Sorry you can't induct Fleetwood Mac into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame without including Bob Welch, very talented singer, songwriter, guitar player and artist. He's the one who moved them to LA from Europe, where they ultimately hooked up with Buckingham and Nicks. Very important member and for a time leader of the band.
I hate to say this and I hope I’m wrong, but Bob Welch did Not considered his music as Rock. There’s this song called Bermuda Triangle live and He says “keep it mellow this ain’t rock n roll” but yet I considered most of his music to be a bit rock. Idk
MAKES ME SICK= NOT ONE COULD STAND UP AND SAY:"WELL LEAVE ME OUT, because W/O BOB WELCH none of us may have been elected" HE WAS THE MAN DURIING THEIR TRAGEDIES AND SOAP OPERA TIRADES" Ain't that right Mr Fleetwood? " AIN'T THAT RIGHT!!! I ASKED YOU A QUESTION DRUMMER BOY!!
I was stationed in Germany in 1974 and saw Bob Welch with Fleetwood Mac on television. I was blown away by the amazing sounds and this brings back some great memories. It's ashame this era in the story of Fleetwood Mac is not more promoted.
I saw them in 74 at the Waterbury Palace Theatre in Ct. Was expecting Bob welch... but Lindsey and that girl just joined... great show! My first concert ever...
I wish there was a really great classic rock radio station. I wandered on the FM dial and heard J. Geils the other day, but it was "Centerfold", a catchy little novelty song great to hear maybe twice a year, but I came home and listened to "Serves You Right to Suffer" on RUclips.
I was fortunate enough to have 3rd row seats at their 1974 concert. It was a fantastic show and Bob did all of the guitar work. He was a great songwriter, guitarist, and frontman. His time in the band was the best of FM
Kirwan was already fired. Replaced by Weston. Weston already fired for doing Mick’s wife. Here Bob is the only guitarist. genius no doubt. wrote those tunes.
@jett woodward Fleetwood and McVie cheated Welch after Rumors made them rich. Fans started buying the Welch years recordings but founders didn't pay Bob royalties. So Bob sued them and got his money. So Mick and John cut Bob out of his RRHOF award in revenge.
Epic! Great to see Bob Welch hit it out of the park with the guitar. Yet another phenomenon that the ignominious Rock & Roll Hall of Fame can't seem to appreciate.
Better, people would'nt accept this ominous "Hall of Fame" as measuring stick for musical greatness no more...So much pure, brillant music, and not inducted...
Bobs guitar at the end is mind blowing! And to think this would have been one of his last gigs with the Mac before Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks showed up and history would be made when they showed up. This tune is off of the "Heroes Are Hard To Find" circa 1974. No Peter Green, Danny Kirwan on this record. Just Bob, the McVies and Mick Fleetwood. Great album. Definitely under appreciated given it was over shadowed by the Buckingham/Nicks era of albums that came after the Heroes release.
Wow. Welch had better guitar chops than I thought! I listened to the whole concert and was really impressed with his playing. Especially on this song and Green Manalishi.
I’ll duck from the rocks. This band’s best music came out during the “lost” years. Bob Welch held this group together and brought them to California. Then he quit, later having a few solo hits. And Stevie Stevie Stevie. Yes Stevie was very cute in ‘76/77 but Chris trumped her in sexiness hanging out and playing some tasty piano.
Saw this tour in 1974 in OKC. And as has been said in other comments this was the real Fleetwood Mac . They were creative, both in the music and the lyrics. They had their own style. But Welch got kicked to the curve and the other three went for the money and the top 40 scene. It's a mystery to me that hero's are hard to find in the bare tree's while playing Future Games. Thanks everyone.
Heard this song on a porch in Macomb, Illinois in 1975, junior year of college, was transfixed and remain a huge fan of the great Bob Welch to this day.
Unfortunately there is no video for this performance, so rowfant used different concert footage. Bob usually played second lead to Kirwin and Weston, but after they left the band, he held his own. Love this guitar.
There is, however, a very similar broadcast that was filmed or videotaped .. they recorded three broadcasts at the record plant with slightly different setlists, and one at Ultrasonic studios, The KSAN Dec 15th broadcast was not filmed, correct, but several of the others were, and at least one of the Record plant ones has a complete film in existence (not the one used for video dubbing here). THe audio used here is from the infamous "Will the real Fleetwood Mac Please stand up" broadcast, and possibly one of the earliest vinyl bootlegs available.. at least , the earliest I ever bought. Unfortunately, I let it go and spent years trying to find another copy. Until the internet nd bootleg sites popped up, and I found that this obscure little bootleg I had been searching for was one of the most well known FM boot of them all. and if I had remembered the LP title on these trading networks (I'm talking back of magazine trading groups - there was no web and the internet was still basically the province of the military and the large universities) I could have found another copy easily!
