blues fan for many years, I have NO idea how I went htis long and never heard of or payed attention to this guy, of course Ive heard of Fleetwood Mac and their heavy blues influences but I never payed much attention to them, Peter Green's story and playing is truly amazing though, this song is unbelievable !!

  • What pisses me off is the fact that most people dont even know that Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac is the Real Fleetwood Mack.

    -C&TK

  • Who plays the solo? Peter Green or Jeremy Spencer?

    

  • @TalluninchuDeff peter greenl on this one ,jeremy spencer did most of the slide work and danny kirwans vibrato gave him away - being slightly more pronounced than peters !

  • Talk about layin it all out. There are very few that can channel that kind of emotion into their music. Inevitably it's seems that they are the ones to die young, suffer personal anguish, loss etc. This is what the blues is all about. As well as a celebration of life.

  • I'm an old blues hound. Saw Peter Green and the Mac in '70 (or'71?)- Miami. There's nothing like this stuff since then, nothing. I'm glad to hear it again after all these years. TA

  • Hell of a version. I think I dig the Butterfield Blues Bands version a little bit more but this is right up there.

  • It is truely funny to hear people say " Stairway To Heaven"  is the greatest solo of all time

  • That is one of the finest, most incredible guitar solos I've ever heard. Thank you.

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  • Just absolutely amazing.

  • If you like this version I recommend you check out the live Stockholm 1970 posted by steveuk17. Peter's solo is breathtaking.

  • This is sensational. Several people have asked which album this track comes from with no replies, so I'll try asking the same question....ANY ONE OUT THERE KNOW WHICH ALBUM OR WHERE THIS TRACK CAN BE FOUND???

    Many thanks

  • @Fensmiller this is a bootleg from the Warehouse New Orleans at the end of January 1970, its not easily available and we have to thank God for the brilliance of youtube for as long as it lasts that stuff like this can be accessed. This was a stage recording done by Owsley, the Dead's famous soundman. The 2 bands were on the same bill.

  • @kissyxander Anyone know if this was the same "Owsley" who was reputed to have made the best Acid ever produced, some years earlier? (I ask only for completeness of Context). If so, how Appropriate!!.

  • @Tornfreedom the very same. Its rumoured that at one point he was recording every Dead show AND the supporting acts. If true there are some astonishing tapes somewhere - of which this is only one!

  • @Tornfreedom Yes it is the same Owsley who made the Acid. It was him and his wife. I think she was a Chemist, but I am only going of memory there

  • @Fensmiller the album this track is from is called Dead Bust Blues. Haven't got it but I asked the same question a while back.

  • @Fensmiller Yes it's from a bootleg album called Dead Bust Blues I bought mine off of the net. Just google Dead Bust Blues and some site that sells tons of bootlegs will appear.

  • This is brilliant. The way his guitar can make you feel the emotions behind his writing... it is unreal. It gives me the chills throughout my whole body..

  • The Greatest British Blues guitarist of all time and anyone who don't like it you know what to do is click in the box at the top and type in justin bieber. Peter Green is an insperation to all guitarists whether you are great or a beginner. We love you peter.

  • Uhh peter green? Is that you Jesus? Sure looks and sounds like it

  • What album is this from?

  • Hello Stoffe2, on which album(s) will I find this song?

    Thanks so much for sharing, definitely one of his (many) best songs where he puts his heart out through his voice and guitar.

  • Well I see 7 people are from the Hearing Impaired Institute. I would hate to be one of these people who do this to be noticed. LOL

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  • peter green is just a god on a guitar with no equals pure genius

  • As stated earlier: "PG has always been humble, and knows he follows in the footsteps of many an underpaid and dead Delta bluesmen." He felt very badly about making money off of their efforts. However, when they have a roll call in the after life in years to come, PG will be one of the most requested lead guitarists.

    He will make everyone in the band sweat...

  • Simply awesome. That is all. (y)

  • Shame his son is such a cock!

  • Sung and played with so much honesty and unabated sorrow, it is a truly painful experience to listen to every exquisite note that Green allows to pour out from his heart and bleed its way through every solemn nuance of his guitar.

