What Do Other Musicians Think Of Peter Green

[@2ToneWalt]

Sadly, Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac is so overshadowed by the later Fleetwood Mac, people aren't even aware of them and that is really sad. RIP Peter Green, you certainly were a genius.

[@CyanCerulian]

I prefer Peter Green Fleetwood Mac over Stevie and Lindsey Fleetwood Mac...any day of the week.

[@davidrobinson2776]

For me, the only Fleetwood Mac was Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. No matter how many times I hear Albatross, it never fails to take me somewhere special. Man of the World never fails to make me cry..

[@wecandobetter9821]

Peter Green’s era is overshadowed and wrongly so. They made some really beautiful music

[@philipbrackpool-bk1bm]

Mick Fleetwood and John McVie weren’t just Peter Greens sidemen , he named the band after them because he refused to be the leader.

[@josephkolozi9364]

Latter day Fleetwood Mac was a bunch of pop slop.

[@23theseeker50]

Peter Green was a absolute genius so sadly missed R.I.P. THE FANTASTIC PETER GREEN.

[@geoffwells5633]

The greatest British blues guitarist. Innovative creative and soulful

[@cirrus1964]

He was a guitarist general, and a bloody good one.

[@michaelmcclafferty3346]

What a beautifully written tribute to a genius! Thank you.

[@rogerlunde8668]

To me he is the gratest guitar-player in Rock!

[@kft590]

Peter Green is my favorite guitarist a simple man that was gifted with an amazing talent as a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He shunned fame and was afraid of what money would do to him. It is sad to think that after the amazing music he wrote that he was destitute for periods of his life.

[@lesshrubb203]

In 1968, I think it was, my band manager brought a record into our practise room, and said "you need to hear this". What he put on the record player was 'Need your love so Bad'. As the guitar player, I was blown away. I had an immediate dislike of the 'strings' but Peter Green's guitar playing was out of this world. Nobody has come near his playing, except maybe Gary Moore, since then...

[@staxmantim]

First time I ever heard his name was in Mojo Magazine. They polled musicians to make a top 100 guitarists list. Hendrix came in #1, my favorite guitarist, Steve Cropper of Booker T. & the MGs, came in second. Green was #3. Check out Ruby Johnson’s “Need Your Love So Bad”

[@mauricebate5069]

Peter Green pure genius none. before or after have played music from the heart so mind provoking !! David Gilmore has the same kind set RIP Peter a massive thank you for your music 👍🏼🇬🇧❤

[@baronoflivonia.3512]

I've been a Fan of Peter Green since 1st Fleetwood Mac album. In my top 5. Danny Kirwan was under rated too.

[@knoxyish]

a band with 3 great guitar players peter green danny kirwan and jeremy spencer .

[@rwm48]

Out of all the blues guitarist I have been listening to for the past almost 60 years Peter Green is still one of my favorites. This video is so right on with what everything the narrator tells us. So sad that Peter went through so much turmoil after his heavy dosing of LSD after landing in Germany way back then.

[@paullevine1813]

I think we need to view FM as two bands one the real FM with Peter & the everyone that played at that time & the one most known as the commercial FM . One played from the heart & love of Blues & the one that felt the need for money. All good players but as us older players we still will always only go for the original FM anyway. Nicks was never a blues singer, but Christine could sing them & play her keys with passion. The real loss was Peter & we can't change those events that led to his troubles. Him & Mike Bloomfield were the real deal & both suffered for that. Anyone that plays knowns there is only one Peter Green & his influence is still at work.

[@nige-g]

I'm in tears, Peter was special to me. God rest his soul. 🎸

[@ksmyth999]

The comment on Albatros is exactly write. Speed is not the key to good guitar playing, it is feel. Albatros is one of the great masterpieces and I think it surpasses anything by his contemporaries.

[@seanaloysuis]

I had the good luck to have seen Peter Green in his later years, he was fantastic then, I can't imagine how good seeing him in his early days would have been.

[@krakatoa1200]

I was lucky enough to see Peter with John Mayall in the ;late 60's Peter Green et al were the real Fleetwood Mac.

