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Old 09-17-2006, 01:56 PM
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Back to the earlier question. can anyone fill me/us in on what happened with Peter and the SG? On the surface, he seemed to be doing well and enjpying the SG.
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Old 09-26-2006, 07:01 PM
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There are so many "what ifs", aren't there?
Peter definately didn't want the guitar hero tag after he did earn the it. Like Clapton actually did fairly often in the 70's and 80's, Peter played along side other good guitar players. Eric did eventually settle nicely (I think) into his guitar-hero role, although he remains humble about it.

I wonder when the last time Pete and Eric saw each other? Anyone?
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Old 09-26-2006, 08:03 PM
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There are so many "what ifs", aren't there?
Peter definately didn't want the guitar hero tag after he did earn the it. Like Clapton actually did fairly often in the 70's and 80's, Peter played along side other good guitar players. Eric did eventually settle nicely (I think) into his guitar-hero role, although he remains humble about it.

I wonder when the last time Pete and Eric saw each other? Anyone?
they both played at the royal albert hall for the one generation 4 another concert in early 2004, very soon after pete left the splinter group.

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Old 09-27-2006, 03:51 AM
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they both played at the royal albert hall for the one generation 4 another concert in early 2004, very soon after pete left the splinter group.

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Yeah i was there it was a good night !!... pete played very well !... he did see eric but i,m not sure if they spoke
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Old 09-27-2006, 07:59 AM
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Yeah i was there it was a good night !!... pete played very well !... he did see eric but i,m not sure if they spoke
joe! i wish i'd seen that. and i'd like to get a recording of that concert... of course if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

great to see your post. hope all is well. our best to peter.

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Old 09-29-2006, 09:56 AM
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Yeah i was there it was a good night !!... pete played very well !... he did see eric but i,m not sure if they spoke

but the reviews I read weren't so kind to Peter
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Old 10-10-2006, 08:54 AM
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but the reviews I read weren't so kind to Peter
Well maybe but its a presonal appinion .....and!!!! after all hes been through !! ... i just love it when i see him on a stage
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Old 10-11-2006, 05:03 AM
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Well maybe but its a presonal appinion .....and!!!! after all hes been through !! ... i just love it when i see him on a stage
They still expect him to blast away like he was 22, perhaps.
I have it on tape, and think he plays great. Simple,
jazzy, very tasteful. I don't know anything about it,
but he must have been nervous, considering what was
happening at the time.
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Old 10-12-2006, 03:09 PM
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They still expect him to blast away like he was 22, perhaps.
I have it on tape, and think he plays great. Simple,
jazzy, very tasteful. I don't know anything about it,
but he must have been nervous, considering what was
happening at the time.

dino - right, these reviewers had no idea what peter was doing. i recall an earlier posted discussion of pete's rah performance, maybe from you or from mario, i can't remember, which concluded that despite the media reports to the contrary that he played very well.

anyway, i'd love to get a copy of the tape, if you are willing. could you remind me again what peter played; black magic woman and one other, a non-original blues?

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Old 10-12-2006, 03:49 PM
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dino - right, these reviewers had no idea what peter was doing. i recall an earlier posted discussion of pete's rah performance, maybe from you or from mario, i can't remember, which concluded that despite the media reports to the contrary that he played very well.

anyway, i'd love to get a copy of the tape, if you are willing. could you remind me again what peter played; black magic woman and one other, a non-original blues?

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He played "Comin' home baby" also. It's not the Elmore James
track, it's the jazz standard. Don't know who did it first,
I've only got the Herbie Mann version (he had a big hit with it).
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Old 10-13-2006, 06:23 PM
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I can't remember exactly what the reviewers said, but they weren't very excited. Does anyone remember what their problem was with the performance. Maybe they were, in fact, expecting something other than what he did. But they must have known what he did with the SG.
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Old 10-17-2006, 08:52 AM
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I can't remember exactly what the reviewers said, but they weren't very excited. Does anyone remember what their problem was with the performance. Maybe they were, in fact, expecting something other than what he did. But they must have known what he did with the SG.
l- i never saw a review of this concert that included more than a sentence or two about pete. a couple are logged for posterity here: http://www.procolharum.com/004/gb_040315.htm

both are clueless; like dino said, probably they expect him to play bmw like he did in the 60's, whereas anyone who ever heard or saw the splinter group knows that's not going to happen.

it's disappointing to see stuff like this written, like pete needed additional reasons not to play these kind of high profile gigs. and even if he had played poorly (which he did not), anyone with the slightest idea what he has been through would go easy and cut the man some slack. unbelievable.

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Old 10-18-2006, 09:03 PM
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l- i never saw a review of this concert that included more than a sentence or two about pete. a couple are logged for posterity here: http://www.procolharum.com/004/gb_040315.htm
Yeah, I think these were the reviews I saw. Not very complementary to Peter, were they. Wandering off, bluff his way thru BMW. I remember when I read those reviews thinking PG was lost w/o the SG around. Anybody who wasn't at the concert and read those reviews wouldn't know what PG had done. Thanks to you guys, I feel better about that performance. Personally, I think that no matter what someone has been through, it doesn't excuse poor performance. It may explain it but not excuse it. But from what I heard of PG in the SG he had, in fact, been playing well enough to justify performing. He wasn't PG of the Fleetwood Mac, he was PG of the SG.
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Old 10-20-2006, 02:33 AM
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F..k em if they can't take a joke.

Whatever else Peter is, his taste and playing are sublime.
If he were so sensitive to Newspapers would he have ever come back?
Artists paint. Performers perform. I wish I were there that night.


People , audiences and critics are built unfair by design. You never know why they were in the audience.
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Old 10-20-2006, 05:28 AM
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F..k em if they can't take a joke.

Whatever else Peter is, his taste and playing are sublime.
If he were so sensitive to Newspapers would he have ever come back?
Artists paint. Performers perform. I wish I were there that night.


People , audiences and critics are built unfair by design. You never know why they were in the audience.
I'd say Peter played great for most of the Splinter gigs, maybe not the very early ones.
If you look at the videos, you can still see his natural ease with a guitar.
His attitude is probably that he doesn't want to be a flash guitar hero
and play the solos he played to death 30 years ago.
I'm not saying the Splinter era brought out the best in him, but it sure
looks like he knew what he was doing.
Music writers seldom like change...
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