Peter Green was my hero when I took up guitar in 1969 I'm so proud that even as a wee boy I knew class when I heard it, played in bands for 40 years and all thanks to the great man inspiring me, RIP Peter you where the greatest.
Peter was, is and will be the best ever. His soft broken voice is here still beautiful and true, so tragic and real... and his playing... he is not what he was once, sure, but he will be for me the biggest eglish bluesman ever
Never compare great guitar players and singers every musician has his ,her style of playing and singing, every musician needs his her fans inspiration, and appreciation.
Peter Green is the guy playing the sea foam green fender stratocaster wearing the red wool cap. If you haven't listen to the early Fleetwood Mac when they were a British blues band before the girls(Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie & Lindsey Buckingham) you are missing out on something very special my friends
Christine McVie was married to john hence the Mac in fleetwood so not quite sure about that, still the best selling/popular album was and is dreams. I prefer the other playing even when doing albatross he plays all the crucial bits not peter green, just my opinion
peter greens fleetwood mac were my favourite blues band, at the time (apart from john mayalls bluesbreakers) they were were only band at the time that played REAL blues, im 70 years old now and my musical tastes have never changed, i no longer play in bands but still keep my hand in playing my gibson in my conservatory, (to the dissatisfaction of my wife lol)
@@paulm1162 It was named Mac to entice John to leave the Mayall and the Bluesbreakers (a previous band). His wife later played with them FM (after they were already named Fleetwood Mac).
I saw the Peter Green Splinter Group in Basidon in 1996. I knew it wasn't going to be the same as the 60's but this Nigel bloke helped PG out brilliantly. We met the whole band at the bar after. I asked Green if he knew any music theory, and he said 'I'm just learning that now'. Cozy Powell was also on drums. One of the best gigs I've ever been to, and I've been to thousands.
Saw PG when I was 16, supporting BB King in 1997, so not long after your experience. Not sure I really appreciated what I was watching that night at the time, but have some brilliant memories of it.
Fleetwood mac ,played the BOAT CLUB in Nottingham every few months during the 60s they were a blues band then as this song demonstrates, Peter had a great feel for the genre.
Damn heart breaking, but the man is a legend and deserves some respect. I’m glad he has some great support by the other talented artists here! RIP Peter and your gentle soul!
Looking at a number of comments here, it was actually Nigel Watson performing the lead guitar and vocals with Peter playing mainly rhythm guitar with minimal vocals. Nevertheless, the spirit of PG's '60's version was there for all to hear/see and what an excellent version it was.
i wish those asking to hear Peter Green leading would understand that it is very unlikely that his mental health will ever allow that to happen... He wrote some beautiful music and gave us amazing performances... be satisfied, for his sake!
+simba young He did not, however, write this song. It's Little Wille John. But I love me some Peter Green. What's with the haters, anyway? Have you heard what's left of Brian Wilson FFS?
Was actually Little Willie's brother Mertis Jr who wrote it - Willie was just the first to record it. Anyway, that's just an aside to set the record straight. The reason I'm commenting at all is just to let the (at this point in time) 40 "dislikers" know that they are the real losers here. Pete Green may have fallen, but he has at least been up there in a position to fall from. I'd wager not a single one of these guys (or gals) has as much feeling in their whole body, as Pete still has in the hairs up his left nostril. Don't ever get even weaker than you are, guys, cos the wolves will be waiting to get you.
Peter Green was amazing for sure .... but let us not forget Nigel Watson also a brilliant musician in his own right and they were great friends. Nigel helped him passively for a long time.