Bob held his own against Lindsey Buckingham when he played "Gold Dust Woman" a few years later with Stevie Nicks. Lindsey, on the other hand, butchered Hypnotized during his first tour with FM.
Thanks to rowfant123 for uploading. I'm a big fan of the "Middle period Mac" and of course Bob Welch. It hit me hard to hear of his death. It's strange I was listening to a lot of solo Bob Welch and his stuff with Fleetwood Mac prior to his death in the last couple of months.RIP Bob you are missed.
Amazing footage from an amazing time of an amazing band playing one of their most AMAZING songs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for posting!!!!!!!
thanks for posting this. bob welch was such an amazing talent - a triple-threat songwriter/vocalist/guitarist. nobody else in rock & roll sang like him, that weird stoned detachment, almost like a rock & roll mose allison. a sadly neglected talent, but still - in my book anyway - one of the all-time greats. my interest level in fleetwood mac nosedives after the departure of bob welch. such a shame he got screwed out of induction to the hall of fame. that is/was some seriously cold bullshit. RIP bob.
He had a touch of nerd in him that makes you root for the guy w/o a date in H/S..but he was the real deal. Today he would get the eye operation and get pretty.
The first time I saw FM ,Bob was still the lead vocalist and guitarist :Pittsburgh Syria Mosque , probably winter of 1974. Howard White/ ex-national Record Mart .
Bob Welch was Fleetwood Mac, you think? Bob Welch and Chritine McVie were what made Fleetwood Mac the best Mac version before Nick's and Buckingham joined. Mistery to Me, a classic
Awesome!! I have never seen a clip of Bob Welch live. One of my favorite albums - "Heroes Are So Hard to Find." Wish his Paris albums were available for download. The second Paris album is only available on vinyl, as far as I can tell.
This is not at the Record Plant in Sausalito 1974.This is from a Don Kirshner's rock concert tv special.somewhere.There is NO video of the Record Plant,a closed session for KSAN live radio broadcast which I have posted here.It's audio only.
Anyone else notice one second Mick Fleetwood is using drumsticks the next moment just his hands? The audio is right on, I prefer this version over the studio but The video is dubbed from more than one performance. maybe? P.S. I don't believe I have ever seen Christine look more lovely.
It COULD be the audio from the Record Plant show…but the video is from the August 1st show at the Long Beach Arena, which was taped for "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert." Note the presence of Doug Graves as the 2nd keyboardist at the left of the stage. (By the time of the Record Plant show, which was Bob Welch's last, Bobby Hunt was playing the auxiliary keyboards.) This song was cut from the broadcast, as Kirshner's introduction of the band was inserted between the opening "The Green Manalishi" and "Spare Me a Little of Your Love" which came 3rd in the set. This makes me excited, as I only have the broadcast edit. I wonder where you found this?
Great song but this video is a joke. THe video is from the Midnight Special and the audio is from the Record Plant in Sausalito. Probably not even the same song being played on the video.
Played as a continuous track "Angel" and "Coming home" on the studio Heroes are hard to find, beats this improv and poor timing hands down in my opine.
Bob was my least favorite of all of fleetwood mac members. i liked him aside in his own band. but he obviously did not fit into the Lindsey/Stevie reformed Fleetwood mac. . Green, Irwin & Spencer & MF & JM & CM were a great group too, if only drugs had not taken over & ruined .
This is the Fleetwood Mac I liked
Sorry you can't induct Fleetwood Mac into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame without including Bob Welch, very talented singer, songwriter, guitar player and artist. He's the one who moved them to LA from Europe, where they ultimately hooked up with Buckingham and Nicks. Very important member and for a time leader of the band.
Yes. It's outrageous. He's the only one not included.
I hate to say this and I hope I’m wrong, but Bob Welch did Not considered his music as Rock. There’s this song called Bermuda Triangle live and He says “keep it mellow this ain’t rock n roll” but yet I considered most of his music to be a bit rock. Idk
Bob, and Mick screwed him out of a WHOLE lotta money makin it rough on Welch's wife after Bob passed
@Caroline Woodward Caroline,Well dont care much for him either, thanks for the shout back or his trash publication
MAKES ME SICK= NOT ONE COULD STAND UP AND SAY:"WELL LEAVE ME OUT, because W/O BOB WELCH none of us may have been elected" HE WAS THE MAN DURIING THEIR TRAGEDIES AND SOAP OPERA TIRADES" Ain't that right Mr Fleetwood? " AIN'T THAT RIGHT!!! I ASKED YOU A QUESTION DRUMMER BOY!!
