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Bring on the remasters
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I was also shocked when I couldn't find any of the Welch era FM on Spotify, although Bob's solo work is well represented. Would love to see a remaster of Mystery to Me as I find I am listening to that album more than any other lately. I'll never forget the pleasant surprise when I bought the vinyl many years ago, just on a whim because I was wanting to complete my FM discography - it ended up hooking me from the start, and I feel "Why" is one of the best FM songs ever. |
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If I had a freakin' turntable, I would have bought vinyls of those too.
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Radio IO, Reprise Records October 2013
http://www.radioio.com/2013/10/40-ye...mystery-to-me/ 40 Years Ago: Fleetwood Mac Release ‘Mystery to Me’ By the start of 1973, Fleetwood Mac were in a state of flux, trying to find solid footing and an identity for the band. The recent departure of longtime guitarist Danny Kirwin led to a fluctuating lineup, with the addition of guitarists Bob Weston and Bob Welch, as well as Dave Walker, who would supply some of the vocals on Mac’s first 1973 offering, ‘Penguin.’ But the overstuffed lineup didn’t last long, and by the time sessions started for their next album, ‘Mystery to Me,’ Walker was gone, and Welch had settled into his role as frontman. Fleetwood Mac were somewhat out of step in their homeland in 1973. A landscape of glam and prog made little room for the group’s more homespun sound. But in the U.S., things were starting to look up for the band: ‘Penguin’ hit the charts, and people began showing up at their shows. That summer, the band started work on a new album and once again called upon producer Martin Birch for assistance. “‘Mystery to Me’ was probably the best Fleetwood Mac album since Peter Green had left the band three years earlier,” Mick Fleetwood wrote in his 1990 autobiography, ‘Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac.’ “It was atmospheric and intelligent, and we knew it was going to be a big hit.” It was also the album that finally opened the door to radio play for the band in the U.S. “We sensed we were on the verge of a breakthrough and had another real shot at the Big Time in the U.S.A.,” Fleetwood wrote. ‘Mystery to Me’ cracked the Top 70 and eventually went gold. Most of the songs on the album were written by Welch, with only a handful penned by Christine McVie. But they rank among her all-time best. ‘Mystery to Me’ kicks off with ‘Emerald Eyes,’ which features what would become Mac trademarks, like radio-friendly production, clean vocals and tasteful guitar work, while McVie’s ‘Believe Me’ and ‘Just Crazy Love’ could have come from the band’s first two hit records with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. But it’s Welch’s ‘Hypnotized’ that caught fans’ ears. Originally written as a raw blues, but later rearranged as a dreamlike pop song, the cut’s shuffling rhythm and smooth guitars are hard to resist. It not only netted the band some well-deserved FM airplay, the song remained in Mac’s live sets after Welch left. “I was reading about, as the lyric says, ‘a place down in Mexico where man can fly over mountains and hills,’” Welch is quoted in Fleetwood’s book. “One night I had a vivid dream that a UFO piloted by a Navajo shaman landed on out overgrown grass tennis court one moonlit night. That was the feeling that went into ‘Hypnotized’.” Other LP highlights include the Welch-penned but McVie-sung ‘Keep on Going,’ and ‘Miles Away,’ a grooving Welch rocker. A cover of the Yardbirds hit ’For Your Love’ was a late addition to the album, but it’s given enough of a Mac stamp to fit onto ‘Mystery to Me.’ McVie’s ‘Why’ ends the album on a haunting and beautiful note, with some fine slide-guitar work by Weston, who would soon be ousted from the band because of his extracurricular activities with Fleetwood’s wife. And you thought the group’s internal drama started when Buckingham and Nicks joined? |
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ACK!! I hate it when major publications can't spell. K-I-R-W-A-N!!!!
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Becca, I think Pete Ham's suicide was a major factor in Warner Bros deleting those 2 Badfinger LPs...especially the Wish You Were Here album. (that and their own lofty expectations of record sales caused them to over-manufacture the number of albums, necessitating them to cut their losses by selling unsold units to rack-jobbers (being why in just a few weeks after release, those Badfinger albums, despite both being great musically, ended up in cut-out bins in record stores). Plus, it didn't help that both WB & Apple released Badfinger albums (WB with the self-titled album; Apple with the Ass album) within just days of each other.
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Have seen Danny Kirwin and Bob Welsh in print more than once.
