American musician

Bob Welch
Bob Welch (left) and recording engineer Jimmy Robinson at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California

Bob Welch (left) and recording engineer Jimmy Robinson at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California
Background information
Nascence name Robert Lawrence Welch Jr.
Born (1945-08-31)August 31, 1945
Hollywood, California, U.S.
Died June 7, 2012(2012-06-07) (aged 66)
Antioch, Tennessee, U.South.
Genres Rock
Occupation(south) Singer-songwriter
Instruments Vocals, guitar, bass guitar
Years active 1964–2011
Labels Capitol, RCA, Curb, Edsel, Rhino, I-Way
Associated acts Seven Souls (1964–1969)
Head Westward (1970)
Fleetwood Mac (1971–1974)
Paris (1975–1977)
Website www.bobwelch.com

Musical creative person

Robert Lawrence Welch Jr. (Baronial 31, 1945 – June 7, 2012) was an American musician who was a fellow member of Fleetwood Mac from 1971 to 1974. He had a successful solo career in the late 1970s. His singles included "Hot Love, Cold Earth", "Ebony Optics", "Precious Dear", "Hypnotized", and his signature song, "Sentimental Lady".

Early life [edit]

Welch was born in Hollywood, California, into a show business family. His male parent, Robert Fifty. Welch Sr., was a producer and screenwriter at Paramount Pictures, producing films starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Welch Sr. produced the 25th Annual University Awards Goggle box special in 1953 and The Thin Man TV series from 1958 to 1959. Bob's mother, Templeton Fob, was a vocaliser and extra who worked with Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre in Chicago and appeared in TV and movies from 1962 to 1979.

Welch learned clarinet in his childhood, switching to guitar in his early teens. His interests were jazz, rhythm and dejection, and rock music. He was accustomed into Georgetown University, but instead moved to Paris, planning to nourish the Sorbonne. Welch told People in a 1979 interview that, in Paris, "I by and large smoked hash with bearded guys five years older" and spent most of his fourth dimension "sitting in the Deux Magots café". He returned to Southern California, where he briefly studied French at the University of California, Los Angeles[1] but did not complete a degree.

In 1964, Welch joined the Los Angeles-based vocal group The 7 Souls every bit a guitarist.[two] The 7 Souls lost a boxing of the bands competition, the prize being a contract with Epic Records, to Sly and the Family Stone. The Seven Souls' 1967 single "I'thousand No Stranger" made no touch at the fourth dimension of its release, despite subsequent outcome in France and Italy. Its B-side, "I Even so Dearest You", has since get a Northern Soul anthem, with original copies selling up to £400. The Seven Souls broke up in 1969.

Welch subsequently returned to Paris and started a trio, Head West, which was non a success. He after told People that his time in Paris (1969-1971) was "living on rice and beans and sleeping on the floor."

Fleetwood Mac [edit]

In 1971, Welch auditioned for Fleetwood Mac at Kiln Firm, their retreat in England. The band had recently lost i of its front end-line members, guitarist Jeremy Spencer, and were looking for a replacement. Judy Wong, a friend and office-time secretarial assistant for the band, recommended her loftier school friend Welch. The ring had a few meetings with Welch and decided to hire him, despite not having previously played with him, after listening to some of his songs on tape.[3] Welch was assigned rhythm guitar, backing up lead guitarist Danny Kirwan. Welch somewhen lived in the ring's communal home, 'Benifold', located in Hampshire.

Using mobile equipment borrowed from The Rolling Stones, the ring recorded material for three albums at Benifold: Bare Trees, Penguin and Mystery to Me.[4] The band's first album to characteristic Christine McVie and Welch, Futurity Games, was recorded at Advision Studios in London (as is cited on the back of the album jacket). The next album, Blank Trees, was mostly recorded at De Lane Lea Studios in Wembley, London.

In September 1971 the band released Future Games, with the title song written by Welch. This album was different from anything the band had done previously. In 1972, six months afterwards the release of Future Games, the band released Bare Copse, which featured Welch's "Sentimental Lady". This song was a big hitting for Welch five years afterward when he re-recorded it for his solo anthology French Kiss. Christine McVie likewise sang on the remake, and was a producer of the song.

