yeah. i love this record. maybe it's not quite as perfect as, say, live evil. but it does share that moody psych-fusion vibe that miles was working out. the bass and drums on this record really groove. when it comes to peter green, i dig his original stuff. i'm not so into the blues. another jam is the whole series of Mac live at the boston tea party.
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Saturday, 3 February 2007 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link
this record killlllls. i think more great guitarists of the classic rock age should've just ditched the whole "songwriting" thing and jammed out a bunch of records like this. like the whole thing sounds like the band dropped acid, listened to bitches brew, plugged in and told the engineer to roll tape.
― tylerw, Saturday, 23 July 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
also it has the best album cover everhttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXykZrwLTzU/S_-mwownquI/AAAAAAAAAG8/nexGlcwpnQ8/s400/Peter+Green+-+The+End+Of+The+Game+-+Front.jpg
― tylerw, Saturday, 23 July 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
just going to revive this thread annually to say "best album ever"
― tylerw, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
It's been a while since I listened to it, time to dig it out. I was just listening to a Fleetwood Mac "Greatest Hits" from the early era that has a bunch of singles on it. "Albatross" is so gorgeous.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
that is a raaad cover
― just sayin, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
Bottoms up pppp!!!!
― yuoowemeone, Friday, 28 February 2020 12:22 (four years ago) link
this is getting a reissue I believe I just read. It's a great album.
― akm, Friday, 28 February 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
RIP one of the great British guitar players
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 July 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
The best, imo. From tone to playing, he sounded naturally and uniquely gifted. No cheese.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 25 July 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link
Have never heard this album, must rectify that. I'm not generally one for superstar guitarists but he was a special one.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 July 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link
he had a great sensitivity in his playingthere is a great melancholy that hangs over everything he did, one of those artists that's hard to explainwhy is he different than Clapton? I guess I couldn't tell you, other than this *otherness* that Green had, where Clapton is inert
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 July 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
Seemed like a sensitive soul. Eric Clapton does not seem like a sensitive soul.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 July 2020 22:56 (three years ago) link
just read that allmusic review mentioned in the op, sheesh.
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Sunday, 26 July 2020 03:47 (three years ago) link
RIP peter green.
you can hear he already had a vision early on, during his work with john mayall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKn-0zEcRYI
and just listen to his contributions to this gass tune, which without him would be just a pretty good marriott-esque workout. he really had a unique sensitivity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvvqlTbgoMg
"the end of the game" is underrated and unfairly dismissed as just some throwaway blues jam, fuck that review for sure + tylerw otm upthread. there are also worthwhile moments on pretty much every peter green solo record from the brief period he was active in the late '70s and early '80s, from JJ cale-esque boogie jams to more contemplative instrumental stuff. like for what it is, this is pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFcE2v6-8S4
it wasn't until just today that i read he was around for the "tusk" sessions; you can hear him towards the end of "brown eyes" just as the song is starting to fade.
― budo jeru, Sunday, 26 July 2020 05:45 (three years ago) link
IIRC, his Tusk involvement was part of a failed plan by Mick Fleetwood to Green a deal with Warner's or something.
I saw too that he's on "Night Watch" from Penguin, and he also filled in on part of a '71 Mac tour after Jeremy Spencer left.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 26 July 2020 06:07 (three years ago) link
Good singer too.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 July 2020 09:18 (three years ago) link
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain)
yeah, i have a tape from that era; it's interesting to hear him dueting with kirwan on "the purple dancer", which was written and released after green's departure (and is the b-side of my favorite fleetwood mac release ever)
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 26 July 2020 09:19 (three years ago) link
well, since this is 2020, here's a link to that performance!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etBRc_RUZx4
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 26 July 2020 09:40 (three years ago) link
(note that the video's saying that green is playing "faintly in the background" is an artifact of the soundboard mix; my recording is a stereo audience tape and green is fully present and accounted for.)
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 26 July 2020 09:43 (three years ago) link
― yuoowemeone, Friday, February 28, 2020 7:22 AM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Sunday, 26 July 2020 12:51 (three years ago) link
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 27 July 2020 05:20 (three years ago) link
So sad, probably his most famous song but most people associate it with someone else:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRu7Pt42x6Y
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 27 July 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
this rules — just wish it kept going!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPFEi2bIoy0
― tylerw, Monday, 27 July 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
wow, what a great clip
― budo jeru, Monday, 27 July 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
He was definitely moving in an interesting direction in the early 70s.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 27 July 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
xpost I think his most famous song is probably Black Magic Woman but that's also associated with someone else
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 27 July 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
that's what i wrote...
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 27 July 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
Not true in the UK, "Albatross" is far more well known.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 27 July 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link