Labels:bulletin board | hakham | monitor OCR: Cea PETER GREEN Celebrated blues guitarist Peter Green grew up in London's working -class East End, listening to such early musical influences as Muddy Waters and B.B. King By his late teens he'd met up with a young Mick Fleetwood, and played with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, replacing guitarist Eric Clapton, who left to form Cream. When Green exited Mayall's band in 1967 he took with him bassist John McVie and Fleetwood to form the first lineup of Fleetwood Mac Green's incredible songwriting skills were instantly apparent the composed, among other songs the future Santana hit "Black Magic Woman"; however, he fell into heavy drug use and subsequent mental instability and departed Fleetwood Mac in the mid-70s. By the end of the 70s. Green pulled himself together to record several albums thr ...