Friction: Danny Kirwan [edit]

The band was comfortable playing in the studio, but tours started to be problematic. Kirwan adult an alcohol dependency, and by 1972 was becoming alienated from Welch and the rest of the ring.[v] Welch had enormous respect for Kirwan's talents equally a guitarist, singer and songwriter — he subsequently described Kirwan equally "a brilliant musician"[vi] — and in the sixteen months he and Kirwan were together in Fleetwood Mac, they had a productive musical partnership. But Mick Fleetwood recalled, "They were very different equally people and as musicians".[5] On a personal level there was friction between them, and Welch, an approachable Californian, establish Kirwan to exist withdrawn, insecure and difficult to communicate with.[7] He as well suspected that Kirwan did not capeesh his musical way. "I call up Danny thought I was too clever a role player ... too jazzy, too many weird notes. I don't experience he loved my stuff to death."[8]

In 1999 Welch said Kirwan had been "a talented, gifted musician, virtually equal to Pete Greenish in his beautiful guitar playing and faultless string bends,"[9] but commented in a later interview: "Danny wasn't a very lighthearted person, to say the to the lowest degree. He probably shouldn't have been drinking as much as he did, even at his young historic period. He was e'er very intense about his piece of work, as I was, simply he didn't seem to ever be able to distance himself from information technology and laugh about it."[6]

Before a concert on a US tour in August 1972, a backstage argument betwixt a drunken Kirwan and Welch resulted in Kirwan peachy his guitar, trashing the dressing room and refusing to get on stage.[ten] Having reportedly smashed his head bloody on a wall, Kirwan watched the band struggle through the ready without him, with Welch trying to encompass his guitar parts.[5] Welch remembered, "I was extremely pissed off, and the set seemed to drag on forever."[eight] The ring fired Kirwan, and the artistic direction of Fleetwood Mac was left in the easily of Welch and Christine McVie.[11] Fleetwood said subsequently that the pressure level had get besides much for Kirwan, and he had suffered a breakdown. [12]

Challenges [edit]

Over the next 3 albums Fleetwood Mac released, they constantly inverse line-ups around the core of Mick Fleetwood, the McVies and Welch. Kirwan was replaced past Savoy Brown pb singer Dave Walker and Bob Weston on pb guitar. Both Walker and Weston played on Penguin. Released in January 1973, the album reached No. 49 on the Billboard Acme 200 album nautical chart in the United states. This anthology independent songs "Bright Fire" and "Revelations" by Welch.

Mystery to Me contained Welch's song "Hypnotized", which earned significant FM radio airplay in the United States. However, as a effect of an aborted bout, Mystery to Me only reached No. 67 in united states.[13]

'Fake Mac' and Relocation [edit]

Internal stresses caused by line-upwardly changes, touring, the deterioration of the McVies' matrimony (exacerbated past John's alcoholism), and an thing between Weston and Fleetwood's married woman, Jenny Boyd, were debilitating to the band. Weston was sacked and the band wanted to cancel an upcoming tour of the United states of america.

The band's managing director, Clifford Davis, did not want to cancel the tour, claiming he endemic the Fleetwood Mac name. In a letter to the remaining Fleetwood Mac members, Davis detailed his plans of making the band into a new "star-quality, headlining act"—substantially firing the ring, but offering them jobs in his new ring. Welch, and the other band members, ignored Davis' effort. Davis then set up a US bout with a new group of musicians—without Fleetwood Mac's consent—billed as "Fleetwood Mac". None of the new musicians had ever played with whatever previous incarnation of the band.[14] Davis announced, falsely, that Welch and John McVie had quit Fleetwood Mac, and that Fleetwood and Christine McVie would be joining the 'new' band at a later date. The original members of Fleetwood Mac obtained an injunction preventing the "false Mac" from touring nether their name, while Davis obtained an injunction preventing the original band from touring. The lawsuits resulting from the ultimately aborted tour put Fleetwood Mac out of committee for almost a year.

