I've Got a Black Magic Woman...

Today in rock history, in 1970, Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green leaves the group to do “what God will have me to do,’ after joining a commune in Munich and taking one too many LSD trips. Green, one of the founding members of the Mac and 38th on Rolling Stone magazine’s top 100 guitarists, came to the Mac from replacing Eric Clapton in the Bluesbreakers. This was said about Green by the recording engineer right prior to his first recording session with the Bluesbreakers: “As the band walked in the studio I noticed an amplifier which I never saw before, so I said to John Mayall, ‘Where's Eric Clapton?’ Mayall answered, ‘He's not with us anymore, he left us a few weeks ago.’ I was in a shock of state (sic) but Mayall said, ‘Don't worry, we got someone better.’ I said, ‘Wait a minute, hang on a second, this is ridiculous. You've got someone better??? Than Eric Clapton???’ John said, ‘He might not be better now, but you wait, in a couple of years he's going to be the best.’ Then he introduced me to Peter Green.” Well, maybe not better than Clapton (but who knows what would have happened if fate had not intervened?), but a blues guitar giant in his own right. Let’s check out some of his best work (along with co-guitarist Danny Kirwan), thanks to http://www.rockintown.com/today-in-rock.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Green_(musician) for the info, and keep on rockin’