Peter Green's The End Of The Game - just regular old classic or best album ever?

The directionless jamming on The End of the Game, the first solo release by Peter Green, is just what you'd expect from someone as psychologically messed up as he was when he cut it. He still plays wicked guitar, and sounds much like Jimi Hendrix in spots, but without Hendrix's vision. In fact, there's no coherent vision at all on this record. None of the musicians could have enjoyed themselves in spite of the opportunity to play with Green. It's drivel, from an immensely talented guitarist. Sad.

yeah. i love this record. maybe it's not quite as perfect as, say, live evil. but it does share that moody psych-fusion vibe that miles was working out. the bass and drums on this record really groove. when it comes to peter green, i dig his original stuff. i'm not so into the blues. another jam is the whole series of Mac live at the boston tea party.

this record killlllls.
i think more great guitarists of the classic rock age should've just ditched the whole "songwriting" thing and jammed out a bunch of records like this. like the whole thing sounds like the band dropped acid, listened to bitches brew, plugged in and told the engineer to roll tape.

also it has the best album cover ever
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXykZrwLTzU/S_-mwownquI/AAAAAAAAAG8/nexGlcwpnQ8/s400/Peter+Green+-+The+End+Of+The+Game+-+Front.jpg

just going to revive this thread annually to say "best album ever"

It's been a while since I listened to it, time to dig it out. I was just listening to a Fleetwood Mac "Greatest Hits" from the early era that has a bunch of singles on it. "Albatross" is so gorgeous.

that is a raaad cover

Bottoms up pppp!!!!

this is getting a reissue I believe I just read. It's a great album.

RIP one of the great British guitar players

The best, imo. From tone to playing, he sounded naturally and uniquely gifted. No cheese.

Have never heard this album, must rectify that. I'm not generally one for superstar guitarists but he was a special one.

he had a great sensitivity in his playing

there is a great melancholy that hangs over everything he did, one of those artists that's hard to explain

why is he different than Clapton? I guess I couldn't tell you, other than this *otherness* that Green had, where Clapton is inert

Seemed like a sensitive soul. Eric Clapton does not seem like a sensitive soul.

just read that allmusic review mentioned in the op, sheesh.

RIP peter green.

you can hear he already had a vision early on, during his work with john mayall:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKn-0zEcRYI

and just listen to his contributions to this gass tune, which without him would be just a pretty good marriott-esque workout. he really had a unique sensitivity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvvqlTbgoMg

"the end of the game" is underrated and unfairly dismissed as just some throwaway blues jam, fuck that review for sure + tylerw otm upthread. there are also worthwhile moments on pretty much every peter green solo record from the brief period he was active in the late '70s and early '80s, from JJ cale-esque boogie jams to more contemplative instrumental stuff. like for what it is, this is pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFcE2v6-8S4

it wasn't until just today that i read he was around for the "tusk" sessions; you can hear him towards the end of "brown eyes" just as the song is starting to fade.

IIRC, his Tusk involvement was part of a failed plan by Mick Fleetwood to Green a deal with Warner's or something.

I saw too that he's on "Night Watch" from Penguin, and he also filled in on part of a '71 Mac tour after Jeremy Spencer left.

Good singer too.

I saw too that he's on "Night Watch" from Penguin, and he also filled in on part of a '71 Mac tour after Jeremy Spencer left.

― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain)

yeah, i have a tape from that era; it's interesting to hear him dueting with kirwan on "the purple dancer", which was written and released after green's departure (and is the b-side of my favorite fleetwood mac release ever)

well, since this is 2020, here's a link to that performance!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etBRc_RUZx4

(note that the video's saying that green is playing "faintly in the background" is an artifact of the soundboard mix; my recording is a stereo audience tape and green is fully present and accounted for.)

Bottoms up pppp!!!!

― yuoowemeone, Friday, February 28, 2020 7:22 AM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

Good singer too.

So sad, probably his most famous song but most people associate it with someone else:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRu7Pt42x6Y

this rules — just wish it kept going!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPFEi2bIoy0

wow, what a great clip

He was definitely moving in an interesting direction in the early 70s.

xpost I think his most famous song is probably Black Magic Woman but that's also associated with someone else

that's what i wrote...

Not true in the UK, "Albatross" is far more well known.

Just got done with Mick Fleetwood's autobiography, couldn't help but overall think Mick was a bit of a dick really. just imho.

What did come out of reading this though was my discovering Peter Green, and going down the rabbit hole of listening to and learning more about his utter gem of a guitar player. but he just seems so much more than that, can't explain it. I'm completely infactuated by him.

I remember my father many many years ago, who was a huge blues fan and also played blues guitar with various gents around the county, telling me a story about an interaction he had with Peter - which at this point I had no idea who he was and was barely following as to what he was telling me. Well now my dad has long since passed away, damn wish I'd listened more. I'll never know what that story was.