During this limbo, Welch stayed in Los Angeles and connected with entertainment attorneys. Welch believed the band was being neglected by Warner Bros.—the parent of their label, Reprise Records—and convinced the ring to move to Los Angeles. Rock promoter Bill Graham wrote a letter to Warner Bros. to convince them that the "existent" Fleetwood Mac were in fact Fleetwood, Welch and the McVies. While this did not end the legal battle, the band was able to record every bit Fleetwood Mac over again.

Instead of getting some other manager, Fleetwood Mac decided to manage themselves. Afterwards the courts ruled that the "Fleetwood Mac" proper name belonged to Fleetwood and John McVie, the two band members set their ain band direction visitor, Seedy Management.[15]

Heroes Are Hard to Notice and Departure from Fleetwood Mac [edit]

In 1974, Welch was the only guitar player in the band. Warner Bros. fabricated a new deal with Fleetwood Mac, releasing the anthology Heroes Are Hard to Detect on Reprise in September 1974. The album became the band's starting time to attain the Tiptop 40 in the The states, peaking at No. 34 on the Billboard nautical chart. The subsequent tour would be Welch's terminal with Fleetwood Mac.

Welch was suffering with personal and professional issues: his matrimony was failing, and he felt he had wearied his creativity with the ring. Subsequently, he explained that he felt estranged from John and Christine McVie, all the same close to Fleetwood, with whom, he asserted, he was running the band in 1974.[16] Welch resigned from Fleetwood Mac in Dec 1974 and was replaced by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.

Of the Fleetwood Mac albums on which Welch appeared, American anthology sales totaled 500,000 units shipped between 1971 and 2000 for Time to come Games; 1 million units of Blank Trees betwixt 1972 and 1988; and 500,000 units of Mystery to Me betwixt 1973 and 1976, when it was certified gilded past the Recording Industry Clan of America.

Lawsuit [edit]

The Buckingham–Nicks version of Fleetwood Mac achieved superstar status with the albums Fleetwood Mac (1975) and Rumours (1977), both reaching No. 1 in the US. Rumours shipped twoscore one thousand thousand units worldwide and remains one of the almost successful albums ever released.

By the 1990s, Welch's once diplomatic relationship with Fleetwood Mac had go acrimonious. In 1994, Welch sued Fleetwood, the McVies, band attorney Michael Shapiro and Warner Bros. Records for alienation of contract related to underpayment of royalties. Previously, in 1978, Welch and the band had signed a contract with Warner Bros. like-minded to an equal share of all royalties from their Fleetwood Mac albums. Welch alleged that the members after made new deals with Warner Bros. for higher royalty rates, and neither Fleetwood nor the McVies had informed Welch, thus cheating him out of equal royalties. The lawsuit was settled in 1996.[17]

Hall of Fame controversy and reconciliation [edit]

When Fleetwood Mac was inducted into the Rock and Curlicue Hall of Fame in 1998, original band members Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan, Mick Fleetwood, and John McVie were named to the Hall, as were Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, and Stevie Nicks. Welch, who anchored the ring for several years and five albums, was non. Welch felt the recent legal battle with the band soured the commission to include him. "My era was the span era," Welch told the Cleveland newspaper the Evidently Dealer in 1998. "Information technology was a transition. But information technology was an of import period in the history of the ring. Mick Fleetwood dedicated a whole chapter of his biography to my era of the band and credited me with 'saving Fleetwood Mac'. Now they want to write me out of the history of the group. It hurts... Mick and I co-managed the group for years. I'm the one who brought the band to Los Angeles from England, which put them in the position of hooking upwardly with Lindsey and Stevie. I saw the band through a whole menstruum where they barely survived, literally."[eighteen]

