Gary Moore

:For the former TV host, see Garry Moore.

Connection with Peter Green

According to numerous interviews he has given to guitar magazines, he was the protege of British Blues pioneer Peter Green, whom he had always admired ever since the Bluesbreakers days. When Green quit Fleetwood Mac and the entire music scene, he sold his famous nasal-sounding 1959 Gibson Les Paul (the nasal sound of this particular guitar's neck pickup is not, as used to be believed, the result of the pickup having been turned backwards, but instead its two coils have been - perhaps by accident? - reconnected in parallel and out of phase, as per the "in between" positions of a Fender Stratocaster) to Moore for the price Moore managed to sell the guitar he had then (a Gibson SG). Moore has used this guitar in the recordings of some songs of his albums Still Got The Blues, After Hours and Blues For Greeny. Green and Moore also reportedly had a disagreement regarding what guitar the former was playing in the song "Albatross". Moore insists it was the Les Paul, because the guitar tone was particularly warm and rich in the bass, while Peter Green maintains he was using a Strat, as the vibrato in that song was not finger vibrato, but subtle tremolo arm vibrato. Up to this day, Green and Moore remain good friends.

Related Topics:
British Blues - Peter Green - Bluesbreakers - Fleetwood Mac - 1959 - Gibson - Les Paul - Fender - Stratocaster - Gibson SG - Still Got The Blues - After Hours - Blues For Greeny

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