I was stationed in Germany in 1974 and saw Bob Welch with Fleetwood Mac on television. I was blown away by the amazing sounds and this brings back some great memories. It's ashame this era in the story of Fleetwood Mac is not more promoted.
That five album Welch era of the band has so much great music within it!
I saw them in 74 at the Waterbury Palace Theatre in Ct. Was expecting Bob welch... but Lindsey and that girl just joined... great show! My first concert ever...
He should be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame with the rest of Fleetwood Mac.
This is such a great track ,you never hear it on the radio it's a forgotten gem .
I wish there was a really great classic rock radio station. I wandered on the FM dial and heard J. Geils the other day, but it was "Centerfold", a catchy little novelty song great to hear maybe twice a year, but I came home and listened to "Serves You Right to Suffer" on RUclips.
I was fortunate enough to have 3rd row seats at their 1974 concert. It was a fantastic show and Bob did all of the guitar work. He was a great songwriter, guitarist, and frontman. His time in the band was the best of FM
So underrated and unappreciated ( along with Danny Kirwan).
Kirwan was already fired. Replaced by Weston. Weston already fired for doing Mick’s wife. Here Bob is the only guitarist. genius no doubt. wrote those tunes.
@jett woodward Fleetwood and McVie cheated Welch after Rumors made them rich. Fans started buying the Welch years recordings but founders didn't pay Bob royalties. So Bob sued them and got his money. So Mick and John cut Bob out of his RRHOF award in revenge.
@@knowmusicman157 There are actually two records featuring both Bon Welch and Danny Kirwan: Future Games and Bare Trees.😊
The Bob Welch years were the best years for Fleetwood Mac
The Peter Green musically was leaps and bounds the best, but the Welch version was very fine too.
Epic! Great to see Bob Welch hit it out of the park with the guitar. Yet another phenomenon that the ignominious Rock & Roll Hall of Fame can't seem to appreciate.
Better, people would'nt accept this ominous "Hall of Fame" as measuring stick for musical greatness no more...So much pure, brillant music, and not inducted...
What a great song. Stands the test of time. Bob Welch essential music!!!
Bobs guitar at the end is mind blowing! And to think this would have been one of his last gigs with the Mac before Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks showed up and history would be made when they showed up. This tune is off of the "Heroes Are Hard To Find" circa 1974. No Peter Green, Danny Kirwan on this record. Just Bob, the McVies and Mick Fleetwood. Great album. Definitely under appreciated given it was over shadowed by the Buckingham/Nicks era of albums that came after the Heroes release.
Mystery to me and bare trees are part of his era too!? I enjoy them both!
Those 3 albums are the best Fleetwood Mac. They are just gorgeous, Christine was one heck of a great piano player, too.
Wow. Welch had better guitar chops than I thought! I listened to the whole concert and was really impressed with his playing. Especially on this song and Green Manalishi.
Your right, and nobody can play Green Manalishi other than Peter Peter is God Green.
I’ll duck from the rocks. This band’s best music came out during the “lost” years. Bob Welch held this group together and brought them to California. Then he quit, later having a few solo hits. And Stevie Stevie Stevie. Yes Stevie was very cute in ‘76/77 but Chris trumped her in sexiness hanging out and playing some tasty piano.
No rocks from me. Mystery to Me is still one of my favorite albums from this era.
Totally agree. I think being in the late 60ies allows the appreciation of early FM.
No rocks from me---love Bob & Chris. But I really love the Peter Green years most.
Christine Perfect, her real name prior to marriage, was voted the best legs in Britain in the late sixties.
And Christie had the SULTRY/Mystery voice, the opposite of the lil nose sound.
Saw this tour in 1974 in OKC. And as has been said in other comments this was the real Fleetwood Mac . They were creative, both in the music and the lyrics. They had their own style. But Welch got kicked to the curve and the other three went for the money and the top 40 scene. It's a mystery to me that hero's are hard to find in the bare tree's while playing Future Games. Thanks everyone.
Actually he didn't get kicked to the curve . He left.
Curb. Not curve.
@@titostacos well both words start with a c , I was in the ballpark. Thanks. Shalom
Such a creative songwriter. Better than Lindsay for sure. The real FM in my book.
Heard this song on a porch in Macomb, Illinois in 1975, junior year of college, was transfixed and remain a huge fan of the great Bob Welch to this day.
The best FM albums are with Welch. He was a great songwriter. One of his best songs.
Outstanding musicianship. Bravo to Mr. Bob Welch for his incredible musical talents and contributions to the music world. Rest in peace.
