Danny Kirwan (Blog Critics.Org)

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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.....