Saturday, January 16, 2010

Peter Green and Friends Tour 2010

Peter Green, with a new band "Peter Green and Friends", began playing concerts again in February 2009. Peter Green was the subject of the BBC 4 documentary Peter Green: Man of the World, produced by British music impresario Henry Hadaway and broadcast in May 2009. Peter Green and the band subsequently played a tour of Ireland, Germany and England. Additional British dates were announced for early 2010. Peter Green will commence the tour in Buxton on February 18, 2010.

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  • Peter Green and Friends at Opera House, Buxton on February 18, 2010 - £75
  • Peter Green and Friends at Picture Drome, Holmfirth on February 20, 2010 - £75
  • Peter Green and Friends at The Globe, Cardiff on February 24, 2010 - £75
  • Peter Green and Friends at Exeter Phoenix on February 27, 2010 - £75
  • Peter Green and Friends at Irish Centre, Leeds on March 13, 2010 - £75
  • Peter Green and Friends at Union Chapel Islington, London on March 22, 2010 - £75

Peter Green Video Gallery

Peter Green Fleetwood Mac "Like it This Way"




Peter Green Splinter Group - Green Manalishi



Peter Green Amsterdam 2009 The Stumble



Peter Green Amsterdam 2009 Albatross



Peter Green - World Keep On Turning




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Peter Green Splinter Group and Tours

Apart from his solo work in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Peter Green contributed to "Rattlesnake Shake" and "Super Brains" on Mick Fleetwood's solo album, The Visitor, and recorded various sessions with a number of other musicians.

A late 1990s comeback saw Peter Green form the Peter Green Splinter Group, with the assistance of fellow musicians including Nigel Watson and Cozy Powell. The Splinter Group released nine albums between 1997 and 2004. It was in the latter part of this period that Peter Green picked up a black Gibson Les Paul again. Peter Green signed and sold this Les Paul, which had been tweaked for Peter Green to sound like the famous 'green burst' and is now owned by a UK enthusiast. A tour was canceled and recording of a new studio album stopped in early 2004, when Peter Green left the band and moved to Sweden. Shortly thereafter he joined The British Blues All Stars, but their tour in 2005 was also canceled after the death of saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith.

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Peter Green - Style, tone, and instruments

Peter Green is praised for his "swinging shuffle grooves" and "soulful phrases," and favored "the minor mode and its darker blues implications. His trademark tone is exemplified on "The Super-Natural," an instrumental Peter Green composition on the second John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers record, A Hard Road (1967). Played on the 1959 Les Paul sunburst, the song shows off Green's "uncanny control of harmonic feedback." The sound is characterized by "shivering vibrato and clean, cutting tones," and a "series of 10-second sustained notes"; "to this day, these haunting tones define controlled feedback on a Les Paul."

Many rock guitarists have cited Peter Green as an influence, most notably Gary Moore, guitarist Joe Perry Wishbone Ash guitarist Andy Powell.

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Peter Green - The End Of The Game

Peter Green quit Fleetwood Mac in 1970, performing his final show as a member on 20 May 1970. Peter Green recorded a jam session and released it as the album The End of the Game and faded into obscurity, taking on a succession of menial jobs. During this period Peter Green sold his trademark 1959 Sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard to Irish guitarist Gary Moore and recorded with Bobby Tench's band Gass on their eponymous album.

Peter Green had a brief reunion with Fleetwood Mac when Jeremy Spencer left the group (Green flew to the USA to help them complete the tour) and Peter Green was also an uncredited guest on their 1973 Penguin album, on the track "Night Watch". Peter Green also appears on the track "Brown Eyes" from 1979's Tusk.

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Formation of Fleetwood Mac

The name of Green's new band was Fleetwood Mac. Originally billed as "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac"; it originated from the band's rhythm section that comprised Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, both of whom, like Peter Green, had played most recently in Mayall's band. Initially this was a straight-up blues-rock band playing blues classics and some original material, but in the mid 1970s the band topped the charts with mainstream pop/rock. Peter Green wrote "Black Magic Woman", which was later covered by Santana. Peter Green was the leader of the group throughout its initial period of success in the late 1960s, with hits including "Oh Well", "Man of the World", "The Green Manalishi" and the #1 British chart hit "Albatross". Peter Green remains ambivalent about his songwriting success, telling Guitar Player "Oh, I was never really a songwriter. I was very lucky to get those hits. I shouldn't have been distracted from my fascination with the blues... I have been known to come up with the odd bit, but I'm not all that wild about the big composer credit."

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Peter Green's Work With John Mayall's Bluesbreakers

Peter Green made his full album debut with the Bluesbreakers with A Hard Road. It featured two compositions by Peter Green, "The Same Way" and "The Supernatural". The latter was one of Green's first extended instrumentals, which would soon become a trademark. Like Clapton, whose playing inspired the "Clapton is God" graffiti around London during his time with the Bluesbreakers, Peter Green would earn the nickname "The Green God" for his interpretation of the blues.

In 1967, Peter Green decided to form his own blues band, and left Mayall's Bluesbreakers after appearing on just one album .


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