[@wabwee60]

Consider myself very fortunate, as a 16 to 20 year old, to have hitchhiked from darkest Cumbria to the South of England, each Summer, to follow Greeny. Manor House, Reading and Windsor Jazz and Blues Festivals, ‘66 to ‘70’s, initially with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, then with Fleetwood Mac.

[@stephentaylor993]

Don't patronise my county

[@Magnetron33]

Love his stuff, but have always liked the Danny Kirwan stuff more. Both produced some of the best music in the bands long history

[@beingnix]

Nice work. As usual. Very easy on the ear voiceovers. From another person Peter Green touched.

[@sgbh8874]

Peter Green taps into the soul with both his vocals and guitar. Love him

[@richardtaylor8595]

Peter Green is a guitar hero and legend to me. The best Fleetwood Mac era in my opinion. I remember in high school me and some friends that played guitar in the late 70 s heard the Green Manalishe? by Judas Priest and one of my buds heard the Peter Green version and asked me about it and I told him that it was Peters song, and he did not believe me, so I brought the Fleetwood Mac album to school the next day and blew all my friends away with it.I turned them on to the blues. After school my buds would hang out across the street from me and one day I was just jamming to a Mac lp and my buds said I sounded great, and I told them what I was jamming to. I started a blues loving music to them. Even though it was a blue song I think The Green Manalishe? Was the first metal song ever written.

[@lumpygravy38]

Live at the Boston tea room/party. Outstanding! Recorded over 3 days I believe. Just AMAZING!!!!!

[@HippieDavid61]

One of the top of all time, lucky to have seen him live

[@TBWSport]

Thank you. Still the best of all time for me. It is sometimes hard to quantify why Pete Green left such an impression. Listening to Peters heartaching songs was not just audible, it was like a form of VR- it surrounded you, and you were sharing that space with him as you both hugged and cried, moving through the layers and depths like some Ayahuasca ceremony. He truly was one of a kind.

[@PaliGap1]

Green played the truth with the restraint of a zen master. The sweetness of his touch cannot be replicated. Like Jimi Hendrix, hes a true original.

[@fredlenz4743]

A pure genius, there is nothing else to say!

[@jeanmarieboucherit7376]

Beautiful tribute

[@meganmorgan8039]

nicely said.. and nice that some of us are still listening since the early 70s

[@charlotte_plays1236]

I have seen the two greatest guitarists there has ever been, BB King and Peter Green. The man was a phenomenon. I loved him.

[@retohofmann5878]

01:25 A brilliant description of Peters style different from the others...🙂

[@JorgeVisñovezky]

Sin dudas el mejor guitarrista blanco de Blues y otros líricos ritmos!

[@davelackey5943]

He sent chills down your back

[@greenmanalishi6963]

Long Live Greeny

[@johncollins392]

One of the greatest!

[@michaelhirst9220]

Of course like everybody well on the side of Clapton & Hendrix, but for me nobody matched Peter Green ; just my personal opinion

[@eddiesongsmith8839]

Fantastic narration! Love Peter Green.

[@LucioGarcia-o3c]

Fueron buenos músicos,grupo musical.i buena música.🙋🙆👍

[@irish66]

That was a lovely tribute.

[@camildube9938]

the late great P. G one of my favorite

[@BobN54]

Thank you so much for this. When I was a teenager FM was my favourite band. Then I went to University, one of my housemates bought a new LP, Rumours. He played it to us and everyone thought it was great, except me. I mean, it was OK, but as I told them, it was just another folk band (it sounded like that to me). Peter Green was a genius. So much more than just a 'guitarist'.

[@ronwood7029]

People like Peter don’t come. Around often , you cannot copy his style , it is his own Lovely man too ,we miss him

[@jeanmarieboucherit7376]

The beautiful Peter Green.

[@GerryHoke-y5d]

Peter Green was an artist as a guitarist & a philosopher as a songwriter. If he had managed to avoid drugs, he would have driven Fleetwood Mac to heights that would have made the Buckingham/Nicks version non-existent, as they rightly should have been.

