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Old 06-07-2012, 03:54 PM
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Default Bob Welch has died

My boss just called me into his office to tell me Bob Welch committed suicide today. I'm totally bummed.

http://www.wkrn.com/story/18730944/f...bob-welch-dead
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Old 06-07-2012, 03:54 PM
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Old 06-07-2012, 03:57 PM
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Holy fu......

I used to talk to him on Facebook.

What's happening to the Bob's of Fleetwood Mac? First Brunning and Weston, now Welch.
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Old 06-07-2012, 04:08 PM
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With Bob Weston and Bob Welch gone, it's the real end of one of my favorite FM eras. RIP, you will definitely be missed
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Old 06-07-2012, 04:10 PM
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I am SO sad RIP, bob. your music meant so much to me and millions of people. this is a sad day in the music industry and certainly a sad day in the fleetwood mac community.
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Old 06-07-2012, 04:28 PM
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I just read about this on the internet and I am so shocked! My condolonces and sympathy is extended to his family and friends. Such sad news.
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Old 06-07-2012, 04:38 PM
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I am SO sad RIP, bob. your music meant so much to me and millions of people. this is a sad day in the music industry and certainly a sad day in the fleetwood mac community.
Me too. I'm sitting here at work, trying not to cry.

I know Wendy had been in poor health for some time. I wonder if something had happened to her....?
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Old 06-07-2012, 09:22 PM
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What's happening to the Bob's of Fleetwood Mac? First Brunning and Weston, now Welch.
I didn't realize about the Bob's. Coincidence.. but scary.

What's going on this year? Whitney, Robin, Donna.. now Bob Welch. Even latin american singers.. each month I read a sad new of someone leaving us.
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Old 06-07-2012, 09:38 PM
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You know, a Ledgie (who rarely posts anymore) and I were texting tonight, about Bob's death. Then about how we've lost 3 of them in the past year....

They're all getting up there, when it's going to become more common. And that really makes me so sad. They are literally the soundtrack to my life. And we do all forget that they are just flesh and bone like the rest of us, and will expire. God, they've been a driving force in my life, since I was 14(and that's some time ago). Friends from high school STILL call me, and say "I just heard a FM song on the radio, and HAD to call you!" I was probably known for my FM obsession, more than anything...

God, the more I type about this, the sadder I get. It kills me to watch them get old, and die....

The day Christine dies, I'll never be the same.
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Just wanted to share how Mick told in his book about the first days of Bob in the band.

...more important, we all got along well and decided that he was gonna be in the band. The auditions went on anyway for a while, but one night we went downstairs and started playing and that was it. It was unanimous. We loved his personality. His musical roots were in R&B instead of blues, and that was refreshing. We thought it would be an interesting blend. We knew he could sing; it was sort of talk-sing, with astute phrasing and timing. Plus he was well trained, as opposed to us who had just wandered into it. He was one of those guys who really sat down and played for hours and hours, an artistic chameleon who fit in with our colors and somehow inherited a bit of our history as well. To this day, I think personality is the most important thing in keeping a band together. I've seen too many impossible geniuses.

Once in the band, Bob really developed. He meshed well in every situation, and his songwriting and style became a big part of Fleetwood Mac in America. Which we badly needed, because without Peter Green ourcareer nosedived in Europe.

We also loved having an American in Fleetwood Mac. "They asked me to join and I said yeah," Bob Welch says. "I moved to Benifols, got an advance from Clifford Davies, which I used to buy a guitar. Immediately I began to discover Fleetwood Mac's unusual organisational methods. I was expecting they'd tell me to learn these songs and sing this way, but it was nothing like that. We just jammed for a long time, and played some blues on the side. I was waiting for them to tell me what kind of band they were, but instead I realized they expected me to be the band. I was expected to pull as much weight as anyone else. "
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Old 06-07-2012, 10:24 PM
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Miami Herald, by Howard Cohen
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/0...#storylink=cpy

Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist/singer Bob Welch dead at 65

Beset by health issues, Bob Welch, whose departure from Fleetwood Mac preceded the group’s greatest success, apparently committed suicide in Nashville.

BY HOWARD COHEN
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Bob Welch, whose mysterious and mystical Fleetwood Mac songs Bermuda Triangle, The Ghost and Hypnotized helped pave the way for his replacement, Stevie Nicks, and the group’s greatest success after his departure, has died at age 65 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Welch’s body was found by his wife in their Nashville home Thursday afternoon, the Associated Press reported. He left a suicide note, and had been struggling with unspecified health issues.

His death seemed sadly foreshadowed by a lifetime of small victories and bitter disappointments. The singer/guitarist with the mellow voice and sophisticated air led Fleetwood Mac from 1971 until 1974 and, with Christine McVie, sang lead on most of the band’s material during that period.