Angel is one of my Fleetwood mac second lineup with Bob Welch favorites!!
Didn't FM produce a different song called Angel? It's trash next to this...
@@memoryrinehart I'm clueless about FM!
Man their music is so Good....fabtastic tune. I nearly forgot this beauty😘😘😘😘😘Thumbs up
The Bob Welch era is my favorite.
Unfortunately there is no video for this performance, so rowfant used different concert footage. Bob usually played second lead to Kirwin and Weston, but after they left the band, he held his own. Love this guitar.
There is, however, a very similar broadcast that was filmed or videotaped .. they recorded three broadcasts at the record plant with slightly different setlists, and one at Ultrasonic studios, The KSAN Dec 15th broadcast was not filmed, correct, but several of the others were, and at least one of the Record plant ones has a complete film in existence (not the one used for video dubbing here).
THe audio used here is from the infamous "Will the real Fleetwood Mac Please stand up" broadcast, and possibly one of the earliest vinyl bootlegs available.. at least , the earliest I ever bought. Unfortunately, I let it go and spent years trying to find another copy. Until the internet nd bootleg sites popped up, and I found that this obscure little bootleg I had been searching for was one of the most well known FM boot of them all. and if I had remembered the LP title on these trading networks (I'm talking back of magazine trading groups - there was no web and the internet was still basically the province of the military and the large universities) I could have found another copy easily!
Bob held his own against Lindsey Buckingham when he played "Gold Dust Woman" a few years later with Stevie Nicks. Lindsey, on the other hand, butchered Hypnotized during his first tour with FM.
@@Diostillrocks I agree.
Yep- he was a special dude. Miss him
Dont rock the boat was sailing the airwaves and we had this hidden gem. Oh WELLllllll`. HE REALLY LEFT HIS MARK. OH THE GUITAR TAKES YOU ON A JOURNEY.
Thanks to rowfant123 for uploading. I'm a big fan of the "Middle period Mac" and of course Bob Welch. It hit me hard to hear of his death. It's strange I was listening to a lot of solo Bob Welch and his stuff with Fleetwood Mac prior to his death in the last couple of months.RIP Bob you are missed.
Amazing footage from an amazing time of an amazing band playing one of their most AMAZING songs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for posting!!!!!!!
thanks for posting this. bob welch was such an amazing talent - a triple-threat songwriter/vocalist/guitarist. nobody else in rock & roll sang like him, that weird stoned detachment, almost like a rock & roll mose allison. a sadly neglected talent, but still - in my book anyway - one of the all-time greats. my interest level in fleetwood mac nosedives after the departure of bob welch. such a shame he got screwed out of induction to the hall of fame. that is/was some seriously cold bullshit. RIP bob.
He had a touch of nerd in him that makes you root for the guy w/o a date in H/S..but he was the real deal. Today he would get the eye operation and get pretty.
Fleetwood Mac begins and ends with Bob Welch. RIP Angel.
jeffthepoet7 agreed
What about Peter Green?
Best version of this song.
Every year was the best for me…but I loved his pop songs!
I never knew I was a Fleetwood Mac fan until I discovered that they weren't always fronted by Stevie Nicks.
The Peter Green/Danny Kirwin followed by Bob Welch are my favorite years of mac. I can't stand the top 40 crap of Buckingham/Nicks
Love that guitar at the end.
It's kind of Hendrixish isn't it? ❤
@@memoryrinehart Yes! Kinda psychedelic. Love it!
BW is SOO COOL!! Totally unique guitar sensibilities
The first time I saw FM ,Bob was still the lead vocalist and guitarist :Pittsburgh Syria Mosque , probably winter of 1974. Howard White/ ex-national Record Mart .
proves could've been a jam band..great Era for the mac
Oh yeah- you know that Bob W cvoul;d go for hours as he had a jazzy thing in his toolbox
That piano line is unreal.
my name is angelina and i love the nickname angel, and i LOVE this song!!! 😇😇😇 so glad i found this video to watch! 🎶🙂🖤
We miss you Bob & Christey 😢
Bob Welch was Fleetwood Mac, you think? Bob Welch and Chritine McVie were what made Fleetwood Mac the best Mac version before Nick's and Buckingham joined. Mistery to Me, a classic
AMAZING
THIS IS ROCK!! Post 1975 "Pop"
beautiful
The best Fleetwood Mac records comes from the Bob Welch (and Danny Kerwin) period (+ Tango in the night).
RIP Bob Welch.
