00:00Hey guys, Joe Bonamassa. This is part two of our little tribute to Peter Green, the
00:14late great Peter Green. Obviously, The Hard Road was a record that I wore out time and
00:21time again when I was a kid, both on CD, tape, and vinyl. And to me, I covered Otis Rush's
00:32So Many Roads based on John Mayle and the Blues Breakers with Peter Green's So Many Roads.
00:38And, you know, it's just that opening riff, you know, and I'll try to get the tone as
00:43close as I can.
00:51The Hard Road
01:21All done in the style of Peter Green and amalgamation of different British guitar players
01:39there. But it was really the sound to me and the phrasing. And it was nonchalant, but it
01:49was angry. And that was always what I loved about both Beck, Clapton, Page, and of course
01:56Peter Green and Mick Taylor. All those kind of, you know, graduates of that mid-60s British
02:03blues explosion.
02:04So one of the things about, you know, plugging straight into an amp, especially an early Marshall
02:09or any kind of British amp, or any amp for any, 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, really going after it. But sometimes
02:28you really have to back off on the right hand to get it to bloom, you know.
02:43So I'm playing loud, but I'm not playing hard. So I'll show you what it would sound like the
02:48same kind of phrase if I was really tacking.
03:03Now there's, you can use either, either way, but sometimes, you know, to get that kind of
03:08creamier, but still, you know, bright sound, you back off on your right hand.
03:14So you let the amp and the guitar do the work. And, you know, so it just depends on what you're
03:40trying to say in any, in any of this.
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