TALES FROM NERDVILLE by Joe Bonamassa.
GREEN LIGHT.
Joe Bonamassa discussed his approach to recording a cover of the Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac track “Lazy Poker Blues,” for his upcoming album, Blues Deluxe, Vol. 2. Joe offers some insight into another musical tribute of his to the late, great British guitarist.
GREEN LIGHT.
Joe Bonamassa discussed his approach to recording a cover of the Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac track “Lazy Poker Blues,” for his upcoming album, Blues Deluxe, Vol. 2. Joe offers some insight into another musical tribute of his to the late, great British guitarist.
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00:00Hey guys, Joe Bonamassa. This is part two of our little tribute to Peter Green, the
00:14late great Peter Green. Obviously, The Hard Road was a record that I wore out time and
00:21time again when I was a kid, both on CD, tape, and vinyl. And to me, I covered Otis Rush's
00:32So Many Roads based on John Mayle and the Blues Breakers with Peter Green's So Many Roads.
00:38And it's that opening riff. I'll try to get the tone as close as I can.
00:51I'll try to get the tone as I can.
01:21All done in the style of Peter Green and amalgamation of different British guitar players
01:39there. But it was really the sound to me and the phrasing. And it was nonchalant, but it
01:49was angry. And that was always what I loved about both Beck, Clapton, Page, and of course
01:56Peter Green and Mick Taylor. All those kind of graduates of that mid-60s British blues explosion.
02:05So one of the things about plugging straight into an amp, especially an early Marshall or
02:10any kind of British amp, or any amp for that matter, is your picking technique. Now, sometimes
02:16it's diametrically opposed to what you think you're hearing, because the intensity sounds
02:23very, very like you're just really going after it. But sometimes you really have to back off
02:30on the right hand to get it to bloom, you know?
02:43So I'm playing loud, but I'm not playing hard. So I'll show you what it would sound like the
02:48same kind of phrase if I was really tacking. Now there's, you can use either way, but sometimes,
03:07you know, to get that kind of creamier, but still, you know, bright sound, you back off
03:13on your right hand.
03:36So you let the amp and the guitar do the work. And, you know, so it just depends on what you're
03:40trying to say in any, in any of this.