Peter Green & Friends

[BklynBlue]

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.