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Guitar World
Guitar World
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Jonathan Horsley

“I got a call from a manager who was trying to drag him out of obscurity. We jammed daily, but he was away with the fairies”: Rick Fenn on the time he tried to help bring Peter Green back into the limelight

Rick Fenn of 10cc plays a Strat onstage [left]; Peter Green plays his Les Paul in the studio back in his Fleetwood Mac days.

Rick Fenn was like many others of his age. Picking up the electric guitar as a young lad, it was Peter Green he looked up to. Green, alongside his fellow British blues guitar trailblazers Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, were making the weather for the instrument.

Learning from the O.G. bluesmen, these players were augmenting and amplifying these techniques, the hyper-trophying tube amps of the time making blues louder, and bigger.

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