Fact #101083

Mick Fleetwood : In the Peter Green era, a lot of stuff we did was harder than it sounded. Guitarists still ask me how Peter played that Oh Well riff. What it is, is that there's a couple of notes in there where he bent the chord so that certain notes sounded like other notes. That song drove me crazy because it's a very structured song. I was used to counting in, starting and then steaming ahead and then finishing, but Oh Well is so tightly structured that you have to pay attention all the time. The famous little cowbell signature was a mistake, but Peter liked it and decided to keep it in. So I had to re-learn my mistake, which was not easy.


I did it OK on the recording but the hardest thing was miming it for Top Of The Pops because it happens when nothing else is going on. It had to look perfect. So for ten days I took a little portable tape recorder everywhere with me to get it right. In the end I greased it off really well.

(Source : interview with Johnny Black, 1995)