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Originally Posted by doodyhead
Dear Folks,
In this age of recognizing mental health issues there is a lot of knowns and unknowns.
For one thing there is a lot of cases where the symptoms of bi polar disorders and schizophrenia onsets in people in their late 20's. Who knows for real when it really happened for Peter.
What I do know is every time I see a Peter Green documentary when they start talking about it they show that same video clip of him sitting in the back seat of a car making faces. Is making faces to a camera a sure sign of craziness? Uh OH. We must all be crazy.
The cheese in the beard thing. I know far too many people from that time period that were not the most clean people in their personal appearance. I had an uncle like that who was a professor. Was he crazy?
I think Bob Welch had an axe to grind regarding this. For one thing he appears to be a real neat freak in his appearance, and two Bob came in after two great guitarists left . MIck and John seemed to be in mourning for a long time. Mick always said that whenever he needed a lift he would play some rare Peter Green recordings. I wonder how many times Bob heard that and said... "what am I, chopped liver" or Who Him? the guy with the cheese in his beard?"
I'm just saying.....
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I agree. Though I'm sure Munich didn't help, it can't be the "be all end all" like the docs make it out. As if everything was so peachy, then Munich, now all the sudden it's "that's it I'm outta here" & Mick saying "what happened to Peter?" and like doody says they're clever the way they make those docs as if footage of PG making faces in a car (which seem to date from well before this time period) is supposed to be "evidence" he's not right etc. Not to mention Mick seems to enjoy doing all the phony parts of the interview, blowing up stories so they come out as more dramatic than they probably were. OK we weren't there we don't know what happened but we shouldn't just drink the kool aid they feed us either. They're bound to have all done things we agree and disagree with at some point or another so all these "legends" are probably in the middle somewhere. I try to just concentrate on the music & ignore this stuff, not saying others in this thread don't, just wanted to agree with this post is all.
John