From the first generation of Fleetwood Mac, it’s the Peter Green-penned “Oh Well”, a song I spent many of my high school days listening to.
Green is also on the short list of greatest Jewish rock guitarists. And, yes, indeed, it is truly a short list.
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Love Green’s Hava Nagila riff in that song! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Mark Knopfler, great Jewish guitarist.
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Marc Bolan (fka Marc Feld).
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If we’re making a list, don’t forget Leslie West.
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Mike Bloomfield.
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Does Lenny Kravitz count?
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As much as Mark Knopfler…
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Are you saying that Kravitz is as Jewish as Knopfler, or as good a guitarist? Certainly not the latter.
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I was referring to ethnicity.
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Got it. I’m just glad that no one has mentioned Adam Sandler yet.
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Harvey Mandel, Canned Heat
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Norman Greenbaum. Not really known for anything but his “one-hit wonder,” but what a hit. Kinda’ like Gene Chizik.
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Ah, but don’t forget “When ya gonna buy me a canned ham?”
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What about Atlanta’s own Jewish singer songwriter heart breakers Evan & Jaron?
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Senator, if you don’t already have it you should pick up the Fleetwood Mac boxed set “Jumping At Shadows.” It’s a great cross-section of Peter’s material from side projects to the Mac.
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Great song, one of my favorites. You could also throw “Black Magic Woman” in there, though Carlos made it famous.
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One of my fave as well. Early FMc was a completely different animal than the later incarnation.
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Does Kinky Friedman count or just his band?
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Kinky qualifies on the Jewish part. Not so much on the great rock guitarist part, though.
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Great pick- you’ve got me on an early FM kick now- just spun “Hypnotized” and going in for the original “Sentimental Lady” now. I might also have to make a serious academic foray into the Yiddish school of lead guitar.
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Interesting to speculate on how the Jewish experience informs some of those licks.
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Oh Well part 2 and Before the Beginning have a real come to the Temple kind of vibe. Check out the British documentary about Greenie “Man of the World”. Best rock doc I’ve ever seen. Jeremy Spencer is a hoot.
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Both of those songs were after Greene left the band. Those were Bob Welch era Mac, I believe.
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I know, they’re just two of my favorites pre-Buckingham/Nicks era.
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Petty did a nice cover of Oh Well.
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So did Joe Jackson.
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Final question in a trivia contest I was in: Name the band that first recorded Oh Well. Winner, winner, right here.
Great song.
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First recorded? I guess I have to ask, who else recorded it?
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Haim, for one. And Danielle and Alana count as guitar god(dess) twofers – Jewish and female. As for others, Tom Petty, Joe Jackson, the 1975 Buckingham Nicks version of Fleetwood Mac, Billy F. Gibbons, on and on…
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I highly recommend the Peter Green documentary on Amazon Video. It’s free with your Prime. Fleetwood Mac have such an interesting story and the Peter Green years get glossed over as a prologue to what came after. But they were truly an incredible band. Peter Green was a genius guitar player, easily in the same conversation with Clapton or anyone else.
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Does Geddy Lee count or do we only count him as a vocalist?
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Not a bad bassist. He filled in admirably for Chris Squire at the R&R HoF induction for Yes.
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Lou Reed played a little guitar in the early days.
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And Robbie Robertson was sorta kinda Jewish. He definitely could play guitar.
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Hey … little Bobby Zimmerman! (Of whom Robbie Robertson said, “But, but … he’s a STRUMMER!”
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