Peter Green live in Hamburg

[manfred]

At 25th of February 2009, Peter Green is playing live with his Band at Hindenburgstrasse 2, Hamburg 22303, Downtown Blues Club, 19:00 o'clock.

The line-up of his band:

Peter Green (lead guitar/vocals)
Mike Dodd (rhythm guitar/vocals)
Geraint Watkins (piano/organ/vocals, Ex-Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings, Ex-Nick Lowe, Ex-Dave Edmunds, and Ex-Rory Gallagher)
Matt Radford (bass, Ex-Nick Lowe)
Andrew Flude (drums/vocals)

My tickets are ordered.

A link to order:
http://www.ticketmaster.de/h/customer_serve.html#

Best wishes and regards

Manfred

[kowk]

Hello Manfred,
I've found the info that the gig is going to start at 21.00.

So don't be late or too early for the gig :)

Peter Green & Band
Landhaus Walter (Downtown Bluesclub)
Hamburg
Mi 25 Feb 2009, 21:00

So check it out :)

Have a good time with the music of our beloved Greeny.

Regards
Krzysztof

I hope Peter is going to play near my place too.

[manfred]

Hi Krzysztof,

my tickets arrived today. You're right. The performance starts at 21:00 and the club opens at 20:00.

Best wishes and regards
Manfred

[Popmuseum]

PETER GREEN and friends / Februar 2009
http://www.music-pool.com/master.php?sid=&action=veranst_details&site_id=199

[dansven]

PETER GREEN and friends / Februar 2009
http://www.music-pool.com/master.php?sid=&action=veranst_details&site_id=199

That photo of Peter looks new!
Wonder if there are any larger photos.:blob2:

[Ms Moose]

PETER GREEN and friends / Februar 2009
http://www.music-pool.com/master.php?sid=&action=veranst_details&site_id=199

I could almost understand all of the text! He looks merry on that picture! I will be seeing PG and His Friends in Amsterdam on the 21st of february. Great that he is playing in Hamburg as well.

Ms Moose

[dansven]

I could almost understand all of the text! He looks merry on that picture! I will be seeing PG and His Friends in Amsterdam on the 21st of february. Great that he is playing in Hamburg as well.

Ms Moose
Yes, something about this being a great joy for both Peter and the audience, and that the setlist will consist of some Mac numbers and Peter's favourite blues classics... or is my German long lost? ;)

You're lucky indeed!
Hope they come to Norway! :woohoo:

[absinthe_boy]

If my schoolboy German has not escaped me, it says something like this.

Today Peter Green plays with a rock band, which is a great combination of experience and youth. (talks about Watkins and other band members). The first European concerts promise to be a relaxed and joyful return to the stage for both sides, Peter and his public. The set consists of some Mac/Green classics and a selection of Peter's favourite Blues classics. A great chance to experience a bluse guitar legend for the first time in 5 years!

Or something very like that :)

[mzero]

If my schoolboy German has not escaped me, it says something like this.

Today Peter Green plays with a rock band, which is a great combination of experience and youth. (talks about Watkins and other band members). The first European concerts promise to be a relaxed and joyful return to the stage for both sides, Peter and his public. The set consists of some Mac/Green classics and a selection of Peter's favourite Blues classics. A great chance to experience a bluse guitar legend for the first time in 5 years!

Or something very like that :)

ab- thanks for the translation. for those lucky enough to be there it will be something. will it be with this group that peter doesn't play most of the leads or do vocals on some songs? it looks to be a great band either way - hope so. zero

[doodyhead]

Yes, something about this being a great joy for both Peter and the audience, and that the setlist will consist of some Mac numbers and Peter's favourite blues classics... or is my German long lost? ;)

You're lucky indeed!
Hope they come to Norway! :woohoo:

I am happy for you folks too.

I hope they tape and video this.

