John Mayall, Peter Green, John McVie & Mick Fleetwood - Stormy Monday Blues

From the album "Live In 1967 (Never Before Heard Live Performances)", recorded at The Marquee Club 27 April, 1967.

[@robertmitchell2178]

Nobody, nobody played blues guitar like Peter Green. Completely original and sublime.

[@dougsmith7580]

John Mayall had an amazing knack for finding incredible musicians to nurture then pass on to the world.

[@jhandle4196]

They all knew each other. It was quite the soap opera.. It wasn't so much of a knack, but a matter of necessity when nearly everyone was partying. If stories are true, Peter Green was only in the Bluesbreakers for 3 days, so having this audio is rare indeed.

[@gregm3406]

Peter Greens phrasing is mesmerizing

[@mikelast7918]

possibly the finest bit of guitar work i have ever heard.....its talking

[@kenhabeeb]

6:04 is a sweet little riff. No?

[@joturner5709]

What a musician... what a bandleader... what a legacy. R.I.P. John Mayall... your music continues to resonate.

[@elowyn9664]

In the huge spann of time, there is no one better than Peter Green. No one.

[@dezertfox3130]

😅 lots of people destroyed him.

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

​@@dezertfox3130great sense of ?

[@chriscoughlin9289]

@@dezertfox3130 When people like Richard Thompson and Jeff Beck call Peter the greatest British Bluesman of their generation, where would you get the batshit notion that ANYBODY is seeking you out for your take on the subject next?

[@jamesschpeiser4326]

Hendrix

[@Yukonandy2000]

Rip John Mayall

[@zelejazz]

Absolutely phenomenal... Green at his best. Band is brilliant, too.

[@kenhabeeb]

Only Englishmen got to hear early Clapton, Green, and Beck, while Americans heard the original blues guitarists first. The luckiest people were the ones who traveled with the best British bands to the U.S. that got to share stage with those bluesmen. I wish I could say I was one.

[@robhead22]

Beautiful beautiful beautiful!! Thank you!

[@jamesbarta5452]

REAL Fleetwood Mac

[@larrycarver5922]

Some of the sweetest slow blues guitar playing you'll ever hear. The 1959 Les Paul Standard that Peter Green is holding and playing here is considered by many to be the most legendary of all 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standards. After playing it for many years, Peter sold it to Gary Moore, who then played it for many years. It's refered to, appropriately, as the Peter Green/Gary Moore Les Paul. A few years ago, it sold for $2.2 million. Kirk Hammett of Metallica now owns it.

[@DucksDeLucks]

Peter Green himself thought it was not such a great guitar "It didn't even work" he said. I thought some rich geek owned it and played it on a youtube video, getting a lot of thumbs down? I wonder what happened to the one stolen from Clapton in the early days. Somebody somewhere has that thing possibly not knowing whose it was.

[@larrycarver5922]

Yeah, that 1959 Les Paul of Clapton's has never shown up, and is still a mystery. You could be right about somebody having it and not even knowing what they've got. I'm pretty sure it's the one he famously played on the Beano JM & The Bluesbreakers album. If it ever shows up, it will probably break the record for a guitar sale.

[@DucksDeLucks]

good info!

[@DucksDeLucks]

Good link! Thanks! Joe may regret saying that since Clapton might not be indifferent to the ownership of a guitar worth millions.

[@michaelfahmy6053]

Thanks for that info, I knew Gary Moore got it from Peter Green, but I heard it was given to him when Peter Green packed in, didn't hear what happened to it after that

[@thesceptic7968]

Voice, guitar, drums all combine in a lazy slow beautiful blues composition.. What is there not to like?

[@debomb721]

U forgot bass

[@rumpledskin7971]

Thought I'd heard everything of John Mayall, Fleetwod Mac and company but hadn't heard this. WOW!!! Peter Green's tone (in my opinion) has the bluesiest feeling. Don't understand why this wasn't on the Bluesbreakers 1967 album "A Hard Road."

[@imulysses]

Thank you sweet jesus for bringing these guys together.

[@PhukIT1865]

Les Paul and Peter Green a match made in heaven

[@cisco4485]

and Marshall ?

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Guys on stage and Mike Vernon guys who penned the song and certainly the outstanding collection of English studios. And John Mayall if I have to. It was his band after all.