His songs on albums like Bare Trees, Penguin and Mystery to Me, especially Sentimental Lady and the FM-radio classic, Hypnotized, helped establish Fleetwood Mac in the United States. Prior to joining the band as a replacement for iconic guitarist Peter Green, the group was known as a premier blues act in England in the late 1960s.

By 1969, Fleetwood Mac was outselling the Beatles and the Rolling Stones abroad with Green’s songsBlack Magic Woman (a hit later for Santana), Oh Well and the instrumental Albatross.

But in America Fleetwood Mac was largely unknown and its brand of authentic blues was not in tune with easy-listening pop acts like Elton John, the Carpenters and Carole King.

Welch’s sound — polished, radio-friendly yet moody and bewitching on songs like Sentimental Lady,Future Games and Emerald Eyes allowed the band to sell a steady 250,000 copies per album, good enough to keep the members signed and on the college touring circuit. More importantly, Welch helped Fleetwood Mac develop its distinctive male-female vocal blend that would prove formidable when Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham replaced him on New Year’s Eve 1975, after he quit.

In that respect, Welch joined Peter Best as rock’s unluckiest man. Best, of course, was the Beatles’ original drummer who toiled in obscurity with the pre-Fab Four before Ringo Starr’s arrival. Within a year of Welch’s departure, Fleetwood Mac hit No. 1 in America in 1976 with an eponymous album.

From that Fleetwood Mac LP, Nicks’ signature smash Rhiannon, which she always introduced on stage as “a song about a Welsh witch,” was a clear extension of Welch’s fascination with the otherworldly — UFOs, strange disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle off the coast of Key Biscayne and ghosts.

Nicks agreed to join Fleetwood Mac, she said, only after listening to Welch’s albums with the group and finding a common mystical thread that she could hear herself fitting into.

Fleetwood Mac’s next album, Rumours in 1977, went on to become one of the best-selling releases in history. At the same time, Welch had formed Paris, a heavy metal band. It went nowhere.

His fortunes rose, however, when Mick Fleetwood became his manager later that year and Welch enjoyed an initially popular solo career.

His first solo album, French Kiss in late 1977, featured a remake of his 1972 Fleetwood Mac songSentimental Lady, and it sailed into the Top 10. The more buoyant version was produced by Buckingham and also featured McVie and Fleetwood as guests. Welch also had Top 40 hits with √Ebony Eyes, Hot Love Cold World and the quasi-disco Precious Love through 1979.

Welch also continued his penchant for the bizarre by tapping into some South Florida lore. His second album in 1979, Three Hearts, featuredThe Ghost of Flight 401, an atmospheric tune about the aftermath of the Eastern Airlines flight that crashed in the Everglades in December 1972. Nicks lent her trademark wails to another song on the album that sounded like a Rumours outtake,Devil Wind.

“I had many great times with him after Lindsey and I joined Fleetwood Mac,” Nicks said in a statement to the Associated Press. “He was an amazing guitar player — he was funny, sweet — and he was smart. I am so very sorry for his family and for the family of Fleetwood Mac — so, so sad.”

Welch’s fame was short-lived. Subsequent albums didn’t sell, and he had a falling out with Fleetwood, later suing his old band mates for back royalties. Welch believes this was one reason for his omission from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 when Fleetwood Mac members who were in the band before and after him were inducted.

“The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame thing hurt my feelings, naturally,” Welch said in a 1999 online interview. “Mick (and John McVie and Chris) associate Peter Green with the high flying glory days of their youth, when FM was first breaking out in Europe. They associate Stevie and Lindsey, naturally enough, with the most glamorous, successful and exciting period in FM’s history. They associate my five years with the band, in contrast, with a very difficult time emotionally, which it was. Even though the band survived because of what we went through in that period, it’s not pleasant to think about for them, and so theydon’t think about it and pretend it doesn’t exist.”

Yet Welch would never escape the connection. His final album, recorded in 2006, was titled His Fleetwood Mac Years and Beyond Too. The set featured re-recordings of songs he originally recorded with the band — and, ever out-there in the misty world of the supernatural, a cover of Nicks’ Rhiannon.
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Old 06-07-2012, 04:07 PM
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Sentimental Lady came on the radio and then they said Bob Welch took his life. I am so sorry.
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Old 06-07-2012, 06:11 PM
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What a big, sad BUMMER.
So thankful your music lives on and I'm glad the pain is gone for you.

Will play your music all night.

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Old 06-07-2012, 06:21 PM
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Can't belive it. Very sad news.

I'm so afraid now, people...

R.I.P Bob
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Reminds us that these people who create music that enriches. our lives.....are people. mortal flesh and blood people. Hard reminder.

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