Peter Green

Peter Green (born Peter Allen Greenbaum, 29 October 1946 – 25 July 2020) was an English blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. 

As the founder of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Green's songs, such as "Albatross", "Black Magic Woman", "Oh Well", "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" and "Man of the World", appeared on singles charts, and several have been adapted by a variety of musicians.

Green was a major figure in the "second great epoch" of the British blues movement. B.B. King commented, "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats." Eric Clapton praised his guitar playing; he was noted for his use of string bending, vibrato, and economy of style.

Rolling Stone ranked Green at number 58 in its list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". His tone on the instrumental "The Super-Natural" was rated as one of the 50 greatest of all time by Guitar Player. In June 1996, Green was voted the third-best guitarist of all time in Mojo magazine.

Career

Early years

Peter Allen Greenbaum was born in Bethnal Green, London, on 29 October 1946, into a Jewish family, the youngest of Joe and Ann Greenbaum's four children. His brother, Michael, taught him his first guitar chords and by the age of eleven Green was teaching himself. He began playing professionally by the age of fifteen, whilst working for a number of East London shipping companies. He first played bass guitar in a band called Bobby Dennis and the Dominoes, which performed pop chart covers and rock 'n' roll standards, including Shadows covers. He later stated that Hank Marvin was his guitar hero and he played The Shadows' song Midnight on the 1996 tribute album "Twang." He went on to join a rhythm and blues outfit, the Muskrats, then a band called The Tridents in which he played bass. By Christmas 1965 Green was playing lead guitar in Peter Bardens' band "Peter B's Looners", where he met drummer Mick Fleetwood. It was with Peter B's Looners that he made his recording début with the single "If You Wanna Be Happy" with "Jodrell Blues" as a B-side. His recording of "If You Wanna Be Happy" was an instrumental cover of a song by Jimmy Soul.

John Mayall's Bluesbreakers

In October 1965, before joining Bardens' group, Green had the opportunity to fill in for Eric Clapton in John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers for four gigs. Soon afterwards, when Clapton left the Bluesbreakers, Green became a full-time member of Mayall's band from July 1966.

Mike Vernon, a producer at Decca Records recalls Green's début with the Bluesbreakers:

As the band walked in the studio I noticed an amplifier which I never saw before, so I said to John Mayall, "Where's Eric Clapton?" Mayall answered, "He's not with us anymore, he left us a few weeks ago." I was in a shock of state [sic] but Mayall said, "Don't worry, we got someone better." I said, "Wait a minute, hang on a second, this is ridiculous. You've got someone better? Than Eric Clapton?" John said, "He might not be better now, but you wait, in a couple of years he's going to be the best." Then he introduced me to Peter Green.

Green made his recording debut with the Bluesbreakers in 1966 on the album A Hard Road (1967), which featured two of his own compositions, "The Same Way" and "The Supernatural". The latter was one of Green's first instrumentals, which would soon become a trademark. So proficient was he that his musician friends bestowed upon him the nickname "The Green God". In 1967, Green decided to form his own blues band and left the Bluesbreakers.

Fleetwood Mac

Green's new band, with former Bluesbreaker Mick Fleetwood on drums and Jeremy Spencer on guitar, was initially called "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac featuring Jeremy Spencer". Bob Brunning was temporarily employed on bass guitar, as Green's first choice, Bluesbreakers' bassist John McVie, was not yet ready to join the band. Within a month they played at the Windsor National Jazz and Blues Festival in August 1967 and were quickly signed to Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon label. Their repertoire consisted mainly of blues covers and originals, mostly written by Green, but some were written by slide guitarist Jeremy Spencer. The band's first single, Spencer's "I Believe My Time Ain't Long" with Green's "Rambling Pony" as a B-side, did not chart but their eponymous debut album made a significant impression, remaining in the British charts for over a year. By September 1967, John McVie had replaced Brunning.