My parents took me to a splinter group gig when I was 12, we hung around after and got to meet Peter. He was a lovely bloke, absolutely shot to bits but a lovely bloke❤
he doesnt need your sympathies. this man is a living legend. and one of my favorite guitarists he played with feeling when he played the blues...thank you peter
Throughout my life....I carried this song with me...and Albatross...whatever he did with his life, he was a troubled man who found peace eventually in the last year's.. mercyful for his albatrossing to the other side while he was sleeping....oh well
For me the greatest British guitarist and one of the all time greats. You cannot compare him to the Peter Green at his height, tho there is still something in his voice and his playing. Still love them man and would love to still see him play live
So good to see PG still performing and sounding fine despite the hard road he has walked. I used to chat to him occasionally when I lived in Richmond back in the early 80's, and he was a gentle soul. The kids would call him Wolfman and chuck stones at him but he just shrugged it off with a sad smile. His dreams of a better world never quite came to fruition but he still lives in hope, a lesson to us all.He's had the blues alright...
Greeny shows his chops are instinctual when it comes to bending strings. Loved you back in the Mayall and early Fleetwood Mac days....and love you here man.
Peter has written some of the finest songs ever, played some of the greatest riffs ever but......the original version he did of this was the absolute supreme song ever. His guitar playing then and his voice were just superb!
Peter Green..... he spent so many years denying he was worth his accolades. Without him the "blues" would never have reached the UK. Without him Fleetwood Mac wouldn't exist. The early videos of him and Fleetwood Mac are amazing. Such a great talent.
This is heartbreaking, I saw Peter at his very greatest, he needed no one to sing for him, and sure as hell needed no one to play guitar for him!! If this doesn't show people drugs are a terrible thing then i really have no idea what will. Peter Greene was just the most amazing purveyour of the blues, to be left as a shell of a man is so cruel!!
Really wish greeny was playing the intro. His solo and fills throughout this version show he clearly can still play and play with soul and taste. Peter green you sir are a G!!!
This clip is part of a much longer video, about 90 minutes, available elsewhere on TH-cam. Green takes the lead on both vocals and guitar almost all the time except on the obvious hits like Need your love and Man of the world. Maybe he feels there's not much else he can say with them?
Masterful, of course, and sad to post this on the day Peter's death was announced. But from a personal viewpoint, I'm so glad Peter Green's talent influenced Paul Kossoff to play the blues...we lost Koss in 1976 aged just 25. Gone far too soon but what a talent...thank you Peter Green.
RIP PG ok i got to liking FM when i heard rumours but i soon got into them more and more and found the PG years a great influence in my life always a song to help me through the bad times or even just to sit back and enjoy his music a genious has past :(
Commentators on this vid seem to misunderstand how this 'present' peter green was extending the usual pentatonic blues cliches to a different level from where he left off 30 or so years ago.Always a feeling guitarist! Long live his memory in musician's psyche
I remember buying the Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits album, in the 1970s , and it was brilliant, I played it that much, I had to go and buy it again. I love this song it. It was great to see this concert, which he did in Lowestoft, Suffolk, a few years ago. And a good thing about it I was only a few seats away from the front. Thanks for putting these videos on 👍
I am a french guy and have listened this beautiful track when i was very young. Its my favourite of Peter Green and please listen the original with only Peter on solo. Amazing, really great.
It breaks my hart to see the master messing in the background. After two minutes 20 Peter wakes up and you see a glance of the master wizard he once was. Rob
Great writer and guitarist with mental problems which plagued him all his life. Those Rythmn and Blues numbers still brilliant when heard again. Sorry to hear of his demise.
Beautiful, really soulful. I don't know who that other guy is but he did incredible justice to it, and Peter.....his playing and vocals just oozes like sweet honey.
@@dennisherreid5393 Nige Watson is a lifelong friend of peter green and was the local builder who played for fun,,,he asked peter to play some tunes with him and it led to the splinter group.
heartbreaking yes......definitely.....however it was entirely drug related,,,,the LSD pushed him over the edge but the collateral damage was done by the Electro Convulsive "Therapy" he was subjected to after brandishing a shotgun at his accountants office because he kept sending him money.....PG was THE man, Encouragingly....he has improved 200 % since this clip. God Bless Peter Green.