    Simply breathe taking... 'I've Got A Mind To Give Up Living, All Over Again'

  • blues: the art of transferring soul from the mind and heart to the voice and fingertips

  • I wish I could Like This A thousand Times More!!!

    Even That Would Not Explain How Much I love This Solo and Song.

  • at this time...he was as good as there was on the planet !!!!!

  • 6 people got some serious issues..

  • @PeerMK no, now  7 people do ha

  • The most underrated guitarist of all time.

  • Its safe to say this one , the stockholm one and the filmore west are the greatest if not the most stunning pieces of guitar work in the history of blues guitar.. well guitar in genereal really haha.. To be this "One" with your guitar is amazing! the phrases he uses match exactly what he is trying to convey , to me that is sadness and beauty entwined. These 3 solos are actually terryifying to be honest hahaha

  • Look up the track "The End of the Game" from the album of the same name. This track is perhaps my favourite guitar work of all time. Imagine a big cat in the jungle, settling down before sleeping at night, with a hunter creeping up on him.

    Awesome!

  • Awesome

    

  • GENIUS!!!

    

  • El mas Grande de todos... Peter Green!.... Unico E Irrepetible....

    Saludos Desde Argentina!:...

  • Just mind-blowing! Thanks for this.

  • Best song ever! Peter Green is truly amazing!!!

  • May god have mercy on the peoples soul's who somehow found a way to dislike this..

  • seriously i cried nearly 7:58 on a row...mindblowing

  • this is scary, yet awesome...

  • If anyone has been down the crossroads it's Peter Green.

  • Class Pure Class!

  • Listening to this in a terrible mood like I'm in will bring a man to tears. Though this is mind blowing i just cant finish it right now. It hurts. You can feel every once of pain and sorrow he puts into this...

  • Perfection.

  • if this was his only song, he should have become a legend already

  • This is jizzworthy music, I'm telling you.

  • thats nothing any guitar teacher can teach...

  • i swear hes possesed

  • i've found 5 versions and all are very much worthy of burnin one

  • Anybody have a tab for this?

  • @revgen88 Tab? No such thing for a song like this. Must sit down and figure it out by ear, then set it on fire like Peter does.

  • Can't find the right words to say anything.So great!

  • Another Green masterpiece, like no other!

  • This solo has to be the most amazing thing i have heard in a very long time..

  • I've been searching for 2 years for a record with this one on it, but I can't seem to find it! Has anybody an idea how to get my hands on one?

  • Bloody 'ell cheer up a bit Pete

  • How dare you Green ?

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  • I think i've posted on this b4,but wot the -GENIUS at work!!!!!!!

  • I NEED this recording. Anyone know where I can get it?

  • I think what makes this song (and other Peter Green songs) so amazing is the expression in his playing, like his very being is seeping through his fingers and going into the guitar. It's a very rare, one in a million kind of talent to have. If you listen to Eddie Hazel's "Pray my soul", you can here it in his playing too. And even more, after this guitar solo of just pure raw emotion, Peter Green quietly says "thank you". Extremely talented and humble, a true musician.

  • can some one tell me wher can i get this spesific version on a CD ?

    i must have this , it's amazing

  • @eladtall Yes I agree, where can we get it, i must own this concert!!!!!

  • WOW!!! totally mind blowing guitar playing by peter green.my favorite guitarist is mike bloomfield but this is my favorite version..JUST WOW!!!!!!

  • There are 6 people that will go to music hell where techno is blasted into their ears with Justin Bieber singing.

  • Been a PGreen fan since a schoolboy in the late 60's and his music touches me the same way now as as it did then, and this is a beautifully constructed song with a great solo. Why? Because he's so obviously gifted, but unlike many guitarists, he's being honest and simple with the content and delivery, thats how we can relate to it. Using no gimmics, just reverb with the vol and tone controls and lets the Les Paul and him do the talking. Bit like Buchanan except our Pete's a Londoner.

