Reflections On Peter Green With Joe Bonamassa
TALES FROM NERDVILLE by Joe Bonamassa.
GREEN LIGHT.
Joe Bonamassa discussed his approach to recording a cover of the Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac track “Lazy Poker Blues,” for his upcoming album, Blues Deluxe, Vol. 2. Joe offers some insight into another musical tribute of his to the late, great British guitarist.
GREEN LIGHT.
Joe Bonamassa discussed his approach to recording a cover of the Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac track “Lazy Poker Blues,” for his upcoming album, Blues Deluxe, Vol. 2. Joe offers some insight into another musical tribute of his to the late, great British guitarist.
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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.
02:33 [MUSIC]
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.
02:50 [MUSIC]
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.
03:13 [MUSIC]
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.
03:43 [MUSIC]