Re: Peter Grant's Revenge / New Thread

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Michael Murphy wrote:

> PETER GRANT STORY
> The year is 1971 (I'm thinking it might be more like '72).  Mike was
> getting ready to close the Music Land store for the day when in marched
> Peter Grant accompanied by two "huge guys" holding bats.  Peter glanced
> into the the Zep in and grunted "Blueberry Hill!"  Music Land had copies
> of the new (also first) Zep bootleg.  Peter was nice about asking Mike
> and 2 other workers to step back into the manager's office.  Peter and
> his men proceeded to destroy the entire store.  They left it "in
> splinters."  I asked if the police were ever called and he said no.
> After all, we were selling boots.  Just another case of Peter and the
> Mighty Zep wielding their power.  Mike had nothing bad to say about
> Peter. In fact, he said he was very polite - just doing what he had to
> do.

I *believe* a version of this story is told by Peter, either in the PG
interview
shown on MuchMusic *or* on one of the interview tapes that I have. 
Of course, since PG tells it himself, it is thru his eyes. He goes in
with 2 people,
busts up the record store and then the manager calls him up next day/
next week and says, "yeah, three thugs came in a busted up my store!" 
Peter was saying, "oh, what a shame."
And then later the manager realized that Peter had been one of the
"thugs".
Heheh!
I may be a little skewed on the story--but basically that's the gist of
it.
I only heard the interview once. Maybe if someone has it transcribed
they could
post it to the list?

PS. Don't trust me--I don't even know who makes JP's latest three-necked
instrument. ;)

Love,
Theolyn