[@anothercat9600]

Green inspires John Mayall to sing in a lovely voice.

[@juancarlosgodoy26]

Cuando un blues llega a conmover hasta las lágrimas, ha llegado a tu alma. MARAVILLOSO 👏👏👏👏👏👏🙋🇦🇷Aguante EL BLUES 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

[@Jahnink]

This is Peter's guitar work at it's smoking best, to my mind. It's the summer just prior to forming Fleetwood Mac, live in a variety of British clubs. Mick on drums and McVie on bass. A great release put out recently by John Mayall (2CDs). All the cuts are like this. Check it out. "RIP Greenie. I listen to this everyday while jogging. You keep me going." Long live the Green God!

[@imannonymous7707]

these were heady days indeed....the fleetwood mac marquee apearances are legendary and i might add this was 4 years before the allman b b live at the filmore covered it

[@theupsndowns8161]

That was the hardest blues line I’ve ever heard. I know Greene is highly esteemed but didn’t know why

[@thesceptic7968]

The music talks to you... it enters your mind....

[@jimknox3874]

Love the Club atmosphere

[@barronrugge]

Saw them at the Whiskey A go go, at least twice in '66, and saw Mayall many times after.

[@alexgramm5170]

WOW

[@arthurnewman382]

Back then (in olden days) they were just a club band. One amongst many. This type of blues was not actually very popular then. The Beatles were king. Saw Mayall many times in the Soho clubs. Eric, Jeff Beck, all the greats were accessible for a few shillings. Eric doing his infamous 20 minute solos. Brilliant

[@KhinjarSam]

Simply the Best.

[@Womble1252]

Peters control of bends & vibrato set him apart IMHO

[@elisabethaxelsson4736]

Wounderful

[@Jammoko]

We need the video... but what a tour-de-force! ^

[@JohnRankin1943]

WOW, just wow.

[@VilleMaunu]

Best solo from Peter I've ever heard... great..

[@Jahnink]

Check out "I've Got a Mind to Give Up Living." Same thing. It takes you to another level.

[@Harlekinization]

Brilliant! Magnificent! Fantastic!

[@gypsy7512]

best white blues guitarist by long shot and ive played it 50 yrs. Beck and Page agreed.

[@pokey5736]

Duane Allman !

[@peterjohnson617]

those guys had some cool-ass sideburns

[@davidmilfred3809]

Nice one😊

[@kitwalker520]

Love it - send me to heaven

[@harrycooke6349]

Ooh yeah slowly just how i like it so good shut my eyes and I'm there next to the man himself x

[@josephmorris8620]

As a novice blues guitar player, listening to good players either makes me want to throw my guitar out a window or inspires me to step outside of the "boxes" if you will. This inspires me. The Gary Moore Fire Alarm Blues interview for Guitarist, however, still makes me want to throw my guitar!

[@OldEMGStrat]

hopefully,there will be no throwing guitars. If your here there's hope. Maybe you will and maybe not ever learn to keep up...be not dismayed. It does come over time, if you apply yourself. not any easy road. but MD is where many started, if that helps

[@Jaguadarte__]

​@@OldEMGStratit's been 7 years bro... How are you doing?

[@johnroberts8464]

You guys are all smoking crack.. Mike Bloomfield is the greatest blues guitarist to ever live. Period.

[@buska100]

Excellent

[@FunkHitsTheFan]

let the scorpio vibes flow through your mind as Green fly's

[@garymiller95]

I've seen them all except Peter Green. Had the chance back in 1969, I think, at GoddardCollege in Plainfield Vermont, at a small outdoor event. Did not appreciate him at the time, sadly.

[@timbrown7656]

Wow!

[@craigmccauley3972]

Amazing!

[@beagleman123456789]

Great 👍

[@nckwlch]

Peter Green - say no more

[@craigmccauley3972]

Cool blues!

[@TorbenLarsen-q8n]

Rip John 🙏

[@stephenfourie531]

The Green God at his best!

[@cu6454]

I thought it was Clapton's 59 or 60 there not sure what year exactly his is cool too 🙂🎸

[@ianhepplewhite8334]

I seem too recall reading that when Peter offered the guitar to Gary Moore, Gary asked how much he wanted for it and Peter told him he’d have whatever Gary could get for selling his own guitar!

