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[slipkid]

Originally Posted by sharksfan2000

How do you figure that, slipkid? I didn't read that into what Mick Fleetwood said. The myth that he perpetuated about Peter only jamming to "Black Magic Woman" when he returned for that '71 tour has been pretty well exploded now though. But maybe that was genuinely Mick's memory of that tour, I don't know.

You have to remember that this interview was done before Peter's return to playing in the mid-'90s too - from all accounts I've read, Peter was not in the best condition at that point.

The reason I "read into that" is because Mick Fleetwood remembers everything. If you have seen the BBC Peter Green documentary from four/five years ago, Mick Fleetwood, along with Jeremy Spencer is reminding John McVie what actually happened.

I think deep down Mick Fleetwood is out to protect the FM franchise. Go back in the Ledge archives and read the then recent post 5/70 interviews with MF. Mick practically dismisses Green's "The End of The Game" as another Hendrix copy attempt. Mick was pissed off! Mick Fleetwood has been behind the "Munich incident" hype since 3/70. As you said, we now know the 1971 winter/spring post concerts were not all about "Black Magic Woman". Thanks to the internet, we now have audible proof that Peter Green probably played his best guitar post Munich 3/70. What MF wanted to hide is that Peter Green was just simply "bored". The late Gary Moore has said as early as 1969, Peter Green told him personally that wanted out of Fleetwood Mac.

While it's possible PG's behavior changed from 1967, his life-force didn't switch off over one night in Munich Germany.

So this 1994 interview is MF speaking as if Peter Green is dead musically, and not coming back.

Jump to the late winter of 2008, FM is about to start on a big US tour, and Mick Fleetwood is interviewed for Sirius radio. All of a sudden, Peter Green is now the god Fleetwood saw him before he abandoned him, and FM in May, 1970. Mick Fleetwood now brags that Green was the "English guy" the Chicago bluesmen respected over Eric Clapton.


Mick Fleetwood was crushed, and very bitter when Peter Green left FM. Here's a scenario; Stevie Nicks , and Lindsey Buckingham agree to join FM New Year's Eve 1974. The next day, Peter Green appears, and admits he misses being in FM, and wants to re-join. I would bet the economies of all countries of the western world that Mick Fleetwood would choose Peter Green over Buckingham/Nicks.