[@mrswimmyboy]

Avoiding drugs would have helped, but he was also suffering from schizophrenia. Driving Fleetwood Mac to heights of commercial success was something he definitely didn't want and couldn't handle.

[@rexmandel5930]

Maybe. While it's known that psychedelics can be a catalyst or hasten the onset of schizophrenia, there isn't anything that suggests it causes schizophrenia. So we'll never know about that. That said, if you're a fan of the original Fleetwood Mac, which I am, try and find the 24+ minute version of Rattlesnake Shake from their run in Boston. It's as good as any two guitarists playing off of each other anywhere. And I'm including Duane Allman and Dickey Betts, Stephen Stills and Neil Young, Mick Taylor and Keith Richards, Stone Gossard and Mike McCready, David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas...I can't think of them all, but whatever your flavor of music is, Greeny and Jeremy Spencer played incredibly well together.

[@sicksquid3258]

@@rexmandel5930 Jeremy was brought in mainly for his slide prowess, Danny Kirwan was Peter Green's main man.

[@colinpumpernickel2605]

Peter Green was by far the best British blues player.

[@jaquesaulait]

That AI narrator sounds like it's become self-aware, realised what its prospects are and has decided to kill itself after this.

[@NickPenlee]

Everyone blames the infamous acid trip in Germany, even Mick and John, but Peter was heading towards the mental precipice before then! A tremendous talent, all the same. R.I.P.

[@daviemcf]

Listen to 4 albums with pure blues, 1 Fleetwood Mac, 2 The Original Fleetwood Mac, 3 Mr Wonderful and 4 Blues Jam at Chess.

[@regev1970]

Here you see Greeny (the guitar) when she was young. She still had her burst back then. What a beautiful mistake! The best, and most sought electric guitar on our lovely planet.

[@Timmeh551]

Peter Green is legend ✊

[@vernonsmith6965]

Am amazing guitarist

[@rs5801]

"Albatross"-memories of camping on a Kauai beach with a sweet local girl early 80s.

[@iarlaroche7782]

Where should I start with Peter greenes music? I want to dive deep into his playing

[@optimusminimus-v3d]

The term cool is considered cringe now but for me, Green’s guitar combined with his voice on ‘Oh well’ is simply the coolest few minutes of music to come out of the UK.

[@warrenburroughs3025]

I have always felt that once Peter was gone the band should have renamed - Buckingham Nicks anyone? Whatever, Fleetwood Mac for me is always Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. The later band does nothing for me at all.

[@ericbgordon1575]

I keep thinking about how I talked to my father during my father's last years of life about the original Renditions of Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green. I don't know whether he was pulling my leg or not, but he made like he didn't know that earlier rendition of the group existed or that they originated "Black Magic Woman". Ironically, it should have been my father from whom I learned about that earlier rendition of the group.

[@vbsbkjer2]

The best ever.

[@barneymiller6204]

His touch on the guitar was exceptional. Not said in so many words here is how Peter was another victim of "industrial amounts" of LSD. We would likely have many more of the greats around if it weren't for that drug.

[@Vampirebear13]

I just found your channel and I liked this video. And I haven't researched your channel yet, but, if you haven't already, you MUST make videos on Dave Lambert of The Strawbs & Robin Trower. Side note... Peter Green's downfall was due to drugs, much like Syd Barrett, although not quite as severe.

[@mwyatt222]

The tone was as simple as it could be. A 100 watt bandmaster Fender head into a 4x12 enclosed Fender cab with a les paul w/ PAF equivalents dimed. He was a genius but tone-wise very simple. lts just the extreme stage volumes that created that great tone then but now its average Dr Z stuff but at 28 watts to dime it.

[@paradoxstudios6639]

Peter Green, otherwise known as Green Peter.

[@thepaulhenderson]

It was a lucky break that John McVie & Mick Fleetwood "went on to become part of the iconic Fleetwood Mac line-up" considering the title of band is literally taken from their last names.

[@larrymclarnon-pd8xf]

We saw Peter in Belfast not long before his death.

