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If you can track one down without having to pay stupid money (over 300 €, used, on Amazon.fr), this is a great 8-CD box set of four shows Rory played on a tour of Ireland. I bought it for a whole lot less when it was released.
John Altman, Peter Green, Sanderson 'Top' Topham 1970 (Top - first Yardbirds guitarist has passed)
Altman on gigging with Peter Green in 1970-71: "There was always something extra special about Peter Green. Something that set him apart from the other guitar heroes of the late sixties – Hendrix, Clapton, Beck and Page. Something that hit a nerve in B.B. King, Carlos Santana, and Barney Kessel and resonated with many fans who first came to his playing via John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and the early incarnation of Fleetwood Mac. It was very hard to define – something other-worldly, spiritual, an extra dimension maybe – but we all sensed and felt it. Around 1969 Fleetwood Mac, who had been another (albeit excellent) blues band on the London scene, suddenly 'upped their game' and began evolving at a rapid pace. Tracks like 'Black Magic Woman', 'Albatross', 'Oh Well', 'Green Manalishi' were quite unlike the output of any other band. Blues, psychedelia, jazz, new age – all were present, but in a radically different form. And the driving force appeared to be Peter Green. We had heard rumours (if you'll pardon the pun) that all was not well within the Fleetwood Mac camp. Peter and Danny weren't getting on, he was thinking of changing musical direction, and then he announced he was leaving the band in May 1970. So when we invited him to Sussex University in Brighton, England to jam and hang out at a Benefit Concert for Timothy Leary and the underground paper 'Mole' and got the word back that he was definitely coming, we were cautiously optimistic that something memorable might happen. But we were totally unprepared for the magic that ensued. Peter arrived in mid afternoon and enjoyed the whole atmosphere of the festival. Around 8 p.m. he found himself in a small debating chamber in the University main building where a bunch of people had been creating a complex rhythmic farrago of drums, bottles, cans and anything else that could make a noise for the best part of an hour. The atmosphere was already intense as Peter plugged in a guitar. I assembled my various horns, bottleneck guitar virtuoso Sammy Mitchell (later to play the famous bottleneck solo on 'Maggie May' by Rod Stewart) and Traffic's drummer Jim Capaldi materialized from nowhere, and the whole ensemble magically joined in with the intense percussion. Eight hours later we were STILL playing ! Borne on a wave of euphoria that none of us, including Peter, had ever experienced before. Looking back today, it's still impossible to put into words exactly what that music sounded like. Peter was enthused enough to want to do it again and we did three more gigs at various venues around London, before an emergency call had him returning to Fleetwood Mac to fill in for Jeremy Spencer who had disappeared with a cult. Then we started to hear disturbing tales about Peter's mental state. The stories became more frequent and more bizarre, and tragically Peter has never fully recovered. But we still had the memories of those wonderful gigs that everyone who attended remembers vividly to this day."
Altman on gigging with Peter Green in 1970-71: "There was always something extra special about Peter Green. Something that set him apart from the other guitar heroes of the late sixties – Hendrix, Clapton, Beck and Page. Something that hit a nerve in B.B. King, Carlos Santana, and Barney Kessel and resonated with many fans who first came to his playing via John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and the early incarnation of Fleetwood Mac. It was very hard to define – something other-worldly, spiritual, an extra dimension maybe – but we all sensed and felt it. Around 1969 Fleetwood Mac, who had been another (albeit excellent) blues band on the London scene, suddenly 'upped their game' and began evolving at a rapid pace. Tracks like 'Black Magic Woman', 'Albatross', 'Oh Well', 'Green Manalishi' were quite unlike the output of any other band. Blues, psychedelia, jazz, new age – all were present, but in a radically different form. And the driving force appeared to be Peter Green. We had heard rumours (if you'll pardon the pun) that all was not well within the Fleetwood Mac camp. Peter and Danny weren't getting on, he was thinking of changing musical direction, and then he announced he was leaving the band in May 1970. So when we invited him to Sussex University in Brighton, England to jam and hang out at a Benefit Concert for Timothy Leary and the underground paper 'Mole' and got the word back that he was definitely coming, we were cautiously optimistic that something memorable might happen. But we were totally unprepared for the magic that ensued. Peter arrived in mid afternoon and enjoyed the whole atmosphere of the festival. Around 8 p.m. he found himself in a small debating chamber in the University main building where a bunch of people had been creating a complex rhythmic farrago of drums, bottles, cans and anything else that could make a noise for the best part of an hour. The atmosphere was already intense as Peter plugged in a guitar. I assembled my various horns, bottleneck guitar virtuoso Sammy Mitchell (later to play the famous bottleneck solo on 'Maggie May' by Rod Stewart) and Traffic's drummer Jim Capaldi materialized from nowhere, and the whole ensemble magically joined in with the intense percussion. Eight hours later we were STILL playing ! Borne on a wave of euphoria that none of us, including Peter, had ever experienced before. Looking back today, it's still impossible to put into words exactly what that music sounded like. Peter was enthused enough to want to do it again and we did three more gigs at various venues around London, before an emergency call had him returning to Fleetwood Mac to fill in for Jeremy Spencer who had disappeared with a cult. Then we started to hear disturbing tales about Peter's mental state. The stories became more frequent and more bizarre, and tragically Peter has never fully recovered. But we still had the memories of those wonderful gigs that everyone who attended remembers vividly to this day."
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Ellis Auditorium, Memphis, Tennessee April 18 1969
Boz Burrell
By himself and with Robert Fripp in an early incarnation of King Crimson.
By himself and with Robert Fripp in an early incarnation of King Crimson.
Lynda Kay
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