New Greeny interview in MOJO

dino · #1 05-27-2005, 03:16 AM

Hey alll,
I just bought a special blues edition of the English music mag MOJO.
There's a quite extensive article on Peter, drawn partially from a new Greeny interview,
post-Splinter group.

There's no comments from Peter on the split off course, but he seems to be in good shape

,
indulging in a lot of fishing in Sweden along with his partner. He still practices a lot of guitar,
and the article mentions that several record labels have expressed interest in recording him.

Otherwise, he's the same old Greeny, expressing doubts about his singwriting abilities, refusing
to accept praise

. There's some photos that at least I had not seen, including one from 1987
where he looks pretty wild, long beard and chain smoking.

I would advise checking it out, the whole issue is great with lots of Clapton.

Tango · #2 05-27-2005, 03:25 PM

Thank you for the heads up. I don't know if I can find it, but maybe someone else can and submit it to the Blue Letter Archives.

mzero · #3 05-29-2005, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Tango

Thank you for the heads up. I don't know if I can find it, but maybe someone else can and submit it to the Blue Letter Archives.

i'm with you tango- thanks for the heads up and the synopsis dino. i get mojo but there is a lag in the delivery from uk to us - this issue won't arrive for a few weeks. i'll post to bla if it hasn't been done by then.

zero

Tom · #4 05-29-2005, 09:05 PM

Greeny AND Clapton? I can't wait to check it out.
Thanks for letting us know Dino. What issue is it? I'm in the U.S. and I can pick that mag up at one of the big book store chains. Who is on the cover?

dino · #5 05-30-2005, 05:05 AM

Clapton is on the cover. A whammy 45 page Clapton special!
Along with articales on Wolf, Muddy, Roy Buchanan, Paul Kossoff etc.
It's not the regular issue, it's one of these "collector's editions" they put out.
The last one was a psychedelic special.

I had to listen to Layla, the Derek and the dominoes album, after reading the Clapton special.
It's truly a masterpiece.

dino · #6 05-30-2005, 02:19 PM

Ok, here a photo from the MOJO article...Greeny aka Wolfman!

Cussion · #7 06-06-2005, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by dino

Ok, here a photo from the MOJO article...Greeny aka Wolfman!

Dino, please can you scan the Royal Albert Hall 1969 picture of F.M from that article and post it here?
It saw the magazine but didn't have the money to buy it at the time..

mzero · #8 06-06-2005, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Cussion

Dino, please can you scan the Royal Albert Hall 1969 picture of F.M from that article and post it here?
It saw the magazine but didn't have the money to buy it at the time..

i still haven't gotten this either. i second this request from cussion. for those non-uk residents who aren't near a bookseller that carries this publication, it can be purchased on-line at

http://www.mojo4music.com/html/special_editions.shtm

zero

Tom · #9 06-06-2005, 06:07 PM

I finally found a copy today. I'm in New York, USA , and the Tower Records store just got it in today. I thumbed through it and it really looks like a great issue. It's a good mag but I had to shell out a whopping $12.50 for it, which is crazy, but for this issue i did it. It's nice to see Greeny get a nice piece in there. Now I have to read the darn thing.

mzero · #10 06-06-2005, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by mzero

... it can be purchased on-line at

http://www.mojo4music.com/html/special_editions.shtm

...

typo by zero. the correct link is:

http://www.mojo4music.com/html/special_editions.shtml

zero

dino · #11 06-07-2005, 04:10 AM

Hey,
I can scan the RAH photo, I'll do it in a couple of days.
I had to cut the 1987 photo, it's larger in the magazine. Kind of a messy in Greeny's kitchen...

Mario · #12 06-07-2005, 01:53 PM

Here you get a photo of Greeny at the Royal Albert Hall!!

Mario.

sharksfan2000 · #13 06-24-2005, 09:27 AM

Just picked up this special issue yesterday, and read through the Greeny article last night. Not bad, although not a tremendous amount of new info there. As Dino mentioned, part of the article is based on a new interview with Peter, and there appear to be some new observations from Mike Vernon and Bob Brunning. And there are some terrific photos that I haven't seen before. The article mostly rehashes info I'm sure most of us know already, but it's still worth picking up this issue (I found it at Borders).

The editors need to check dates better! Picked up on three incorrect dates mentioned in the article - one photo from a TV appearance is dated 1968 in the caption, and it's clearly late '69 or early '70 (Peter with a full beard & wearing a long white robe, with a Dobro). Another photo is captioned "Royal Albert Hall, 1 January 1969" - the band was in the US on that date! Also, the photo captions are reversed for a couple of small photos of Peter with the Bluesbreakers and with the original Mac lineup with Bob Brunning. In the article, there's also a mention of the Munich LSD incident as taking place on 11 April 1970 - impossible since their European tour was over by then. The actual date would have been in late March.

An intriguing quote from Peter's new interview concerns the famous Munich LSD tape. In that basement jam session, he says he "started playing all sorts of original bits - I had the knowledge of blues records, but I started playing original music". Makes me want to hear that tape even more, but I'm doubtful that it will ever surface (who knows whether it even exists anymore?).