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Originally Posted by slipkid
Which is why I think Danny Kirwan tried to hit Peter Green in the head with a glass beer bottle after the show, out of pure frustration! That account is not from Clifford Davis.
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Yes, the beer bottle story originally came from Nigel Watson, and we have only his opinion as to why Danny did it...whether or not that came from anything Danny said at the time, we have no way of knowing. But I imagine that the whole band must have been frustrated at not being able to perform more of their current numbers and perhaps at having to take a back seat to a former band member for much of those shows, even if it was the band's founder. Both stories are said to have happened during the band's gigs at the Fillmore East (they played more than one night there), so they could have happened on the same night or on different nights. But single four-hour jam or not, Danny's frustration might well be understandable. Who knows, the rest of the band might have felt like hitting him with a bottle too!
Here's a thought for some discussion. Based on how things played out, the assumption has always been that the band would have canceled the rest of their tour if Peter (and Nigel) had not flown in to join them. But could they realistically have continued the tour as a four-piece? Obviously Danny was not comfortable being a front man but Christine might have been able to handle fronting the band at that point, for the remaining few weeks of the tour anyway. So could they have functioned that way or would it have turned out like Spinal Tap without Nigel Tufnel?