Although classic blues covers and blues-styled originals remained prominent in the band's repertoire through this period, Green rapidly blossomed as a songwriter and contributed many successful original compositions from 1968 onwards. The songs chosen for single release showed Green's style gradually moving away from the group's blues roots into new musical territory. Their second studio album Mr. Wonderful was released in 1968 and continued the formula of the first album. In the same year they scored a hit with Green's "Black Magic Woman" (later covered by Santana), followed by the guitar instrumental "Albatross" (1969), which reached number one in the British singles charts. More hits written by Green followed, including "Oh Well", "Man of the World" (both 1969) and the ominous "The Green Manalishi" (1970). The double album Blues Jam in Chicago (1969) was recorded at the Chess Records Ter-Mar Studio in Chicago. There, under the joint supervision of Vernon and Marshall Chess, they recorded with some of their American blues heroes including Otis Spann, Big Walter Horton, Willie Dixon, J. T. Brown and Buddy Guy.

In 1969, after signing to Immediate Records for one single ("Man of the World", prior to that label's collapse) the group signed with Warner Bros. Records' Reprise Records label and recorded their third studio album Then Play On, prominently featuring the group's new third guitarist, 18-year-old Danny Kirwan. Green had first seen Kirwan in 1967 playing with his blues trio Boilerhouse, with Trevor Stevens on bass and Dave Terrey on drums. Green was impressed with Kirwan's playing and used the band as a support act for Fleetwood Mac before recruiting Kirwan to his own band in 1968 at the suggestion of Mick Fleetwood. Spencer, however, made virtually no contribution to Then Play On, owing to his reported refusal to play on any of Green's original material.

Beginning with "Man of the World"'s melancholy lyric, Green's bandmates began to notice changes in his state of mind. He was taking large doses of LSD, grew a beard and began to wear robes and a crucifix. Mick Fleetwood recalls Green becoming concerned about accumulating wealth: "I had conversations with Peter Green around that time and he was obsessive about us not making money, wanting us to give it all away. And I'd say, 'Well you can do it, I don't wanna do that, and that doesn't make me a bad person.'"

While touring Europe in late March 1970, Green took LSD at a party at a commune in Munich, an incident cited by Fleetwood Mac manager Clifford Davis as the crucial point in his mental decline. Communard Rainer Langhans mentions in his autobiography that he and Uschi Obermaier met Green in Munich, where they invited him to their Highfisch-Kommune. Fleetwood Mac roadie Dinky Dawson remembers that Green went to the party with another roadie, Dennis Keane, and that when Keane returned to the band's hotel to explain that Green would not leave the commune, Keane, Dawson and Mick Fleetwood travelled there to fetch him. By contrast, Green stated that he had fond memories of jamming at the commune when speaking in 2009: "I had a good play there, it was great, someone recorded it, they gave me a tape. There were people playing along, a few of us just fooling around and it was... yeah it was great." He told Jeremy Spencer at the time "That's the most spiritual music I've ever recorded in my life." After a final performance on 20 May 1970, Green left Fleetwood Mac.

After Fleetwood Mac

On 27 June 1970 Green appeared at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music with John Mayall, Rod Mayall (organ), Ric Grech (bass) and Aynsley Dunbar (drums). In that same year he recorded a jam session with drummer Godfrey Maclean, keyboardists Zoot Money and Nick Buck, and bassist Alex Dmochowski of The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation; Reprise Records released the session as The End of the Game, Peter's first post-Fleetwood Mac solo album. Also soon after leaving Fleetwood Mac, Green accompanied former bandmate keyboardist Peter Bardens (Peter B's Looners) on Bardens' solo LP The Answer, playing lead guitar on several tracks. In 1971, he had a brief reunion with Fleetwood Mac, helping them to complete a U.S. tour after guitarist Jeremy Spencer had left the group, performing under the pseudonym Peter Blue. He recorded two tracks for the album Juju with Bobby Tench's band Gass, followed by a solo single, one with Nigel Watson, sessions with B. B. King in London in 1972 and an uncredited appearance on Fleetwood Mac's Penguin LP in 1973, on the song "Night Watch". At this time, Green's mental illness and drug use had become entrenched and he faded into professional obscurity.

