Bob Welch with Head West
 

I know a lot of people in this forum have pretty much all the albums that are relevant to the members of this era, but I'm hoping that there are a few lurkers out there that don't.

If memory serves me right, this was originally released as just Head West, and then the title changed to capitalise on Bob's fame to "Bob Welch with Head West". Bob's contribution to this album is minimal in terms of vocals (just the one track) but it is interesting nonetheless for the completist.

For further info on this one - http://discog.fleetwoodmac.net/discog.php?pid=383

To download - http://www.mediafire.com/?rpmtalekkqp7fm0

So, once you have downloaded this album and listened to it (and this is the tricky part :laugh:) please come back to this thead and talk about the album and what you think about it. For those who actually have the album already, what do you think about it?

Personally I'm not a big fan of soul music but even I find this album quite listenable. I'd suspect that it isn't the sort of music you'd find the youth of today listening to any more than you'd find them listening to a James Brown album. Sadly we can't really help the decline in musical stardards of today's artists can we?

Sadly the only song with Welch on lead vocals "Someday" is one of the two tracks I don't like off the album (the other being the instrumental "Attention").

Finally are there other out of print albums by other FM members that anyone out there is wanting?

Thanks for the download link to this. I'll check it out! I do need mp3 files for Danny Kirwan: Second Chapter. I have the LP, but nothing to play it on! Same problem for Jeremy Spencer Band: Flee.

Second Chapter I'm not sure if that is commercially available but Flee certainly is (hence I can't post it here for you).

I thought Flee was out of print! My mistake! :)

There was a band called Head East. Head West?? Never heard of 'em.

Never heard of Head East, and from looking them up it sounds like they were not very well-known outside the midwestern US, so that explains it. I would never have heard of Head West either if it hadn't been for the Bob Welch connection - probably few if any of us would have heard of them otherwise. But considering that connection, I'm surprised you hadn't heard of them before.

FWIW, there are links to downloads for many rare albums and singles by Fleetwood Mac members on this blog:
http://fleetwoodmacmusic.blogspot.com/

I see that the blog itself is no longer active but it looks like many of the links still work.

"Never Been Any Reason" was Head East's biggest hit from 1975 . I still hear it on classic rock stations here in NY every so often. Funny, I always thought it was Styx and just discover a few months back that it wasn't. Shame on me! The singer sounds like Tommy Shaw to me.

Thanks for the link, joe. I've never heard this before, and personally, I can't say that I was missing anything. ;)

Plus as that was my blog, if they don't work, I'm right here! :lol:

I've listened to the album. The instrumentation is good. Most of the songs are fine-typical songs for the time period. I like 'Hurry Up', 'Someday', 'Straight Down', and 'Starchild'. I wish Bob had more lead vocals on this.

I know - that is perhaps the one disappointment, although it is still a good album in its own right.

I agree that the album as a whole is a solid album. Other than the lack of more Bob lead vocals, it sounds how I figured it would sound.

Cool, chriskisn - that does make it convenient!

Originally Posted by joe
"Never Been Any Reason" was Head East's biggest hit from 1975 .

i LOVE this song!!!

Does anybody have Seven Souls, or the first two Weston solo albums from the late '70s/early '80s?

Check the blog I linked above: http://fleetwoodmacmusic.blogspot.com/

Thanks again to chriskisn for collecting all this stuff for his old blog!

Yeah both the Weston ones and the two Seven Souls tracks are on there - they came to me via Wetcamelfood so I can't take too much credit. In fact the Weston albums are how John and I began talking off board... If the links are dead on the site let me know - I was going to post those two Weston ones here evenutally.

The second single from Seven Souls I think doesn't have Welch on it (???) but the elusive Seven Souls album that perhaps was released in France never seemed to have surfaced on the net. Whether Bob featured on that I'm not sure.

Where did you hear the 2nd 7S single doesn't have Welch? I must admit I'm still trying to find the album so I can't say I know their discography definitively (since I think that album will answer a lot of questions for us regarding the 7S story) but when I've talked to Bob about this he seemd to think he was on all their stuff (though I think there was another Seven Souls group out there at some point over the years so this may have muddied the waters?). Bob told me that he doesn't have a copy of it but he found out through one of the other 7S members that it was definately released and he thinks it was self titled. I'll try to upload the other single tracks I have soon by them soon. :)

John

Here's Groove In

http://www.sendspace.com/file/gqxxxv

Here's Got To Find A Way

http://www.sendspace.com/file/szclfx

Some/all of the rest might be on the album but I've never come across a tracklisting. I only say this because these are on Barclay singles and I know the 7S album wes releaseed on Barclay.

Here's Fire

http://www.sendspace.com/file/vcoj72

Here's Hold On I'm Comin' (Studio Version)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/inu3x9

Here's Hold On I'm Comin' (Live Version) (there's a skip in this one sorry about that, tried to convert it may times over with no luck, anyone have an upgrade, please post)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/2c5qls

Here's Papa';s Got A Brand New Bag

http://www.sendspace.com/file/rvxnwk

Here's Land Of Thousand Dances

http://www.sendspace.com/file/padv4p

Here's Walkin' The Dog

http://www.sendspace.com/file/luuok8

Hope this helps. :)

John

I kind of had that thought at the back of my mind that he had left the group by then but obviously not.

I think there is also another group called Soul Seven. Sadly on listings on such places as GEMM they really don't give release dates so it is hard to work out which Seven Souls group they mention.

EDIT
Oh and for those that don't know, Head West was formed out of the Seven Souls. Henry Moore was definitely part of the Seven Souls with Welch. I've also read that Robert Hunt was also a member of Seven Souls but I'm not sure if this is correct?

Plus the first single

I Still Love You - http://www.mediafire.com/?84gl46xr48dq0k0

I'm No Stranger - http://www.mediafire.com/?npk4i7kpf62y774

Oh and John thanks for posting all of those. Kind of a productive evening.

Now I'm heading over to post-rumours to post up some more Billy Burnette stuff!!!

Oh and apparently this is a picture of the Seven Souls courtesy of http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/seven%20souls.html

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...even-Souls.jpg

Great stuff, wetcamelfood and chriskisn. Here are a couple of other early photos of Bob Welch, one of them with Seven Souls.

Yes, this is correct (and yeah Bobby Hunt was in the 7S then HW too). We had a Mac family treee thread here (or well on the Runours board) a few years ago, not sure what the progress of that is like but maybe if it's still there it should have more info (or at least the most that we could come up with) on the line ups.

John