The original Fleetwood Mac was a well-known blues band with Peter Green at the lead.
This is a story of peace and madness although the estimation of who found peace and who went mad may be difficult to distinguish.
There's a hippie commune in Munich which may even still exist today but those who met Peter Green in Munich weren't some fly by night Commie stoner bushwhackers. Rainer Langhans was one of them.
For the perspective at that time, Fleetwood Mac was a successful blues band and they were on the third tour of Europe when Peter Green met Rainer Langhans and others. Prior to that, the Mac had collectively decided they needed the lady singers you all know and Green knew what that meant so he wanted no part of it. In other words, he was about to leave the band anyway so they could go on to commercial success.
Check out the view of the existing Mac since they seem to believe his soul was eaten by Satan.
It was a bloody cult, I tell you (larfs).
Note: it wasn't LSD but mescaline.
In case you don't believe any of this, here's Peter Green with "Albatross."
He saw himself with a Biafran baby while he was trippin' in Munich and he saw how hard they had to work for something to eat and he tried to offer a sandwich to the kid on the television. He didn't think the kid would take it but he did in some virtual way.
Green could not accept that the band was making so much money for the things they do but that kid couldn't even get enough to eat. A single trip won't do that and the same reason is why he resented the attempts to, in his estimation, commercialize the band.
As you see above, the band reviles him for it but, as you see with Green, he may have been hurt by that and probably was but it didn't stop him playing.
My blood family has a similar estimation of madness in me but all of them voted for the killing and none of them play with the consequent result they regard me as an animal in a human suit. That's their choice to make but it doesn't give me a reason to see them again. The Rockhouse doesn't need Fleetwood Mac but we do need Peter Green since we respect loyalty to the principles in anyone who holds them dear and doesn't waver regardless of cost.
Thanks to the insight on Peter Green from Cat who speaks with authority since she has lived not far from Munich and has been close to the deep counterculture for much of her life. She has always been a woman of peace.
I asked Cat if she got hassled much for her views on peace and she said she did not which gave me one more reason to be envious of Germany and so wish I had grown up there.
Peace
This is a story of peace and madness although the estimation of who found peace and who went mad may be difficult to distinguish.
There's a hippie commune in Munich which may even still exist today but those who met Peter Green in Munich weren't some fly by night Commie stoner bushwhackers. Rainer Langhans was one of them.
For the perspective at that time, Fleetwood Mac was a successful blues band and they were on the third tour of Europe when Peter Green met Rainer Langhans and others. Prior to that, the Mac had collectively decided they needed the lady singers you all know and Green knew what that meant so he wanted no part of it. In other words, he was about to leave the band anyway so they could go on to commercial success.
Check out the view of the existing Mac since they seem to believe his soul was eaten by Satan.
It was a bloody cult, I tell you (larfs).
Note: it wasn't LSD but mescaline.
In case you don't believe any of this, here's Peter Green with "Albatross."
He saw himself with a Biafran baby while he was trippin' in Munich and he saw how hard they had to work for something to eat and he tried to offer a sandwich to the kid on the television. He didn't think the kid would take it but he did in some virtual way.
Green could not accept that the band was making so much money for the things they do but that kid couldn't even get enough to eat. A single trip won't do that and the same reason is why he resented the attempts to, in his estimation, commercialize the band.
As you see above, the band reviles him for it but, as you see with Green, he may have been hurt by that and probably was but it didn't stop him playing.
My blood family has a similar estimation of madness in me but all of them voted for the killing and none of them play with the consequent result they regard me as an animal in a human suit. That's their choice to make but it doesn't give me a reason to see them again. The Rockhouse doesn't need Fleetwood Mac but we do need Peter Green since we respect loyalty to the principles in anyone who holds them dear and doesn't waver regardless of cost.
Thanks to the insight on Peter Green from Cat who speaks with authority since she has lived not far from Munich and has been close to the deep counterculture for much of her life. She has always been a woman of peace.
I asked Cat if she got hassled much for her views on peace and she said she did not which gave me one more reason to be envious of Germany and so wish I had grown up there.
Peace
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