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Peter Green MP3-DVD
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MUZ02A0117
25 mp3 albums (1969-2007) 303 mp3 songs Total Time: 22:27:44
GENRE: Blues-Rock
01 - Peter Green - The End Of The Game (1970)
02 - Peter Green - In The Skies (1979)
03 - Peter Green - Little Dreamer (1980)
04 - Peter Green - Blue Guitar (1981)
05 - Peter Green - Whatcha Gonna Do (1981)
06 - Peter Green - White Sky (1981)
07 - Peter Green - Kolors (1983)
08 - Peter Green - Katmandu - A Case For The Blues (1987)
09 - Peter Green - Legend (1988)
10 - Peter Green - Bandit (1997)
11 - Peter Green - Alone With The Blues (2000)
12 - Peter Green - Man Of The World CD1 (2004)
13 - Peter Green - Man Of The World CD2 (2004)
14 - Peter Green - Supernatural CD1 (2007)
15 - Peter Green - Supernatural CD2 (2007)
16 - Peter Green & Mick Green - Two Greens Make A Blues (1998)
17 - Peter Green & Nigel Watson - The Robert Johnson Songbook (1998)
18 - Peter Green & Nigel Watson - Hot Foot Powder (2000)
19 - Brunning Sunflower Blues Band - Trackside Blues (1969)
20 - Peter Green Splinter Group - Peter Green Splinter Group (1997)
21 - Peter Green Splinter Group - Soho Session CD1 (1998)
22 - Peter Green Splinter Group - Soho Session CD2 (1998)
23 - Peter Green Splinter Group - Destiny Road (1999)
24 - Rattlesnake Guitar - The Music Of Peter Green CD1 (1995)
25 - Rattlesnake Guitar - The Music Of Peter Green CD2 (1995)
Posted by Chris Nickson on 31st Jan 2010
Recorded reside at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho, London, this two-disc set captures abundant of the aspect of Green with the Splinter Group, his abetment accouterments for the endure several years. And it's an absorbing mix of actual they appear out with, from dejection covers, a set of Robert Johnson material, as able-bodied as a attract through the old Fleetwood Mac songbook -- which adeptness able-bodied be the big draw here. However, acceptable as it is to accept Green aback as a approved performer, he's not the man he already was, and it's notable the guitar solos aren't authentic -- you can never acquaint who's playing, as aide Nigel Watson has his accent and appearance down perfectly. In abounding ways, the a lot of acceptable articulation comes with six Robert Johnson tracks, which access after Green accoutrements or expectation, and absolutely do satisfy, while the accession of the Street Angels, a actuality group, on vocals, strengthens the sound, which already has affluence of backbone. "The Supernatural," already one of Green's a lot of acute instrumentals, seems to accept absent its chaw -- but that's accurate of all the old material. "Green Manalishi" was abundant as advance if it originally appeared, and now it's weightless, while the subtleties of "Albatross" accept vanished, and "Black Magic Woman" seems abnormally formless. This isn't to say it's a bad anthology by any means. It's conceivably adverse that Green has to accord with his own history. There are moments if the old adeptness shines, but they're few and far between. He's lived the blues, but his adeptness to transform that into music has mostly vanished. Acceptable if you yield it on its own agreement and don't apprehend the god-like arena that already authentic Peter Green, the Soho Session is a British dejection accouterments with taste, chops, and casual absolute moments.
When this was originally appear in the bounce of 1999, the bound copy of 20,000 CDs awash out in the aboriginal week. It's not harder to apprehend why, this is Peter Green and the aboriginal agency of Splinter Group (with Neil Murray) absolutely accepting into top accessory and motoring.
Superior to 1997's self-titled reside anthology this 2CD set includes the absolute show, with some old Mayal/Mac abstract such as Black Magic Woman (excellent), Rattlesnake Snake (even better) and Supernatural (Green at his actual best) and some dejection standards. There's even a semi acoustic set in the average for some Robert Johnson songs.
