"I think it's important for Birmingham that somebody tries to make ago of it and "The club is now a shop and the owners have agreed to allow tours of the building on the day so that people can see where the stage was, where the bar was and so on." One item Dave has is an undated letter signed by John Peel which says: 'I remember a wonderful Fleetwood Mac gig at which Peter Green, before over- indulgence in acid sidelined him, and at the time one of the few musicians who seemed to have retained a sense of humour, doing a Stan Webb.
'Stan (Chickenshack) used to leap into the audience to play his guitar solos and Pete, who had obviously witnessed this, put on a monkey mask (for Stan was not an object of great beauty) and did the same.
Actually, Pete's monkey-mask thing was not a take on Stan Webb, but Buddy Guy, who was the first blues guitarist to pull off that stage antic. Pete would disappear off stage and at most gigs, John McVie would announce 'Ladies and gentlemen, Buddy Guy!' It would be regarded as being totally unPC today, of course!
Stan Webb, being a Buddy Guy aficionado, included this stunt in CS's show.
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