PETER GREEN WAS JUMPING AT SHADOWS IN BOSTON

This would truly have to rate as my very favourite Peter Green performance, he is my favourite british blues guitarist of all time and I adore so much of the early Fleetwood Mac featuring him and his genius before his tragic and swift drug related demise.

The greatest irony in me saying that is that this live performance of JUMPING AT SHADOWS in Boston was recorded only a matter of days before Green went out on the drug bender to end all drug benders and literally fried his brain, after which he sensationally quit Fleetwood Mac, just when the band looked like it was about to hit the big time in the states.

Never got around to buying the number two disc of the LIVE IN BOSTON recordings, but number one is a great listen for any Green fan, it's edgy, it's simmering, like a volcano that's about to blow. That's what the dynamics of Fleetwood Mac were at the turn of the 70`s, it was only after this concert when Green took one too many chances with the drugs that this epic white man blues band come crashing down to earth from cloud nine.

LIVE AT BOSTON is good blues but JUMPING AT SHADOWS is definitely the stand out performance. Green builds up from a slow start to play one of the greatest blues solos of all time, at least from someone on his side of the Atlantic Ocean.