I think I posted this already when I first heard the news

doodyhead

[fleetwood_az]

Great to see that Greeny is still touring and going strong :)

[Popmuseum]

Liebe zum Blues: Peter Green im Portrait
Britischer Bluesgitarrist ist 2009 wieder auf Europa-Tournee
http://rhythm-blues.suite101.de/article.cfm/liebe_zum_blues

[manfred]

It was a great performance yesterday in Downtown Bluesclub, Hamburg. The Gig was sold out (maybe 350 People in the audience) and the band played very well. It’s unbelievable that it was just the 4th gig they did together. There is great harmony between them.

Pete – out off stage always escorted by 3 german bodyguards – was in good shape. He played fine and smiled very often very lucky. The set list was the same as in the Paradiso in Amsterdam:

01. Blues Don´t Change - Lead vocals: Peter Green (Albert King)
02. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You - Lead vocals: Mike Dodd (Bob Dylan)
03. Dance On - Instrumental (Hank Marvin)
04. Many Rivers To Cross - Lead vocals: Peter Green (Jimmy Cliff)
05. Guess I’m A Fool - Lead vocals: Peter Green (Memphis Slim)
06. Albatross - Instrumental (Peter Green)
07. When Lights Go Out - Lead vocals: Peter Green (Willie Dixon)
08. That Lucky Old Sun - Lead vocals: Mike Dodd (B. Smith/H. Gillespie)
09. Stranger Blues - Lead vocals: Peter Green (Elmore James)
10. Off The Hook - Lead vocals: Mike Dodd (Jagger/Richard)
11. Long Grey Mare - Lead vocals: Peter Green (Peter Green)
12. The Stumble - Instrumental (Freddie King)
13. The Thrill Is Gone - Lead vocals: Peter Green (B.B. King)
Zugaben/Encore:
14. A Rainy Night in Georgia - Lead vocals: Peter Green (Tony Joe White)
15. Black Magic Woman - Lead vocals: Peter Green (Peter Green)


I think it’s very interesting, they are playing now only 5 or 6 songs that contained through the past to Pete’s repertoire. But all the new ones sound fantastic and are well chosen.

The audience enjoyed the show very much and went after 90 minutes satisfied home. Some of them missed “Oh Well” in the set, but Mike Dodd promised them to play it in the future: “Give us some more time. We’ll play it someday…Today it’s just our 4th gig.” Mike clearly took over the part of Nigel and is talking mostly to the audience until the shows.

Dear people, I hope my review was a little bit interesting for you.

At the end I have two questions about the new songs. Maybe you can help: I think DANCE ON is a very great instrumental. Does anybody know who wrote/composed it or who recorded it in the past. And I like CHICKEN WINDOW too, but don’t know anything about that song. Some informations would be kind.

Best wishes and regards
Manfred

[Popmuseum]

It was a great performance yesterday in Downtown Bluesclub, Hamburg. The Gig was sold out (maybe 350 People in the audience) and the band played very well. It’s unbelievable that it was just the 4th gig they did together. There is great harmony between them.

Thank you very much for your review. I'm very interested if or how the German newspapers will review the concert too.

[Norton]

At the end I have two questions about the new songs. Maybe you can help: I think DANCE ON is a very great instrumental. Does anybody know who wrote/composed it or who recorded it in the past. And I like CHICKEN WINDOW too, but don’t know anything about that song. Some informations would be kind.

Best wishes and regards
Manfred

Peter Green has often said that one of his earliest influences was Hank Marvin of the The Shadows (the original band that started with Cliff Richard...). I am assuming that it is the same one as their early sixties hit named Dance On. It was written by V. and E. Murtaugh, R. Adams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY4HCQYx1vg

Not sure of the origin of Chicken Window though...

Thanks much for the gig review.... I can only hope they tour in the UK.....

[dino]

Yes, thanks to all who generously share their reviews!
A recording would be fantastic! :nod:

[mzero]

It was a great performance yesterday in Downtown Bluesclub, Hamburg. The Gig was sold out (maybe 350 People in the audience) and the band played very well. It’s unbelievable that it was just the 4th gig they did together. There is great harmony between them.

Pete – out off stage always escorted by 3 german bodyguards – was in good shape. He played fine and smiled very often very lucky. The set list was the same as in the Paradiso in Amsterdam:.....