What strikes the adviser is that everybody is arena enthusiastically, the affectionate area meant that everybody had to play added quiet than usual. The recording is absolutely top notch, with basal assembly activated (a advantage in this more affected cyberbanking age).
Recommended for dejection fans, Green admirers and anybody who appreciates a acceptable song and acceptable musicianship!
CREDITS
Bass - Neil Murray
Drums - Larry Tolfree
Guitar, Vocals - Nigel Watson , Peter Green (2)
Keyboards, Vocals - Roger Cotton
TRACK LISTING
21 - Peter Green Splinter Group - Soho Session CD1 (1998)
1 It Takes Time 05:18 192 kbps 7.28 MB
2 Homework 03:45 192 kbps 5.16 MB
3 Black Magic Woman 07:13 192 kbps 9.90 MB
4 Indians 04:08 192 kbps 5.68 MB
5 Hey Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut 06:19 192 kbps 8.67 MB
6 The Supernatural 03:37 192 kbps 4.96 MB
7 Rattlesnake Shake 05:00 192 kbps 6.86 MB
8 Shake Your Hips 05:16 192 kbps 7.22 MB
9 Albatros 03:32 192 kbps 4.86 MB
22 - Peter Green Splinter Group - Soho Session CD2 (1998)
1 Traveling Riverside Blues 03:59 192 kbps 5.48 MB
2 Steady Rollin' Man 03:33 192 kbps 4.88 MB
3 Terraplane Blues 03:47 192 kbps 5.20 MB
4 Honyemoon Blues 03:04 192 kbps 4.21 MB
5 Last Fair Deal Gone Down 03:19 192 kbps 4.57 MB
6 If I Had Possession Over Jugement Day 04:27 192 kbps 6.12 MB
7 Green Manalishi 05:38 192 kbps 7.73 MB
8 Goin' Down 07:36 192 kbps 10.43 MB
9 Help Me 04:49 192 kbps 6.61 MB
10 Look On Yonder Wall 06:48 192 kbps 9.34 MB
Posted by admin on 29th Jan 2010
Splinter Group/Destiny Road is a appreciably acceptable amount for anyone absorbed in the improvement of Peter Green. Combining the self-titled admission of the Splinter Group forth with Destiny Road, this two-fer offers a acceptable snapshot of the man's return. He's not the guitar god he already was, which is alone to be expected, really. And the bandage never sounds as aggressive as old Fleetwood Mac. But Splinter Group is actual serviceable, with both "Homework" and "The Stumble" comparing agreeably adjoin the originals -- although it's not consistently simple to acquaint which guitar is Green and which is accomplice Nigel Watson. Destiny Road, from 1999, showcases a added adamant unit, and a added airy Green. His guitar plan still doesn't accept the sharpness, nor the abrupt turns of yore, but it's still actual pleasant, abnormally "Madison Blues" and "Hiding in Shadows." In abounding means the simple actuality that Green was aback recording is accolade enough. And this time he doesn't complete as bent by the dejection as he was in his heyday. ~ Chris Nickson
This Recall 2 CD accumulating appearance two archetypal Splinter Group releases - 1997's self-titled admission that accustomed babble reviews and 1999's Destiny Road that boasted the aboriginal aboriginal actual from the Splinter Group and assembly by Pete Brown (Cream's lyricist). 2003.
2 LP's on 1 CD: DESTINY ROAD (1997)/SPLINTER GROUP (1999)
Recorded and Alloyed at Jacobs Studios, Farnham, Surrey.
Mastered at Complete Recording Technology.
Management:
Stuart Taylor and Michelle Reynolds
Misty Music Management
5B Camden Road
London NW1 9LG
Phone: 0171 692 3488
Fax: 0171 692 3487
E-Mail: misty@nw10ad.demon.co.uk
Website: http://www.petergreen.com
Acknowledgements:
Jamie Crompton @ Fender UK, Bob Grumitt for guitars and mandolins, Washburn UK, Peavey UK, P.S. Basses, Remo Drums and Sabian Cymbals.
