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    Feb 20, 2020 5 minutes

    GREEN WITH GRATITUDE

    hank you for the respectful and sensitive article about the truly great Peter Green in your March 2020 edition. In November 2002, I was lucky enough to witness his Splinter Group playing a supporting role to Mayall at Wolves Civic Hall. The beginnings weren’t promising. An apparently pretty average blues band took to the stage and struck up a rolling blues with the “lead” guitarist – I think an American guy – widdling wildly 10 to the dozen. After an eternity of this, a little old guy shuffled on wearing a battered hat and a mint-green Strat, plugged in and, at the appropriate moment, touched the strings. Ice-cold water ran down my spine and tears came to my eyes. I’d been listening to him caressing similar guitars since my big sister had bought “Oh Well” and “Man Of The World”,

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