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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
June 22, 2011 by Simon Sweetman