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Peter Green (born
Peter Allen Greenbaum,
29 October 1946) is a
British blues rock guitarist and the founder of the band
Fleetwood Mac. Inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
1998 for his work with the group,
Green's songs have been recorded by artists such as
Santana,
Aerosmith,
Midge Ure,
Tom Petty,
Gary Moore and
Judas Priest.
A major figure and bandleader in the "second great epoch" of the British blues movement, Green inspired
B. B. King to say, "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats."
Eric Clapton and
Jimmy Page have both lauded his guitar playing. Green's playing was marked with idiomatic string bending and vibrato and economy of style. Though he played other guitars, he is best known for deriving a unique tone from his
1959 Gibson Les Paul.
He was ranked 38th in
Rolling Stone's list of the "
100 Greatest Guitarists of All
Time". His tone on the
Bluesbreakers instrumental "The Super-Natural" was rated as one of the 50 greatest of all
time by Guitar Player. In June
1996 Green was voted the third-best guitarist of all time in
Mojo magazine.
Green made his recording debut in 1966 with
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers on the
album A Hard Road (
1967), which featured two of his own compositions, "
The Same Way" and "
The Supernatural". The latter was one of Green's first instrumentals, which would soon become a trademark. So proficient was he that his musician friends bestowed upon him the nickname "
The Green God". In 1967, Green decided to form his own blues band and left the Bluesbreakers.
Green's new band, with ex-Bluesbreaker
Mick Fleetwood on drums and
Jeremy Spencer on guitar, was initially called "
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac featuring Jeremy Spencer".
Bob Brunning was temporarily employed on bass guitar, as Green's first choice Bluesbreakers' bassist
John McVie was not yet ready to join the band.
Within a month they played at the
Windsor National Jazz and Blues Festival in
August 1967 and were quickly signed to
Mike Vernon's
Blue Horizon label. Their repertoire consisted mainly of blues covers and originals, mostly written by Green but some by slide guitarist
Spencer.
The band's first single, "
I Believe My Time Ain't
Long" with "
Rambling Pony" as a
B-side, did not chart but their eponymous debut album made a significant impression, remaining in the
British charts for over a year. By
September 1967, John McVie had replaced Brunning.
Their second studio album
Mr. Wonderful was released in
1968 and continued the formula of the first album
. In the same year they scored a hit with Green's "
Black Magic Woman" (later covered more successfully by Santana), followed by the guitar instrumental "
Albatross" (
1969), which reached number one in the
British singles charts. More hits written by Green followed, including "
Oh Well", "
Man of the World" (both 1969) and the ominous "
The Green Manalishi" (
1970).
In 1969, the group signed with
Warner Bros. Records and recorded their fourth studio album "
Then Play On" that year, prominently featuring the group's new third guitarist
Danny Kirwan. Spencer, however, made virtually no contribution to Then Play On, owing to his reported refusal to play on any of Green's original material.
Beginning with "Man of the World"'s sad lyric, Green's bandmates began to notice changes in his state of mind. He was taking large doses of
LSD, grew a beard and began to wear robes and a crucifix. Mick Fleetwood recalls Green becoming concerned about wealth: "I had conversations with Peter Green around that time and he was obsessive about us not making money, wanting us to give it all away.
And I'd say, 'Well you can do it, I don't wanna do that, and that doesn't make me a bad person".
While touring
Europe in late March 1970, Green binged on LSD at a party at a commune in
Munich, an incident cited by Fleetwood Mac manager
Clifford Davis as the crucial
point in his mental decline. After a final performance on 20 May 1970,
Green left Fleetwood Mac.
- published: 04 Dec 2013
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