About Peter Green
Peter Green (born as Peter Allen Greenbaum on October 29, 1946 in Bethnal Green, England) is a blues- rock guitarist and founding member of the band Fleetwood Mac.
Peter Green was considered by the likes of BB King and Dick Heckstall-Smith as being one of the greatest white blues-rock guitarists to appear in the 1960s. "I'm sorry, Peter Green is best" were BB King's words to a crowd at a Royal Albert Hall show with Fleetwood Mac in 1969 (among the audience members that night were contemporary guitarists Eric Clapton and his friend George Harrison, sitting in a private box watching the show). Although his playing was not as fast or flashy as his Bluesbreakers peers Clapton and Mick Taylor, it was marked with a distinctive keen vibrato and economy of style. He produced a unique sharp tone with a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard. The pickups on this guitar were magnetically out of phase to create this sound, which happened accidentally when Green took the guitar apart and put it together with the Bridge Magnet inserted the wrong way round.