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  • 17 dislikes has just prove care in the commuity does not work

  • The best "oh, Danny broke a string, I'll just do this meanwhile...." EVER!

  • Where is the rest of this video? Has anybody got any ideas?

  • His voice , his playing. That's feeling man

  • this is Top Drawer.

  • Gives me a similar feeling to hearing Robert Johnson. The way he shifts from raging anger to sweet and tender is unsurpassed ie 2.40 to 2.48. I think he might have heard Robert Nighthawks murderin blues? which is on YT.

  • Hard to believe that Peter Green once stopped playing music to work as a

    gravedigger !!

  • I never tire of viewing this. Thanks for the upload. He improvises on the spur of the moment because Danny has broken a string and produces THIS solo effort!! It took the Brits to show the Americans the excellence of their own blues music.

    I am envious of micamica. I am the same vintage but as an Aussie, not much opportunity to see the masters live on stage.

  • Every ounce of feeling and soul is conveyed here...more mojo and voodoo in a single bend than anyone from this period or any period for that matter...notice how the gain is increased toward the end...a true master....Hendrix himself wouldve bowed to Greenie on this.

  • It really don't get better than this! This is how a guitar should sound, not that over processed sound that is quite common today :-) And yeah, what a voice!!!

  • Nobody knows.. the way i feel..

  • Can't say how many times I keep viewing this. Yes, and nothing could touch this.

    I feel you, Peter....I feel you....

  • the voice rivals the guitar.

  • Greeny - the hero of Brit Blues...a magical voice. Stripped bare in all his wonderfulness.  Incredible piece of video history right here.

  • there isn't a guitarist on this planet that can top peter on this

    it's quiet but he roars

  • What jdasser said. X10

  • Peter Green, my favourite white bluesman, no contest.

  • That guitar sais more than the lyrics, one of the best blues tunes ever

  • To the very sad 17 dislikers, there's no hope for you now. There was, oh yes very much so, when you first clicked on to this, maybe you was trying to redeem yourself from the dross you have been listening to all your pathetic little lives? Ah but then you went and clicked on the thumbs down and in that precise moment, you proved to the world that you are indeed SOULLESS!!

  • @custer1959

    Indeed, anyone who doesn't like this clip just doesn't like blues guitar, because this example stands with the best. Ever.

  • he is the only other guy who gave Jimi a run for his money

  • @craziesthorse hahaha $£%"£ JIMI!!! better pass out now

  • By far one of the best guitarist in the 60's. A shame things turned out the way they did. The music buisness and fans got robbed.

  • Brilliant. Green is my fav British Blues guitarist, by a long way, mclean, but I still think you're being a little harsh on messrs Page and Plant there.

  • @richardcorysghost I don't.

  • I don't know for sure but I think I met this guy at UNBC at the turn of the century. Does anyone know about what Mr. Green us up to these days?

  • This just keeps getting better ever time I listen to it. The Shrine '69 CD hasn't left the player in weeks.

  • One of the greatest lines ever to be heard....... 'Danny has broken a string.' .... Well, thank God for that!!! - Or we may never have seen or heard this amazing performance from this talented - and absolutely GORGEOUS, guy ...

  • what a shame the focal points of older music videos are often on the face of the performer. show the left hand. thats what i want to see. otherwise, an inspiring post

  • Hendrix said there's only two kinds of music...blues, and then there's music that's a celebration! Two can be the same!!

  • @emriederek When and where did he say that?

  • To hell with Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham! There's only one Fleetwood Mac. God bless Peter Green!

  • @jdsasser78 It is a matter of personal preference, but I would rank the Fleetwood Mac singer songwriters as follows (from best to 2nd best, etc.) Green, Welch, Kirwin, Spencer, C. McViegh, B'ham Nicks, etc.

  • @jdsasser78 I Agree

  • @AcousticJamSesh3 i'm 17! jus found out about him. Loving every second of it!

  • I WANT TO BUY THE 3 CD SET OF THIS LIVE IN BOSTON BUT I DONT GET WHY THIS SONG ISN'T ON THERE???, ANYONE KNOW?.

  • @homegrownpa the name comes from black americans, but the Blues itself is universal. You got Blues in Africa, India, Eastern Europe, the Blues is a state of mind.

  • @AcousticJamSesh3

    You can say that again!

  • leave Clapton out of it, two different spirits, this is Peter Green,

    

  • sirius black lives!

  • excellent!

  • If this doesn't rock you to the core then you don't know what music is...

  • Soulful blues at it's best. Green was probably the most talented and gifted guitarist there ever was.

  • thanks for posting, too, btw!

  • The absolutely real deal. Bless his soul...

