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  • Magic, amazing!

    

  • magical

  • Lindsay buckingham obviously voted this down 5 times

  • @growguyuk i realize you're being sarcastic, at least i hope so, but why would he do that? lindsey buckingham is a fantastic guitarist, and i rather doubt he's in the least envious of peter green.

  • @olafbigandglad Got to disagree there .....Buckingham is a fine guitarist .... but he's nowhere near Peter Green's level.

  • Remember Green had to under take playing Clapton's guitar work "verbatim" after Clapton left like a thief in the night to form "Cream" right after the release of Mayall's "Bluesbreaker's featuring Eric Clapton" album and "nailed it"...Santana's guitar hero is Peter Green,not Clapton.Carlos covered "Black Magic Women" playing almost "Lick for Lick" Green's original in tribute. Green was the true guitar "God" but mental illness took him before Fleetwood Mac would ever take off with his leadership.

  • This is such an obvious ripoff of Black Magic Woman. Why all the praise?

  • @Sumokurt1 you do realize that black magic woman was written by peter green and santana covered it?

  • @MrBandito100 And Santana took it 100 miles farther with his version.

  • @Sumokurt1 Even though I like santana's version I and many others think peter greens just has so much more soul and depth to his guitar playing. Even santana himself agrees.

  • @Sumokurt1 LOL ....dummkopf.

  • @Sumokurt1 So how do you rip yourself off?

  • @Sumokurt1

    What a joke!

  • The year this was recorded is profound! Try to find in all of recorded music any human played instrument with this electrified Sustain. The science fiction instrument named the Theremin used in The Thing From Another World in the 50's for example is the closest point of reference for me. The other is Eric Clapton with John Mayall on the song Double Crossing Time where Eric performs the first presentation I can find of harmonious Sustain. Peter Green's SUPERNATURAL achieved Innovation in Beauty!

  • It couldn´t be better named..... S-U-P-E-R-N-A-T-U-R-A--L !!!

    How can a simple mortal make so sublime sounds!

  • Sit between 2 speakers placed far apart and you can hear the guitar slowly rolling from one speaker to the other and back again. And, make sure they are really good speakers.

  • There is ONLY ONE! Love this for realz!

  • F Yeah

  • ♥ .

  • @MrMLD72MLD Psychedelic! ♥

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  • What 5 people disliked this masterwork?

  • maaan when he holds those notes and the tone really develops, its so...supernatural.

  • That does it....I'm gettin a Les Paul.

  • Fuckin song need to be longer. What the fuck?

  • Absolutely beautiful guitar work from Peter Green, a master craftsmen at work. The tone on Gary Moore's version from Blues for Greeny is the best IMHO

  • @81NGOKING Each to his own...my preference is PG for this. I love Gary Moore's stuff too. Peace.

  • @81NGOKING I don't know. I love Gary Moore. Seriously.

    But there is something sweet and pure about the tone here that I can't quite put my finger on. Got to give it to Peter.

  • beautiful music & great vid !

  • Yes, still great music and little slow with passion.

  • this is DEEEEEPPPP!!! Peter Green is awesome!!

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  • This music is breathe taking... but has anyone taken notice of the video?? OMG the people the floods the music...isnt this how the blues were formed? If you havent noticed the video plaese take another look? ; ) x

  • Suuuuuuuuuuuuper ! 

  • I love instrumental guitar music like this, does anyone know any similar songs I can check out? Or even bands or artists that play this style? I don't mean Peter Green in general, he has other great songs like man of the world or green manalishi, but this seems to me to be almost a separate genre, it's not a song like those two, it's more just a blues guitar instrumental, is there a genre of music solely based on this?

  • @tennistoday  Hendrix - Pali gap

  • * * * * *

    A W E SO M E

  • Mayall had some pretty decent guitarists. Holy shit.

  • @slownoman ....Ok so you are the master of the understatement!

  • Just loooove this!!! Have loved it for over 30 years!!!! Stilll great!

  • What a guitarist. God bless him

  • no other guitarists sounds like Peter Green, how he projected that sound ill be pondering my whole life

  • Thanks a lot. I would consider putting the big letter 'S' into the title.

  • The electric guitar rules. F*uck non-music hip hop!!! Peter Green's time in the sun was too brief. Wish that bitch would not have spiked his drink with LSD in Germany!!! That person should be executed for that crime!!

  • why, whyyyy? why is it only 2:58 long? I'm getting tired manually repeating this song :(

  • @choovuck ??? But you get to hear it again......right from the FN start. You should feel privileged !! LOL

  • I remember the first time I heard this...way back in the late 60s.....it was electrifying, still is. If anything .... it is/was beyond human. F'N brilliant.