In a 2003 online question-and-reply session on the Fleetwood Mac fan site The Penguin, Welch revised his opinion about the exclusion. He had recently visited Fleetwood Mac backstage after a show, and he reconnected with Mick Fleetwood. Welch no longer blamed the ring for his exclusion. He instead blamed the Hall's committee and its industry insiders (such as Ahmet Ertegun and Jann Wenner), stating they did not like his style of music. He still maintained that the lawsuit was a factor, as it prevented him from contacting Mick Fleetwood, and they were still estranged at the time of the induction.[18]

Rock trio and solo career [edit]

In 1975, Welch formed the short-lived hard rock power trio Paris with ex-Jethro Tull bassist Glenn Cornick and former Nazz drummer Thom Mooney. Paris released two commercially unsuccessful albums: Paris and Big Towne, 2061. Hunt Sales afterwards replaced Mooney until the group disbanded.

In a 1979 interview with People, Welch said that the 2 Paris albums were "sick-conceived." The band's lack of success drained Welch's finances, until he had merely $8,000 left.[ane]

Mick Fleetwood managed Welch's career into the 1980s. During the meridian of their respective popularity in the belatedly 1970s, Welch frequently opened for Fleetwood Mac and would sit in as lead singer on "Hypnotized".

In September 1977, Welch released his first solo anthology, French Kiss, a mainstream popular collection featuring contributions from Fleetwood, Buckingham and Christine McVie. The anthology was certified platinum by the RIAA, peaking at No. 12 on the Billboard chart in 1978. It yielded three striking singles: a revamped version of "Sentimental Lady" produced by Buckingham and McVie (#8), "Ebony Optics" (#14; featuring Juice Newton on backing vocals) and "Hot Dearest, Common cold Earth" (#31).

Welch followed up French Kiss with 2 albums in 1979.[19] In February, 3 Hearts, an album that replicated the rock/disco fusion of French Osculation, peaked at No. xx (earning a RIAA gold certification) and spawned the hit "Precious Dear" (#19), while the follow-up single "Church" (#73) too charted. His second effort that year, November's "The Other One", saw Bob'south first solo recordings without the assistance of whatsoever Fleetwood Mac members. This album reached No. 105 on the charts, though no singles on this record charted. Notable songs include "Insubordinate Rouser" and "Don't Let Me Autumn". From 1980 to 1981, he hosted Hollywood Heartbeat, an early on music video programme.[twenty] His subsequent solo albums into the early on 1980s (Homo Overboard, Bob Welch, and Eye Contact) were not successful and his career declined.

In 1999, Welch released an experimental jazz/loop-based anthology, Bob Welch Looks at Bop. He followed this upwardly in 2003 with His Fleetwood Mac Years and Across, which independent new recordings of songs he originally recorded with Fleetwood Mac, as well as some solo hits. In 2006, he released His Fleetwood Mac Years and Across 2, which mixed a one-half-dozen new compositions, forth with a like number of his Mac/solo remakes. He released more CDs with Fuel Records in 2008, 2010, and 2011.

Welch appeared as an avatar named BobWelch Magic in 2008, performing solo acoustic favorites and hits live for 30 minutes, in a evidence with Von Johin (musician/publisher Mike Lawson) and Cypress Rosewood (musician Tony Gerber) in the virtual earth of 2nd Life, streaming live into the Gibson Island virtual stage from Lawson's studio.[21]

Recovery and second wedlock [edit]

Welch turned to drugs to cope during his mid-1980s career slump. He partied with Guns N' Roses, who were rehearsing in Welch's garage at the time. He speedily became fond to cocaine and heroin, and was hospitalized for detox in spring of 1985. Welch reflected on that era as "being a very bad male child, very decadent, very cynical, VERY stoned. It was not a good time."[22]

The twenty-four hours he was released from detox, he was introduced to Wendy Armistead by Taryn Power (Tyrone Power's daughter) and Tony Sales at The Central (now The Viper Room). Welch and Armistead were married in Dec 1985 and moved to Phoenix, Arizona, to maintain Welch's sobriety. Welch abstained from all illegal drugs for the rest of his life.[23]

While in Phoenix, they formed a curt-lived group chosen Artery Yard. The group went on tour and recorded one song for a greatest hits compilation. They later on moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and remained married until his decease.