Illness and first re-emergence

Green was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent time in psychiatric hospitals undergoing electroconvulsive therapy during the mid-1970s. Many sources attest to his lethargic, trancelike state during this period. 

In 1977, Green was arrested for threatening his accountant David Simmons with a shotgun. The exact circumstances are the subject of much speculation, the most famous being that Green wanted Simmons to stop sending money to him. In the 2011 BBC documentary Peter Green: Man of the World, Green stated that at the time he had just returned from Canada needing money and that, during a telephone conversation with his accounts manager, he alluded to the fact that he had brought back a gun from his travels. His accounts manager promptly called the police, who surrounded Green's house.

In 1979, Green began to re-emerge professionally. With the help of his brother Michael, he was signed to Peter Vernon-Kell's PVK label, and produced a string of solo albums starting with 1979's In the Skies. He also made an uncredited appearance on Fleetwood Mac's double album Tusk, on the song "Brown Eyes", released the same year.

In 1981, Green contributed to "Rattlesnake Shake" and "Super Brains" on Mick Fleetwood's solo album The Visitor. He recorded various sessions with a number of other musicians notably the Katmandu album A Case for the Blues with Ray Dorset of Mungo Jerry, Vincent Crane from The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Len Surtees of The Nashville Teens. Despite attempts by Gibson Guitar Corporation to start talks about producing a "Peter Green signature Les Paul" guitar, Green's instrument of choice at this time was a Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion guitar. In 1986 Peter and his brother Micky contributed to the album A Touch of Sunburn by Lawrie 'The Raven' Gaines (under the group name 'The Enemy Within'). This album has been re-issued many times under such titles as "Post Modern Blues" and "Peter Green and Mick Green – Two Greens Make a Blues", often crediting Pirates guitarist Mick Green.

In 1988 Green was quoted as saying: "I'm at present recuperating from treatment for taking drugs. It was drugs that influenced me a lot. I took more than I intended to. I took LSD eight or nine times. The effect of that stuff lasts so long.... I wanted to give away all my money.... I went kind of holy – no, not holy, religious. I thought I could do it, I thought I was all right on drugs. My failing!" 

In the early 2000s there were rumours of a reunion of the early line-up of Fleetwood Mac, involving Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer. The two guitarists and vocalists were apparently unconvinced of the merits of such a project, but in April 2006, during a question-and-answer session on the Penguin Fleetwood Mac fan website, bassist John McVie said of the reunion idea:

If we could get Peter and Jeremy to do it, I'd probably, maybe, do it. I know Mick would do it in a flash. Unfortunately, I don't think there's much chance of Danny doing it. Bless his heart.

On 25 February 2020 an all-star tribute concert was performed at the London Palladium, billed as "Mick Fleetwood and Friends Tribute to Peter Green". The Guitar World review said Green himself was not in attendance and possibly unaware of the event, but was presumed well.

Peter Green Splinter Group

Green formed the Peter Green Splinter Group in the late 1990s, with the assistance of Nigel Watson and Cozy Powell. The Splinter Group released nine albums between 1997 and 2004.

Early in 2004, a tour was cancelled and the recording of a new studio album stopped when Green left the band and moved to Sweden. Shortly thereafter he signed on to a tour with The British Blues All Stars scheduled for the following year. The tour was cancelled, however, after the death of saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith. At the time, Green stated that the medication he was taking to treat his psychological problems was making it hard for him to concentrate and sapped his desire to play guitar.[citation needed]

In February 2009, Green began playing and touring again, this time as Peter Green and Friends. In May 2009 he was the subject of the BBC Four documentary "Peter Green: Man of the World", produced by Henry Hadaway. Green and the band subsequently played a tour of Ireland, Germany and England. They went on to play several dates in Australia during March 2010, including the Byron Bay Bluesfest. The band were supported by singer-songwriter Garron Frith on their UK tour dates during May 2010.

