Although he’s in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, most people these days barely know who influential guitarist Peter Green was or who he played with or that he composed “Black Magic Woman,” Carlos Santana’s calling-card hit. He also started Fleetwood Mac with Mick Fleetwood, and played in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, yet he never attained the stature of an Eric Clapton or Jimmy Page, contemporaries on the ‘60s British blues-rock scene. Below is something ‘completely different’ from Green’s early fare, a slow and spacious original instrumental without any flurry of notes or other Guitar God histrionics, 1969’s “Albatross”:
H/T to Mathew Tyler Wilson.
Here’s a bonus video, Peter Green with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers from 1967 doing Green’s instrumental, “The Supernatural” (and you can hear why Carlos Santana and Jimmy Page love this guy’s playing and consider him a major influence on their styles):