When Levon Helm wasn't doing so well, he toured until he just couldn't. He played drums and let his band do the rest. The point was he was a legend who was there doing what he could with what he had left. I see no difference here. If Peter Green showed up in my neighborhood. I would have a front row ticket.
Are n,t we all getting older and weaker?? I enjoyed to see the bluesmaster still living and playing. The same thing happened for Johnny Winter, several people did not like him anymore because he was older and weaker. That is not correct, we have to respect these people in the same way as we did when the where young and vital. Did n,t we all wanted to be like them in gloriedays, werent we jalous because we could not what they could?? Please let us listen to the music and dream back in the days all of our idols where at their best.
I would have loved to have seen Peter Green and Ray Charles doing this live with Ray sharing lead Vocals and playing the Hammond Organ. WOW, now wouldn't that have been something.
What is wrong with you people. Is everybody always strong and immaculate all the time?? He is what he is, honest and a genius which is a rarest kind of people. So shut up
I could care less about the haters on here, Peter Green, will always have a place in my heart.
+STEPHEN SINGFIELD who hates Peter Green?
Ray L j
Me too man
Amen.
Definitely not me!
Peter Green was my hero when I took up guitar in 1969 I'm so proud that even as a wee boy I knew class when I heard it, played in bands for 40 years and all thanks to the great man inspiring me, RIP Peter you where the greatest.
Peter Green was underrated in my opinion. This one of my favorite Blues ballads of all time and he and his band put on a fine performance here. RiP.
Hey it’s Peter Green doing his best for you to hear , be glad he is trying his best
What a great song...Peter Green was a great song writer and blues player.One of the best.
Thanks to you Nigel for helping Peter. He was truly an inspiration. Gone to Glory now.
Nigel actually died a couple of years back.
Makes me miss Greeny's Les Paul, these later performances were hard for him. LEGEND!!! RIP GREENY
RIP Peter Green best british blues singer/guitarist ever!!
And... Jerry Stevenson off Be Sharp
Peter was, is and will be the best ever. His soft broken voice is here still beautiful and true, so tragic and real... and his playing... he is not what he was once, sure, but he will be for me the biggest eglish bluesman ever
Never compare great guitar players and singers every musician has his ,her style of playing and singing, every musician needs his her fans inspiration, and appreciation.
Peter Green is the guy playing the sea foam green fender stratocaster wearing the red wool cap. If you haven't listen to the early Fleetwood Mac when they were a British blues band before the girls(Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie & Lindsey Buckingham) you are missing out on something very special my friends
Christine McVie was married to john hence the Mac in fleetwood so not quite sure about that, still the best selling/popular album was and is dreams.
I prefer the other playing even when doing albatross he plays all the crucial bits not peter green, just my opinion
peter greens fleetwood mac were my favourite blues band, at the time (apart from john mayalls bluesbreakers) they were were only band at the time that played REAL blues, im 70 years old now and my musical tastes have never changed, i no longer play in bands but still keep my hand in playing my gibson in my conservatory, (to the dissatisfaction of my wife lol)
@@paulm1162 It was named Mac to entice John to leave the Mayall and the Bluesbreakers (a previous band). His wife later played with them FM (after they were already named Fleetwood Mac).
For anyone who could misunderstood.
Lindsey is a dude
I saw the Peter Green Splinter Group in Basidon in 1996. I knew it wasn't going to be the same as the 60's but this Nigel bloke helped PG out brilliantly. We met the whole band at the bar after. I asked Green if he knew any music theory, and he said 'I'm just learning that now'. Cozy Powell was also on drums. One of the best gigs I've ever been to, and I've been to thousands.
Saw PG when I was 16, supporting BB King in 1997, so not long after your experience. Not sure I really appreciated what I was watching that night at the time, but have some brilliant memories of it.
Peter Green turned me on to the blues back in the late 60's and I am forever in his debt. RIP Danny!
😢 Peter Green was an absolute legend.
Just listening to this takes me back.
