I was prompted to listen to some more old classic guitar greats this weekend and I found myself asking who would be your greatest guitar player? It was impossible to come up with an answer, there are so many greats with so many different playing styles from so many different genres, it would be just plain unfair to single any one guitarist as the greatest of the great.
I remembered in my youth, a café in Huddersfield called the Alassio coffee bar, it was part of a culture at the time, there were around half a dozen coffee bars all in walking distance of each other and all owned by Italians who either emigrated to the UK or simply as POW’s, stayed there after WW2 and started their own businesses, the ground floor of the Allasio serviced St Georges Railway Station but the basement was where it all happened, blacked out walls with psychedelic paintings illuminated by the ultra violet lighting, pinball and table football machines tucked away in an alcove entertained some, while the serious café fraternity chilled out smoking willy woodbines, players No6, drinking coke, with extra sugar and listening to Northern Soul, Barclay James Harvest and Fleetwood Mac, Pete Green was the founder of Fleetwood Mac in 1967, ‘The Green Manalishi’ ‘Oh Well’ and ‘Man of the World’ are a few that came to mind, in the days of FM producing real music and not the fluff they produced after Pete Green’s sudden and tragic departure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVWcq-PjgpY&feature=related
Pete Green joined John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers as a replacement for Eric Clapton when he left to form Cream in the Mid 60’s Clapton earned the nickname of ‘Slowhand’ and ‘God’ while with John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, as Claptons successor, Pete Green earned the title of ‘The Green God’ he produced ‘The Supernatural’ on their first collaborative album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeOKj5XdVAE
Enjoy 🙂