Many acknowledgment to Arthur Anderson from Transmedia and all his aggregation for all their harder plan and all at Snapper Music, in accurate Nicola O'Donegan.
Designed by 9th Planet London.
Honing Their Begrimed Mid-Atlantic Sound: Splinter Group's Aboriginal Flat Albun
The absolution of this album, coincidentally, comes just three years afterwards Peter Green and Nigel Watson alien the aboriginal agency of their band, headlining the 1996 Alexis Korner Memorial Concert at Buxton. Several cadre changes and several hundred gigs afterwards the accumulation are now accessible to annex out and cover added of their own actual on this admission flat album. A agreeable hotlink is that one of the songs performed at Buxton was Nigel's "Indians" which appears on this album. In January, the bandage - forth with co-producer and allegorical Cream lyric-writer Pete Brown - spent a fortnight calm accomplishing demos of their own songs, and again a brace of months afterwards took the best (12 advance in all, including beginning arrange of Elmore James' "Madison Blues" and Stevie Winwood's "There's A River") into a 32-track studio.
Peter Green: 'After this bandage played so able-bodied calm in America, I anticipate it would accept been amiss for me or anyone abroad to hog the anthology - it's down to us all now to advance anniversary other's arena and material.'
Nigel Watson: 'The blueprint of musicians now is appealing good, and we're all authoritative this anthology with a lot of enthusiasm. Roger Cotton [ex- Johnny Johnson and The Bandwagon keyboardist and guitarist] is a able-bodied able musician, as is our new bass amateur Pete Stroud, who, accepting ahead played with us, abutting the bandage anon afore our acknowledged 2-week appointment to the States in backward summer 1998. They accomplish a acceptable foundation calm with Larry Tolfree [ex Joe Jackson and Otis Grand] who is acute to our actual and a caring bagman who hears every beat'.
Roger Cotton: 'The agreeable character of the bandage has taken a added absolute appearance now, hopefully we've been able to abduction this on some of the advance on this album. A begrimed canal that comes from our alloyed backgrounds of Blues, Soul and R&B. We never stop acquirements from the masters but we like to anticipate that our Britishness lends addition angle to the music we love, we alarm it mid-Atlantic'.
Larry Tolfree: 'I abutting the Splinter Accumulation in November '97 and accept watched it go from backbone to strength. It is a abundant advantage to be alive with Peter and like so abounding people, accompany and admirers alike, I attending advanced to the day he feels aggressive abundant to put pen to paper'.
Pete Stroud: 'Playing bass with the Splinter Accumulation on the American 98' bout was abundant fun. We've developed a new Splinter Accumulation complete which has led us assimilate this new flat album. Since my aboriginal arena canicule in New Zealand I've played this array of music, so it's actually acceptable to play in a accent area that can calmly handle the earlier actual and the newer songs that we are now alive on'.
Down At The Flat - The Producer's Take
Last night's affair concluded at 1.00am. At 10.00am the bandage associates and co-producer Pete Brown assemble in the dining room, and over breakfast they plan today's twelve or so hours flat time in this adapted estate abode set in beauteous Surrey countryside - Splinter Group's home abroad from home for the accomplished two weeks. The adjustment of this accurate day includes abacus vocals by Green and Watson; mandola and mandolin overdubs by Watson and Cotton; and a guitar allotment by Cotton on Pete Stroud's wry attending at adolescent love, "Turn Your Adulation Away". And alone 5 afar abroad from here, as adventitious would accept it, stands Benifold. The abode and ancient home flat area Fleetwood Mac mostly baffled their wounds anon afterwards Peter Green larboard the bandage in 1970 (five continued years afore the LA based Mac band up went on to beat the world). Even admitting advance on this anthology admonish us of Green's Mac days, their radically afflicted arrange do advance that abounding agreeable worlds abstracted them from the present.
Interestingly, Pete Brown says that he approached these sessions not abnormally in awe of Peter Green's recording career with Fleetwood Mac: a few years ago he researched Peter's plan from all eras afore traveling on to aftermath the "Rattlesnake Guitar" bifold CD accolade to Green.
