Why Bob Should Be in the RARHOF

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Originally Posted by chiliD

It's a little different with Brunning, he may have only been a "placeholder" in retrospect, but at the time it really WASN'T a "given" that John would join. Glad he did, but it wasn't set in stone at the time.

Watson was there because Peter dragged him along. Doug Graves (as well as Bobby Hunt) was on par with current/recent touring additions like Neale Haywood, Carlos Rios & Brett Tuggle et.al, plus Stevie's "girls"....hired hands for tour purposes only. (and Steve Thoma, keyboardist during the '94/'95 tours) There wasn't any pretense of band "membership" at all in their hirings. Even the same could be said for Christine during the Kiln House album sessions & subsequent tour...I don't think she really was officially a member until after the tour & the Future Games sessions began.

I'll give you this, but one point of correction. Christine was announced as an official member of the group before the American tour of Kiln House. It was reported as such and can be found in one or two articles in the archive.

Here is one from March 1971, when she'd already been with them for more than six months:

http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.ph...v2&id=1047&c=2