When Exactly Did Bob Welch Leave Fleetwood Mac?

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by Penguin Emeritus

i remember him saying the band hated his album after he left (and that he took satisfaction in that!), but not that they hated *him*. that's sad if bob felt that way...but 1974 was not a good year for the band or for their marriages, so maybe everybody was just tired and cranky and getting on each other's nerves.

chris and john have both only said pretty nice things about bob, from what i recall. i wonder what they were doing that made bob think they were acting like royalty lol. maybe it was just a very obvious american/british divide in terms of behavior/mindset/expectations. or maybe bob was exhausted from doing as much as he did to try and keep the band going w the lawsuit, getting them all to move to the US etc.. mentally he was prob just done with it all.

--Lis

No I dont think the band ever "hated" Bob. But Bob was not comfortable anymore with the Brits. There is an old story that I believe was on Bob's old site that Lindsey ran into Bob while recording the White album at some club and Lindsey asked Bob, "How the hell could you stand to be around these people?"

But regardless of what happened in 1974, everyone was rich and happy by 1977. The Mac were superstars and filthy rich. Bob had a top 12 solo album with 2 charting hits. Love was in the air until it wasn't
Bob's side of the lawsuit really made Mick and the band look desperate. Bob and the band signed a royalty deal on the older albums that suddenly had new interest. In the Mac's darkest years early 90s when it looked like they may be over Bob finds out the band had renegotiated the royalties deal without him. To fight Bob was so penny pinching. The case was settled but it came from the darkest period of the band which is why the band was probably fighting over nickels.