  • AAAH 1969 we would come home drunk from the NAAFI in RAF Seletar Singapore and I would have to find this track on my reel to reel Akai tape recorder and play it over and over again!!

  • What kind of fuckwit would dislike this?

  • It's amazing that Peter Green made this song and Carlos Santana created an entire career out of it, this is like his entire style.

  • I still have the Vinyl 33 of this album.....When I first got it I think I put the turntable needle on this track for a week straight.....I just could not believe the controlled sustain and slow phrasing...shivers!

  • Danny,kudos on your work with this fine group. Peace, Bryan Cole

  • wow.. 21?? unreal.. the guy was born superb.

  • Amazingly sophisticated playing from Peter considering he was only 21 years of age - brilliant!!! Love it!!!

  • Great Song , nice video....can't quite understand how some people don't get the connection with the video....He's not playing 'anyone else's pain' or feelings..he's playing his own..that's the Blues....if it ain't real it ain't the Blues, and damn this is REAL!

  • without the voice of man this song is like nature without being trampled by man, cool

  • 0:40 ... i think i just cummed.

  • I think the video is intented as Peter playing there pain.. just a theory tho

  • So beautiful...too beautiful...and the images...though not immediately conducive to the sound...grow into it and seem just right.

  • I was fourteen years old when I first heard this....near xmas 1967..its never left me.

    The greatest white blues guitar player..what a talent...he had the magic touch.

  • dannykirwan as in danny kirwan ex Fleetwood Mac? ...

  • Oh boy...takes me right back to my youth many times this went on the turntable in the 60's!

  • Every royalty check that Carlos Santana gets should go directly to Peter! Without Peter, Carlos would still probably be playing in a crappy little Mexican Cantina!!!

  • @hippydippy To be fair, it wasnt crappy. CS is still a guitar machine lol

  • WOW

  • listerning to this made me go and buy a guitar and learn how to play

  • @jfisher121314 Listening to this made me go and sell my guitar…too good

  • many,many thanks for this!!!

  • I hope JAPANESE earthquacks make them strong hearts

  • Best bit is between 0:00 - 2:58

  • I hope there's a retro phase where the Woodstock sound comes back. Evolution is cool, but good tunes are good tunes ....

  • Why O why cant we have musicians like this these days?

  • No, a Les Paul

  • is that a strat

  • super... perfect!!!

  • Not the one and only DANNY KIRWAN - LEGEND

  • HEY LETS LOOK AT IT THIS WAY WE LISTEN WE LIKE WE LISTEN SOME MORE AND THEN WE JUDGE ITS ALL ABOUT TASTE IN MUSIC AND SOUNDS I HAPPENED TO LIKE THEM BOTH FOR TOTALLY DIFFERENT REASONS AND MOODS

  • wonderful sound made by peter its hardly anyone who can make it today love it forever

  • Back in the United States, how did NPR blues snobs ignore the mid-late 60's British blues movement while they were living off of the popularity of the very movement??  NPR thinks Eric Clapton is the anti christ. What they don't want to admit is that people such as John Mayall, and Peter Green were true to their cause in the blues.

  • I wish i could fly.........

  • @redwhitch17 or even better,play like Peter.

  • Lovely.

  • peter green + les Paul = guitar heaven.

    steve vai could learn the true meaning of less is more from hearing this everyday for the rest of his life!!!

  • Thank you so much - your music is among my favorite of all time (as is that of Peter, and of you and Peter...)! Mary

  • Classic , Had me mate weeping listening to this

  • 2 people like Justin Beiber.

  • posting on my paranormal blog for writers typing tunes playlist today

  • 1 person accidently clicked dislike ^

  • i think i'm right in saying bbking was the one who said "peter greens sound was amazing he was the only white guy who ever sent a chill down my spine by playing blues"... what a perfect example of such a talent :D

  • @jimjim506 sometimes bbking says racist things. As much as I love the mans output there are several white guitar players that play the blues with more passion that he does.

  • @Skipissatan "As much as I love the mans output there are several white guitar players that play the blues with more passion that he (BB King) does."

    That aren't dead or dying?? Name 'em.

  • @cicadagodking ry cooder, for one. geoff muldaur, for two (and i mean two all by himself, paraphrasing richard thompson). chris smither for yet another. and we're ALL dead or dying.

    g

  • Mississippi Delta; birth place of the blues.

    Nice video tribute to the history and culture that spawned this musical gift to the world.