Expiry and legacy [edit]

Welch had undergone spinal surgery three months prior to his decease. Despite the surgery, doctors told him his prognosis for recovery was poor, and he would somewhen become an invalid. He was nonetheless in considerable pain, despite taking the medication pregabalin (Lyrica) for six weeks.

On June 7, 2012, around 6:00 am, Welch died past suicide, shooting himself in his Nashville home where his married woman Wendy discovered his body. He left a ix-folio suicide note and love letter for Wendy. He was 66 years old.[24] [25] [26]

Wendy died on November 28, 2016, from chronic obstructive pulmonary affliction (COPD) and centre disease, also aged 66.[27]

Bob and Wendy Welch are cached beside each other in Memphis, Tennessee.[28]

An exhibit chronicling Bob Welch's career opened at The Musicians Hall of Fame at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee on August 27, 2018. Despite the lawsuit over a decade earlier, Fleetwood wrote a tribute for the exhibit. His estate has endowed a scholarship to back up Belmont School of Music students.[29]

Discography [edit]

Albums [edit]

Head W albums
Engagement Album Boosted information
1970 Head West Repackaged in 1973 & credited to "Bob Welch with Head Due west"
Fleetwood Mac albums
Release Date Album Additional data
September 3, 1971 Future Games Debut album with Fleetwood Mac
March 1972 Bare Copse Features the original recording of "Sentimental Lady"
March 1973 Penguin —
October xv, 1973 Mystery to Me Features "Hypnotized", written by Welch
September thirteen, 1974 Heroes Are Hard to Discover Welch quit Fleetwood Mac after this album
November 24, 1992 25 Years – The Concatenation Compilation
Paris albums
Release date Album Additional information
January 1976 Paris —
Baronial 1976 Big Towne, 2061 —
Solo albums
Release appointment Album Chart
(The states)[30] 		Additional data
November 1977 French Kiss 12 Platinum
Feb 1979 Three Hearts twenty Gold
November 1979 The Other I 105 —
September 1980 Man Overboard 162 —
Oct 1981 Bob Welch 201 —
June 1983 Eye Contact — —
December 1991 The Best of Bob Welch — —
1994 Greatest Hits — —
September ten, 1999 Bob Welch Looks at Bop — —
July viii, 2003 His Fleetwood Mac Years & Beyond — All new digital recordings
Baronial 10, 2004 Live from the Roxy — Live recording from 1981 released in 2004
March 28, 2006 His Fleetwood Mac Years and Beyond, Vol. ii — —
March xviii, 2008 Greatest Hits & More — Previously released in 2003
Dec 21, 2011 Sings the Best Songs Ever Written — —
December 21, 2011 Live in Japan — — May xix, 2021 Live from the Roxy — Live recording from 1981 reissued onto vinyl in 2021

Solo singles [edit]

Year Title Chart positions
US
[31] 		Usa
AC
[32] 		Us
Stone
[33] 		Tin AU
1976 "Big Towne, 2061" — — — — —
1977 "Sentimental Lady" viii 10 — 3 —
1978 "Ebony Optics" 14 — — 7 ii
"Hot Love, Cold Globe" 31 — — — —
1979 "Precious Dear" 19 42 — — 37
"Church" 73 — — — —
"iii Hearts" — — — — —
1980 "Don't Permit Me Fall" — — — — —
"The Girl Can't Stop" — — — — —
"Don't Rush The Good Things" — — — — —
1981 "Information technology's What Ya Don't Say" — — 45 — —
"Two To Do" 107 — — — —
1982 "Call up" — — — — —
1983 "S.O.S." — — — — —
"I'll Dance Lone" — — — — —
2011 "Black Domestic dog" — — — — —

References [edit]

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  28. ^ "Find A Grave". Find A Grave . Retrieved ix January 2020.
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External links [edit]

  • Bob Welch's MySpace
  • Bob Welch Memorial

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