John Mayall's Bluesbreakers w, Peter Green, John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers - A Hard Road

What a pleasure to hear Peter Green in this remastered gem!

The real question is "sonically" how does this "Remastered" CD sound.... That's what most care about, how was it remastered, was the mix done well, and of course, the music....I just listened to a 1969 live Mac show, a great show as a matter of fact. Peter Green what a master playing live, just entrancing, killer playing....However, the mix really sucked...John McVie bass can not even be heard throughout the CD... and Fleetwoond's drums were mixed so annoyingly out in front, one could never miss Mick's pounding bass drum playing on every cut, and that's the ONLY bass one hears on the whole Album...it's as if McVie just took the night off....or the sound board mixer was a drummer who believes drums are the lead instrument. Green's guitar comes through well, but it was still behind the drums. What a way to ruin an otherwise great live performance of Fleetwood Mac at their peak in early February 1969.

However, on John Mayall's A Hard Road.....Bluesbreaker John McVie's very steady bass playing comes though loud & clear. "A Hard Road" may even be the best of all British blues albums ever recorded, including blues albums from Clapton, Lee, Page, Simmons, Beck, etc. This CD is excellent, and may even rate with any of the top rock/blues albums ever recorded, all with such feeling, not bad for British boys...Everyone was on top of their game here, great songs arrangements & engineering - RS 1968 - "Peter Green stands out just as much as Mayall on this album, as Green is such a clear contrast to Eric Clapton on the Blues Breakers. Here Green makes impeccable use of great phrasing above anything else; his style comes out in many places as very relaxed as opposed to Clapton's strong attack.....Like Green's playing on the slow songs on A Hard Road such as "The Same Way" and "Someday After A While" Green's style on cuts like this is beautiful and relaxed, a real contrast to Clapton's savage frantic-ness on Blues Breakers on "Have You Heard" for example.

Peter Green can also play savage Claptonesque guitar - Just listen to Green's 12 bars on "Dust My Blues." Green's technique is certainly very good too - His playing on the instrumental "the Stumble" makes that very clear." Very hot!

And YES, the Remastered sound is as excellent as the music. A truly great & classic CD remastered. June 7, 2008

A young Peter Green

A young Peter Green (actually Greenbaum) approaching the height of his career, enhanced by Mick Fleetwood on drums and John McVie on bass, and led by the great John Mayall. Does any more need to be said? A must for all Green and Mayall fans. October 27, 2007

One of the Greatest

Peter Green had some big shoes to fill, but he did it very nicely. This is a MUST have cd for PG fans, or fans of the blues guitar. This contains everything that PG did with John Mayall. This is great! July 17, 2007

Excellent reissue

This is a reissue of the classic 1966 album with Peter Green, John McVie and Aynsley Dunbar supporting John Mayall. The music remains as great as it was forty years ago with some excellent Mayall songs and great Green guitar all backed by the excellent rhythm section. The additions from odd sessions and single releases are an icing on the cake. If you like British 60's electric blues and you do not already have this cd, then you need to buy it! May 8, 2007

Man... all of the tracks with "Greeny" plus!

Woah.....this is just stunning!

Peter Green's whole set of tracks from the original album,plus all the cool tracks he was on from "Looking Back" and other compilation albums too,....PLUS out-take tracks that made me wonder where the band's heads were when they passed-up on them for the original release!

This is all killer,and leads you right up to Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac years. The sound is punchy and has a warmth that was missing from past re-issues of this material too.

I didn't realize that this collected all those other tracks from various 1970's "comp" albums.But when I got it home and started listening and reading the liner notes,...WOW It's your one stop shopping spot for Peter Green's formative recordings!

Highly recommended! John Mayall's life in music did NOT end when "God",ooops,I mean Clapton left. April 17, 2007

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