Bob Welch has died

[thenepotist]

It's been interesting revisiting some of the areas on this site after Bob Welch's untimely death. One thing struck me: It's really lucky that some of those Q and A's exist, because without those there would be very little verified information on the mid-period Fleetwood Mac. God knows there is more than enough about the Buckingham Nicks era, down to a wasted Christine/Stevie youtube video giving birthday greetings to Warner Brothers, and the early blues period is relatively well documented, but without those Q and A's a lot of the Welch era band would have just faded away. Mick is pretty much useless with his recollections, McVie was wasted most of the time, so who else would have known the production details (or lack thereof) of "The Derelict"? Dave Walker obviously. He doesn't have anything better to do, but he helps fill in the blanks, along with the Welch and Weston Q and A. So without those, those records and the stories behind them would have just faded away. The fans are the ones who have kept it alive, and the players seem to be happy to recount their memories, despite some of the inane questions asked (i.e. did you get along with Lindsey? Did you meet Stevie? who f***ing cares?) While their own memories are sometimes sketchy or circumspect (still not sure who played bass on "Revelation"), there is enough info out there now through these sessions to keep the memory of this murky era of the band, which in some ways is my favourite, alive. Very cool, and worth re-reading.