Bob Welch has died

[wetcamelfood]

Separated at birth: Bob Welch & Joe Thornton?

John

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

Dallas Taylor, inspiration for Stevie's song For What It's Worth?

Thank you!

And, RIP Bob.

[holidayroad]

Originally Posted by Macfanforever

Heres interview with Dick Clark with Bob on American Bandstand.

Thanks for posting this!

[BTFLCHLD]

put the laptop away wendy.
i rather wish she would have left bob's FB standalone as a memorial page with his musings. starting her own page, and perhaps offering up one post on bob's with a link to her fb, would have been more appropriate.

[nailatixela]

Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

put the laptop away wendy.
i rather wish she would have left bob's FB standalone as a memorial page with his musings. starting her own page, and perhaps offering up one post on bob's with a link to her fb, would have been more appropriate.

She seems very technology (or at least FB) illiterate. I'm not sure she knows how to set up and get started with her own account. I think her musings are very interesting and insightful...I've never seen anything like it. Plus, I think the facebook page and connecting to others on it is helping her cope.

[mezzoforte]

Originally Posted by nailatixela

She seems very technology (or at least FB) illiterate. I'm not sure she knows how to set up and get started with her own account. I think her musings are very interesting and insightful...I've never seen anything like it. Plus, I think the facebook page and connecting to others on it is helping her cope.

Exactly.
Fans may not like some of the things she has to say (she's admitted that she shouldn't have said some of them), but the woman is going through hell. I can't criticize her for trying to sort through things in any way she sees fit.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by mezzoforte

Exactly.
Fans may not like some of the things she has to say (she's admitted that she shouldn't have said some of them), but the woman is going through hell. I can't criticize her for trying to sort through things in any way she sees fit.

Agreed. I'm happy just to give her a little love and empathy.

[skcin]

I'm sorry if I missed mention of this already, but like Villavic I am having a hard time wading through the "who hates who" posts to find any further info on Bob's death. I noticed this & wasn't sure if it was old news; it could very well be. In any case, it makes me so very sad:

http://www.spin.com/#articles/best-c...c-tribute-comp

Last month, Randall Poster, the veteran music supervisor behind last year's star-studded, ridiculously excellent Rave On, Buddy Holly compilation, announced that he would be collecting and releasing a similar tribute record for the royal family of 1970s folk rock, Fleetwood Mac.

Now, details of that compilation have surfaced, per CoS. The disc is due August 14 via Hear Music/Concord, the same label duo that released Rave On.... The record, Just Tell Me That You Want Me, will feature covers by Antony Hegarty, Washed Out, the Kills, MGMT, and Best Coast, the latter of whom has previously professed their love for Fleetwood Mac musically with a cover of "Storms" (they're set to furnish "Rhiannon" for the album). In the announcement last month, Poster said the track listing (below) was chosen with the intention of showcasing the band's multi-era career. Judging by his previous work with Rave On... and film soundtracks like those of Fantastic Mr. Fox, Hugo, Revolutionary Road, and just about a million others, it's safe to say this collection won't be too shabby either (don't expect anything straightforward out of Antony's "Landslide" cover, though). Hear the New Pornographers' contribution to the record, a cover of "Think About Me," below.

The announcement of these details follow the recent death of former Fleetwood guitarist Bob Welch, who committed suicide earlier this month after doctors told him he would not recover from spinal surgery he underwent earlier this year and would have to be cared for by his wife.

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by Macfanforever

Heres interview with Dick Clark with Bob on American Bandstand.

That's probably, despite the dated hair style, the best looking version of Bob I've ever seen. He appears very healthy, and the full fro and beard frames his face well.

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

I thought this might be possible, too, though she was wearing short hair for at least a year before the reunion (remember the Two Sticks and a Drum doc?) so maybe it was just a style choice. Long hair = rock star, short hair = suburban lady....that sort of thing...

Hair is not a subject that ever really crosses my mind, but this thread made me think: some women change their hair style at certain points in their life. I think Christine realized as she got older that the longer hairstyles of her past just accentuated her age. She was very smart to have it styled in a more mature manner.
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Stevie, alas, has held on to the very long hair (extentions?). She pulls it off sometimes, but she's starting to look a tad creepy. I wish she would take Chris's cue, and do something more approriate for her age. And burn all of her black dresses.

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by PenguinHead

That's probably, despite the dated hair style, the best looking version of Bob I've ever seen. He appears very healthy, and the full fro and beard frames his face well.

Is this a wig he has on? His hair is pretty full here and it's really receding on the earlier mid-70s solo records.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

Is this a wig he has on? His hair is pretty full here and it's really receding on the earlier mid-70s solo records.

I've always wondered that, too.

[forever]

Originally Posted by skcin

I'm sorry if I missed mention of this already, but like Villavic I am having a hard time wading through the "who hates who" posts to find any further info on Bob's death. I noticed this & wasn't sure if it was old news; it could very well be. In any case, it makes me so very sad:

http://www.spin.com/#articles/best-c...c-tribute-comp

That news has been out a little while and is very sad indeed. He was still writing, recording and producing a few months ago and sounded really happy.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by forever

That news has been out a little while and is very sad indeed. He was still writing, recording and producing a few months ago and sounded really happy.

So interesting that his last public post mentioned his surgery too. Sometimes Twitter and Facebook are chilling. On Twitter, you can see something someone typed with their own fingers just hours or minutes before they passed away. That just makes the suddenness of death all the more real or the line between life and death all the more unreal.

My dad called me a few hours before he had his stroke in 2005 and I always kept the phone bill, showing the long distance phone call.

Michele

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by michelej1

So interesting that his last public post mentioned his surgery too. Sometimes Twitter and Facebook are chilling. On Twitter, you can see something someone typed with their own fingers just hours or minutes before they passed away. That just makes the suddenness of death all the more real or the line between life and death all the more unreal.

My dad called me a few hours before he had his stroke in 2005 and I always kept the phone bill, showing the long distance phone call.

Michele

My dad accepted my invitation to Facebook the morning that he died. He accepted about 8 am and had a massive heart attack working in his yard around 1pm. We live on opposite coasts and so when I got the call I scrambled to get to the airport and get to Boston, and then it was a blur getting through the funeral and all that... It was about a week or so later that I logged onto Facebook and saw the message that he accepted my invitation. Totally freaked me out; it was like seeing a ghost.