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1977 6. ad lib thursday, October 6, Fleetwood footnotes Welsh of R. Weil Shortly after Welsh escaped from his steady diet By Douglas Mac's troubles eased. They added two Three Yean ago Bob Welsh was a singer-songwrit- and lead legalese, Fleetwood - members-Unds- and Nicks guitarist for a transplanted English rock band by the name of new ey Buckingham Stephanie Fleetwood Mac. Welsh joined Fleetwood Mac in 1971 shortly --and the revamped Fleetwood Mac started its quest to be- where after the band had emigrated from their native England come a household word. they had established themselves as a leading blues band. ure had the chance to break the seal on From 1971 to 1975 Fleetwood Mac recorded five alftuins-Fut- And before Welsh himself in a new Games, Bare Trees, Pangiun, Mystery to Ma, and Heroes his first tube of suntan oil he found are Hard to Find. None of these efforts were a devestating sales band, Paris. But Paris was anything but a big success and Fleetwood Mac album sold a success. Each depenable 250,000 two years after it had formed, it folded, not a whimper to copies. It is quite likely that Fleetwood Mac was the biggest cult band in the history of popular music. be heard anywhere. Today Fleetwood Mac sits atop the popular music world. Each "After Paris split up a friend that was acting as my of its last two albums-Fleetw- ood Mac and Rumours have sold in suggested that I go to New York and recruit Mac manager excess of three million copies. All across the land Fleetwood musicians from the club scene there. concerts sell out hours after tickets are made available to the some just More hard rock public. To add icing to the cake, the band has appeared on the cover of dozens of magazines ranging from Rolling Stone to "I thought about that for awhile, but I knew'that it the very bland People. would end up becoming another hard rock thing like Paris Bob Welsh is nowhere. His last two albums (recorded with a was, and I knew that wasn't what I wanted. i mn i emc. m band called Paris) have sold and are to be r t ttf v vmisx x x v erratically today they aJB- i; jrw tv . aw a.taT"7.m&jras. kc.u Welsh talked his record and said taja i nv.'v w found in the dimly-li- t corners of record shops marked "bargain to company, Capitol, close-outs- ". The few concerts Welsh has given have been as a he wanted to fulfill his contract and do another "album. warm-u- p act where the audience most often and warms lights up "I really didn't know how the new album would turn up while waiting for the headline band. Presently Bob Welsh is not out. I mean I knew it wouldn't be a h,ard metal much more than a footnote in the Fleetwood Mac story. heavy ' Welsh recent visit to Lincoln coincided with the Sept. 14 Fleet- thing, but I didn't really think about it being a solo album wood Mac concert. With his record company representative and until we were about halfway through it." his new manager, Mick Fleetwood; Welsh pressed the flesh and ' Welsh also did not think about on a new pawned off copies of his newest album, French Kiss. initially taking but he said he remembered that his Inevitable question manager during days as a member of Fleetwood Mac, Mick Fleetwood had In talking with Welsh Ad lib posed the inevitable talked about something with Welsh as a solo question "Whatever happened to Bob Welsh"?. always doing artist. v "I was just tired, run down," he replied to the question I I knew that seems to follow him from city to city like a dark "Mick and are good friends and he could cloud. be a tremendous help to me and my music. I called him ' Leaning back in a dark leather chair Welsh ordered a up and asked if he would like to hlep." glass of tomato juice with "just a little ice" from a non- Mac helps out descript cocktail waitress., He is decked out in a modish Not only is Fleetwood his manager but other members silk shirt, black neck scarf and white dungarees. He puffs of Fleetwood Mac pitch in performances on French Kiss. at a cigar while adjusting his thick-rimme- d, pink tint Christine McVie sings and Lindsey Buckingham plays spectacles. He massages an untended two-da- y growth of guitar on one French Kiss track. "Sentimental Lady", a reddish-brow- n stubble and sighs. song that originally appeared on Bare Trees. "I to and around on the just wanted get away lay " 'Sentimental Lady' has a really nice sound to it on beach for two or three he said. years," the new album. It's not much different than the original When the of tomato with glass juice arrived, brimming version it just has a modern sort of 1977 sound to it." ice, Welsh explained that just prior to his departure from Naturally the aid of the music business-wis- e Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac, he and the band were involved in a soopy should be a big boom to Welsh's, career. But how does it of legal quagmire entanglements. feel Welsh be in close a Mac furious for to quarters with band he had four of his life with? During an extended period of inactivity from the band, spend years their manager, Clifford Davis assembled a few unknown "Great. I really like them. The thing that makes them musicians together and sent them out as Fleetwood Mac. - so successful is the chemistry of the new blood and new Concert promoters were furious, the band's name was, to : ideas that Stevie and Lindsey brought to the band along say the least, smudged and the barrage of lawsuits was with the experience and know-ho- w of Mick, Christine and , John. devastating. "We (the band members) were spending eight-hou- r "And it is really reassuring to be around Mick because I days in . lawyers' offices when we should have been know that as manager, he will act as my friend and working on our music. It was so frustrating that I had to 'accordingly act with my best interest at heart. I know that get out." he isn't going to screw me to make a couple of bucks." Hamilton, Duke 10:30 MOVIE "Moulin EVENING George Patty Q Rouge 1952 Astin. 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