  • @maxwellfan55 Hey Maxwell.Had to comment about Roy Buchanan.Only saw him play once,but I consider myself very fortunate to have done so.Roy Smoked!

  • Each time i find a new FWM version of this song it becomes my new favorite, i feel privileged that they played in New Orleans

  • Just doesn't get better than this. Thanks so much for posting.

  • His soul is going to dictate the notes, tone, sensibility, are all fair nor more nor less. Peter is just a different level than other blues guitarists can only dream

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  • The people who understand what they are hearing when they hear Peter Green play guitar will never be able to fully put the feeling into words, yet I see a lot of people here trying to.

    The music he made was inhuman, raw perfection. He yearns and cries through his guitar and I cannot sit still whenever I hear it. Thank God for Peter Green.

  • @colindavis5 Kiss-ass alert!!

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  • @colindavis5 you have said it so right! thanks, I love him.

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  • @colindavis5 Greens' music is really , all too human, that's what makes it soo good. I feel that anyway.

  • @jsilence418 His music is all too human, the level of perfection with which he plays it is inhuman. How i feel

  • @colindavis5 Yeah sure so you feel inhuman ,lol good for you.

  • @jsilence418 Exactly right it is what connects us all!!

  • @colindavis5 You say 'yet i see a lot of people trying to'

    then proceed to add yourself to that list of people trying to? lol

  • Yes

  • @colindavis5 Amen, Brother....well put......thanks

  • @colindavis5 GREAT GRAT Comment

  • @colindavis5 Peter Green's music is all too human ,which is why it touches so many people so deeply .If it was inhuman ,no one could relate. As for your not being able to sit still, maybe you have Hemmorhoids!

  • Let's cherish that Peter Green is still alive. I'm sorry Gary Moore has passed, but he did sell the most famous 1959 Gibson Les Paul for personal financial gain. I will NEVER forgive him for that! Do you wonder how an "acid casualty" 60's rock star is still alive while a wanker guitarist pretender died prematurely?

  • @strangeones4 Re the guitar, it was a great shame, but sometimes needs must and Lord dont I know it. You dont own and play a guitar for that many years and sell it without a lot of heartache...

  • @kissyxander What angers me is that Gary Moore aquired one of the best 1959 Les Paul's ever produced for the price of his 1969 Gibson SG. Peter Green "gave" this guitar to a "friend". It's duly noted that Gary Moore recorded a tribute album (using THE '59 LP) to Peter Green in 1995, yet his tone was garbage. To achieve the perfect Peter Green tone, you need a Fender Dual Showman head with cab, either a Fender or Orange reverb box, and the famous guitar. If Moore used a Plexi-head= forgive!

  • @strangeones4 Instead Gary Moore used those crappy Marshall heads that were made for heavy metal. Even if they're tube amps, they weren't the old Plexi-head amps from the 60's, and early 70's. Fender was the best amp for the tone you are now hearing!! The tone you hear from this link is a Fender Dual Showman.

  • @strangeones4 I agree with a lot of what you say, however Greeny has used his share of Marshalls, Oranges and God knows what else down the years and to the same devastating effect. Its all in the fingers and the heart y'see...

  • @strangeones4 Don't speak ill of the dead.

  • @strangeones4 Thank you for stating the obvious!!!! I've been saying the same!

  • Who cares, they all are great guitarist in they're own right. Personally I like Peter but so I like them all for what they do. I am just glad I have ears to listen to them play. We need to cherish them all because we are losing them slowly as we lost Gary Moore last week ( RIP)

  • The best aspect of Peter Green (with FM), is he loved to jam with any famous guitarist. He never saw it as a competition. He knew Beck, Page, and Clapton were scared of Jimi Hendrix. PG, and Danny Kirwan jammed with Jimi Hendrix in New York 1968. PG was unphased. Just listen to this solo!! It wasn't until the last US FM tour with Peter Green that he was able to jam with Joe Walsh. PG seeked out great guitarists. 11/70 with Duane Allman in New Orleans is a great example! He was THE BEST!

