00:00Hey guys, Joe Bonamassa, this is part 2 of our little tribute to Peter Green, the late
00:14great 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.
01:28All done in the style of Peter Green and the amalgamation of different British guitar
01:39players there.
01:41It was really the sound, to me, and the phrasing, and it was nonchalant, but it was angry.
01:51That was always what I loved about both Beck, Clapton, Page, and of course Peter Green,
01:56and Mick Taylor, all those graduates of that mid-60s British blues explosion.
02:05So one 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.
02:15Now sometimes it's diametrically opposed to what you think you're hearing, because the
02:22intensity sounds very, very like you're just really going after it, but sometimes you really
02:28have to back off on the right hand to get it to bloom.
02:44So I'm playing loud, but I'm not playing hard, so I'll show you what it would sound like
02:48the same kind of phrase if I was really attacking it.
03:04Now you can use either way, but sometimes to get that kind of creamier, but still bright
03:12sound you back off on your right hand.
03:36So you let the amp and the guitar do the work, so it just depends on what you're trying to
03:41say in any of this.
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