.....Dear people, I hope my review was a little bit interesting for you.
.....

Best wishes and regards
Manfred

dear manfred, very interesting and encouraging. thanks for the vocal credits too. i think its a great sign that theres nearly no mac material.

although i'd love to hear it, i don't think peter will ever do oh well again. i think his voice suits the lyrics better now than in 1969 but he never played it with the splinter group did he? was it ever played in the pvk era shows? zero

[dino]

dear manfred, very interesting and encouraging. thanks for the vocal credits too. i think its a great sign that theres nearly no mac material.

although i'd love to hear it, i don't think peter will ever do oh well again. i think his voice suits the lyrics better now than in 1969 but he never played it with the splinter group did he? was it ever played in the pvk era shows? zero

Yes, the Kolors band played it, if that's what you mean. Not a great version, though.
Maybe they could do a new arrangement? The original is pretty heavy, Led Zeppelin-style.

[absinthe_boy]

I recall during the Splinter Group days, Peter said he didn't want to play "Oh Well" again. He said they were doing a number of old Mac songs and that would be a step too far into the past.

I am a little surprised this new band isn't playing Green Manalishi, because Peter has said many times that is his favourite song...but the main thing is that Peter plays and sings songs that he wants to be involved with.

[dansven]

Perhaps they could have arranged Oh Well as a boogie :laugh:
Anyway, Peter is proud of Oh Well part 2, so perhaps they could rehearse only that part.. :woohoo:

Btw, The Stumble is on youtube now!! I haven't had the time to LISTEN to it now, but Peter looks like he's enjoying himself!! :blob2:

[absinthe_boy]

Btw, The Stumble is on youtube now!! I haven't had the time to LISTEN to it now, but Peter looks like he's enjoying himself!! :blob2:


Ha...I am at work but couldn't resist a listen. Pretty good performance, and Peter gives it a bit of welly...and seems to really be enjoying it. Especially at the end, such a grin on his face. Good to see and hear.

[Popmuseum]

I'm very interested if or how the German newspapers will review the concert too.

Todays issue of the German Newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) contains a review of the Peter Green Anthology-CD-Box:

Meine Fingernägel sind zu lang geworden
Herzensbrecher, von Höllenhunden gehetzt: Eine große Werkschau würdigt den englischen Bluesgitarristen Peter Green

Im spaßorientierten Pop galt er als Spielverderber, für ruppigen Rock 'n' Roll war er zu introvertiert, Blues-Puristen sahen in ihm einen psychedelisch verwirrten Verräter: Der zweiundsechzigjährige Peter Green hat es sich nie leicht gemacht, eine stabile musikalische Identität zu gewinnen. ...

http://www.faz.net/IN/INtemplates/faznet/default.asp?tpl=common/zwischenseite.asp&dx1={6A9CE01F-9689-7D3D-9195-743D06830683}&rub={B17B6627-B3FC-44FF-AE03-9F65F7F8F300}

[The complete review will be online for free tomorrow or the day after tomorrow probably]

FAZ vom 28.2.2009
(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Feuilleton, Schallplatten und Phono)
1040 Wörter

[Popmuseum]

Todays issue of the German Newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) contains a review of the Peter Green Anthology-CD-Box

The journalist (Peter Kemper) mentions that there are rumours that once there will be a comeback of Peter Green. :shocked: Kemper doesn't know that Green played in Hamburg this week and did some gigs the days before. :lol:

Kemper tells that the quality of the recordings is so great, that for the first time it is possible to hear each of the three guitars (Green, Kirwan and Spencer) on the recordings (It seems that Jeremy Spencer is always playing along with Green and Kirwan - and that Green didn't make no overdubs on the recordings).

I believe that the review will be online tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. If not - I'm going to make a scan of the newspaper, which in "Finnegans Wake" Joyce once called "the Frankofurto Siding, a Fastland payrodicule".

[Ms Moose]

I believe that the review will be online tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. If not - I'm going to make a scan of the newspaper, which in "Finnegans Wake" Joyce once called "the Frankofurto Siding, a Fastland payrodicule".

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

Ms Moose