[@rs5801]

"Man Of The World"

[@lylethevenot6787]

That was awesome, thanks 🩵

[@simonnay-f6m]

Peter Greenbaum

[@jediroya6810]

Led Zeppelin’s Black Dog was their attempt to mimic Peter Green’s Oh Well. The band said so themselves.

[@TheDodger74]

Amazing blues player! The Green manalishi actually sounds like a bad trip committed to tape!!

[@clevebaker8399]

My favorite guitar player and favorite band!! 1967-1974 when Danny was fired I lost interest in the band!! The early Mac era is the greatest in history!! What emotion finesse and sorrow! The blues

[@rotagbhd]

1:35 "Clapton had the speed"? Seriously? He was called "SLOW HAND" for good reason. You should have said Clapton had the tone, or clarity, but speed? No way!

[@Joe-dj6sz]

Rather hear the clip than talking over it.

[@rickyellison9103]

Neville James Martin draws much from Peter . Check him out .

[@quakers200]

Quite the creative writing here. Thin line between poetry and bs.

[@ShaunLowthian]

Drugs destroyed his wonderful mind. If you’re going to tell his story, tell the truth.

[@comparedtowhat2638]

Look I am a big Peter Green fan. But who wrote this script and I am tired of this pseudo serious AI voice that ruins so video’s these days. And hey! Don’t forget Black Magic Woman is Green’s song.

[@Freakeasy_chicago]

More Peter Green ... LESS narrator please. pfft

[@simonnay-f6m]

I'll tell you about my life

[@stevegriffiths4755]

The original Fleetwood Mac, with Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Christine Perfect, were just amazing, Blues personified. The later line-up with Nicks and Buckingham were just awful.

[@sicksquid3258]

Danny Kirwan was in the band before Jeremy Spencer.

[@kimholland9316]

Only Nigel Tufnel comes close

[@billkingston4402]

Oh Well, bloody hell 😅

[@dr7246]

I know he was much loved, and I certainly don’t want to disparage a hard working musician. But I just don’t get it. Sure he was a fine player, but when I think of others playing at that time- Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, Kenny Burell, Joe Pass, etc etc, I just can’t get excited over these rock players. Fine, but wholly uninteresting to me

[@TeleTonemonkey]

Maybe, think of it like writers. Those players you mention were Tolkien, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Orwell! He was perhaps Wordsworth or Coleridge. Less chaos and innovation, more about imagery and painting a picture. You don’t have to favour it, just appreciate it for what it is/was.

[@DexterHaven]

Way too many adjectives and repetitions. Edit.

[@chancesareshewears]

Wrong, not only did he have the rock star looks Jimmy Page totally copied his style in the early 70's. get a grip.

[@sergeytitikalo9612]

Green albatros fly away...

[@OzziesRobots]

Fleetwood Mac exploded with Lindsey & Stevie

[@clevebaker8399]

To the gates of hell! They will never be Fleetwood Mac

[@tonyhirst9319]

The guy that narrates this video likes the sound of his own voice more than he likes listening to Peter Green play guitar.

[@stewartporter7140]

It's a robot talking....

[@thepaulhenderson]

Peter Green was great but I think it shows real progress when phony AI voiceovers like the one heard here can sound as pompous, ponderous, and completely full of horseshit as a real human being...

[@stephengreen8986]

Albatross was a blues steal. The white man truly stole the blues. In ten years all of this will be forgotten and the original music will be claimed by the most well known. You may think that you can name the man who wrote the Hendrix song and be unaware of the woman whose song he based it on.

[@cirrus1964]

What a load of crap, Peter like many others, turned to music, which has nothing to do with Blues.

[@musik102]

Like virtually every British blues singers, Peter's long term legacy will be damaged by the use of a fake, phoney, and downright silly American accent, The blues is about the truth...isn't it?

[@rodjones117]

The blues is the truth - you know it and Peter Green knew it.

[@musik102]

@rodjones117 The truth? Have you heard him sing?

[@rodjones117]

@@musik102 If your cryptic comment is about Peter Green, of course I have. He was a good singer.

[@musik102]

@rodjones117 But, he sings in an American accent, but he' s not American!