Playing style and song writing

Green has been praised for his swinging shuffle grooves and soulful phrases and favoured the minor mode and its darker blues implications. His distinct tone can be heard on "The Supernatural", an instrumental written by Green for John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers' 1967 album A Hard Road. This song demonstrates Green's control of harmonic feedback. The sound is characterised by a shivering vibrato, clean cutting tones and a series of ten-second sustained notes. These tones were achieved by Green controlling feedback on a Les Paul guitar.

Equipment

Early in his career, Green played a Harmony Meteor, an inexpensive hollow-body guitar. He began playing a Gibson Les Paul with the Peter B's, a guitar which was often referred to as his "magic guitar". Though he played other guitars, he is best known for deriving a unique tone from his 1959 Les Paul. Green later sold it to Northern Irish guitarist Gary Moore for all the money Moore could get by selling his Gibson SG guitar. Green had bought the guitar after his first spell with Mayall but before joining the Peter B's, for £114 from Selmers in Charing Cross Road. In 2016, Kirk Hammett of Metallica bought the guitar for a reported 2 million USD. Hammet has stated that he actually paid quite a bit less than $1m for it, being in the right place when the guy who was selling it needed some cash.

In the 1990s, Green played a 1960s Fender Stratocaster and a Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion model, using Fender Blues DeVille and Vox AC30 amplifiers. Towards the very end of his playing days, the Gibson ES-165 saw more use.

Influence

Many rock guitarists have cited Green as an influence, including Gary Moore, Joe Perry of Aerosmith and Andy Powell of Wishbone Ash, and more recently, Noel Gallagher and Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood. Green was The Black Crowes' Rich Robinson's pick in Guitar World's "30 on 30: The Greatest Guitarists Picked by the Greatest Guitarists" (2010). In the same article Robinson cites Jimmy Page, with whom the Crowes toured: "he told us so many Peter Green stories. It was clear that Jimmy loves the man's talent". Green's songs have been recorded by artists such as Santana, Aerosmith, Status Quo, Black Crowes, Midge Ure, Tom Petty, Judas Priest and Gary Moore, who recorded Blues for Greeny, an album of Green compositions.

Personal life

Enduring periods of mental illness and destitution throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Green moved in with his older brother Len and Len's wife Gloria, and his mother in their house in Great Yarmouth, where a process of recovery began.

Green married Jane Samuels in January 1978; the couple divorced in 1979. They had a daughter, Rosebud (born 1978)y.

Green lived on Canvey Island in Essex after leaving Fleetwood Mac.

Death

On 25 July 2020, it was announced by the family solicitors that Green had died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 73.

Solo albums

• The End of the Game (1970)
• In the Skies (1979)
• Little Dreamer (1980)
• Whatcha Gonna Do? (1981)
• White Sky (1982)
• Kolors (1983)
• A Case for the Blues (with Katmandu) (1984)

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This is a discography for Peter Green, the founder and original lead guitarist of Fleetwood Mac in the late 1960s. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, he enjoyed a brief solo career, before further success in the late 1990s with the Peter Green Splinter Group.

With Fleetwood Mac

Singles

• "I Believe My Time Ain’t Long" / "Rambling Pony" (1967)
• "Shake Your Moneymaker" / "My Heart Beat Like a Hammer" (1968)
• "Black Magic Woman" / "The Sun Is Shining" (1968)
• "Need Your Love So Bad" / "Stop Messin’ Round" (1968)
• "Albatross" / "Jigsaw Puzzle Blues" (1968)
• "Man Of The World" / "Somebody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonite" (1969)
• "Oh Well Pt.1" / "Oh Well Pt. 2" (1969)
• "The Green Manalishi" / "World in Harmony" (1970)
• B-sides varied from country to country, and reissues often had different B-sides.

