LAST TRAIN TO SAN ANTONE A ROLLERCOASTER RIDE OF CLASSIC PETER GREEN HIGH OCTANE BLUES
To me British blues guitar never sounded better than what was omitted from the strings of Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green.
Truly Green was an absolute genius, a freak of a talent, as good as any american who ever played the blues.
The story of his amazing rise to fame and
the tragedy of his sudden drug-induced exit from the ranks of Fleetwood Mac in 1970 tells one of a man who had a special gift, and for a brief time wrote some brilliant blues rock songs, and played some great covers as well, only then to let all his talent go down the drain because of drugs.
the tragedy of his sudden drug-induced exit from the ranks of Fleetwood Mac in 1970 tells one of a man who had a special gift, and for a brief time wrote some brilliant blues rock songs, and played some great covers as well, only then to let all his talent go down the drain because of drugs.
The classic LIVE IN BOSTON recordings were the last ones he ever made while still a member of Fleetwood Mac, immediately after the concerts which resulted in the album he quit the band in shock circumstances, and mysteriously he completely vanished from the music scene, barring the odd sporadic recording from about the late 70`s onwards.
From around the late 80`s he basically has not recorded any music. The greatest tragedy
is that he payed the price for doing something what many rock stars got away with.
is that he payed the price for doing something what many rock stars got away with.
He took drugs but this one time he went
out on an all out bender, and quite possibly, Green gave himself some form of brain damage.
out on an all out bender, and quite possibly, Green gave himself some form of brain damage.
When you think about all the white stuff Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Steve Tyler and so many other rockers dabbled in, Green`s fate seems a bit unfair.
But he took that chance and he lost out. Regardless of what happened to Green post drug bender 1970, he still occasionally, brain damaged or not, played some magic on the guitar, and one such occasion was the magical blues guitar jam LAST TRAIN TO SAN ANTONE, an uptempo Texas blues inspired gem that`s light on words but is
chocker block full of guitar solo excess.
chocker block full of guitar solo excess.
It`s really the best blues song ever to come out of the Britain after the blues boom of the late 60`s and late 70`s.
Green`s vocal is way down in the mix, he couldn`t obviously sing real good anymore by then, but he rips into it on this one and despite being repetitious you never get sick of hearing it.
Snowy White, who was his band mate and fellow guitarist in the late 70`s had an ambiguous role in the recording of this song, maybe he was the one providing the rhythm but the extended solo of the song could only be Peter Green, no one else could have made it sound this good.
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