It ended up hurting my soul so I started to make up stories instead.” It was too deep, too painful if you do it right. “The guitarists who copied them old black players were doing an interpretation, but couldn’t get to the feeling behind it. “Sumlin and Wolf had it,” Green told Mojo in 1996. That wasn’t his style - he was all about emotion. As he sneered, “Good luck to the Snoggley Blues Band who are growing very popular now in the white blues world with a rhythm guitarist who can play 7,541 notes a minute.” The English blues scene was fixated on technical dexterity, but Green had a deep contempt for show-offs. He replaced Eric Clapton in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers in 1965, making his name with the dazzling vibrato freak-out, “The Supernatural.” Two years later, he took off with Bluesbreakers drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie to start their own band, named after the rhythm section. But he got hooked on the blues, going down to the corner cafe to play Howlin’ Wolf records on the jukebox and study Hubert Sumlin’s guitar. rockers, he first got inspired by the Shadows’ master of twang, Hank Marvin. He had a unique tone - he accidentally put the pickup on his Gibson Les Paul backwards, after taking it off to clean it, but kept it because he loved the sound. “The guitar used to speak for me, but I can’t let it do that for me anymore,” he said in the documentary Man of the World.
Green eventually began playing again, touring with his Splinter Group.
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