Albums

• Fleetwood Mac (1968)
• Mr. Wonderful (1968)
• English Rose (1969) USA
• Then Play On (1969)
• Penguin (1973) Track 8 "Night Watch" (uncredited)
• Tusk (1979) Track 13 "Brown Eyes" (uncredited)

Compilations

• Fleetwood Mac in Chicago/Blues Jam in Chicago, Vols. 1–2 (1969)
• The Pious Bird of Good Omen (1969)
• Greatest Hits (CBS, 1971)
• Greatest Hits (Warner Bros, 1988) 8x Platinum
• 25 Years – The Chain (1992)
• The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions 1967–1969 (1999)
• The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac (2002)
• The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac (2002) Platinum
• The Essential Fleetwood Mac (2007)
• 50 Years: Don't Stop (2018)
• The Many Faces Of Fleetwood Mac (2019)
• Fleetwood Mac: Before the Beginning 1968 - 1970 (2019)

Archival releases

• The Original Fleetwood Mac (CBS, 1971)
• Live at the Marquee, 1967 (released 1992)
• Live at the BBC (released 1995) (UK #48)
• Masters: London Live '68 (released 1998)
• Live at the Boston Tea Party, Vols. 1–3 recorded Feb 5–7, 1970 (Snapper, 1998–2000)
• The Vaudeville Years of Fleetwood Mac: 1968 to 1970 (2 CD) (1998)
• Shrine '69 (live 1969, released 1999)
• Original Fleetwood Mac: The Blues Years (3 CD) (Castle, 2000)
• Boston Blues (2 CD) (Recall/Snapper, 2000)
• Show-Biz Blues: 1968 to 1970 Volume 2 (2 CD) (Castle/Sanctuary, 2001)
• Jumping at Shadows: The Blues Years (Castle/Sanctuary, 2002)
• Men of the World: The Early Years (3 CD) (Sanctuary, 2005)

Splinter Group albums

• Peter Green Splinter Group (1997) Snapper Music SARCD 101
• The Robert Johnson Songbook (1998)
• Soho Session (1998)
• Destiny Road (1999) Snapper Music SMACD 817
• Hot Foot Powder (2000)
• Time Traders (2001)
• Me and the Devil (2001) Snapper Music SMBCD 844 (limited edition box set, 3 CDs, 1 of Robert Johnson recordings)
• Blues Don't Change (2001)
• The Best of Peter Green Splinter Gro

Guest contributions and other groups (albums unless stated otherwise)

With Peter B's Looners

• "If You Want to Be Happy" / "Jodrell Blues" (1966 single)

With John Mayall

• "Looking Back" / "So Many Roads" (1966 single)
• "Sitting in the Rain" / "Out of Reach" (1967 single)
• "Curly" / "Rubber Duck" (1967 single)
• "Double Trouble" / "It Hurts Me Too" (1967 single)
• "Jenny" / "Picture On The Wall" (1967 single)
• A Hard Road (1967)
• John Mayall's Bluesbreakers With Paul Butterfield (1967 7" EP)
• "Living Alone" / "Walking on Sunset" (1968 single)
• Blues from Laurel Canyon (1968)
• Looking Back (1969 compilation)
• Thru the Years (1971 compilation)
• Along For The Ride (Eagle/Red Ink, 2001)
• Live in 1967 (Forty Below Records, 2015)
• Live in 1967, Volume 2 (Forty Below Records, 2016)

With Eddie Boyd

• Eddie Boyd and His Blues Band featuring Peter Green (1967)
• "The Big Boat" / "Sent for You Yesterday" (1968 single)
• 7936 South Rhodes (1968)

With Duster Bennett

• Smiling Like I'm Happy (1968)
• "Smiling Like I'm Happy" / "Talk to Me" (1969 single)
• Bright Lights (1969)
• 12 Dbs (1970)
• Out in the Blue (1995 compilation)
• The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (2005 compilation)

With Gordon Smith

• Long Overdue (1968)
• "Too Long" / "Funk Pedal" (1969 single)

