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View Poll Results: Should Bob Brunning be regarded as a member of Fleetwood Mac? | |||
Yes of course, he was the original bass player! | 25 | 83.33% | |
No, he was a backing musician, and not a very good one at that! | 5 | 16.67% | |
Bob who? Didn't he run off with Mick Fleetwood's wife? | 0 | 0% | |
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(now, excuse me while I go illegally download the vaunted masterpiece that is"Your Wildest Dreams") |
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My point was that the current members of this band have willingly ignored/forgotten almost three (most enjoyable) years of its history, including an entire album, because they now consider the music produced in that time irrelevant, for no better reason than their musical style and line-up changed radically for several albums after. Going by their ideas, I wouldn't consider Bob Brunning a member of FM. Now, I don't actually agree with The Moody Blues at all on this matter. As for whether Bob Brunning should be regarded as a member of FM... well, it's a lot like asking if a tomato should be regarded as a fruit - it's not up to us to decide how reality is! Bob Brunning was a member. That's all there is to it. Why bother to ask if he should be regarded as such? A more pertinent question would be about whether he made any meaningful contributions to FM during his time as a member, or shaped the band's future significantly.
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Was Brunning a member of FM? Of course! Wasn't the original bass player, but he was in the band, no doubt, at least in my opinion.
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BTW What do you think of me? |
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Yes...Michael Thompson...he's a well-known "first call" SESSION MUSICIAN...so there wouldn't be any intent of his being a "band member"
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Among God's creations, two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes in order not to be separated from the man.---Andres Segovia |
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John |
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I wonder about that, too. I have the 45, but not a picture sleeve, so I really can't comment. And, when did the 45 actually come out? Was Jeremy still in the band at that point?
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However I would suggest that including Fleetwood Mac the instrumental (and whatever the other song was called) as being by Fleetwood Mac the band would be stretching it just a little. Actually that scenario would give more weight to Brunning being a member as he would have replaced John McVie who had LEFT!!! |
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Brunning was the original bassist, and in the band with the understanding that if/when McVie wanted in, he was out. What lends credibility to the question of him being an actual member of Fleetwood Mac is the Kiln House tour after Jeremy left. Peter Green was brought back, though it's generally not considered an official incarnation of the band, as it was understood that he was out at the end of the tour.
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On and on it will always be, the rhythm, rhyme, and harmony. THE Stephen Hopkins |
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Jeremy was definitely still there since we can hear him sing some lead vocals lines in PD so it couldn't have been recorded any later than 2/71 since that's when JS left and I doubt they went to do the gig in LA he disappeared before the day after etc. so... John |
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(ok, who had milk spew out their nose while reading the word "Foghat"??)
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So, whether FM initially wanted her to "fill out the sound" it almost immediately blossomed into full participation. (The band did some live-in-studio cuts before the tour with Christine singing lead on two of them.) Some writers have even suggested her involvement would have been more prominent on Kiln House itself if it weren't for existing contract with Mike Vernon/Blue Horizon. |
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She began touring with them as a front-line member (as opposed to merely filling out the sound) on the Kiln House tour. This decision appears to have come about when the band were rehearsing right before the tour. Initially, she was asked to fill out the sound but right away she was singing lead and helping to front the band. Check out the Madison Blues cd. She was indeed present on the recording of Dragonfly.
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Now that you mention the BH contract, that is coming back, they wanted to make her a FM member but they needed to termiante her solo BH contract before doing that & I think the legal matters were resolved in Aug of '70 so this would be my guess. John |
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Actually, I just reread that part of the book, and Mick states that she was asked to join the band prior to the tour. My new hunch is that the whole language of being a "guest on the tour to help fill out the sound" language came from Cliff Davis, since Christine was probably still under contract with Blue Horizon.
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