Awesome!! I have never seen a clip of Bob Welch live. One of my favorite albums - "Heroes Are So Hard to Find." Wish his Paris albums were available for download. The second Paris album is only available on vinyl, as far as I can tell.
They're on RUclips.
Christine looks like an angel
Heroes are Hard To Find.
Ángel una de las mejores canciones de este gran grupo
Bob Welch was good for The Mac some of the best years before the poppy boring stuff.
Mick looks like he's playing drums in the buff! ;)
He was, one of his balls was banging the bass drum.
Bob was the Cerano DeBergerac of Rock Jazz.
Great song, thanks for posting
That was my birthday and man was I one fast M FER. Nevertheless despite not being as swift I still love this song! 🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃🏃🎸🎵🎶🥁
This is not at the Record Plant in Sausalito 1974.This is from a Don Kirshner's rock concert tv special.somewhere.There is NO video of the Record Plant,a closed session for KSAN live radio broadcast which I have posted here.It's audio only.
You're right.
You're right bro.
Ddddynamite, fantastic. Wow!!!
If you read about Bob's last days and compare it with this song, the parallels will give you goosebumps.
I have both. Keep looking and good luck.
Wow Welchie was a better guitarist than I thought. And who's the cat playing keyboards is that Gary Wright?
Doug Graves, who was an engineer on the "Heroes Are Hard To Find" album, and then hired as a touring musician.
Excellent'
Anyone else notice one second Mick Fleetwood is using drumsticks the next moment just his hands? The audio is right on, I prefer this version over the studio but The video is dubbed from more than one performance. maybe? P.S. I don't believe I have ever seen Christine look more lovely.
This is such a Genius track ..
It COULD be the audio from the Record Plant show…but the video is from the August 1st show at the Long Beach Arena, which was taped for "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert." Note the presence of Doug Graves as the 2nd keyboardist at the left of the stage.
(By the time of the Record Plant show, which was Bob Welch's last, Bobby Hunt was playing the auxiliary keyboards.)
This song was cut from the broadcast, as Kirshner's introduction of the band was inserted between the opening "The Green Manalishi" and "Spare Me a Little of Your Love" which came 3rd in the set.
This makes me excited, as I only have the broadcast edit. I wonder where you found this?
BOBO YOU WERE THE BEST OF THE FLEETWOOD MAC LEADERS!
Ron Roberts damn right
Phenomenal and under appreciated to be sure. He's just as phenomenal as the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is pathetic and ignominious for leaving him out.
When Fleetwood Mac was good. B4 Buckingham Nicks
I was 18 yo....😭😭😭
Those glasses!!
I bel;eve they did not have the thin lens technology
I hate the fact that there’s another song called Angel by FM. This should be the only one
I like both versions; but this is better, although not so timeless. It sounds very much of its time.
Same song, done differently.
@@TenTEA1 completely different songs
Hmmm
Love Bob
BOB Welch was to Fleetwod Mac what George Lazenby to 007.
I just don’t know if Mac would eventually hit the big time with Welch as the front man.
Not the point- Which are you going to listen to?
I see a double neck 12 string guitar sitting in the back. On what song did Bob play that guitar on?
Check out a blog called Brooklyn Steve Strikes Again. He's got both Paris albums and a bootleg from the 2064 tour(audience).
December 1974? I thought this line up was already history by then.
Wery good
I like both songs called Angel by Fleetwood Mac but I wonder why Stevie didn't bother to pick another name
Does anyone know the name of the guy who toured with them here who’s playing the Hammond organ???
Douglas Graves is on Hammond he played with The Mac for the Heroes Are Hard To Find tour.
Welch left the band shortly after this.
Great song but this video is a joke. THe video is from the Midnight Special and the audio is from the Record Plant in Sausalito. Probably not even the same song being played on the video.
Who’s the guy on second keyboards?
Endjel pa viste prva liga😊
If Welch had stayed then Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac style would have been unchanged but..
Pretty lugubrious
Prva liiga
That doesnt look like the Record Plant in Sausalito !
It's not. But music is.
At their best! Before Stevie Nicks ruined the band
with that nasly voice
What the hell is with the glasses?
Played as a continuous track "Angel" and "Coming home" on the studio Heroes are hard to find, beats this improv and poor timing hands down in my opine.
things that drive musicians crazy... slowing down the video during a song. The playing doesn't match the video...
Bob was my least favorite of all of fleetwood mac members. i liked him aside in his own band. but he obviously did not fit into the Lindsey/Stevie reformed Fleetwood mac. . Green, Irwin & Spencer & MF & JM & CM were a great group too, if only drugs had not taken over & ruined .
Shite “Peter Green was God
God didn't need any drug
beautiful
Who is the other keyboard player?