You cannot take away the man's talent. Such a shame 😞
Fleetwood mac ,played the BOAT CLUB in Nottingham every few months during the 60s they were a blues band then as this song demonstrates, Peter had a great feel for the genre.
He still has one of the most unusually gorgeous blues voices that I've ever heard. Love you, Greenie💚💚💚
Made this old lady’s heart cry .
Damn heart breaking, but the man is a legend and deserves some respect. I’m glad he has some great support by the other talented artists here! RIP Peter and your gentle soul!
Peter Green was one of the greatest purest musician and person 100 percent ❤
Fabulous, touching, soulful performance.
Looking at a number of comments here, it was actually Nigel Watson performing the lead guitar and vocals with Peter playing mainly rhythm guitar with minimal vocals. Nevertheless, the spirit of PG's '60's version was there for all to hear/see and what an excellent version it was.
Absolutely phenomenal musician, he'll be missed by so many, me included. Rest in peace Peter Green 💔💙
He gave so much & took so little. PG...you were a guiding light for those times when it was too difficult to see...
i wish those asking to hear Peter Green leading would understand that it is very unlikely that his mental health will ever allow that to happen... He wrote some beautiful music and gave us amazing performances... be satisfied, for his sake!
+simba young He did not, however, write this song. It's Little Wille John. But I love me some Peter Green. What's with the haters, anyway? Have you heard what's left of Brian Wilson FFS?
sorry, no interest in Brian Wilson at all..
Was actually Little Willie's brother Mertis Jr who wrote it - Willie was just the first to record it. Anyway, that's just an aside to set the record straight. The reason I'm commenting at all is just to let the (at this point in time) 40 "dislikers" know that they are the real losers here. Pete Green may have fallen, but he has at least been up there in a position to fall from. I'd wager not a single one of these guys (or gals) has as much feeling in their whole body, as Pete still has in the hairs up his left nostril. Don't ever get even weaker than you are, guys, cos the wolves will be waiting to get you.
Pete is passed away
All the great ones are leaving us. Rest in peace and thank you for your art and legacy.
Peter Green was amazing for sure .... but let us not forget Nigel Watson also a brilliant musician in his own right and they were great friends. Nigel helped him passively for a long time.
I think Peter's vocal and guitar are just gorgeous on this take...
I have got an album from 1967 with all the classics of Peter Green with The original line up. Its probably the best album of the 60's.
En effet, la version de Peter Green est grandiose, je ne saurais choisir entre lui et Gary Moore, les deux sont merveilleux, merci du partage ♥♥♥
When each note played carries this much expression and feeling, who needs to play at a million miles an hour. His solo at 3:40, is beautiful.
So tastefull, how he started, fantastic.
My parents took me to a splinter group gig when I was 12, we hung around after and got to meet Peter. He was a lovely bloke, absolutely shot to bits but a lovely bloke❤
Jesus, the hairs on my arms stood up on their ends soon as Peter started singing. Man I’d love to see him play live. Simply amazing.
He is but a shadow of what he once was , but Peter has given us some real great an diverse that may never be matched or forgotten.
Just shows, its not the quantity of notes thats important, but rather the feel and emotion put into each one. thats where the message lies!
he doesnt need your sympathies. this man is a living legend. and one of my favorite guitarists he played with feeling when he played the blues...thank you peter
So great to see Peter performing here - the little subtle killer touches still evident - fantastic🎸❤️👍
Throughout my life....I carried this song with me...and Albatross...whatever he did with his life, he was a troubled man who found peace eventually in the last year's.. mercyful for his albatrossing to the other side while he was sleeping....oh well
man his voice is just amazing even now. I love this. I need this music so bad. 🎶
We all need the old Peter so bad....nobody sings this like Peter with original Fleetwood Mac.He was the greatest British blues guitar player ever.
