Here is what B.B.King had to say in the introduction to the excellent book
PETER GREEN Founder of Fleetwood Mac The Biography by Martin Celmins which I highly recommend:
Forward by B.B.King
Back in the sixties, Peter Green was one of a new breed of great guitar players, and during that time I spent a week touring with him and Fleetwood Mac. Sure, he was a very fine person; in fact he was the same person no matter who you were. Now that sort of guy is hard to find in this business.
It’s funny, but I kind of remember him more after he left Fleetwood Mac, like when he played on my London sessions album. It was around that time, I know that he became disillusioned, but it was also then that our friendship grew.
I could sympathize with him because there had been times for me too when I felt the same – sometimes maybe it seems like everyone else is doing better than you…looks happier…got the best ideas. But then things change – it’s hard to know how, but they do. Years later when I played concerts in London Peter would still sometimes come backstage and say hello – and that meant something to me. It didn’t matter that he didn’t seem to want to say much – I was real glad that he bothered to come along.
People have told me that in his early years my guitar playing influenced Peter a lot. Now that’s something I take as a great compliment, but I have to tell you that I don’t get it myself. When I hear Peter Green…I hear Peter Green
B.B.King
March 1995
What a great compliment from a pivotal bluesman to another..
I first heard Peter Green’s amazing guitar playing, many years before I first heard Gary Moore. Gary Moore is very complex to understand and to many they cannot take his playing, end of story. That is a shame, he has a lot to say, still to this day.
Peter Green’s playing still can chill me to the bone, he pierces one’s soul with his haunting , tortured playing. He has truly been to hell and back, as have many of us, but his gift of beautiful, almost sacred music, continues to give many, many years later.
That he is one of the undisputed blues masters, there should be no doubt
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