Pete Brown: 'Working with him over the accomplished two weeks, I accept apparent Peter growing as a musician, circadian - his guitar arena in some places is actually astonishing. On "Tribal Dance" it's abundantly attenuate and in added places it leans appear the timing account of jazz, as able-bodied as cartoon from Hank Marvin and Otis Rush'.
Peter Green may not accept accounting new actual as such on this album, but what you can apprehend are his able contributions to added members' songs, area he has created new textures as able-bodied as accumulative agreeable colours from all locations of his career. Listen to his alarming dejection harp on "Burglar"; and his affiliation with Watson on "Hiding In Shadows". Listen to the abounding alloyed adventures in his activity as told by the accentuation of that voice. These are just a few illustrations of the attitude to which Pete Brown refers - growth. And so the cessation to these sleeve addendum echoes that of the aboriginal reside Splinter Accumulation album, namely, there is abundant to adore here, and abundant to attending advanced to as well.
One of the highlights of this accumulating is a admirable active blue-blooded "Hiding In Shadows", and it could be anticipation of as an apt description of this project. The allegorical accuracy of Green's aboriginal years still shines ablaze beyond the after decades but Green seems to acquisition the ablaze advertisement rather than anecdotic - he holds aback - and the bandage seems afraid to advance aback into the spotlight. There is affluence of accomplished guitar plan here, but a lot of of it is provided by Nigel Watson, with Peter Green abacus adjustment and counterpoint. Watson is a able amateur with a prononuced Mark Knopfler access - a lot of credible in "I Can't Help Myself" a addictive "soul's midnight" ballad. Producer Pete Brown (Cream, Jack Bruce) provides a bright, apple-pie soundscape - anniversary apparatus getting accustomed affluence of amplitude to be heard - accept to the breach in "Turn Your Love Away" : Roger Cotton's Hammond agency washes agitate and alloy with the guitars and harmonica creating an rolling ebb and flow. Another instrumental, a re-recording of Green's "Tribal Dance" brings this appearance to abounding accomplishment as the bandage locks into a bland groove, with Larry Tolfree's congas and bang bubbles below ablaze splashes of guitar, abracadabra images of a apathetic close river. The strengths and weaknesses of this anthology are encapsulated in one it's highlights: a startlingly beginning adjustment of Elmore James' "Madison Blues". Those accustomed with the original, or Jeremy Spencer's covers from Green's Fleetwood Mac days, would able-bodied apprehend the bandage to assuredly breach out actuality - but even with the accession of a horn section, they advance a low boil. The song never absolutely rocks - it swings, but it doesn't rock. The easygoing appearance is able-bodied ill-fitted to Green's now coriaceous buzz of a voice. This song, and a awning of Freddie King's "You'll Be Sorry Some Day" are his two best vocals here. A affable abruptness from Green is the backbone of his harp playing. Scant absorption was payed to this ancillary of his abilities in his aboriginal years, and even here, the songs are not congenital about the harp; it's acclimated like abundant of his guitar playing, to add textures and highlights to the mix and Green's arena shows absolute cautiously and control. In the end, the able arena and assembly lifts even the weaker material, "Big Change Is Gonna Come", "Heart of Stone", "Say That You Will" to aloft average, with alone "Burglar", "Indians" and a bearded attack at Steve Winwood's "There's a River" with Watson on advance vocals getting unsalvageable. Hiding at the end of the Winwood cover, unlisted a part of the song titles, is an active arrangement of Green's archetypal "Man of the World". The song's adorableness and ability are credible even after it's lyrics and it serves as a applicable coda to a backward night accumulating best accomplished with alone the aside afterglow of the stereo alms illumination.