    Gotta love the blues!

  • I had an old blues vinyl the first time i heard this badass song man he could sustain that e note forever im so glad you tube exists because id never find this record without alot of money

  • Love that sound of P.G. <3

  • Why the fuck isn't this song 10 minutes long?

  • Most Beatiful sound I have ever heard !

  • Peter Green is a huge influence on Carlos Santana - wow this is great!!

    Also check out Jumpin' at Shadows!

  • Wow, just beautiful and soulful tone! Thank you for the post!.

  • I wish Micheal Schenker did a cover of this.

  • @jellosoup: Right On! and the vid is just fine.

  • This is just heavenly. Gives me chills.

  • How is he getting his notes to sustain like that? Is he using an ebow?

  • @KidGloves2112 I was reading a paperback book by Mick Fleetwood, and he mentions how Peter Green did it, with a sustaining effect. It was more than the guitar, it was the way the amp(s) were wired I believe.

  • Listen to the sustain it screams like a grieving woman. How did he do it? I have a gordon smith and when you push it on to the single tap neck pickup and grind the string against the fretwire it comes close to that. I reckon he must have tapped that les paul just the same way. Thing is he had this sound in his head and then the guitar to sing it with. Danny if that is really you....thanks a million for all the feeeeeeling.

  • Fantastic

  • Suuuuuuuuper ! 

  • I wish the warmth of this song and and both the song and the vision of everyone smiling on the live recording of Albatross that's posted on You Tube would stay in my head instead of all the demons that seem to have taken up residence in there. I was only 10 when it was Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac and I had the Monkees shoved down my ears at the time. I need to find a way to put these tracks on a CD so I can play them all the time! Thank you for sharing your heart and soul with me.

  • incredible... first time listener of this ... reminds me of roy buchannon.. absolutely beautiful

  • If I'm not mistaken Green was about 20/21 when he presented this masterpiece. Phenomenal!

  • He was given some recording time by John Mayall for his 20th birthday, a generous gesture in those days, and this was one of 2 tracks he did.

    Unbelieveable playing for someone of that age. When you think Peter Green was only 23 when he walked away from it all. He laid down more great stuff in that short time than most manage in decades.

  • Just blows me away every time,im so high right now,heaven........Melt in your mouth,Thats what it is....Just simply amazing;)))

  • PETER GREEN IS SUPERNATURAL!!!

  • Easily number two of Top 5 guitarists of all time, only Hendrix on number one, i'd say Green easily allmost pass him , tonewise imo, but easily he's in top 3 and i give Green the second place, but tonewise, i'd say that green is number one, this gives me goose bumps i haven't got to a solo since i first time heard Gary Moore bend, this is even more better! :O

  • I can see Danny Kirwan's name on here, which gives me the opportunity to thank him for "Jigsaw Puzzle Blues" which he played to perfection on the "B" side of the original release of Albatross. Thank you sir, indeed. It was one of my favourite tracks at the time and remains so now. I always felt you were unfairly of the rather dominating presences of Jeremy Spencer and Peter Green, and have long wished for an opportunity to say I think you were great too. Hope this is not inappropriate here.

  • From the standpoint of lead guitar, it sounds to me a bit as though this recording may also have had a big influence on Santana's ongoing interpretation of Green's other composition, "Black Magic Woman".

  • From greece with our respect. Thanks a lot.

  • brilliant...thanks

  • With music like this, who needs Santana?

  • supernatural...these pics..i guess trying to discover how overwhelming is the nature above us and in us is vs skin deep acts of ours. and as well how much strength there is in us, if it could be find and cathered together. sorry my bad english, if there was some mistakes. i love peter's music.

  • Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuussssssssssss­sssssssttttttttttttttttttttaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii­innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

  • reguardless of any rhetoric, this is an awesome tune for 1969. clapton can go thru the motions but he never felt a tune like peter green.

  • Just noticed that apart from the lead guitar the rest of the song sounds like calypso music, which must make this the most awesome Calypso song ever and pretty much the only good one for that matter.

  • its vodoo magic, totally dread man

  • This is just simply perfect........mind blowing..

  • Beautiful. Classic song. About what year were the images filmed? Any idea?

  • fantastic solo. I'm crying :)

  • Pure Beauty ... 

  • Stunning music, fascinating images, the occasional embarrassing 'superior' smartalec comment . . . anyway cheers for this DK, great stuff.

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  • This makes my 'hairs stand on end' like I bin plugged too the mains. Awsum. The live version at Ronni-Scots is just as awsum. I could not believe it was a live performance, when I first heard it. It's note perfect.

