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Clifford Davis HATED Bob Welch. Comments he made in Bob Brunning's book make that clear. But I suspect even Clifford knew replacing someone entirely unique to the scene like Christine or someone with such visual flair as Mick would make things difficult. The band would move from a group of people with personality to a collection of highly competent professionals. I suspect Davis thought he could strong arm the group into the fold by getting the ball rolling without them. Then, with their tails between their legs, they would come back. To this end, maybe Mick felt initially he had no choice but to give Davis some commitment, however tenuous. |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw-5yiZYzgc&t=1618s He makes no mention of Mick's supposed involvement. I suspect that on the basis of the settlement of the court case with Clifford Adams and the "real" Mac, people had to be pretty circumspect about what they said. In media interviews Mick has always steadfastly denied any involvement, but that's a different scenario to a court deposition. I can recall him saying something along the lines of "we agreed to disagree". For what it's worth, and it may not be much, given that his book was so poorly written, I can recall that in Bob Brunning's book, Brunning claimed that either Bob Welch or Christine had returned their shares in Fleetwood Mac, or something to that effect. I would really be interested to see those "court papers from the 1970s" myself! Yeah, Aleuzzi, "callousness" is a good fit. I wish Oscar Wilde had thought of that...
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Clifford Adams/Davis also took Warners to court in 1974 in an effort to stop Heroes are hard to find being released in the UK.
The link below details part of the case but the result is not included. https://vlex.co.uk/vid/clifford-davi...-ltd-793040769
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Elmer Gantry and Kirby interview from 2018, I think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjn7ELNVJB0 They basically claim they were set up. Gantry claims he was anonymously sent court papers in which Mick apparently admitted in court he had been to their house to discuss performing as Fleetwood Mac. "Murky" is the word which springs to mind. "This year is the first time we've had any relief from this situation because somebody kind of anonymously sent us court papers- I didn't know until this year that Mick Fleetwood had to admit in court that he'd been to our house, I didn't know that. I got the documents old documents you know from bloody 35 years ago when he was in court and he had to admit that he came to our house and had a meeting about forming a new Fleetwood Mac but imagine the amount of damage over three decades of damage being done before we can actually say anything about it- once I'd got that information I said I'd like to do an interview now and say okay we could say this because he's actually admitted what's always been kind of unsaid"
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Also, this: In the case of Mrs. Mcvie, she promised to deliver to the publisher at least one complete musical composition a month. 10 (3) The publisher was not bound to publish any of the works. At any rate, he did. not give any positive undertaking to do so. All he did was to promise Mrs. Mcvie that he would use his best endeavours to launch her works to the fullest extent. There was no such promise to Mr. Welch; but it may perhaps be implied. Did Christine write one song a month and submit it to Davis? If so, why never more than 4 songs (and often less) on those albums ? |
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But apparently the musicians who would become Stretch were good, and they played known FM songs, and that satisfied the audience. I don't suppose there are any bootleg recordings out there?? Nowadays there are many tribute bands covering the music of Fleetwood Mac and other star performers, but they usually try to look and act like the real band they are covering.
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