Well, even though Jeremy Spencer left Fleetwood Mac under unusual circumstances, precipitated by temporary mental instability, and joined what many people considered a cult, he still has a happier ending (so far) than Bob Welch. There’s a common thread of mental illness and turmoil running through the stories of most of the musician’s who have…
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Bob Welch (ex-Fleetwood Mac solo’s, Part 1)
For months now I’ve been meaning to write a series of posts or one long post here on the blog about the interesting solo careers of ex-Fleetwood Mac band members Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan, Bob Weston, and Bob Welch. I’ve kept putting it off for one reason or another, but the news of…
2011: Favorites of the Year
This was going to be my top 10 favorite albums released in 2011, but it’s turned out to be 15. And why not? Why does everybody always have to do top 10 lists? Top 15 lists are better. Really. Here they are (in no particular order), with a sample track from each: A Hidden Wholeness,…
Triumph (or defeat?….)
In a batch of old music magazines I borrowed a while back, I came across a few issues of a long-out-of-print periodical called “Sounds”. “Sounds” was a large format publication, printed on newsprint (like those old Rolling Stone magazines). It differed from a lot of other music mags by way of it’s writing. There were…
Halloweeny
My three favorite spooky creepy halloweeny album covers: ANY CHARACTER HERE Black Sabbath’s first album, from 1970, has a cover shot taken at an old mill in England by Marcus Keef (photographer of many 1960’s/1970’s album covers). The infrared film that was used creates a very surreal, otherworldy aura, heightened by the autumnal-wintry landscape. The…
Of Headlights and Ditchflowers
If you don’t use your headlights, you’re going to be seeing those flowers in the ditch really close up. Hmmm, never mind… In the 1980’s and early 1990’s, there was a band in the Tampa Bay area called The Headlights. In a hot and humid local music scene dominated by a lot of hair bands,…
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