R.I.P. Peter and thanks, I'm thinking abt my eternal love Elena from Bratislava listening to you
For me the greatest British guitarist and one of the all time greats. You cannot compare him to the Peter Green at his height, tho there is still something in his voice and his playing. Still love them man and would love to still see him play live
My favorite blues player!! Since 68when I got the first album!!! The rest is history for me !! Without Peter Jeremy or Danny !! Ain’t no Mac 🥹
oh just love him , come back to us greeny we love you so bad
Come back and feedback on my nap sack.
Wonderful oozing with bluesy soul
I just loved Peter Green a phenomenal musician
A lovely video of a gentle genius.
So good to see PG still performing and sounding fine despite the hard road he has walked. I used to chat to him occasionally when I lived in Richmond back in the early 80's, and he was a gentle soul. The kids would call him Wolfman and chuck stones at him but he just shrugged it off with a sad smile. His dreams of a better world never quite came to fruition but he still lives in hope, a lesson to us all.He's had the blues alright...
can't believe that there are people who could dislike this... this is a love song right here...
Greeny shows his chops are instinctual when it comes to bending strings.
Loved you back in the Mayall and early Fleetwood Mac days....and love you here man.
Peter has written some of the finest songs ever, played some of the greatest riffs ever but......the original version he did of this was the absolute supreme song ever. His guitar playing then and his voice were just superb!
Peter Green..... he spent so many years denying he was worth his accolades. Without him the "blues" would never have reached the UK. Without him Fleetwood Mac wouldn't exist. The early videos of him and Fleetwood Mac are amazing. Such a great talent.
Still admirably bluesy & soulful - one of the GOATs!!!
Fantastic.....unbeatable.....the best by far,Murray in Scotland.
Thank you for posting this video. Peter Green's playing is so tasteful, and I love the slow tempo of this song.
Such a soulful song great
Mr. Green still gives me goose bumps when he sings and plays the blues!
This is heartbreaking, I saw Peter at his very greatest, he needed no one to sing for him, and sure as hell needed no one to play guitar for him!! If this doesn't show people drugs are a terrible thing then i really have no idea what will. Peter Greene was just the most amazing purveyour of the blues, to be left as a shell of a man is so cruel!!
Really wish greeny was playing the intro. His solo and fills throughout this version show he clearly can still play and play with soul and taste. Peter green you sir are a G!!!
This clip is part of a much longer video, about 90 minutes, available elsewhere on TH-cam. Green takes the lead on both vocals and guitar almost all the time except on the obvious hits like Need your love and Man of the world. Maybe he feels there's not much else he can say with them?
Masterful, of course, and sad to post this on the day Peter's death was announced. But from a personal viewpoint, I'm so glad Peter Green's talent influenced Paul Kossoff to play the blues...we lost Koss in 1976 aged just 25. Gone far too soon but what a talent...thank you Peter Green.
I saw Peter live with B B kiNG, never managed to see Paul Kossoff live sadly. A very sad day.
RIP PG ok i got to liking FM when i heard rumours but i soon got into them more and more and found the PG years a great influence in my life always a song to help me through the bad times or even just to sit back and enjoy his music a genious has past :(
Commentators on this vid seem to misunderstand how this 'present' peter green was extending the usual pentatonic blues cliches to a different level from where he left off 30 or so years ago.Always a feeling guitarist!
Long live his memory in musician's psyche
I remember buying the Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits album, in the 1970s , and it was brilliant, I played it that much, I had to go and buy it again. I love this song it. It was great to see this concert, which he did in Lowestoft, Suffolk, a few years ago. And a good thing about it I was only a few seats away from the front. Thanks for putting these videos on 👍
Forever 'Greeny' this guy is an inspiration.Bless you man
Yes, Peter Green is still able to play a great solo - with a lot of feeling. Bravo!
