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Old 01-01-2014, 05:43 PM
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I was reading in the newest Flashback magazine about folk-rock group The Trees. They played two shows headlined by Peter Green & Friends on June 14th, and 19th in 1970. I'm curious if there is a list of who all the friends were for these early post-Mac appearances. Also mentioned in the apiece is that one of the Trees' guitarists jammed on stage with Peter in 1971.

The two venues by the way were, The Garage at the Salisbury Hotel in Barnet, and Kingston Polytechnic Main Hall respectively. They also supported Fleetwood Mac on two bills in Scotland in November of 1970, one of the Trees describing the atmosphere as "teenybopper chaos backstage" which they had not seen the like of before.

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Christopher Hjort states that for the two shows you mention, the “Friends” in the billing should have been singular rather than plural, as apparently Green was performing as duo with American keyboardist Nick Buck.
Celmins’ biography could be the source for this claim, as Celmins writes of Green and Buck gigging together that summer (although that does not necessarily rule out that there might have been other musicians on stage.
Nick Logan of the New Musical Express wrote, “Playing from the heart and quite brilliantly at times, he (Green) was well received by an attuned audience, although it remains to be seen how this formless format, carrying with it the threat of self-indulgence, can be sustained.”
Again, this in no way confirms or refutes Hjort’s statement that they were performing as a duo.

It is so frustrating that over the years we have seen so many bootlegs surface from the various periods of Green’s brief career, (before his “comeback”), including a number of shows as a member of the Blues Breakers, and yet at, for this a pivotal moment in the evolution of Green’s music we have nothing.
He had recently done the sessions for what would be “The End of the Game” and the night after the first gig at The Garage, he would be back in the studio with Little Free Rock and Ginger Johnson’s African Drummers.
And here he is playing with only a keyboardist? This is a huge piece of the puzzle that we are currently missing.
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Cool, thanks for sharing what you have access to! So true about this period being important. It's certainly as interesting as whatever Brain Wilson was doing in 1967-68 around the Smile sessions which has been the subject of many articles and even an entire book now. I personally love The End Of The Game album (as a sort of soundtrack to an imaginary film set in Africa). I keep returning to it. It sounds possible that there could be an expanded 'sessions' edition of it as recently has happened with other albums of the past if only there were interest. At a time when others were competing to get in the most over-playing, Green was showing how much can be communicated with space and feeling. A magician! I sometimes wonder if Larry Coryell was listening...
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