  • Thank god Dani's broken a string!!!

    Just listen to that guitar tone. Only Peter can make a Les Paul sound like a huge Strat.

  • I used to go the Ricky Tic club in Windsor (England) 1966/ 67 and watch John Mayall with Clapton and then Peter Green - stood at the front - they were two feet away. They were both superb - made the hairs on your neck stand up. They were different from each other - that's why they were both great, Why try to say one was better than the other? - that so completely misses the point.

  • @xxxmicamicaxxx Me too, I first saw Green at Klooks Kleek. I missed Clapton with Mayall 'cos I was a bit young to get in.

  • @xxxmicamicaxxx I wish I could say that. I believe you because I saw Elton John in a packed pub in London in 1970 before he made it big in U.S. I sat in front at a school gym in Hampstead Heath watching Rod Steward twirl his mic like a benzedrine baton-twirler in a homecoming parade. . . .The Stones in the Park . . . Canned Head in the rain. Peter Green the greatest is not forgotten.

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  • bad ass

  • 14 people have never liked any videos

  • The genius at work,the Peter Green fleetwood mac was the best,such a shame things panned out the way they did. Thanks for posting.

  • To good to be true.

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  • sounds like billy gibbons intro to black surgar...

  • @tiborzkarate No black no blues fool!

  • how can u not like this?

  • If Danny Kirwan doesn't break that B string on Like it This Way, 445,000 people would never have heard this... Amazing

  • @TheIronmikelee626 - (thank fk for that x1000) +2 = thankyou guitar gods ;)

  • I think everyone should just STOP with the stupid musican battles- so and so could kick so and so's ass- and just focus on Peter's amazing tone. Now THAT is something we can discuss.

  • @greenfruitface Well said.

  • @greenfruitface Totally agree. it just shows you how competitive most folks are. How silly.

    And yes, more discussion on his amazing singing and playing....

  • @tiborzkarate Page is maybe more of a composition and creating textures guy, but he and Clapton are/were of course very fine players, improvising too... but I tend to agree with you, Green is like on an even higher spiritual level.. immidiately touching.. but it´s hard to be the one who compares people... hard to be the judge. And don´t forget Mick Taylor. Even on things after Exile there is gold, if you listen closely.

  • Just got to say this - he is definitely one kissable guy .... Beautiful ..

  • wow!

  • It's official ... I'm totally in love with someone - who no longer exists as he did . . . . . . Oh Well ;-)

  • @silkysunshine  ....and how it aches.......

  • @silkysunshine Yep, me too. I have even tried to contact him, to say to him, I'll take you in, just come live with me and I'll understand you, and love you. oh, such sweet sorrow....

  • Give Peter his fucking guitar back!

  • Nobody could lay down a Les Paul like Peter Green! NOBODY!

  • How? To good.

  • I don't know if there are only guys commenting on this - but PG was so damn good-looking .. If only he was around now - exactly the same as he was then ............ Beautiful, just beautiful .. And he comes across as so humble. Gorgeous smile...... .. Perfect...

  • @silkysunshine I second that, gorgeous, beautiful and humble. I have loved Peter since I was 14 and I'm 56 now. His voice, playing and his presence gives me goose bumps. Lovely man.

  • @sarasez1955 Ditto - apart from the '14' bit .. Didn't even know of him until recently! .. But, I'm making up for it now ;-) .. Where are guys who even LOOK like him now?? .. Love that look - always have - and it seems like I always will! ..

  • @silkysunshine ahh... he sure was.. glad somebody else noticed; that hair black & curly was just a dream and those brown eyes... I loved his style too, looks just made for him and the way his heads tilts from side to side at 2.46....lawd have mercy... Am the same age as him now but am 23 when I look at this clip.

  • @sheilamaclean1 I'm ashamed to say that I had never even seen him before the recent documentary on television! .. Always associated Fleetwood Mac with Stevie Nicks etc., and didn't like them .. But, Peter Green just mesmerises me .. His voice was so distinctive - I just can't stop listening to him - and watching him! ;-) .. Just gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous .. I, too wish I was still 23! (Who doesn't?!) :-)

  • @sheilamaclean1 Maybe you mean @ 2.56 ..?. Because I just LOVE that bit, too! Seriously, I particularly watch out for it ... (Sad, isn't it?!) ...

  • All hail broken strings.

  • @Nautilus1972 that just made me LOL....I'm hailing

  • Him and Paul Kossoff are two bad dudes on a Les Paul.My preference over Hendrix or Clapton or anybody else

  • 14 deaf people can't "lip read".

  • @Kristopful Or just can't see or hear!

  • I hear dan aurebach?

