The Munich accident

[Ms Moose]

Thank you very much for taking the time to translate, Popmuseum. The coffee seemed to work its magic
Rainer's answer takes a lot of air out of the myth of PG's "sudden personality change" - which is and has always been - unrealistic and unlikely.

It's very interesting that Rainer is indicating that a "trauma-story" has been cooked up by various members of Fleetwood Mac, roadies, media and so on, about how Peter Green came back from this Munich commune encounter, a totally changed person and so on. A very clear example of this is John McVie's anger with these german hippies in the Man of The World DVD. In the Peter Green biography Martin Celmins is sensibly trying to de-mystify the Munich encounter. In the biography Peter's own recollections are close to Rainers in that it didn't seem to be very traumatic to him (PG), on the contrary he was having a good time - and it didn't last for three days.

It must have been traumatic for FM though, because the day after (or in the days after) PG seemed to be determined to leave FM. So the reasoning: "Hippie-commune three day LSD binge" (cause) = "Peter wants out" (effect) was the simple way of explaining something much more complicated within the relationship of the group members. It seemed that PG was fed up with the lack of inspiration coming from the others at the time combined with the conflicts over giving away their money and all that. Maybe the fact is that FM and the people around them never saw what was coming up with regard to PG and his illness - being overworked and heavily involved with drugs themselves at the time. Reality is often too complicated when it comes to making painful things meaningful (like losing PG was to Mick and John). Then it is handy to believe that "a strange major event involving brain washing by jet-set german hippies" changed PG overnight. It's a comfortable story.

Ms Moose