    Checkout the Ronni scotts- Live... it's got incredible versions of most of Greens best songs.

    Green is the "God" of the electric guitar.

  • His distinct tone can be heard on "The Super-Natural", an instrumental written by Green for John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers' 1967 album, A Hard Road.On this recording he plays a 1959 Les Paul Sunburst. The song demonstrates Green's control of harmonic feedback.[1] The sound is characterized by a shivering vibrato, clean, cutting tones, and a series of ten second sustained notes. These tones achieved by Green define controlled feedback on a Les Paul.[6]

  • 2 minutes and 58 seconds of perfection.

  • @Dogstar333 Doesn't get any better than this one 4sure!

  • The images of blacks picking cotton the entire song is creepy.

  • Amazing!

  • TURN IT UP.........aMAZING....

  • Why your associations with the slave cotton world?

    Strange pictures to this Best ever White man's Blues...Tell us

  • -Strange pictures?

    -cotton-black-blues-

    -Greeny-blues-black-cotton.

    The feeling is the same

  • @dannykirwan I luv the video-I 'get it"-your kinda blues is same as mine-thanks 4 posting!

  • @seedogreed The album was called A Hard Road!

  • @Katmundu The track can also be found on the double-album Blues Giant. (for the collectors)

  • @seedogreed white man's blues? lol. this song is BADASS, but don't get confused, the people in those pictures are the ones that would gave birth to what ur presently calling the 'white' man's blues.

  • @seedogreed I agree with you.

  • @seedogreed because that's the birthplace of the blues movement dork..must pay homage to our roots musn't we sir?

  • when I was 12 my sister & her boyfriend got me a guitar--nylon string classical. The first "song" he taught me to play was some riffs from Albatross, downtuned the low e and everything. I played nothing else but that for months. Love PG then, love him now.

  • 180 writen all over it

  • IN PETER GREEN WE TRUST

  • Just saw the old Greenie in Galway, first row. Didn't play this one, but Rainy night in Georgia, Albatross, Oh well....Any words left? No.

  • Carlos sultana has played the same lick for 40years,Peter was real class.

  • 2:00

    bliss

  • Hi Danny, are there any live versions of The Supernatural with either Mayall or Fleetwood Mac? He's so mindblowing, leanin' waay back..... How come you don't post Woman Of A Thousand Years? A favorite. Most every thing i heard of yours had a lot of heart. Beautiful melodies..... thank you

  • One of my all time favourite song's and guitarist!

  • I have the Gary Moore cd "Blues For Greeny" were he plays this song (also a great version from a Great Player).

    2 years ago i lokked on YT for the original version, now i got it...First time i hear the original. Thanks for posting.

    CP

  • WONDERFUL - music for all the time

  • tHANK YOU ::: this movie is so good... thank you thank you thank you... I LOVE THE MUSIC OF PETER GREEN ALL THE TIME I am LIVING

  • nice solo

  • Got my ticket to see Greeny next month! Dont know if this gem is on the setlist but it doesnt matter because you're guaranteed a night of pure genius.

  • Well I can see whereCarlos Santana found his sound at !Peter Green kicks ass !

  • Wow

  • Wow, speechless!

  • Hooray for Peter Green, master guitarist. But wrong film to set against The Supernatural.

  • Carlos Santana has used Peter Green for over 40 years. This is the song that lauched his "style" of guitar playing, and phrasing. Meanwhile over the years Carlos Santana talks about Jimi Hendrix, or John Coltrane as his source of inspiration. Carlos doesn't talk about the meeting 4/70 in London to gain permission to play "Black Magic Woman". Carlos owes Peter Green a great debt.

  • Gary Moore does a fine cover of the piece, recommended listening, really good!

  • Peter green's finest hour???

    Yes, it is that good, and stands up against any piece of guitar work!

  • Oh, yeah !!!

  • Goosebumps.....40 years of hair standing on end.

  • Surpernatural Guitar playing..HA.

    Peter Green is superb.

  • Being 21 myself, and completely into 'Classic Rock', I have to say, this is amazing. It blows you away, while keeping you rooted to the spot. I'm so glad this was suggested to me. I'm a solo nut, and this jam is just the thing my heart needs. Truly, a 'Wow.....' moment. :) Thank you so much for posting!

  • epic

  • just wonderful, even the fact that he's slightly out of tune doesn't matter

  • Some tasty pickin' by Peter Green ;)

  • Such a great tone, those sustained notes send a chill right through me!!

  • GREAT.