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what amp do you think Peter Green was using on "The Supernatural"

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I doubt there will ever be a conclusive answer, and the interwebs have speculated on this matter before. The other contender being a custom Matamp/Orange.
 
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The orange matamp seems pretty unlikely. I don't think they actually were being produced until 1968 and I think the Mayall album with Supernatural was released in '67. Far as I know, Fleetwood Mac only used the orange amps on their American tour, and that's the only time I've ever heard of Peter Green playing through an orange matamp. When I saw them in '69, it was all big Fenders.

I'd also agree that the sound is not the sound I think of when I think of Les Paul + JTM45. It sounds much more like FM's Albatross.

Also agree that the reverb sound is definitely not springs...or not springs alone.
 
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It sounds like a Fender reverb amp to me, too……with the treble control max Ed…which is not a sound Inlike whether it is this sound or Bloomfield or Buchanan. The facility on the instrument here is something I do like..a lot.
 
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Tollywood said:
This is the first time I have ever heard Peter Green. He has a haunting tone.
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I'm no Green expert, but I do know this the kind of tone that Carlos Santana was going for when he Covered Green's "Black Magic Woman"
 
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Not marshall at all to me.

(for the record, my main amp for years has been a '64 Deluxe reverb.)
 
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well if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck = Marshall
 
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Tollywood said:
This is the first time I have ever heard Peter Green. He has a haunting tone.
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You have homework!
There is a good case that he could be the 2nd greatest electric guitarist who ever lived.
His Les Paul is one of the holy grails of guitars and well i to 7 figures was paid for it by a fairly famous guitar player.
 
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Wilko said:
I'm no Green expert, but I do know this the kind of tone that Carlos Santana was going for when he Covered Green's "Black Magic Woman"
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An interviewer said to Peter Green, and I paraphrase, "You realize that Carlos Santana used The Supernatural as the springboard for his entire sound, right?"
And Green replied, "Yeah...sorry about that."
 
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I'd like to take credit for it...but it was just pure dumb luck that I happened to be born at the right time which enabled me to catch FM with Green, Spencer and Kirwin in a small venue in the Detroit area when I was in high school. I was in the room with them, maybe 25 feet from the stage, when they lit the place on fire with numbers like Black Magic Woman, Oh Well, Fighting for Madge, the Green Manalishi and so on. My recollection was stacks of lots of cabs and largish Fender amps, two Les Pauls and Jeremey with a hollow body with a Florentine cuttaway. But the most important things I remember were that they were absolutely the most dynamic rock/blues band I'd ever seen. And I'd seen Muddy, BB, Albert, Cream, the Stones and Hendrix by then. They totally integrated dynamics into their sound. And they really listened to and played off each other. And unlike just about all other rock/blues acts I'd seen to that point, I remember a lot of smiling on stage, mostly from Peter Green...sometimes Jeremy, Mick or even Danny....but they seemed to play with more joy than anyone else I remember. Man I loved those days when it was all about the music.
 
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