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May 5, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: The Lonesome Death of Bob Welch

Bob Welch was a very good guitar player He wrote plenty of great songs, worked well with Christine McVie; the two sharing the songwriting duties as Fleetwood Mac moved around a lot and tried to find itself in the wake of its blues musicians and shaman leader wandering off. Between 1971 and 1974 a lot […]
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September 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Feature: Fleetwood Mac

I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But now and then I present features on the show too. Last year I had nearly an hour to explore the music of George Harrison. I followed that up with a chat about Ringo Starr and played some of his best Beatles drum bits […]
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March 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Sad Story of Bob Welch: Fleetwood Mac’s Most Undervalued Member

Bob Welch killed himself in 2012. It’s hard to eulogise a suicide; beyond sad, utterly devastating. Welch was a singer/guitarist/songwriter. He had a solo career and was in a band called Paris. But he had also been a member of a band called Fleetwood Mac – and though history seems to have conveniently forgotten about […]
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October 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 622

Fleetwood Mac, Bare Tree (1972) I grew up with the Fleetwood Mac of the stadium tours and greatest hits comps and classic albums and then I learned about the blues years and I dug that stuff too. But the most interesting part of the puzzle, these days, is the middle years – when the rhythm […]
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August 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Best Guitarist in The World: # 11 – Lindsey Buckingham

You never even used to see this guy considered for The Best Guitarist lists…and, actually, maybe you still don’t, come to think of it…but I reckon something changed when the core version of Fleetwood Mac, the classic FM-music version of the group, reformed for Bill Clinton’s inauguration and started a victory-lap tour of sorts. (One […]
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June 29, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1090

Fleetwood Mac, Future Games (1971) Here’s the first of the Fleetwood Mac albums to feature Bob Welch – what a sad, sad story that ended up being. I called him the “nightwatchman” of Fleetwood Mac, he was in the caretaker-role that took the band from blues and psych-rock stalwarts to soft-rock stadium kings; he’s there […]
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June 22, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1956

Fleetwood Mac, Penguin (1973) I love all Fleetwood Mac stuff – the blues band stuff with Peter Green, the stadium-filling hits with Stevie and Lindsey and the interesting middle-ground years, 1971-1975; the years that the history books seem to forget about. Bob Welch ran the band – in another lifetime he might be acknowledged as […]
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