[@Jahnink]

I read Peter suggested Gary sell his SG and pay Peter whatever he gets. Something like $300 or so. Close to what Peter initially paid. He was so unique. Such a cool dude.

[@mikebeeton4982]

Hmmm, sounds like the bluesbreakers!

[@moto238]

Listen and Learn.

[@MrCherryJuice]

Peter Green played a across a wider range of dynamics, whereas his predecessor Eric Clapton had, by his own admission, an angry, egotistical and aggressive approach. Still, Green could rip out with aggression whenever he felt it applied. As for discussion in the comments about guitars: Word originally was that Green gave the Les Paul to Gary Moore, though it was later confirmed that he sold it for the (approx.) price he had paid for it, which was around the £100 mark. Moore later replaced the pickups with hotter models though after some years re-inserted the originals, likely when he changed direction with 'Still Got the Blues'. Though one comment here mentions that Green's guitar was later sold for $2 million, current Kirk Hammet of Metallica, claims he got it for less than $500,000. Green's legacy doesn't have the provenance to attract super-high sums. Ditto Snowy White's Les Paul. He had it up for $1.2 million but it didn't sell. He might still have it. As for the mention elsewhere here about Clapton's 'Beano' Les Paul; he actually had two consecutive Les Pauls - the first nicked, the second suffering a broken headstock and faulty repair leading him to using a '64 cherry red SG that he gave to George Harrison after the psychedelic paint job administered by Dutch art collective The Fool (also painted the Beatles Apple Boutique and, I believe, John Lennon's Rolls Royce) proved unsatisfactory due to the paint becoming sticky as it had not been sealed (ditto Jack Bruce's Fender VI bass). (It later went to George Harrison, to Jackie Lomax, to Todd Rundgren, before the latter sold it to raise money to pay taxes...by which time he had a matching replica from a fan in Japan that he still plays today). Joe Bonamassa claims that Clapton's 'Beano' LP is owned by an American collector. Bonamassa's info came from friends who claim to have seen the guitar. They also claim it is a '59, not a '60, which is the general assumption given its thinner-than-typical '59 neck. Or possibly it is the second LP. Possibly that is a '59. For those unfamiliar with Clapton's acquisition of those two guitars, the story is this: Clapton and the Yardbirds were playing with Zoot Money's Big Roll Band at London's Flamingo Club. Pre-show, Clapton saw Money's guitarist Andy Somers (later Andy Summers of Police fame) had a sunburst Les Paul. Being familiar with the look and sound of Freddie King's gold top from an album, Clapton was enamoured. Somers told Clapton there was another one at Rose-Morris (I believe) on Charing Cross Road, just minutes' walk away. Its price? £80. When that was stolen during early Cream rehearsals, Clapton pestered Somers to sell him his. With the LP not working properly, and his preference for single coils (he had a white Tele by then), he sold it for treble the amount he paid for it. BTW, during his Cream days Clapton acquired a red Les Paul that he also passed along to Harrison. It had belonged to John Sebastian of the Loving Spoonful, who had a shop sell it for him (he also played a LP Goldtop). Rick Derringer, then with the McCoys (later with Johnny and Edgar Winter as player/producer and producer of Weird Al Yankovick's big hits) purchased it. He had the Bigsby removed and the body refinished in red. He didn't like the result (I assume that being a small chap he also had the neck shaved) so had the shop put it back up for sale...which is when Clapton purchased it. Interestingly, when Clapton skipped a gig in North London and Mick Taylor offered his services (using Clapton's gear, which was on the stage), wrestless young Eric had gone to see the Loving Spoonful at the Marquee club in central London's Soho district. After Peter Green's departure from the Bluesbreakers - he got the gig as a result of playing three gigs with the band when Clapton buggered off to Greece in autumn '65 - young Taylor recognised the anyonymous blues band looking for a guitarist via the Melody Maker newsaper and was immediately offered the gig based on him filling in on that one occasion. After his own LP was stolen, Taylor got the sunburst with Bigsby that Keith Richards had used extensively during the earlier days of the Stones...which was one of the first occasions any of us saw a Les Paul. Not much content in the linked feature, but Bonamassa has introduced the possibility of at least one of Claptons LPs being alive and well. www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/exclusive-eric-claptons-beano-les-paul-is-in-us-collection-claims-joe-bonamassa-640041

[@alexgramm5170]

Excellent article...not being a wise guy...love all that info. I agree ultimately with the range of dynamics in Peter's playing yet I hear the unmistakable influence of Eric here in this time period and Peter's Blzbrkrs days. Certainly Peter himself was a great fan of Clapton at this time by his own admission. For my money this style of playing along with Bloomers is where it's at. It's unabashed and direct and simple at times but also subtle and sweet. Phenomenal!! Not easy to do ,at all, I think.

