death of a lawsuit

[doodyhead]

I think I have waited long enough


What ever happened to Nigel Watson, and do we really want to know?


doodyhead

[mzero]

I think I have waited long enough


What ever happened to Nigel Watson, and do we really want to know?


doodyhead

vinnie! you've waited long enough.

i don't know what's become of nigel. but i would like to know what has happened to him. he can't be as bad a guy as he's been made out. well maybe he got lost in the situation. either way he did play a big role in getting pete to play again. i'm really grateful for that.

now that you've got me thinking about the splinter group again, some those guys were great - roger cotton, larry tolfree and pete stroud. maybe not as good players as best of the pvk era guys (snowy, reg isadore, kuma, dave mattacks) but very sympathetic. i play those records particularly destiny road, the live at ronnie scotts, blues don't change, and the first one, the splinter group a fair bit.

a penguin q&a with one of the splinter guys covering some of the good times from those days would be great don't you think?

zero

[Ms Moose]

Good job you popped the question, Doodyhead!

I think everybody on the P.G. site has wanted to do this at some time or other or wonders about this question from time to time.

It is yet another enigma - whatever happened? No one person is only bad - "it takes two (or more) to tango" - so to speak. In a legal framework though, relationships between people tend to get polarized into black or white.

As far as I can see there is 1) the legal issue, the lawsuit - whatever that was about, and then there is 2) the personal relationships.

I think you are right, Zero - Splinter Group was not just Peter Green and Nigel - there were the others as well, and I wonder how they percieved the whole thing? And like Nigel they seemed to have put lots of effort and care into the project.

I think that:


a penguin q&a with one of the splinter guys covering some of the good times from those days would be great don't you think?

zero

is a splendid idea! And in a very positive spirit too!

But I wonder whether they were all muzzled (is that the right word? I had to look it up in the dictionary) during the court-case and maybe for years to come?
If so: sad...

Ms Moose

[Wouter Vuijk]

I think I have waited long enough


What ever happened to Nigel Watson, and do we really want to know?


doodyhead

Yes, I'd like to know. And, as others have already stated, not just Nigel but all the others who have played a role in the Splinter Group (i.e. including Spike Edney, Neil Murray)

[mzero]

Yes, I'd like to know. And, as others have already stated, not just Nigel but all the others who have played a role in the Splinter Group (i.e. including Spike Edney, Neil Murray)


wouter! i can be of some assistance with neil murray. he's been very active since splinter days, mainly in the field for which he is most well known- heavy rock to near metal-knowledge due to zero's weakness for, don't laugh, early whitesnake. whitesnake!

neil has played with various whitesnake spinoffs, basically bernie marsden's bands usually with mickey moody. i think they still play out as m^3 (m cubed, for marsden, moody, murray). previously they toured and recorded as the company of snakes, also the snakes. neil plays with a german based outfit called empire and has done lots of sessions too. for example there's a record with ex ufo, scorpions guitarist michael schenker that's due out this spring.

the splinter group its not, but neil can play, no question and still in demand. zero