With Otis Spann

• "Walkin'" / "Temperature is Rising (98.8F)" (1969 single)
• The Biggest Thing Since Colossus (1969)
• "Blues for Hippies" / "Bloody Murder" (1972 single)

With Brunning Sunflower Blues Band

• Trackside Blues (1969)
• I Wish You Would (1970)

With Clifford Davis

• "Man of the World" / "Before the Beginning" (1969 single)
• "Come On Down and Follow Me" / "Homework" (1970 single)

With Gass

• Juju (1970)

With Jeremy Spencer

• Jeremy Spencer (1970)

With Peter Bardens

• "Homage to the God of Light Pt. 1" / "Homage to the God of Light Pt. 2" (1970 single)
• The Answer (1970)
• Write My Name in the Dust: The Anthology (2005 compilation)

With Memphis Slim

• "Mason Dixon Line" / "Boogie Woogie" (1970 single)
• "Handy Man" / "Mason Dixon Line" (1970 single)
• Blue Memphis (1971)

With B. B. King

• B. B. King in London (1971) Green plays on "Caldonia".

With Dave Kelly

• Dave Kelly (1971)

With Country Joe McDonald

• Hold On It's Coming (1971)

With Toe Fat

• 2 (1971)

With Richard Kerr

• From Now Until Then (1973)

With Duffo

• The Disappearing Boy (1980)

With Mick Fleetwood

• The Visitor (1981)

With Brian Knight

• A Dark Horse (1981)

With SAS Band

• SAS Band (1997)

With Dick Heckstall-Smith

• Blues and Beyond (2001)

With Chris Coco

• Next Wave (2002)

With Peter Gabriel

• Up (2003)

Tribute albums

• Rattlesnake Guitar: The Music of Peter Green (1995) (Reissued in 2000 as Peter Green Songbook)
• TWANG! A Tribute to Hank Marvin and the Shadows (1996) (Song – "Midnight")

Einflüsse auf andere Bands

Peter Green entwickelte seine von Muddy Waters, B. B. King, Freddie King und Eric Clapton beeinflusste Art Gitarre zu spielen zu einem eigenständigen Gitarrenstil und -sound, der von Gitarristen „greeny“ genannt wird. Carlos Santana machte 1970 Greens Black Magic Woman durch eine Coverversion zum Welthit. 1979 coverte die Heavy-Metal-Band Judas Priest Peter Greens Lied The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown). 1995 widmete der Rock- und Bluesgitarrist Gary Moore seinem Vorbild Peter Green das Tributealbum Blues for Greeny.

Greens Songs wurden häufig gecovert. So interpretierten Jimmy Page und die Black Crowes das Lied Oh well sowie Shake your moneymaker auf dem Live-Album Live at the Greek. Ebenso verwenden Aerosmith Oh well bei Live-Auftritten. Letztere veröffentlichten außerdem eine Version von Stop messin' around auf dem Album Honkin' on Bobo. Oh Well wird auch von Stan Webb’s Chicken Shack live gespielt.

Das Magazin Guitar World veröffentlichte 2011 den Artikel 30 on 30: The greatest guitarists picked by the greatest guitarists, in dem Rich Robinson Peter Green als ausgezeichneten Bluesgitarristen nannte.

Peter Green als Romanfigur

Der britische Autor und frühere „Strangeways“-Musiker Ada (Adrian) Wilson lässt in seinem Roman Red Army Faction Blues (2012) den als V-Mann und Agent Provocateur des Berliner Verfassungsschutzes bekannten „S-Bahn-Peter“, Peter Urbach, bei der oben erwähnten Münchener HighFish-Kommune mit Peter Green zusammentreffen. Zwanzig Jahre später will die fiktionale Romanfigur Urbach herausfinden, was damals mit Greenie geschehen ist, dass er sich als Folge des Kommunenbesuches verändert und aus dem öffentlichen Leben zurückgezogen hat.

