Peter Greenbaum

[madformac]

I really haven't seen much material on Peter's upbringing. He mentioned this on the Penguin Q&A.

Having incidentally almost the same family history as you have (Jewish grandfather fighting Bolsheviks in Polish army in 1920, father changing family name in 1948, etc.)I was deeply touched by those aspects of your biography in Martin Celmins' book. I would like to ask you whether your still have any family living in Poland or Ukraine, maybe some far relatives of yours that had survived the insanity of nazism and communism? (Andrzej Stankiewicz, Sittard, The Netherlands)


I don't know the answer. I think my parents lost all their family apart from my Grandmother who came to England.

I seem to recall somewhere Peter worked as a butcher in his younger days and this didn't go down too well at home. But there is very little out there from what I understand.

Peter is probably the most famous Jewish blues player and possibly rock and roll musician too along with Gene Simmons and Marc Bolan I would say.

Peter autographed a Fleetwood Mac album for me with Greenbaum too, it's quite rare of him and I think he does it for those that he may feel understand the music. Most of the time he just signs as Green.