Green's mental decline
There are several reasons for Peter's decision to leave the band and his subsequent mental decline. Based on what I have been told by a couple of people who knew him back in the day, Peter was and is of a very sensitive, humble, and artistic tempermant. LSD and other drugs were often used as a conduit to artistic expression. This was not neccessary with Peter. As Jenny Boyd once put it: Peter was already there, he was already connected to his own soul artistically. Such people don't need drugs to achieve artistic enlightenment, in fact such drugs seem to cause mush greater destruction with people of an artistic bend. The other issue that I have never heard metioned is that Peter and the whole band for that matter were in a state of total exhaustion after three years of constant touring, recording, rehearsing etc. Mick Fleetwood once stated that there was never a time when the band was not working. An important point that is always missed when Peter's illness is discussed.
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