In late 1974, Welch indicated that he intended to leave the band, and Fleetwood and John McVie needed to fill the possible vacancy.
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The fake Fleetwood Mac scored one hit a couple of years later ("Why Did You Do It?") under their new name Stretch This led its manager, Clifford Davis, to send another dummy band out on the road billed as "Fleetwood Mac," but featuring no original members of the band, resulting in a year-long legal battle. Walker was fired after just one album, but the firing of Weston, for an alleged affair with Mick Fleetwood's wife, during a late 1973 tour led to that tour's abrupt cancellation. Welch's contributions included "Future Games" (from 1971's Future Games), "Sentimental Lady" (from 1972's Bare Trees), and "Hypnotized" (from 1973's Mystery to Me).īob Weston (guitar) and Savoy Brown's Dave Walker (vocals) were also briefly hired during this phase of the band. Kirwan's and Welch's tenures overlapped by two albums, but eventually, Kirwan's own erratic behavior on tour led to his dismissal in late 1972. American guitarist Bob Welch joined up, at the suggestion of good friend Judy Wong, lending a jazz-rock flavor to Kirwan's more melodic songs. Jeremy Spencer disappeared during an American tour, and was found to have joined the controversial Children of God cult. The early 1970s of Fleetwood Mac were turbulent for the band, which gained and lost members at a troubling rate. under her maiden name Christine Perfect) joined the band on keyboards, and the band moved from the blues to a more melodic pop style. After a short gap, Christine McVie (a.k.a. Drugs, particularly LSD, also played a large part, as Green recorded sporadically before falling into a twenty-year period of mental illness. Debate rages on the reasons for this, but it is agreed that Green wished to play a more experimental and improvisational style. The band was then rocked by Peter Green's decision to leave. The epic 2-part "Oh Well" single followed, and was included in later pressings of the U.S. Spencer was, for the most part, absent from these recording sessions. After releasing two successful singles, the instrumental "Albatross" (which remains the band's only #1 hit in the UK), and the ballad "Man Of The World", it produced what is often considered the best album of the band's Peter Green era, Then Play On. Most performances were built around the twin leads of Green and Kirwan, and Kirwan's songwriting was featured in nearly equal proportion to Green's.
At this point the band began shifting into a more melodic, introspective, and experimental/progressive mode. Wonderful, a third guitarist, 18-year-old Danny Kirwan, was added to the lineup. (The band's first album Fleetwood Mac contains one song with Brunning on bass.) Slide-guitarist and Elmore James devotee, Jeremy Spencer, rounded out the lineup.Īfter its second album, Mr. The band employed another bassist, Bob Brunning, until John McVie was persuaded to join the band. Green himself had replaced a departing member, Eric Clapton, as the lead guitarist of the "Bluesbreakers " Green and McVie had appeared on John Mayall's 1967 A Hard Road album. The band was started in London in 1967 by guitarist Peter Green, who recruited the rhythm section of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers: drummer Mick Fleetwood and bass guitarist John McVie. She also supplied the artwork for the album Kiln House. Keyboardist Christine McVie has, to date, appeared on all but two albums, either as a member or as a session musician. Bassist John McVie, despite his giving part of his name to the band, did not play on their first single nor at their first concerts. The only member present in the band from the very beginning is its namesake drummer Mick Fleetwood. The band enjoyed more modest success in the intervening period between 19, with the line-up that included Bob Welch, and also during the 1990s which saw more personnel changes before the return of Nicks and Buckingham in 1997, and more recently, the departure of Christine McVie. The two most successful periods for the band were during the late 1960s British blues boom, when they were led by guitarist Peter Green and from 1975-87, with more pop-orientation, featuring Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.
From the band's inception through the end of 1974, no incarnation of Fleetwood Mac lasted as long as two years, but all featured core members Mick Fleetwood and John McVie.
Fleetwood Mac is a British and American rock band formed in 1967.
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