  • I have listened to so much o f this 'genre' of music,since finding it in my youth, and quite frankly a lot of it bores me now. But here is a museum piece that will never fail the test of time. The delivery, the pure musicality of the piece , is in my opinion up there with the greats. An inspiration to future players, as long as the earth is in one piece!!

  • while everyone was away to either change a broken string or have a smoke,Peter had to entertain the audience all alone.The result of this effort was one of the best blues acts.

  • there isn't a guitarist on this earth who

    can match this performance

    with voice and guitar

    dead or alive

  • amazing

    

  • Makes Zeppelin sound like KC and the Sunshine Band

  • @mcleanartists  Hahahahaha. Good one ...

  • @mcleanartists

    these guys are good! but that was a dumb comment.

  • @srvledoux9 Peter Green never ever sat down and thought "what can I write to make a hit?"

  • JOHN MAYALL INFLUENCED both green and clapton , and the blues is the blues , if you know how to play it , thats good enuff

  • @Thadmotor1044

    I think there s no such things as white blues players. There s blues players thats it.

  • @SupaGlitch Too right, embarrassing when I see Peter Green given that crappy compliment: "best white blues player." Imagine seeing "best black classical pianist" as if, given that so and so is black, and while of course he's not as good as whites, still he's really good.

    When I listen to music it's sound I'm listening to, not some idea of the skin colour of the human at the other end of it.

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  • @SupaGlitch Hey nice call ! ...respect the past it represents and lets never forget it by pluggin in that guit-arrrrr :P

  • @SupaGlitch I think your right, I think all that stuff goes back to the fact that blues originated with the black americans, and of course there were/are some trully great artists from that corner, but it has been proven time and again that the white man can also express that emotion, as Peter clearly demonstrates.

  • As a man of many faiths, Clapton is god , Jimi is jesus, Duane is the holy ghost and Peter Green the kat you all leave of your list. This man at a young age flipped his neck pick up on his les paul, covered Elmore james and named/ gave birth to one of the largest bands in history. Not to metion gave Santana his biggest hit, guy is the the truth with one of the most sought after guitar tones in history. Nobody lays down a Les Paul like PG nobody.

  • Holy crap this is the blues.

  • i really want this boston tea party on cd but i dont know which to get, i think theres a few. i dont want it all re done and messed with, i just want exactly what i hear on here. any advice please?.

  • hey i can admire claptons' skill, don't get me wrong.. but for me big band blues

  • Who shot this amazing video? Wish someone would take credit for it.

  • Pity that Danny Kirwan is still 'lost'.

  • Peter Green's a legend, the finest blues guitarist this country has produced!

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  • peter plays the kinda blues that clapton wont ever be able to

  • @JacksSmirk1ngRevnege ""peter plays the kinda blues that clapton wont ever be able to"" why even mention that man..? neither are out to one up the other, theyre just playing. and no blues is uncapable of playing over the other its all music.

  • @HendrixClaptonSRV because since the age of ten i was sent to eliminate falsehoods and oft repeated halftruths. clapton and hendrix are held up to be the pinnacle of guitar playing - theyre not. people youve probably never heard of like robert johnson and blind willie johnson were. they made cheap accoustics sound like a clapton wet dream.. but thats by the by, just saying imho peter green is/was THE seminal british blues guitarist. he speaks to my soul like son house did/does. clapton does not

  • @JacksSmirk1ngRevnege nah im deep into the roots of blues, so i know of all of them. patton, johnson, john hurt, son house, willie mctell, etc. im a fanatic. clapton and hendrix would both agree that RJ should be held up and not them in the main light. but you cant control how people react and how they criticize. im right there with you in saying that Peter Green IS IT. they're all good in their own way. but clapton wrote the book man.. white contemporary blues 101. you cant deny it man

  • its true. I've notice the same thing. its pure blues

  • @JacksSmirk1ngRevnege Oh no - the early Clapton was able - Anyway most of the good bluesguitarists are gone. (Gary Moore, Rory Callagher,Calvin Russell, Jimi Hendrix, Roy Buchanan, SRV, Albert Collins, Albert King, T-Bone Walker, Lightnin Hopkins, John Lee Hooker). So it is better to keep the blues alive and not thinking about, who is the best anymore.

  • @JacksSmirk1ngRevnege calm down

  • @JacksSmirk1ngRevnege

    I dont understand the need for the measuring stick.

  • @JacksSmirk1ngRevnege No question. Greeenie is it.

  • @JacksSmirk1ngRevnege

    kinda blues that u wont ever be able to either i reckon.........just a thought.

  • @JacksSmirk1ngRevnege lol AND WHAT KIND OF BLUES ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Clapton played with Gods..please

  • @skyiscrying53 I thought Clapton was GOD! Damn kids and their graffiti.