  • @strangeones4

    Dude ya seem like ya know ya stuff on greeny can ya point me in any direction to recordings of any of these jams or any rare fm era stuff??? thanks

  • @huzzer060883 Look up Stockholm '70 (same song). Find "Worried Blues" San Francisco 1968. Search for "Rattlesnake Shake" Boston 1970 Vol. 2 in several parts. My favorite is "Sugar Mama Fleetwood Mac Amsterdam 1969".  If you really want to hear Peter Green in raw form, search for "The Stumble Peter Green 1967". You'll know when you find it.

  • oh my god, and I thought I have already heard the best of green's songs...

    how ignorant of me

  • PETER GREEN IS GOD hell thats a david gilmore solo before david gilmore could solo viva the survivour mr green

  • First time I've heard this (Green is my favourite guitarist). It's absolutely mindblowing!

  • IF THIS SOLO DOESNT MAKE YOU WEAK THEN YOU HAVE A TOMBSTONE FOR A HEART.......

  • He's good isn't he.............

  • I prefer the Mike Bloomfield's version:

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  • @clsi6 I just listened to the Bloomfield version and yeah, It's alright but it ain't a patch on Greenie's. Just listen to that guitar bleed man.

  • This is simply the best guitar playing I've ever heard. It's frightening that somebody could convey their emotions like that through a guitar.

    And it's understandable why nobody could stay in that space for very long, it's just so heavy and intense.

    What a talent, once in a lifetime.

  • Also,DAMN this a WRENCHING blues,godamn!!!!!

  • HaHA,love that"vorchiet".....Yeah,when it really comes down to it,the guitar is such an expressive instrument,if you av REALLY got the blues,it'll come out.....

  • you cant learn this you either feel it and pour every ounce of your soul into every note or you are just playing tabs and scales you cant mimik feel

  • They need to replace the like button with a Love button

  • If Peter Green and John Martyn had written a song or played together it probably would have been the most heart wrenching piece of music ever

  • what album is this live recording from? Green always seems to shine when playing live

  • What a JOKE that anybody could think this is "definately up there with Comfortably Numb!!" You have it all upside down if you think Dave could ever half of the soul and the spontaneity of Greeny's best playing.

  • Wow,that takes your breathe away....

  • women ruined fleet-wood mac

  • I just don't see anyone ever playing like this again (unfortunetly) He IS wrenching the notes from his very soul. He gave everything he had. There are guys today who play blues, but aren't immersed in it like Peter Green was, or Eric Clapton for that matter.

    Maybe you CAN"T come out the other side the way you came in!

  • Best blues solo ever. Pure soul.Such a pity what happened to Peter. Thanks a lot for posting. Made my day.

  • if you don't like Green you have no soul

  • thanks!

  • No one in the world can play such a sad sad guitar-tone...

  • This sends my mind off into another dimension. Beautiful.

  • BTW this isn't on any of their albums?

  • @olaivo

    It's a BB King song, and was never recorded professionally by PGFW

  • Anyone knows whether this is slowed down or what scale this is in? Cause when I try to play along I just sound out of tune no matter what scale I play... (Im in tune though ;) )

  • @olaivo back in the old days, it was quite common to tune to eachother, so that everyone of the band is actually in tune with eachother, in stead of using a tuning device. It annoys the hell out of me when I try to play a long haahah

  • @TimBirkenholz I believe they were in tune with each other. The entire recording is slightly off pitch, probably due to all the transfers, etc. It's a bootleg. You can adjust it to pitch like I did using free tools like Audacity. Then, play on.

  • @handmethepiano Then Play On =D

  • @olaivo I don't remember if the recording is slightly sharp or flat but use Audacity or similar tool to adjust it. Song starts in Gm, F, etc. Write me and I'll send you the entire chord progression if you'd like.

  • One of,If not the best British blues bands of the 60s. Its to bad they were underrated

  • Makes my heart cry, wonderful

  • this is the most soulful music i have ever heard i have all peter greens music,

    but this is a bonus ;stoffe you have great taste you have made my day many thanks