February 1970

[BklynBlue]

I wrote that the Frankfurt show may have been canceled because as noted, Celmins, Dawson and Hjort all leave that city out of their accounts.
That does not mean that they didn’t play the date though. Neither Celmins nor Dawson offers a complete listing of the shows played. Celmins leaves out seven of the twenty cities played.
In Dawson’s account, he states the “next night” after Munich was Nuremburg, but again, there are many errors of memory in his book.
Hjort seems to have taken his cue from Dawson and writes that the tour “resumed” on the twenty-forth, in Nuremburg.
It may not have been Green who was unable to play after his night at the commune, it might have been the others who were too shook up, and wanted a night off.
It also seems possible that it took longer than we think to extricate Green and the others from the house, and by the time they were ready to leave, it was simply too late to make the trip to Frankfurt.
I do not claim to know any more than anyone else say that they know that they did play that night.

Admitting no special knowledge of the events, listening to the available performances recorded after Munich, some just days after, it is apparent that the problems that would engulf Green did not begin right after Munich. The trips he took there may have been the catalyst, but their full effect still took some time to manifest themselves.