So should Fleetwood Mac fix the omission of Bob Welch in the induction to Rock's Hall of Fame?Īnd is there really some kind of curse on the guitarists who play for the band?Enjoy our Budget Air/Ground Shipping - starting as low as $2.99! Simply choose Budget Air/Ground as your shipping method during checkout.
It finally was released in 2008, a full for years before Welch took his own life!!!! The song was originally going to be released in the nineties, on the aborted album Gift of Screams If this is not Bob Welch he's singing about, I don't know who. The lyrics go: suicide days, suicide, suicide nights On a foot note is there anyone else that's heard the Buckingham solo song "Wait For You" on his Gift of Screws album? If my memory serves me, this was after the band was entered into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but Bob Welch wasn't inducted with them!!!! One could call it bad timing because Welch was suing the band at the time. Nearly blind and wheel chair bound, he put a gun to his chest and pulled the trigger. He had a hit album but soon sank back into the shadows. He left the Mac in late 74, burnt-out, looking to go solo. before the rest of the band moved across the pond. He helped fight for the Mac name here in the U.S. Here was a guy who did everything he could to get Fleetwood Mac back to the heights of the late 60's Green led Mac.
They haven't made an album and thus were more of hired guns in my view.īack to Bob Welch. Nothing! To early to say if Neil Finn or Mike Campbell will have the curse bite them. Some could say Weston survived the curse, but what happened after the Mac? Funny how it always takes two players!?! To Dave Mason for one ill advised album and Bob Weston who played some memorable slide guitar on several albums only to fall for Mick Fleetwood's wife and get the ax. To Billy Burnette and Rick Vito the first duo to replace Buckingham the 2nd time. Strangely the band had other guitarists, from the most recent: Neil Finn and Mike Campbell duo who replaced Buckingham this last time. Only to be stabbed in the back by one and abandoned to his fate by the other, ousted from the band. Who made the albums shine and the ladies in the band see their stars rising. To Lindsey Buckingham himself, the musical alchemist. Jeremy Spencer lured away by the Children of God ( cult )ĭanny Kirwan, the Peter Green protégé from acid and mental instabilityīob Welch, the forgotten one, who carried the band from 1973 through 1974, relocating them to California and thus paving the way for the Buckingham/ Nicks era Peter Green the acid casualty out of the band in 1971 From Peter Green to Jeremy Spencer to Danny Kirwan to Bob Welch to Lindsey Buckingham, all have tasted tragedy. There is and always has been a "curse " of sorts with virtually every guitar player Fleetwood Mac has ever employed.
Really two subjects, but one could Double Down with Bob Welch. This subject has been simmering with me for a long time.