[@dukeford8893]

Eric's second Les Paul (the Summers guitar) suffered a broken headstock. I'm not sure that it was stolen; rather that it was unplayable.

[@MrCherryJuice]

@@dukeford8893 True, thank you. I have amended accordingly. Thank you for mentioning that.

[@michaelblake5064]

Ive never heard him wail like this!!! GO PETER!!!!!

[@diannec100]

Have you heard "Out of Reach"? My personal fave these days.

[@harrycooke6349]

Michael Blake so good blows me away

[@cgavin1]

Goodness me polar opposite of Clapton! We didn't audition either of these titans. John Mayall did.

[@gabrielviolao]

Guitar: light and shadow, equal to live, be. Most underrated guitar player. Green God

[@dezertfox3130]

He’s not underrated.

[@jaykay6387]

That sound can only come from Peter Green playing a Les Paul.

[@alancanham2956]

This is very special guitar

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Yeah Peter was on stage alone

[@russhaven1575]

Greenie was incredible. Clearly Duane Allman listened to him and copied his legendary tone. This is so much more powerful than the Bluesbreakers' version with Clapton just a year before.

[@johnsolis7631]

Good bb king style, cute actually

[@gypsy7512]

i think he gave the guitar to gary, saying he didnt like it like claptons 60 les paul , with a thinner neck.

[@sjdj408]

Pitta Green Own Guitah

[@bernardliu8526]

If only John Mayall could sing !

[@reycisneros2925]

HOW MANY ALBUMS HAVE YOU CUT, BRAH🍷👤

[@Jammoko]

@@reycisneros2925l lel...

[@joshuahymer15]

@@reycisneros2925 ITS CALLED SARCASM BRAH!

[@jazztemple2]

Green is very good, plays tastefully. But in my humble opinion Bloomfield was even more tasteful. Some of his lines are VERY similar to Clapton's when he was in the Bluesbreakers.

[@MrNordertitoff]

Bloomfield was a dickhead. Greeny would have blown him off the stage with his amp on standby.

[@vanu49]

A kinda noisy crowd. They didn't realize that history was in the making here!!!

[@standidlyby]

A nice piece of history, probably a great experience at the gig itself but listening to the boring and repetitive noodling on the guitar is just...boring. I was waiting for the Hammond organ solo but the same old B B King lick kept interrupting The Les Paul is the same as every other Les Paul, the sound is more to do with the vintage Marshall amp into 20 watt Greenbacks. So many myths busted when you listen, and watch, carefully.

[@bernardliu8526]

Your loss.

[@edwardmcguigan1442]

Peter was 18 years old

[@yd1865]

I disagree. He's not just noodling around. You can hear the authenticity and emotion that he puts in to every note. Which is not something every guitarists is capable of/willing to do.

[@circlecloud11]

@@yd1865 Peter Green was never known by the modes or scales he learned....he was known by the emotion he put into what he had....and man not too many could put that much into their singing or playing. You could be a wiz at modes,etc and never produce this kind of emotion. JMHO.

[@alancanham2956]

Jimmy Page was listening for sure.

[@spacedoutcowboy8621]

I used your have Peter Green's solo (?) album after leaving FM for whatever followed...just a horrible album. This album was used for shotgun practice by my brothers....I couldn't get to mad considering the quality of his work. The guy thought was the next coming....well guess what .....he was not. JMO

[@sonofoldrags7611]

Peter Green was actually always a pretty selfless guy, giving other guitarists room to shine, getting other folks in on gigs, helping other people get studio time, Just as Mayall had done for him- The hype that surrounded him was rarely of his making, according to everything Ive heard-