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Originally Posted by dansven
Hahaha 
Nigel's playing is taking me nowhere!
Unbalanced clichés which fail to surprise me, is the way I would describe it.
Peter has indeed moved far from his Mac days. Which in my opinion is a good thing. I'm not so sure about old veterans trying to sound the same way as when they were in thir early 20s and full of testosterone...
Peter's playing nowadays is very "playful" and full of surprises. It can be a bit patchy and erratic, but to me it's very rewarding to listen to it.  |
I agree with you, dansven. "Testosterone-playing" is boring in the long run, and especially in old veterans. The thing is I never considered Peters playing testorone-driven, not even when he was 20. There was something else at stake for him, than for many other players of his generation. By incident I came across Alvin Lee's obituary in MOJO (May, 2013) the other day. In it Alvin Lee is quoted: "Asked once about his rivals in the big league of flash guitarists, Alvin Lee - nicknamed Captain Speedfingers - shunned comparisons with John McLaughlin, Johnny Winter and beyond, and said he much preferred the subtle style of Peter Green.
The errant Fleetwood Mac man was, Lee said, the only player he'd seen who turned his volume down during a solo."
Of course musicians develop and mature with age, so Peters
style of playing is different now. His ideas are often intricate and beautiful, but what I am talking about is his "strike" (I think this is the word classical pianists use to discribe each individual pianists way of approaching or "attacking" the keys. This is not meant in the aggressive sence of the word). This has to do with the musicians need to communicate whats going on inside him. When Peter plays now, it's like he is "talking to himself". That's ok. Sometimes it would be nice to have some better recording of these "monologues", though
Ms Moose
