00:00Hey guys, Joe Bonamassa.
00:11This is part two of our little tribute to Peter Green, the late great Peter Green.
00:17Obviously The Hard Road was a record that I wore out time and time again when I was
00:22a kid, both on CD, tape, and vinyl.
00:29To me, I covered Otis Rush's So Many Roads based on John Mayall and the Blues Breakers
00:35with Peter Green's So Many Roads.
00:39It's that opening riff, and I'll try to get the tone as close as I can.
00:58It's that opening riff, and I'll try to get the tone as close as I can.
01:28It's that opening riff, and I'll try to get the tone as close as I can.
01:34All done in the style of Peter Green and amalgamation of different British guitar players there.
01:41It was really the sound, to me, and the phrasing.
01:47It was nonchalant, but it was angry.
01:51That was always what I loved about both Beck, Clapton, Page, and of course Peter Green and
01:56Mick Taylor, all those graduates of that mid-60s British blues explosion.
02:05One of the things about plugging straight into an amp, especially an early Marshall
02:09or any kind of British amp, or any amp for that matter, is your picking technique.
02:16Sometimes it's diametrically opposed to what you think you're hearing, because the intensity
02:22sounds very, very like you're just really going after it, but sometimes you really have
02:29to back off on the right hand to get it to bloom.
02:44I'm playing loud, but I'm not playing hard.
02:47I'll show you what it would sound like the same kind of phrase if I was really tacking
02:50it.
03:04You can use either way, but sometimes to get that kind of creamier but still bright sound,
03:12you back off on your right hand.
03:36You let the amp and the guitar do the work.
03:39It just depends on what you're trying to say in any of this.
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