the peter green guitar school

[THD]

Originally Posted by lazy poker

this has been suggested recently by becca, so i'll give it a go here.
(TE)
I'm really keen on getting to know other guitarists in that sort of musical vein of a peter green to add to my record collection - so ANY input on this matter from you is VERY MUCH appreciated. so how about it . . . ?!

martin

I'm not sure I can recommend anyone who sounds like Peter, but I remember reading that Ted Turner, one of the guitarist in Wishbone Ash ,saying he saw Peter playing live with Fleetwood Mac, and knowing that he (Ted )wanted to move people the way Peter did (I had a similar experience )
Wishbone Ash were a great Band with twin lead guitarists ,both fine bluesy--ish players (the other being Andy Powell )and were worthy successors of the twin lead guitar format taking it to where Peter and Danny may have gone with it I recommend their first two albums Wishbone Ash and Argus (particularly good drum sound) (I’m doing this from memory incidentally !)Isaw them at a later stage and they were deafiningly loud and had gone a bit glam rock !

b)People who admire Peter :

(1)Dave Gilmour ,who has done versions of Albatross . Though I liked them I was not a huge Pink Floyd fan post Syd Barrat . Funnily enough though , I do think ,at his most expressive Gilmore can match Peter's soulful playing! (I did think Dark side of the Moon was a great record and I warm to them now)

(2)Midge Ure - a bit of a surprise, but I saw a TV prog where he was talking about his career and he mentioned how Peter greatly influenced him and explaining about Peter’s songs -Man of the World was one ,and playing bits of them to make his point !

[lazy poker]

Originally Posted by THD

(. . .) I remember reading that Ted Turner, one of the guitarist in Wishbone Ash ,saying he saw Peter playing live with Fleetwood Mac, and knowing that he (Ted )wanted to move people the way Peter did (I had a similar experience )
Wishbone Ash were (. . .) worthy successors of the twin lead guitar format taking it to where Peter and Danny may have gone with it I recommend their first two albums Wishbone Ash and Argus (particularly good drum sound) (I’m doing this from memory incidentally !)Isaw them at a later stage and they were deafiningly loud and had gone a bit glam rock !

yes, thd, the early ash were (and still are) one of the most innovative and extremely melodic guitar bands of the time, and the comparison with the green/kirwan pairing is pretty apt. i always preferred ted turner (a fine lap-steel player to boot) to andy powell, so i think quite remarkable what he said about peter. and for me personally the band lost most of it's magic when turner left the band. they never were the same with laurie wisefield, or ever after (despite the later reunion of the original line-up).
thanks for pointing out.

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by THD

I'm not sure I can recommend anyone who sounds like Peter, but I remember reading that Ted Turner, one of the guitarist in Wishbone Ash ,saying he saw Peter playing live with Fleetwood Mac, and knowing that he (Ted )wanted to move people the way Peter did (I had a similar experience )
Wishbone Ash were a great Band with twin lead guitarists ,both fine bluesy--ish players (the other being Andy Powell )and were worthy successors of the twin lead guitar format taking it to where Peter and Danny may have gone with it I recommend their first two albums Wishbone Ash and Argus (particularly good drum sound) (I’m doing this from memory incidentally !)Isaw them at a later stage and they were deafiningly loud and had gone a bit glam rock !

b)People who admire Peter :

(1)Dave Gilmour ,who has done versions of Albatross . Though I liked them I was not a huge Pink Floyd fan post Syd Barrat . Funnily enough though , I do think ,at his most expressive Gilmore can match Peter's soulful playing! (I did think Dark side of the Moon was a great record and I warm to them now)

(2)Midge Ure - a bit of a surprise, but I saw a TV prog where he was talking about his career and he mentioned how Peter greatly influenced him and explaining about Peter’s songs -Man of the World was one ,and playing bits of them to make his point !

Originally Posted by lazy poker

yes, thd, the early ash were (and still are) one of the most innovative and extremely melodic guitar bands of the time, and the comparison with the green/kirwan pairing is pretty apt. i always preferred ted turner (a fine lap-steel player to boot) to andy powell, so i think quite remarkable what he said about peter. and for me personally the band lost most of it's magic when turner left the band. they never were the same with laurie wisefield, or ever after (despite the later reunion of the original line-up).
thanks for pointing out.

Love Wishbone Ash. The twin guitars DO sound like early FMac. What also is interesting about them is that bassist Martin Turner's voice is VERY similar sounding to Danny Kirwan's. Some of those early (first 4 albums) songs sound like they could've fit on Then Play On or Kiln House.

Speaking of Midge Ure, I had (sometime ago, need to look for it again) a copy of Ultravox doing "Man Of The World" live in concert. Really great version, too.

The Moody Blues' Justin Hayward also seems to be a "Peter Green" disciple, but more in a subtler way & not so obvious. The sparseness & economical style of playing harks back to Peter Green. Also, the expressiveness of his playing, too. (that and he also has recorded a cover of "Man Of The World")

[lazy poker]

Originally Posted by THD

Midge Ure - a bit of a surprise, but I saw a TV prog where he was talking about his career and he mentioned how Peter greatly influenced him and explaining about Peter’s songs -Man of the World was one ,and playing bits of them to make his point !

Originally Posted by chiliD

Speaking of Midge Ure, I had (sometime ago, need to look for it again) a copy of Ultravox doing "Man Of The World" live in concert. Really great version, too.

The Moody Blues' Justin Hayward also seems to be a "Peter Green" disciple (. . .) and he also has recorded a cover of "Man Of The World")

midge ure's affection for peter and the mac really came as a surprise to me, and i just checked out 2 live versions on youtube - a li'l bit clumsy on the guitar, but really nice. interesting that during the solo he combined notes of the 2 simultaneous lead guitars of the original.

but justin hayward? well . . . , i listened to his orchestral version with mike batt (i don't know if he ever did another one) and for my taste this is waaaay too much on the sugary side. the orchestral solo part sounds like right out of one of those 60's winnetou movies with pierre brice and lex barker. i could virtually see peter green on horseback, riding into the setting sun - brrrrr!

but, hey, we're already on the verge of drifting out of the thread!

thanks for contributing anyway!

[lazy poker]

nothing new really (for all those in the know, of course) - but there's this norwegian guitarist by the name of ESPEN LILAND who played on jeremy's "precious little" album. his great solo on "bleeding heart" displays remarkable reminiscences of greeny's style and sound. i haven't dug any deeper in his work than that cd yet. i only know he played/plays with the notodden blues band. anybody here with more knowledge about this guy?

[dansven]

NIGEL WATSON...

[lazy poker]

Originally Posted by dansven

NIGEL WATSON...

. . . mentioning nigel watson: one time at a splinter group concert - the place was jam-packed and i was right in front of the stage, which was pretty low, so that people in the back could only see the heads of the band. when i was talking to some guys after the gig, they were over the moon at the "fact" that peter obviously had retained his playing skills of his heydays with the mac again - they hadn't noticed that it was nigel watson playing the lion's share of the solos that sounded so much like they were peter's.

[Neb-Maat-Re]

Originally Posted by THD

(2)Midge Ure -

Who, like Snowy White, spent some time in Thin Lizzy.