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Peter Green: guitar pioneer who made the blues his own – The Guardian
The Fleetwood Mac co-founder spiralled into drug abuse and schizophrenia but never lost his electrifying technical ability
The occasion was as unlikely as it was unforgettable: Peter Green playing in Frome, Somerset, 10 years ago, but feels like yesterday. Peter Green, who seemed to play the blues guitar from the far side of some borderline between wherever he was out there, and what passes for reality; Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac when they really were Fleetwood Mac, at the outset. Peter Green who died on Saturday.
Green spoke little that night in May 2010, and sometimes made little sense. It was not his last conc…
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