Reflections On Peter Green With Joe Bonamassa
TALES FROM NERDVILLE by Joe Bonamassa.
GREEN LIGHT.
Joe Bonamassa discussed his approach to recording a cover of the Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac track “Lazy Poker Blues,” for his upcoming album, Blues Deluxe, Vol. 2. Joe offers some insight into another musical tribute of his to the late, great British guitarist.
GREEN LIGHT.
Joe Bonamassa discussed his approach to recording a cover of the Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac track “Lazy Poker Blues,” for his upcoming album, Blues Deluxe, Vol. 2. Joe offers some insight into another musical tribute of his to the late, great British guitarist.
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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.