I'm with Phil Cooper on this one. The Fifth Peg was a club/bar in the 800 block (or so) of W. Armitage where John began playing--1969 and 1970. It was while we were there to hear him, that, as I've recounted here in this forum in other threads, that a drunk was coming on to my seven-months-pregnant wife, Carol. (That'd make it just about the beginning of April--1970.) I pushed him gingerly away, and he toppled over, along with 2 or 3 bar stools. I got tossed out of the bar for, as was said by some who, I swear, didn't even see the incident ;-) of decking the guy with a left hook. And we never did hear John Prine sing his second set that night.-------- But them was good times nonetheless.

Ah, nostalgia...

Clay Eals in Seattle is nearing the end of working on what will, I'm sure, be a great biography of a fine fellow (and an old friend) STEVE GOODMAN. Watch for that, as it promises to be filled with great tales about that era and the folks on the Wells Street and Lincoln Avenue music scenes in Chicago.

Art Thieme