Peter Green's royalties

[Ms Moose]

Yes, snoot - there certainly is a lot of confusion regarding both the question of royalties and of the "Peter Green brandishing a gun"-incident. The latter having taken on almost myth-like dimensions in the media-history of our guitar-anti-hero.

According to Martin Celmins biography about Green - which is probably the most truthful source - all the gunslinging that took place was verbal and happened during a phone conversation between Green and Clifford Davis. Green had just returned from a holiday in Canada, was broke and called Davis. Davis said that he had no money for him, but that the accountant David Simmons had it. Green explains in the book that somehow he said: "I'll shoot you," and when Clifford explained that Simmons had the money, Green replied: "Well, I will shoot his windows down too." At the time PG didn't even have the gun in his possesion. It never left the box it was bought in and was "looked after" by his parents in their home in Canvey Island (South East England). This story is repeated by PG and Clifford Davis in the DVD "Peter Green - Man Of The World", that was released last year. The british press blew the story out of all proportion - as they do.

About the royalties - and now I myself might be promoting another untrue story - I read (can't remember where) that Michelle Reynolds recieved the rights to Albatross as a part of her alimony at the divorce from Davis. After the break-up of Splinter Group none of us earthlings know what has happened to the relationship between PG and Michelle Reynolds.
PG's lawyer since 1995 is Catherine Fehler who is a specialist in royalties and showbusines so let's hope that she has continued "the tracking down" of royalties that belongs to him.

Ms Moose