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HomerMcvie 02-15-2014 04:34 AM

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Originally Posted by SteveMacD (Post 1120673)
Actually, there was THIS...


OMG. THANK YOU so much for this, Steve!!! I've never seen it! Seeing Chris at the 7 minute mark was....just breathtaking, looking like a kid! I love it!

Jimi Mac 02-18-2014 05:53 AM

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Originally Posted by HomerMcvie (Post 1120700)
OMG. THANK YOU so much for this, Steve!!! I've never seen it! Seeing Chris at the 7 minute mark was....just breathtaking, looking like a kid! I love it!

Don't forget she was Christine Perfect w/Chickenshack before she was Christine McVie!





As for those guys and the band, it's tough to say...

Wasn't one of those guys found to be having an affair with Mick Fleetwood's wife at the time, and told to leave? My recollection recalls that part of the story also from the time the Fake Mac had a couple tour dates before being discovered they were a sham...

FuzzyPlum 09-24-2020 01:52 AM

The December '74 Record Plant performance seems to 100% confirm the chronology of Bobby Hunt and Doug Graves.
At the end of the simulcast the announcer reads Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Bob Welch and Bobby Hunt.
The September Record Plant performance featured Doug Graves.
Thus, DG worked on Heroes Are Hard To Find and joined the band on tour. At some point he left the tour and was replaced by Bobby Keys. Bob W must have given his old mate a call to help them out by filling in.
I wonder why DG was given the boot.





PS
He later went on to work with Peter Green...
...he dug graves :thumbsup:

WalkAThinLine. 10-20-2023 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum (Post 1260132)
The December '74 Record Plant performance seems to 100% confirm the chronology of Bobby Hunt and Doug Graves.
At the end of the simulcast the announcer reads Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Bob Welch and Bobby Hunt.
The September Record Plant performance featured Doug Graves.
Thus, DG worked on Heroes Are Hard To Find and joined the band on tour. At some point he left the tour and was replaced by Bobby Keys. Bob W must have given his old mate a call to help them out by filling in.
I wonder why DG was given the boot.

I'm several years late, but I found this quote from Christine McVie's interview with Contemporary Keyboard.

During one earlier tour, Fleetwood Mac did carry an additional keyboardist, Doug Graves, but that idea was soon abandoned. "He was there to back me up," McVie says, "but I think it was decided after the first two or three concerts that I was better off without him. The band wanted me to expand my role and have a little more freedom, so he played some organ behind me, but he didn't play the same way I did. I may not play very well, but I play it the way it suits the band."

https://web.archive.org/web/20150710...x_v2&id=11&c=2

Mr Scarrott 10-21-2023 06:38 AM

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Originally Posted by WalkAThinLine. (Post 1289213)
I'm several years late, but I found this quote from Christine McVie's interview with Contemporary Keyboard.

During one earlier tour, Fleetwood Mac did carry an additional keyboardist, Doug Graves, but that idea was soon abandoned. "He was there to back me up," McVie says, "but I think it was decided after the first two or three concerts that I was better off without him. The band wanted me to expand my role and have a little more freedom, so he played some organ behind me, but he didn't play the same way I did. I may not play very well, but I play it the way it suits the band."

https://web.archive.org/web/20150710...x_v2&id=11&c=2

Thanks for this. I actually started this thread, years ago. It's all potentially ambiguous, isn't it? What does "carry" mean in the context of Christine's quote? It's only of an academic, nerdy insterest but I kind of think that Doug was a member of Fleetwood Mac, however briefly. Others will disagree.

HomerMcvie 10-21-2023 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr Scarrott (Post 1289226)
Thanks for this. I actually started this thread, years ago. It's all potentially ambiguous, isn't it? What does "carry" mean in the context of Christine's quote? It's only of an academic, nerdy insterest but I kind of think that Doug was a member of Fleetwood Mac, however briefly. Others will disagree.

A side man isn't a member, any more than a guitar tech is.


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