Peter Green & Friends Play London Show!

[Ms Moose]

This should have been posted under The Cornbury Festival thread, but I will post it here all the same....

Here is another piece of footage from The Cornbury Festival. Same songs but from another position, and a bit better sound I think than the one previously posted. Albatros is heavenly....I wish there was a proper recording of this version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY-DW...eature=related

Ms Moose

[dino]

Did you notice Greeny goes into "Oh Well" part 2 before "Albatross"?
That would have been interesting.
Hope somebody recorded this performance.

[Ms Moose]

Originally Posted by dino

Did you notice Greeny goes into "Oh Well" part 2 before "Albatross"?
That would have been interesting.
Hope somebody recorded this performance.

Yes, when I first heard it I thought: "Wouw - at last a performance of Oh Well part two". Unfortunately it wasn't. As you say that would have been interesting! I suppose it could be done?

Ms Moose

[slipkid]

Originally Posted by Ms Moose

Yes, when I first heard it I thought: "Wouw - at last a performance of Oh Well part two". Unfortunately it wasn't. As you say that would have been interesting! I suppose it could be done?

Ms Moose

I had the same thought. With modern keyboards, you could easily recreate the strings, and recorder heard on the original version. Although visions of mellotrons and Rick Wakeman appear in my head, and using 40 year old analog technology would've provided a different twist to a great piece of art.

[robster]

I was at Cornbury last saturday and was totally blown away.
I also took my mum who last saw him 40 years ago.

It was so nice to see him enjoying himself playing, and the band were superb. I know its been noted before but Mike Dodd you are at top man :-)

For me to see the legend in the flesh and to hear him play live was a mgaical experince. The way he played albatross at the end of the set will live in my memeory forever. It brought tears to my eyes and still makes me tingle thinking about it.

Peter Green you are the man

[Ms Moose]

...on Youtube:

- the very end of Blues Don't Change
- Key to the Highway
- The Stumble
- Sitting in the Rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o4prNXAz24

Some of it a bit rumble tumble, but still wonderful that someone did this.

The end part of The Stumble is being played ever more blasé

Great version of Sitting in the Rain!

Ms Moose

[Mario]

Originally Posted by doodyhead

It looks like Mike has been sharing his guitars with peter

its nice to see LP in his hands

So did anyone else see the show?

Peter looked happy, was the crowd good?

No it isn't a Les Paul......it is a 1999 Korean-made Epiphone Gold Top 1956 Reissue and a Limited Edition.

Peter bought it from Martin Celmins so he got a real bargain.

Those Epiphones are much better than the current China-made ones - when PG first
tried playing it he honestly thought it was a Gibson (!)

Mario.

[slipkid]

Originally Posted by Mario

No it isn't a Les Paul......it is a 1999 Korean-made Epiphone Gold Top 1956 Reissue and a Limited Edition.

Peter bought it from Martin Celmins so he got a real bargain.

Those Epiphones are much better than the current China-made ones - when PG first
tried playing it he honestly thought it was a Gibson (!)

Mario.

I have a friend that bought a China made Epi LP Custom from Sam Ash in '05. The build quality is excellent complete with grover tuners, the pickups are another story. The alnico V's he has are just pure mud in tone. If he bought a Burstbucker 2 with a Burstbucker 3, his guitar tone would resemble a real LP.


What I can't get over is that PG is playing Epi's. I saw the Youtube video of his extensive guitar collection. He certainly could afford a real Gibson LP if he chose.


I was in Nashville just under two weeks ago, and I visited the local Guitar Center. They have this "room" where only the best LP's are displayed, including the Michael Bloomfield Custom, and the Billy Gibbons Custon. There was a Jeff Beck version that was selling for $20,000. I wished I'd brought my camera, the woodwork on the Bloomfield and the '59 VOS they had was just amazing. You won't find these guitars on display in any Guitar Center outside of L.A., NYC., or Nashville. The Bloomfield custom was priced at $8,000. I would hope that Peter Green could afford such a luxury.

[sharksfan2000]

Some additional YouTube video that's been uploaded in the past few days:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWpBWrgZFhU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cCVYPE5CiM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLBU6gmEnws

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by Mario

No it isn't a Les Paul......it is a 1999 Korean-made Epiphone Gold Top 1956 Reissue and a Limited Edition.

It may not be a "Gibson", but Epiphone (a Gibson subsidiary company) has licensed the "Les Paul" name...so, yes, it very much IS a "Les Paul".

[doodyhead]

Gibson bought epiphone to eliminate competition in the 40s. Thern they sent them away from their new york home to the hinterlands,

I can tell you however. I own a Gibson Les Paul custom but I also own three different Epiphones built is three different countries. They all play good and sound as good as the Gibsons built these days.
In fact the Epiphone Masterbuilt J50 copy sounds better than a lot of the Gibsons out there now

I agree with ChillD

[dino]

Holy crap...Greeny sounds great back playing on a Gibson (or Epiphone).

[Ms Moose]

It is great to see all these uploads on Youtube, but of course taken under festival/concert conditions in the audience - a lot of them are very bad sound- and picturewise. From rapports the concerts are very good and better than they sound and look on the uploads.

It makes me think that it may be about time some more official and controlled things were made??? I wonder what Peter Green and His Friends think about this idea???
Mario???

Ms Moose

[dino]

Originally Posted by Ms Moose

It is great to see all these uploads on Youtube, but of course taken under festival/concert conditions in the audience - a lot of them are very bad sound- and picturewise. From rapports the concerts are very good and better than they sound and look on the uploads.

It makes me think that it may be about time some more official and controlled things were made??? I wonder what Peter Green and His Friends think about this idea???
Mario???

Ms Moose

Ha ha, I agree...??? Can be quite simple - just mix a soundboard and sell it as a download and/or cd. These English concerts, judging from what's on youtube, are
an improvement on the German gigs, and def worthy of relase in some form.