  • @skyiscrying53

    Yes! Peter Green was and is best :D

  • @JacksSmirk1ngRevnege - Yeah, but we already knew that in the 60's

  • @JacksSmirk1ngRevnege

    ...oh yes, ..PLUS a much better voice!

  • Love this!!! NOBODY does it like the Green god!

  • Awe....................some ..................

  • I think I'm in love ..... He was just beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeautiful ........

  • kenwwood i could not put it better myself pure magic

  • Hey, listen to the Peter and get pleasure with Blues, cause it is alive.

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  • Second only to Rory Gallagher, and that is in no way insulting to either of them.

  • I wonder if Mick's girlfriend whispered over dinner to Peter asking him to wear a puffy shirt

  • Wrote it twice to make sure you're listening!

  • Just listen without prejudice and you may hear something wonderful.

  • Just listen without prejudice and you may hear something wonderful.

  • cooooooool

  • I swear I've watched this video 1,000 times over the years. FM's 'Live at the Boston Tea Party vol. 1' changed my life when I was around 14 yrs old (10 yrs ago) That soul cannot and will not ever be re-created.

    I love all ya'lls comments too.

  • I have pictures of Peter Green stuck to my diary which I take everywhere and recently a friend told me he looked like a hippy Jesus...well whatever to me Peter Green is the god of the blues.

  • Excellent!! Thanks for posting:)

    Grandma mary

  • Delicious sounding guitar tone. It nearly feels like you can open your mouth and actually sink your teeth into it

  • I swear, I have the biggest case of dejavu when I listen to this.

  • Booth, AMEN!!

  • thanks to the tube

    this performance

    will never ever

    fall thru the cracks

    of time

    (hopefully)

  • Damn that Les Paul sounds and looks fucking amazing. Does anyone know if he actually has his Phase reversed like the Jimmy page LP? The clean sound is so poppy and awesome!

  • @willeng84 Pete actually had the rythm pickup flipped accidentally, thus giving him the out of phase tone. To achieve that full tonal perfection, he flicks the switch between treble and rythm. Jimmy page was a huge fan of green and decided he wanted that sound. He had it put on his number one les paul by almost a button that he pushed down on his control tones. Thus giving him the out of phase tone

  • man, its like he doesent even have to try he just does it dude man

  • why cant fleetwood mac still sound like this?

  • Everyone borrows things from others in life. That is called LEARNING. You can't NOT be influenced by other people in the world.  The key is to listen to as much good music as possible if you want to be a good musician, that and lot's of practice and meditating deeply and letting go completely into the music with no inhibitions. Peter Green had it all, and anyone that doubts it needs to clean out their ears and stop analyzing things so much. Feel what he's doing.

  • what kinda fucks come and thumb down a video like that for real? i just dont get it, stupid...just fucking stupid.

  • there is no one on this earth

    that can sing and play

    like PG

  • he borrowed major parts of the guitar playing from robert johnson but still he rules

  • @zepbach1 --And Robert Johnson borrowed major parts of guitar playing from Son House who taught him to play the slide.

  • ..nobody saw me crying, nobody knows the way I feel.....blues rules...

  • EPIC BLUES GUITAR TONE

  • How good does that sound!

  • this bit of footage proves to me that peter green could entertain the crowds on his own if called upon to do so, a unique talent.

  • I swear sometimes Peter Green makes the sound of THREE guitars. Talk about talent.

  • i would kill for that tone! it just captures the acoustic sound of a Les Paul so well!!

  • How could there be any dislikes???

    Some people are just tone def...

  • Killer Musician - Killer Tone !!!!

    Just listen to that delicious guitar. It just doesn't get any better than this...

  • Tremendous performer.....

    

  • He made the Top 10 in the list of greatest blues guitarists. I see why.

  • It really isn't ironic he lost his mind, or more specifically taste for the music industry and got screwed over by the band. I'd say it's only fitting, for a man who played the blues so well. Whenever you find a good blues player, you know they're in for it, some way or another.

  • @GotsTricks What do you mean by "...and got screwed over by the band"? Actually, Mick Fleetwood worked hard to help Fleetwood Mac members like Peter and Danny, like it was family, far as I know.

  • @paititi

    PG wanted to donate their money to charities after an extreme acid trip. Rest of the band ostracized him.

  • @GotsTricks . PG decided to leave anyway on his own merit. If he was pushed out why did he return when JS walked out on the US tour. Surely if there was bad blood then he wouldn't have helped to complete the tour.

  • if i ad up all the people that didnt like all the videos of peter green they kind of ad up to the same number of people that get hit by lightning..... is it a coincidence...???