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00:09 Hey guys, Joe Bonamassa.
00:10 This is part two of our little tribute to Peter Green,
00:14 the late great Peter Green.
00:16 Obviously, The Hard Road was a record that I wore out time and time again when I was
00:22 a kid both on CD, tape, and vinyl.
00:27 To me, I covered Otis Rush's So Many Roads
00:32 based on John Mayall and The Blues Breakers with Peter Green's So Many Roads.
00:37 It's that opening riff.
00:41 I'll try to get the tone as close as I can.
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01:23 All done in the style of Peter Green and
01:36 amalgamation of different British guitar players there.
01:39 But it was really the sound to me and the phrasing.
01:46 It was nonchalant, but it was angry.
01:50 That was always what I loved about both Beck, Clapton,
01:54 Page, and of course, Peter Green and Mick Taylor.
01:57 All those graduates of that mid-60s British blues explosion.
02:04 One of the things about plugging straight into an amp,
02:08 especially an early Marshall or any British amp,
02:11 or any amp for that matter,
02:13 is your picking technique.
02:15 Now, sometimes it's diametrically opposed to what you think you're hearing,
02:21 because the intensity sounds very,
02:23 very like you're just really going after it.
02:27 But sometimes, you really have to back off on the right hand to get it to bloom.
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02:43 So I'm playing loud, but I'm not playing hard.
02:46 So I'll show you what it would sound like the same kind of phrase if I was really
02:50 tacking it.
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03:03 Now, you can use either way, but sometimes to get that kind of creamier,
03:10 but still bright sound, you back off on your right hand.
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03:23 So you let the amp and the guitar do the work.
03:37 And so it just depends on what you're trying to say in any of this.
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