4.‘Jumping at Shadows (Live in Boston)’
Talent is one thing, but knowing how to deploy it is another matter entirely. With this version of Duster Bennett’s classic song, Green shows dances emotion softly upon the strings. He doesn’t blitz through the bars, he simply plays them as they come, adding intonation were needed to paint a musical picture. 

He was only 23 years of age when this was recorded, but already he clearly had enough musical ability to be able to leave some in the tank when there’s no need to be speeding. During the live set, he crafts a scintillating sound that wails and whispers alike.
 

 

3. ‘The Green Manalashi (With The Two Prong Crown)’
‘The Green Manalashi (With The Two Prong Crown)’ is the perfect paradigm of the highs and lows that Peter Green endured in Fleetwood Mac embodied in one song. It displays imaginative excellence, technical proficiency, and yet the Mescaline-induced delusion that inspired it hints at a darker undertone that comes out in the music that he and Danny Kirwan crafted.

The fact that this song later became a staple for Judas Priest and Melvins, shows the underlying proto-metal tones of the band in the 1960s. The song is a swirl of musical genres, cutting the whispy <deleted> of some of the more aloof elements of psychedelia out of the picture and relishing in seeing what you could do with it. The track is never boring and always very listenable fun.

 

 

 

2. ‘Oh Well, Part 1’
‘Oh Well Part 1’ is another track composed by Peter Green, and once more, it shows off his guitar bravura with epic aplomb. On the surface, the song is turbocharged blues music, but it is so fast and frenzied that calling it “blues” is like comparing a horse with a car. 

Now, the song resides as a Promethean piece of music that in some ways heralded the forthcoming wave of heavy metal. With call and response vocals and an intricate syncopated ascending chromatic, there is a lot of ‘Oh Well Part 1’ in many songs that followed, and Green’s subtly innovative guitar work is at the heart of that.

I added Part 2 as to me the two are inseparable.
 

 

1. ‘Albatross’
Produced by Peter Green, this guitar-led track is probably one of the most famous instrumentals of all time. While it doesn’t often appear on the band’s Greatest Hits compilations, there’s no other track like it. And there’s no better representation of where and how the band started and the vibrancy of inspiration they dished out to their contemporaries, with The Beatles famously riffing on the track in their latter stages.

Imitating the aura of the seaside, Mick Fleetwood’s drum-playing is a sloshing lull of contentment, which Peter Green compliments with a tour de force guitar piece that sounds like a gathering sonic storm. The result is a thrilling day out that couples expert musicianship with cleverly crafted artistry. Dynamic phrasing, refined tone and imaginative unison bends are all deployed with such artistic intent that the track resides amid the greatest lessons in guitar playing that music has ever doled out.
 

 

And in later years a live 2003 show with the Peter Green Splinter Group.

I rest my case.
 

 

10 hours ago, jvs said:

 

A very nice Alvin Lee piece there, jvs.  

Australian music duo from Melbourne, Dead Can Dance, with Ocean off of their eponymously titled '84 debut.

 

 

Alvin Lee takes his turn on something with a lit more drive with Ain't Nothin' Shakin' from the Night Of The Guitars extravaganza at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on Nov. 26, '88.
 

 

I do not remember if i have posted this in the past but if we are talking great guitar players

we need to talk SRV.

Not a whole song but just a little sound check will do.

 

 

 

Exhilarating guitar playing in the above posts, gentlemen.The best of the internet, being introduced to new material , in whatever form,  one has never come across before. Thank you jvs and Tippers.

Garcia pulling at the heart strings.

 

 

 

 

What aboot those Canadians eh?This is not my favorite song by them but just to show

the sheer talent these guys have.

 

 

13 hours ago, jvs said:

I do not remember if i have posted this in the past but if we are talking great guitar players

we need to talk SRV.

Not a whole song but just a little sound check will do.

 

The fact that SRV's sound check has nearly 21M views on YT says it all. I posted this a while ago.

 

https://youtu.be/QJeUya6i3cM

How can we talk about the past and not think about now and the future?

A lot of music legends have died and many people complain about the lack of

good new music.Is there any?

Lots!!!!

SRV,BB King,Gary Moore,the list goes on but while we keep listening to them a new generation is waiting for their turn to become a legend.

Here is a new blues legend,

 

20 hours ago, bannork said:

Exhilarating guitar playing in the above posts, gentlemen.The best of the internet, being introduced to new material , in whatever form,  one has never come across before. Thank you jvs and Tippers.

Give yerself a big slap on the back, too, bannork.  

Here is more!

 

Who's interested in train songs?  There are endless songs to choose from.

Gotta start with Elvis and his first big hit which cemented him as a bona fide country artist.  Mystery Train, written and recorded in '53 by Junior Parker, was recorded in '55.  Scotty Moore on lead guitar, and Bill Black on bass.  Moore used a country lead break and fingerstyle picking, with a touch of slapback echo.

 

 

Just now, Tippaporn said:

Who's interested in train songs?  There are endless songs to choose from.

Gotta start with Elvis and his first big hit which cemented him as a bona fide country artist.  Mystery Train, written and recorded in '53 by Junior Parker, was recorded in '55.  Scotty Moore on lead guitar, and Bill Black on bass.  Moore used a country lead break and fingerstyle picking, with a touch of slapback echo.

 

 

 

Jerry Garcia & David Grisman playing an entirely alternate version of the Grateful Dead's '70 Casey Jones tune which shares only the title.  Recorded between '90 & '93 and released on the '96 Shady Grove album.

 

 

Since I mentioned Grateful Dead and Casey Jones then here it be.  Off of their '70 Workingman's Dead LP.

 

 

The Charlie Daniels Band most excellent version of Ervin T. Rouse's '38 Orange Blossom Special, aka the Fiddler Player's National Anthem.  Off of their '74 Fire On The Mountain album.
 

 

Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart's Last Train To Clarksville by the Monkees off of their '66 self-titled debut.
 

 

Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs' '67 B-side single cover of Last Train To Clarksville.  For those who enjoy a bit of twang in the guitar.
 

 

Gordon Lightfoot with Canadian Railroad Trilogy off of his '67 The Way I Feel LP.

 

 

First recorded in Jan. '46 by Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five the enduring swing classic Choo Choo Ch' Boogie performed live at the Ryman Auditorium in '97 by The Manhattan Transfer.
 

 

Choo Choo Ch'Boogie is a standard by one of the best western swing bands ever, Asleep At The Wheel.  Off of their '79 Served Live LP.
 

 

Vashti Bunyan's sad and beautiful '66 single Train Song.
 

 

Tom Waits with Downtown Train off of his '85 Rain Dogs LP.