Peter Green

DYNAMIC EARLY 1970 BROADCAST FROM PETER GREEN & CO Fleetwood Mac s Autumn & Winter tour of 1969/1970, moved from Europe to the US on 19th November 69, and by 21st they were performing in New York at the Irving Meadows venue, supported by King Crimson. Mac went on to play several more dates in the Big Apple, including a splendid set at the Fillmore East, supporting Joe Cocker, on November 21st. The band then spent the remainder of the year performing in cities across the USA, and by New Year s Eve they were in Chicago, for a show the Kinetic Playground. By early January 1970, Messrs Green, Fleetwood, Kirwin and Spencer were on the West Coast and their first gig of the New Year took place at Bill Graham s Fillmore West on the 4th. The group played a stunning show, mixing Green and Kirwin originals with blues and rock n roll classics, and the whole concert was recorded for live FM broadcast across the city.

Learn five Peter Green tracks note for note with Michael Casswell. This superb DVD will teach you to play five classic tracks from this post punk pop three piece - learn every riff and solo note for note!

2CD including a 20 page book featuring new liner notes by Anthony Bozza in conjunction with Mick Fleetwood and live and behind the scenes photos from the concert and rehearsals. Legendary drummer, Mick Fleetwood enlisted an all-star cast for a one-of-a-kind concert honouring the early years of Fleetwood Mac and its founder, Peter Green which was held on 25th February 2020 at the London, Palladium. The bill included Neil Finn (Crowded House), Noel Gallagher (Oasis), Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Kirk Hammett (Metallica), John Mayall (Blues Breakers), Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac), Jeremy Spencer (Fleetwood Mac), Pete Townshend (The Who), Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) and Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones).

The 29 songs that Robert Johnson recorded in various Texas hotel rooms in 1936 and 1937 are amongst the most significant and influential works in the history of blues music.

It was thus very appropriate that it was to these landmark songs that Peter Green turned when recording the two albums which have done so much to re-launch his career, 1998’s "The Robert Johnson Songbook" and 2000’s "Hot Foot Powder". These records showed a real return to form for the founder of Fleetwood Mac and one of the greatest ever white blues guitarists. The first justifiably won him a prestigious W.C.Handy Award from the Blues Foundation and the second saw his Splinter Group joined by such blues legends as Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Dr John, Hubert Sumlin and Joe Louis Walker.

The first 2 discs of this set comprise recordings of all Robert Johnson’s songs while the 3rd disc contains Johnson’s own recordings of the songs which made him a legend.

So fans will now have the opportunity to listen to the original blues sorcerer alongside one of his most talented apprentices.

An odd compilation album of songs from Peter's first three PVK albums "In the skies", "Little dreamer" & "Whatcha gonna do". There are three recordings here that are of main interest though as they are either only available here or rarely available elsewhere. One is the opener "Apostle" which is different to the version on "In the skies" Although still very mellow, it has a more prominent lead part though I think this has more to do with the way both versions were recorded as opposed to Green not wanting the "In the skies" version to have one, and there's some ooh and aah backing vocals too.
~ John Fitzgerald