Interesting thoughts about the final three Bob/FM albums on CD back then. Makes sense. What happened with the Badfinger WB albums was before Pete Ham was dead. Their U.S. guy who negotiated the WB deal took all the money meant to be in escrow after starting some kind of corporation named Badfinger Inc. This somehow forced WB to sue the band adding to their stress on top of not seeing money their U.S. manager promised. Plus there were Apple royalties all in escrow as well they couldn't touch if they even knew it was there. WB pulled the Wish You Were Here LP fairly shortly after release. Despite that the group began recording a third WB album to help fix things (minus a rightly disgruntled Joey Molland who saw no light ever coming). That third album was finally released as Head First and is excellent. It is the worst story I've ever heard about the music biz. |
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I got my first CD (white FM) on 12/31/1989, and all but Penguin and Mystery were out from the WB days.
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Bob Welch from Wendy Welch
There are no lawsuits since Bob's death, no fights over royalties, pulishing or otherwise, and no reason for Bob to be deleted from anything FM. I don't know what the band thinks they are doing.
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No conflicts with FM/Bob Welch
There have been no conflicts with Bob Welch or any members of FM prior to 2000.
So what gives. The label should be putting out his albums. Request them from Warner Brothers/Reprise if you want them released. They could have made a lot more money since Bob's death, unless Chris, John and Mick prevented them from being released. I know that Rhino wanted to do a Tribute album to Bob Welch and couldn't get permission from the other three members last fall. So take it for what it's worth. Rhino and I even had all the song titles selected for the album, when they could't get an approval from Warners and the three band members. |
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Bob Welch being denied his musical legacy
The only answer I can give you is that FM is trying to delete and break "The Chain" of the band between the years 1971 and 1975 as if it never existed You can go on all of their sites and look at the discography ob "Fleetwood Mac News" on Facebook and it is as if these years never existed and as if Bob Welch never existed. They may not like me, but Bob Welch gave his heart and soul to that band and they have treated him horrendously. He cared so much that his music would live on and about his legacy and the band members that he loved and gave so much to left him out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 15 years ago. Ask them on their sites why, even though they said "Bob saved Fleetwood Mac" and there never would have been a Stevie or Lindsey had he not moved them to LA, they don't still consider him an honorable band member and have deleted him from his rightful place in the band and have removed his musical legacy and history from the band. Please help Bob to fight for what's his due!
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I know of another case where that initially happened to Rhino over something originally on the Reprise label, but that was sorted out after awhile. The only legitimate reason would be if they were planning to rerelease something themself and that couldn't be true here. This info really does show someone is vengeful to me. If Bob did something in a state of needing funds badly years ago and someone took offense they need to get over that. Maybe it would help to say there are studies that prove the brain physically changes under prolonged stress or pain, but I don't know. Even if there were no plans to include Bob in the hall of fame honor whatever happened to taking a step of 'generosity' for one's own good and soul? I did mail a letter to the hall a few months ago as one of those few things a mere fan can do, but I guess it's true someone from the group needs to become a bigger person... a.s.a.p. It's possible non-music centric magazines could have an interest in an article on this situation. I know Rolling Stone would be unlikely rock any industry boats, possibly annoy your biggest advertisers? That's not going to happen. |
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Response to the prior post
Bob Welch never did anything in a state of needing money. Let's get that straight right now. Don't know where that came from! And he definitely never did anything under stress or pain! By the way, Bob had never been suicidal. The drug lyrica murdered him as far as I am concerned. He had had neck surgery 3 months prior and was given Lyrica exactly 6 weeks before the suicide and left me a 9 page love letter that showed what that drug had done to his mind. There were 3 class action suits against that drug for loved ones who committed suicide after taking it. They all had to be dropped and done as individuals a month before Bob died. We were not told of any of the warnings that we should have been told by law from the doctor, the pharmacist enclosure, or anyting else. I found out about this 10 days after his death from a pharmacist about how bad that drug can be. It helps some, but kills many. <3 Broke my heart.
But thank you so much for the rest of your caring post. Last edited by Wendy Welch; 10-19-2013 at 09:31 PM.. |
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Wendy,
There are so many Fleetwood Mac fans that love Bob and the music that he helped create in those years. Some of my most favorite FM songs come from that time. He will never be forgotten. I loved "His Fleetwood Mac Years & Beyond" collection, signed by the man himself. One of my favorites from it is "Like Rain". He and his music will always be a part of FM. No one can ever take that away from him or the fans that adore him. I feel like you are grieving still and I wish you peace. |
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Sadly it isn't just Bob that FM wants to write out of their history. They'd also like us to forget Dave Walker, Bob Weston, Dave Mason, Bekka Bramlett and perhaps to a lesser extent Billy Burnette and Rick Vito.
Interestingly enough none of them made it to the RRHOF either. Bob Welch and perhaps also Billy Burnette were the most glaring omissions, but I've said it before and I'll say it again and again, every single of of them should have been inducted.
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http://hippiesstolemyblog.blogspot.c...-dreaming.html Last edited by becca; 10-20-2013 at 03:41 PM.. Reason: link added |
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