Peter Green on BBC 4

mike65

Just a heads up

Peter Green: Man of the World
The story of the blues performer, who found fame in the 1960s as the lead guitarist of Fleetwood Mac, but left the public stage for years as he battled drug addiction and mental illness. Featuring archive footage and interviews with Noel Gallagher, Carlos Santana, his former bandmates and the musician himself. Part of Blues Britannia
Category General Arts/Culture
Director Steve Graham
Producer Justin Ardalan-Raikes, Dougie Dudgeon, Henry Haddaway
Writer Steve Graham
BBC4 9:30pm-11:00pm (1 hour 30 minutes) Fri 8 May

damonjewel

Brilliant, Thanks for that!

mike65

Awesome! Wonderful talent and such a nice fella, real pity what happened and indeed why it happened - talent to burn but not getting him to where he wanted to be.

randy lug

yeah it was a really cool documentary, great guitarist

RonMexico

Saw the Peter Green Splinter Group in U.L. a few years ago, brilliant show and I met the man afterwards and got his autograph.

mike65

bump this on again tonight at 9 pm BBC4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTvKaLW5bu8

RayCon

Very good documentary - well worth a look

Nailz

Saw it myself, oddly enough I've been binging on the old Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac blues records for the last couple of weeks and the documentary just ended up falling into place at the right time. Great to see it, huge fan for a while, seen him in the Olympia last summer too, great gig, could've went to the Holloween gig at the Academy in 2009 but it was more of a last minute plan than anything else so I didn't bother, but my dad did. Dragonfly and Oh Well are up the with some of my favourites.

*points at sig*

Kristopherus

Its on again at 1.30am

big b

Went to see him in Galway last year.

But he wasn't really there.


His rhythm guitarist/vocalist carried the show almost the entire night for him. (sorry guy, can't remember your name, but you were pretty good)

Peter smiled a bit, moved his mic stand 350 times, mumbled something incoherent about Dylan and played a passable version of Albatross.

saddened me more than anything else, loved his music

Nailz

He has his good and bad days to be honest. My father told me the Holloween 2009 show was a good show for him. Didn't really speak as much, but played quite a bit. The time I saw him he wasn't there for the first three songs, wasn't entirely happy with his guitar and kept on trying to retune it, after the road crew changed his guitar he was dandy.

Played what he could and made me smile by going from "Oh Well Part 1" straight into "Albatross", which was rather magical. Had a friend who went to see him in Cork and said Peter was in a simular humour to that. It varies I think.

big b

fair comment, nailz.

We might've just been an unlucky audience that night. He seemed in good enough humour, but he was being totally carried by his side man.
I've since read reviews of similar experiences to mine, but I'm happy to accept he had good nights too.

Nailz

Ah yes, but you should never really expect much from that gig to be honest, sure all things considering Peter Green had been suffering from a serious mental illness throughout the 70's and 80's, I know he's only 64, but he looks a lot older than that. I can't say that I expected him to be standing up and having good conversations with the front row.

Basically, what I got from the show was all I expected and more, I saw one of the best British Rhythm and Blues guitarists of all time, a true legend, playing some really good blues.

Grid.

Nailz wrote: »

Ah yes, but you should never really expect much from that gig to be honest, sure all things considering Peter Green had been suffering from a serious mental illness throughout the 70's and 80's, I know he's only 64, but he looks a lot older than that. I can't say that I expected him to be standing up and having good conversations with the front row.

Basically, what I got from the show was all I expected and more, I saw one of the best British Rhythm and Blues guitarists of all time, a true legend, playing some really good blues.

Yeah thats pretty much the way he is these days, I seen him in the Village back in the late 90's and he was quite subdued, Nigel Watson and Neil Murray
had to prop him up at times to stop him falling over , was a really good gig though and great to be so close to a guitar legend!!;)

PeterIanStaker

I saw this and I thought it was fascinating and also very sad, Green is a hugely talented guy, and I love Fleetwood Mac, I also must get some more of his stuff.