TRACK LISTING
Track List
Big Change Is Gonna Come
Say That You Want To
Heart of Stone
You'll Be Sorry Someday
Tribal Dance
Burglar
Turn Your Love Away
Madison Blues
I Can't Help Myself
Indians
Hiding in Shadows
There's a River
Man of the World - (bonus track)
Posted by Unknown on 26th Jan 2010
Released in 1995, twelve years afterwards the endure Peter Green recording of any kind, this was a acceptable abruptness and a little prophetic: Green was activity his way aback into guitar arena the aforementioned year and would achieve a beauteous improvement in 1996. It's a alloyed bag but contains some agitating takes on Green originals, including:
the backward Rory Gallagher assuming 'Leaving Town' and 'Show-biz Blues'
Larry McCray's superheated 'Black Magic Woman'
Mick Abrahams' cautiously adorable 'The Aforementioned Way'
Naked Blue's barter of 'Closing my Eyes'
Ian Anderson's aerial adaptation of 'Man of the World'
Harvey Mandel's takes on 'Ramblin Pony' and 'Long Grey Mare'
Paul Jones and others animated recasting of 'Albatross'
It's mostly a applicable accolade produced by above Jack Bruce songwriting accomplice Pete Brown.
Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Black Magic Woman - Larry McCray
2. Love That Burns - Lonesome Dave Peverett, Rod Price
3. Stop Messin' 'Round - Savoy Brown, Kim Simmonds
4. Looking for Somebody - Snow White, Snowy White
5. Crying Won't Bring You Back - Luther Grosvenor, Mike Kellie, Jess Roden
6. Leaving Town Blues - Rory Gallagher
7. If You Be My Baby - Lonesome Dave Peverett, Rod Price
8. Ramblin' Pony - Wilbur Bascomb, Sr., Wilbur Bascomb, Jr., Wilber Bascombe, Harvey Mandel
9. Green Manalishi - Arthur Brown
10. Hellbound on My Trail - Ken Hensley
11. I Loved Another Woman - Jay Aston, Larry Mitchell
12. Same Way - Mick Abrahams
13. Drifting - Jim McCarty, Top Topham
14. Supernatural - Clas Yngstrom
15. Man of the World - Ian Anderson
Disc: 2
1. Oh Well - Billy Sheehan
2. Rattlesnake Shake - Vince Converse, Innes Sibun
3. Fleetwood Mac - Stuart Hamm, Larry Mitchell, Jonathan Mover
4. Wathcha Gonna Do - Zoot Money, Bob Tench
5. Showbiz Blues - Rory Gallagher
6. Merry Go Round - Luther Grosvenor, Mike Kellie
7. Albatross - Max Middleton, Bob Tench
8. Closing My Eyes - Naked Blue
9. Evil Woman Blues - Ray Gomez
10. Lazy Poker Blues - Troy Turner
11. Watch Out - Harvey Mandel, Jon Paris
12. Long Grey Mare - Wilbur Bascomb, Jr., Wilber Bascombe, Harvey Mandel
13. Fool No More - Kim Lembo
14. Baby When the Sun Goes Down - Southside Johnny, Uptown Horns
Posted by Wikipedia on 19th Jan 2010
Peter Green (born Peter Allen Greenbaum, 29 October 1946, in Bethnal Green, London) is a British blues-rock guitarist and architect of the bandage Fleetwood Mac.
A above amount and bandleader in the "second abundant epoch" of the British dejection movement, Green aggressive B. B. King to say, "He has the sweetest accent I anytime heard; he was the alone one who gave me the algid sweats." Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page accept both acclaimed his guitar arena as well. Green's arena was apparent with "idiomatic cord angle and vibrato and abridgement of style. Though he played added guitars, he is best accepted for anticipation a different accent from his 1959 Gibson Les Paul.
Green was ranked 38th in Rolling Stone's account of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." His accent on the seminal song "The Super-Natural" was hailed as one of the 50 greatest of all time by Guitar Player.
Background information:
Birth name: Peter Allen Greenbaum
Born: 29 October 1946 (1946-10-29) (age 63)
in Bethnal Green, London
Origin: London, England
Genres: Blues-rock, blues, rock, hard rock
Occupations: Musician, songwriter
Instruments: Guitar, vocals, harmonica
Years active: 1966 - present
Labels: Epic, Reprise, PVK, Creole
Associated acts: John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green Splinter Group, Gass