I loved him then and I love him now. He never wanted the strings on the original he was right then and right now. Pete you are a genius,
Brilliant
I am a french guy and have listened this beautiful track when i was very young. Its my favourite of Peter Green and please listen the original with only Peter on solo. Amazing, really great.
quand je pense que j'ai découvert ce morceau il y a peu, je n'y crois pas !!! Il est merveilleux !!!
pareil...je ne cesse de l'écouter et de le jouer...
@@jofal62 Il y a une espèce de langueur, de temps suspendu, de coeur... Impressionnant ! Je ne sais pas jouer, mais ça doit être merveilleux ! :)
Too right man, if Peter sang, I think I would break down in tears of happiness ha!
It breaks my hart to see the master messing in the background. After two minutes 20 Peter wakes up and you see a glance of the master wizard he once was. Rob
Nigel Watson...excellent
He was my Guitar God then , the few he played here confirms what I thought 50 years ago . thanks for the post .
I was at this very gig,,preston guild hill,,not quite sure of the yr,,will dig the ticket out
Great writer and guitarist with mental problems which plagued him all his life. Those Rythmn and Blues numbers still brilliant when heard again. Sorry to hear of his demise.
pure class
This, dear folks that listen to hiphop, house, rap, britney and whatever, this is music.
Gerald Brown, Lindsay Buckingham is a man!!
Need your love so bad is just the most beautiful song of all time IMHO.
Still playing despite all the traumas- a real blues man.
Peter, bless u for Giving another musician, your guitar and solo! Still isn't you tho'! all I wanna hear is your voice with your soul
Legend!
He was great....
one of the greats
Bravo!
Beautiful, really soulful. I don't know who that other guy is but he did incredible justice to it, and Peter.....his playing and vocals just oozes like sweet honey.
Nigel Watson lead vocals.
Monster guitarist!
@@dennisherreid5393 Nige Watson is a lifelong friend of peter green and was the local builder who played for fun,,,he asked peter to play some tunes with him and it led to the splinter group.
The greatest blues guitarist ever, and the sweetest tones. LSD did so much damage to so many people.
Una melodía perfecta, ahora desde el cielo ♥
Esta canción siempre será tan bella de apreciarla y escucharla.
heartbreaking yes......definitely.....however it was entirely drug related,,,,the LSD pushed him over the edge but the collateral damage was done by the Electro Convulsive "Therapy" he was subjected to after brandishing a shotgun at his accountants office because he kept sending him money.....PG was THE man, Encouragingly....he has improved 200 % since this clip. God Bless Peter Green.
At the 3'30 mark - a very tasty solo by Peter Green , still some magic in that man ,Refined and between the beats !
Been learning to play Peters solo on my guitar today, lovely.
When Levon Helm wasn't doing so well, he toured until he just couldn't. He played drums and let his band do the rest. The point was he was a legend who was there doing what he could with what he had left. I see no difference here. If Peter Green showed up in my neighborhood. I would have a front row ticket.
Are n,t we all getting older and weaker?? I enjoyed to see the bluesmaster still living and playing. The same thing happened for Johnny Winter, several people did not like him anymore because he was older and weaker. That is not correct, we have to respect these people in the same way as we did when the where young and vital. Did n,t we all wanted to be like them in gloriedays, werent we jalous because we could not what they could?? Please let us listen to the music and dream back in the days all of our idols where at their best.
Peter Green is God. Know it when he hits the strings..
I would have loved to have seen Peter Green and Ray Charles doing this live with Ray sharing lead Vocals and playing the Hammond Organ.
WOW, now wouldn't that have been something.
What is wrong with you people. Is everybody always strong and immaculate all the time?? He is what he is, honest and a genius which is a rarest kind of people. So shut up
Yep and he was a friend of mine many years ago 😢
@@FighterPilot1945 really?
Great bluesman !
Thanks
Great to see Mr Green.
One of my alltime favorites
he was and will always b great:) thanks Peter Green & Hame BiH for posting this
Splinter takes us where those silly poppers in FMac could only fake at - PETER GREEN ALWAYS! ❤️
Complete quality!
Excellent
sad loss true musical genius