Sunday Blues Shot

Peter Green (born Peter Allen Greenbaum) was born in London in 1946 and is a British blues-rock guitarist who is best known as the founder of Fleetwood Mac. Green was a major figure in the second wave of the British blues movement. Green inspired the great B.B. King to say,"Peter has the sweetest tone I have ever heard and he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats."

Green's playing style consisted of string bending and vibrato ballads that mesmerized listeners and catapulted him to legendary status. Green is credited for his very "melodic and soulful phrases" and his use of "shuffle grooves" which are often dark and bluesy.

He was best known for playing a 1959 Gibson Les Paul that was often referred to as his "magic guitar." His unique tone came from his humbucker neck pickup which was reversed and rewired, a change he made in 1967. While he was with Fleetwood Mac he used and Orange amplifier without any effects. In the 1990's Green began to play his 1960 Fender Stratocaster again after thirty years of not playing it, but is now his guitar of choice and which he can be seen performing with today.

Guitarist such as Gary Moore, Joe Perry, and Andy Powell have cited Green as their major influence.