AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
Fleetwood mac albatross mp33/9/2024 ![]() Some sources state that Santo & Johnny’s 1959 track Sleepwalk became an inspiration but it bears much more than a passing resemblance to a Chuck Berry 1957 instrumental called Deep Feeling which has many of the same elements including a call and answer style of guitar playing, and the permanent bass in the background. King once admitted that Peter Green was “the only guitarist in the world who could make me sweat.” The first time George Harrison heard it he said “it knocked me sideways.” Peter once admitted later that Albatross may have been drug influenced, he said, “I took two big LSD trips that went on forever and ever and ever.” In the late sixties and early seventies, Peter Green was ranked as one of the great guitar heroes alongside Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix and David Gilmour. ![]() It starts, then it continues and then doesn’t go anywhere.” Many people have probably said that of Tony Blackburn. As a child Peter Green, guitarist and singer with Fleetwood Mac read the poem and it gave him the inspiration he needed for the song.ĭJ Tony Blackburn once said this classic “It’s the most crushingly boring tune in the world. This week’s choice is a number one instrumental named after a bird, the albatross, which is mentioned in the classic poem The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge.
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |