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Jun 29, 2020 · It’s not every day that you find yourself being offered a Les Paul for next to nothing, but that’s exactly what happened to Gary Moore at the dawn of the 1970s. “Peter was such a generous person,” Gary told Guitarist back in 1995. “If you admired something, he’d give it to you. "He had this amazing coat you may have seen in ...
May 10, 2016 · Introduction. It's hard to believe that February marked five years since Gary Moore’s death. We hear from the man himself in a previously unpublished interview that was originally carried out in 1995, prior to the release of the album Blues For Greeny. The album was Gary’s blues salute to his mentor and friend, Peter Green.
- Peter Green: Peter Green might not be a name that the uninitiated recognize. But, to the disciples of British blues, he’s a towering influence. The man who replaced Eric Clapton in John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Green went on to found the original, blues based incarnation of Fleetwood Mac.
- Gary Moore: Anyone familiar with early Fleetwood Mac probaby knows the sad story of Peter Green’s mental health struggles throughout the ‘70s. by the turn of the decade, Green had started to unravel, completely losing interest in music.
- Kirk Hammett: After being purchased by Phil Winfield at Maverick Guitars, the instrument floated around on the private collector’s market for a number of years.
Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 1952 – 6 February 2011) was a Northern Irish musician. Over the course of his career, he played in various groups and performed a range of music including blues, blues rock, hard rock, heavy metal and jazz fusion. Influenced by Peter Green and Eric Clapton, Moore began his career in the late 1960s when he ...
Aug 2, 2023 · Gary Moore performs at Alexandra Palace in London, during the London Music Festival, August 5, 1973 (Image credit: David Warner Ellis / Getty) One of your lasting memories of Peter was a nightmare gig at London’s Roundhouse venue… “I’d met him the night before, and he asked me to play with him.
Sep 26, 2024 · Prior to Gary Moore, the guitar was owned by Peter Green (Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac), who was one of the players responsible for popularizing the Les Paul guitar model. This guitar, coupled with Eric Clapton’s Les Paul “Beano Burst”, Jimmy Page’s “Number One” Les Paul, and a few others, is probably why the late 1950s Gibson Les Paul is nowadays seen by many as the “Holy Grail ...
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Sep 14, 2023 · So when Moore fired up the jets to track his new record, Close As You Get, he composed five originals, and then tore into some Sonny Boy Williamson, Chuck Berry, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Son House – whose “Sundown“ closes the record, and features the 55-year-old Moore’s first recorded bottleneck/resonator outing in his 30-plus year career.
