July 22, 1966: John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers release a new album, _Blues Breakers: John Mayall With Eric_ Clapton, which had been recorded before Peter Green replaced Clapton.
John McVie: It was done at Decca studios in West Hampstead in less than a month. We played together a lot as a band, so we’d just go in and do takes live, with no overdubs. And as soon as the session was finished, we’d be out to gig. After the album came out a strange situation developed, because this upstart guy named Peter Green started playing with Mayall. There were guitar style wars going on between them – all that stuff about ‘Clapton Is God’ being sprayed on the walls was real!
In a short time they started spraying Green is greater then God!