Within two months of his leaving they were in the studio with two new members, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and vocalist Stephanie (Stevie) Nicks, recording a new album called Fleetwood Mac, which shows signs of being their most successful effort since the release of Bare Trees three years ago. So Welch’s departure was just one more in a long line of setbacks to overcome. When their manager, Clifford Davis, sent another group out on the road with the name Fleetwood Mac, they fired him, obtained a temporary injunction against his use of the name, and have managed themselves ever since. After making their reputation as a hard English blues band, they managed to shrug off the loss of their remarkable guitar-playing duo of Spencer and Peter Green, and made the radical switch to ballads and soft rock to suit their personnel. But throughout their turbulent eight-year history, Fleetwood Mac has exhibited an uncanny instinct for survival. For many groups it might have signaled the end of a career. When Welch suddenly and unexpectedly quit last New Year’s Eve, he left a sizable hole. We should have been using Chris a lot more.” “It wasn’t any conscious ego thing on his part,” added drummer Mick Fleetwood, “but we definitely drifted into doing too many of Bob’s songs onstage. It just boiled down to basic laziness on my part.
Bob Welch was such an energetic, speedy guy. “I don’t know how it really happened,” McVie added. The rest of the band, especially McVie, their other singer/songwriter, was pushed into the background. By last year Welch was playing lead guitar, cowriting and singing most of the group’s material and running the stage show. Am I in the band?'”īob Welch has moved increasingly into a position of dominance within the band since replacing Jeremy Spencer – who disappeared mysteriously in Los Angeles in early 1971, only to turn up with the Children of God. When I saw that, I said, ‘Hang on a minute.
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“It never struck me that much until the Don Kirshner TV show we did last fall. “You know, you’re the second person today who’s told me he thought Bob Welch was hogging the show,” said Fleetwood Mac‘s attractive blond keyboard player. SAN FRANCISCO – Christine McVie glanced up from her drink in the hotel bar, a look of surprise on her face.
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