Bob Welch and the Sunset Strip

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by Penguin Emeritus

the renegotiation thing is a mystery to me also. like you said, not all that much money was at stake and the 3 brits were rich af by then anyway... why not just include bob in these meetings? it created such bad blood to exclude him.

If bob was boating off key biscayne before he wrote Bermuda triangle, that would have been prior to 1974... john was around that area in the mid-late 80s but i'm not sure he would have been boating with bob as early as 73 or 74...? i guess it's possible. i'm not sure john even knew how to sail before they moved to the malibu area in 74, and he didn't own a boat before late 76, i think. but i guess they could have gone w a crew etc.

one of my few regrets in life is that marty and i never got to nashville for the little trip we were thinking about taking, to meet bob and wendy and have dinner etc. it was hard w 2 young kids to make plans for someone to stay w them etc, but i wish we would have tried a little harder to just get there for the weekend. i'm sure we would have heard some amazing stories. ugh i kick myself. i had about a million things i wanted to talk w him about.

--Lis

Thanks for sharing those juicy details. It was an assumption that John was the boater in the band and was sailing before anyone. Could it have been Bob that got John into sailing? I know I know another assumption. I had never known Bob to sail and have boats. I cannot even find the article anymore I read that mentioned the inspiration to Bermuda Triangle. I know the band both pre-Nicks and post-Nicks did hang out on Key Biscayne. It is sometimes forgotten that Rumours was partially recorded in Miami. When Lindsey did his solo tour in 2018 he told me how much time the band spent in Miami during the meet and greet.
Would not Bob's life make a great movie? The first American in Fleetwood Mac. Leaves the band. Has a good couple of years as a solo artist. Hangs out with the up and coming 80s bands on Sunset strip. And then sues Fleetwood Mac during the RRHOF awards. I think it would be a great movie.