Peter and Mayall live 1967

dansven · #1 07-23-2004, 09:31 AM

Hi,

I posted this message on the Peter Green forum, but I was adviced to post it here too

(I know it may not belong here)

Anyway, I found this article here on the Penguin:

December 3, 1998: MOJO magazine, December 1998 -- "A priceless live tape of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers featuring Peter Green has been discovered by Mike Vernon. Details are sketchy, but the recording includes versions of Double Trouble, Hideaway, All Your Love and The Stumble. Expect it next year on Deram." Thanks to Julie Kedward for this information.

Does anybody know if this has been released? According to the article it should have happened in 1999. I have always wondered why there weren't any live audience recordings of the Bluesbreakers and Peter from those days. They were THE blues band at the time, and gigging all the time.

If this recording exists, it is really "priceless", but I haven't seen it in the shops.

Daniel

chiliD · #2 07-23-2004, 10:44 AM

You'd think that if there were live recordings of JM's Bluesbreakers during incarnations with Eric Clapton and Mick Taylor, that there'd be some with Peter Green who was the guitarist in between those two.

Ok, somebody start checking those abandoned suitcases in Australia.

Cussion · #3 07-23-2004, 10:46 AM

Wow! I would love to hear that one..

I found this old picture of Peter Green and John McVie, playing together with Paul Butterfield. Maybe during that recording they did with John Mayall..

sharksfan2000 · #4 07-23-2004, 11:02 AM

Great photo, Cussion! I haven't seen that one before.

It sure would be nice it those live recordings ever get released (assuming they really exist at all).

***ThePenguin*** · #5 07-23-2004, 11:57 AM

That photo is gorgeous. Where oh where is the rest of the film from that session....

Think of all the old photos that must exist that we will just never see. :-(

yes I am odd, but I'd almost rather see the photos than hear the music LOL.

-Lis

dansven · #6 07-23-2004, 05:24 PM

Yeah, thanks a lot Cussion!!!

Cussion · #7 07-23-2004, 06:17 PM

No problems!
I'll try to post every rare photo I'll find, and right now I've got some nice pictures from an Royal Albert Hall gig in late 1968 or maybe early 1969 (anyway, they were still using the Orange gear). I found 'em on a site, but I can't remember the URL, unfortunately.. I've also got a nice black&white picture of Peter playing his sunburst Fender Strat. I've got all these photos on my computer!

But the most wonderful and rare photo I have is in an old music magazine.
It is Peter Green sittin' on a chair, playing together with Snowy White, Nigel Watson and a black percussion guy. It is from '71 or maybe early '72, Peter has got short hair and he looks a bit unshaven, playing his Fender Strat. It it a very big photo, taking up nearly two pages in the magazine.. it seems to have been shot during the same period as this one:

dansven · #8 07-23-2004, 06:46 PM

Wow! It sounds like it could be from the obscure "Heavy Heart" or "Beasts of Burden" sessions with Snowy and Nigel!

Cussion · #9 07-23-2004, 06:57 PM

Yeah! I think it's from some kind of BBC television appearence,
cause they're sitting on a stage in a TV-studio with 'BBC Colour' cameras around 'em. This can bring you the most amazing thaughts, MAYBE someone out there has got the tape with a TV appearence of Peter Green performing his solo single 'Beasts of Burden' in colour!

dansven · #10 07-24-2004, 09:10 AM

I don't know about Beasts of Burden, but I know there is a video tape among collectors with Peter (and band) performing Heavy Heart at Top Of The Pops 6/17/1971. I'm trying to get that one!!

Maybe the photo is from that appearance...?

Cussion · #11 07-24-2004, 11:05 AM

Yes, it may be 'Heavy Heart'
Do you know about any another photos from this period?