Back in the Time Machine we go
 

These are rare - an interview done during Peter Green's peak years - here's a rarity. Please add more if you can find them somewhere.

John McVie & Peter Green - interview - 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owsdd53TLbI

Love those two handsome guys. I think that clip was taken from the Mayall DVD released years back...

--Lis

Rare to see John in an interview too. I think I've seen very few, and most are from 1997 onward. His young voice sounds very different from his in the Classic Albums Rumours video.

Sorry, but this isn't rare at all. It's from the 1969 John Mayall documentary "The Turning Point", which got a DVD release in 2003.

You're right!
 

Thanks for the info. That documentary is here and the "not so rare" McView and Peter Green segment starts at 12.10 min.
John Mayall - The Turning Point -Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfzMOiERIYA

John and Chris are also greeting/saying goodbye to him at the airport at about 23:29, too....looking stylish :)

--Lis

that's what decades of smoking does to you, i guess...he was a hottie back then, i can see what chris saw in him lol

--Lis

Digging more...
 

There is gold in this treasure chest:
https://smilingcorgipress.com/addend...od-mac-in-1971

John Mayall & Bluesbreakers (guitar: Peter Green) "It Hurts Me too"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdZ8pPqgsEE

…and original version:
Elmore James - "It hurts Me Too" | Remastered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzr1Rfn-P4Y

How 60s Heathrow looks

wow this link has very cool stuff! thanks.


-Lis

Melody Maker 29 June 1968 / page 10
 

Peter Green talks to Tony Wilson: "Emotion, that's the blues secret."

https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Mel...-1968-0629.pdf

Interesting that Peter was critical of Long John Baldry in this interview, especially given the fact that one of his guitarists would later join Fleetwood Mac.

The Interview
 

Peter Green talks to Tonyt Wilson: "EMOTION, that's the blues secret."

NICE

"That's why we play a few rock and roll numbers. It would be nice if every- body let themselves go but they don't," adds Peter, who with the group, flew off to their first United States tour last week. Peter was having a dig at the more dedicated blues fans who stand and listen with all the solemnity of a funeral gathering.

Warming to the subject Peter says, "We don't care about fans. We care about people and we want to make them laugh and cry. In fact we find it better to play to girls because they are not worried if you are going to play fast or slow or whether there is going to be a drum solo or a bass solo. I think that girls are more emotional."

FACTOR

Emotion is an important factor in listening to, and playing, blues thinks Peter. "Blues are blues. It doesn't matter if it's by Duster Bennett or B. B. King, it's emotional," he says.
"If someone is singing sad blues and it doesn't get through, forget it. But that's in the case of slow blues and you can't play slow blues all night or the audience will go to sleep.
"We usually play one fast one and then slow one be cause this is what the band want to do. We don't want the audience to just sit and listen."

A few weeks ago Long John Baldry accused British blues bands of being boring. Long John's opinion was not met with sympathy by Peter. "Anyway, Long John Baldry, in my eyes, is not a blues singer but a jazz singer. I've never heard him tell his story in anything he has sung and as far as I am concerned he's no blues singer," comments Peter.

BANDS

Turning to other bands on the blues scene, Peter says "Most of them are lifting straight from Americans. There are three groups and singers who knock me out.
"Duster Bennett is one- he is great. He makes up his songs as he goes along He may take someone else's song and the first couple of lines may be from the original version but the rest is all his.
"In the past I've sung other people's songs" admits Peter, "but now I sing all my own songs on stage and the next album will be all our own songs.

"I used to play a lot of B. B. King numbers and people said that I sounded just like him. I think he is the one I sound most like." Who were the the other
musicians that Peter rated? Danny Kirwan," replies Peter." He is really good and Danny plays all his own material. The only other guitarist I like is John Mores- head with "Aynsley Dunbar."

SICK

Another point which Peter Green feels strongly about is the definition of what is blues and what is not blues. "If I was playing what the Cream or Jimi Hendrix are playing. I wouldn't call it blues," says Peter.
"There is such a sick thing about what is blues and there's all this talk about progressive blues. The blues, really, is having the blues. It is something you have and if you haven't got the blues about anything, you cannot play or sing blues, forget it. Some people think that it is just a way of playing guitar but it isn't."

One of the first requirements for a good blues singer, says Peter, is sensitivity. "You've got to be sensitive like Duster Bennett who sings about worldly things, but most blues are about women. About nine out of ten blues are about women and not about being coloured."

STYLE

Had Peter noticed any changes in his style of playing since he first started? "Well, I've always played what I played on the Hard Road album with Mayall and what I play on my own LP. It's me," replies Peter. "I've become a lot more competent and I'm playing with less notes to express myself now, although I have an occasional night when I have to have a rave."

The American Negro gave the world of music the blues as a musical form. Would Peter like to play to an all- Negro audience?
"I would like to," says Peter, "but at the moment it's so violent there you have to be known anyway. We will be playing in New York and Detroit and I hope there that the audiences will he mixed."