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 it's that opening riff. I'll try to get the tone as close as I can.
00:51I'll try to get the tone as I can.
01:21All done in the style of Peter Green and amalgamation of different British guitar players there.
01:39But it was really the sound to me and the phrasing. It was nonchalant, but it was angry. And that
01:51was always what I loved about both Beck, Clapton, Page, and of course Peter Green and Mick Taylor.
01:58All those kind of, you know, graduates of that mid-60s British blues explosion.
02:05So 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. Now,
02:16sometimes it's diametrically opposed to what you think you're hearing because the intensity sounds
02:23very, very like you're just really, really going after it. But sometimes you really have to back off
02:30on 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 same
02:48kind of phrase if I was really tacky. Now there's, you can use either way, but sometimes, you know,
03:07to get that kind of creamier, but still, you know, bright sound, you back off on your right hand.
03:18So 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 of this.
03:48So, you know, like, I'd like to say in any of this.