The Peter Green Les Paul

Gary Moore war jahrelang der Eigentümer von Peter Greens legendärer Gibson Les Paul, deren Hals-Tonabnehmer-Magnet bei einem Service oder werkseitig irrtümlich mit umgekehrter Polarität wieder in den Tonabnehmer eingebaut wurde, was ihren charakteristischen Out-of-Phase-Klang bedingte. Zudem wurde der Tonabnehmer verkehrt, d. h. mit den Schrauben Richtung Steg, eingebaut, was allein aber noch keinen Einfluss auf den Gitarrenklang hat.

Als die Gitarrenfirma Gibson gemeinsam mit Peter Green ein Signature-Modell seiner Les Paul in Serie fertigen wollte, lehnte Green das Angebot ab. Die Tatsache, dass es inzwischen dennoch auch einen offiziellen Nachbau von Greens Les Paul gibt, ist dem Gitarrensammler Melvyn Franks zu verdanken, der Greens legendäre Gitarre von Gary Moore ersteigert hatte und anschließend der Firma Gibson zur Verfügung stellte, um davon ein Signature-Modell herzustellen, das zwar nicht Greens Namen trägt, aber doch ein Imitat seiner Les Paul ist. Das Modell wird seit Anfang 2010 von Gibson unter dem Namen „Gibson Collector’s Choice #1 1959 Les Paul Standard Gary Moore“ vertrieben.

Schon Ende 2006 hat der Gitarren-Designer Trevor Wilkinson mit der Vintage V100MRPGM Lemon Drop ein preiswertes Modell entwickelt und auf den Markt gebracht, das Peter Greens legendäre Gibson Les Paul nachahmt.

Videodokumentationen zu Peter Green

Außer der knapp 40 Minuten dauernden, diverse Fernsehauftritte vereinenden DVD Fleetwood Mac – The Early Years gibt es folgende DVD-Dokumentationen, die sich ausführlich Peter Greens Leben und Werk widmen:

The Mick Fleetwood Story

Die im Jahr 2003 veröffentlichte DVD The Mick Fleetwood Story porträtiert nicht nur den Mitbegründer und Schlagzeuger von Fleetwood Mac, Mick Fleetwood. Die DVD zeichnet vielmehr die Geschichte von Fleetwood Mac nach und bietet neben persönlichen Einblicken und Eindrücken von Mick Fleetwood auch Interviews mit bekannten Rock- und Bluesmusikern, die gemeinsam mit ihm Bühne und Studio geteilt haben. Einige Konzertmitschnitte zeigen den frühen Peter Green, dem ein eigenes Kapitel gewidmet ist. Dabei beklagen Greens Bandkollegen, dass sich Peter Green nie wieder von jenem verheerenden LSD-Trip erholt habe, den er laut ihrer Ansicht in der Münchner Highfish-Kommune verabreicht bekommen habe.

An Evening with Peter Green

Welche bleibende Zerstörung die psychedelischen Drogen und in der Folge gewiss auch die psychiatrische Behandlung (Psychopharmaka, Elektroschocktherapie) bei Green angerichtet haben, zeigt unter anderem jenes 2003 gefilmte Interview mit Peter Green (und Nigel Watson), das als Zugabe auf der Splinter-Group-Konzert-DVD An Evening with Peter Green zu sehen ist (2003).

Man of the World. The Peter Green Story

Anlässlich des 40-jährigen Bestehens von Fleetwood Mac ist im Jahr 2007 die DVD-Dokumentation Man of the World. The Peter Green Story erschienen. Sie behandelt anhand seltener Archivaufnahmen von Live- und Studioauftritten sowie zahlreicher Interviews Peter Greens Leben und Werk. Der zeitliche Schwerpunkt liegt auf jener Zeit, als Green Leadgitarrist bei John Mayalls Bluesbreakers sowie später Chef der britischen Bluesband Fleetwood Mac war. In der Bonustrack genannten Zugabe präsentiert Peter Green seine wertvolle Gitarrensammlung.