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Peter Green: The end of the game

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Label: Warner Bros. Records
Released: 1970
Time:
 35:17
Category: Blues
Producer(s): Peter Green
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/peter.htm
Appears with: Fleetwood Mac
Purchase date: 2000.11.29
Price in €: 9,99



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[1] Bottoms Up (P.Green) - 9:05
[2] Timeless Time (P.Green) - 2:37
[3] Descending Scale (P.Green) - 8:17
[4] Burnt Foot (P.Green) - 5:16
[5] Hidden Depth (P.Green) - 4:54
[6] End of the Game (P.Green) - 5:08

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Peter Green - Electric Guitar, Vocals

Zoot Money - Grand Piano
Martin Birch - Engineer
Nick Buck - Electric Piano, Organ
Alex Dmochowski - Bass Guitar
Godfrey McLean - Percussion

Martin Birch - Recording Engineer

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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.

Mark Allan, All-Music Guide



If you are looking for the conventional Original Fleetwood Mac or traditional blues, Don't buy this album.(Get Live at the BBC instead) If you are interested in the raw essence of music and the soul exposed via electricity, Don't pass this one by.. Truly incredible. Peter Green playing at his prime. Goes way beyond words. Everytime I listen to this album I hear something new. I own over 2000 albums and CDs, If I had to choose just one, It would be this one. "Professional Reviewers" that constantly hang a bad grade on this album should stick to Donny Osmond or the Beegees. "It aint for the faint of heart!" Consider yourself a flashy guitarist?? Prepare to be horribly humbled


As another reviewer pointed out, this album is really a jazz-rock fusion album, in keeping with Miles Davis's 1970-1975 work. That's my favorite Davis period, so I had no trouble at all connecting with this album when I bought it several years ago.

I think I prefer Green's editing to Teo Macero's, though. Rather than splicing jam sections together (cf. "Jack Johnson"), Green seems to have focused on the heart of each jam and given it a space of its own. I suspect that this would have been a double album had Macero been the producer.

I also prefer Green to John McLaughlin and Pete Cosey (Davis's guitarists)--and any other guitarist, for that matter--because of his sense of time, his touch, and his tone (Carlos Santana owes him millions). His extensive use of the wah-wah pedal makes this album very interesting for Green watchers.

However--and a big "however" this is--if you question the value of Davis's electric period or expect blues or blues-rock or rock or ballads from Peter Green, then you may want to keep your distance from "The End of the Game."



Reviews of this album are, to say the least, all over the map. If in fact you're expecting Over My Head or Rhinannon or even Black Magic Woman, then you've come to the wrong place. End game marked Peter Green's first solo effort and came out sometime around Then Play On, his last studio recording with FM. That said, this is primarily free-form jazz guitar improvisation, along the lines of Hendrix meets Mahavishnu John McLaughlin. Warning!!!!Not for the faint of heart or the noninitiated.



Just as "Dragonfly" is the quintessential Danny Kirwan song (what I mean by that is once you hear Danny's work on "Dragonfly" you understand and hear all his other Fleetwood Mac work better), "End of the Game" is key to understanding Peter's touch. When I first heard this album (remember Albums?) when it came out, it just sounded like stoned noodling. Not there's anything wrong with that! ;-) But at some point, I finally "got it," and could connect the dots in his style. When I heard the bootleg version of "Green Manalishi" which features an eerie 6-string bass solo (legend has it) it clearly sounds like Green, not McVie, especially if you've absorbed EOTG. Fans of Jerry Garcia would also appreciate the parallel work of Green on improvisational "space" music.
 

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