Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Weston is Dead

[jon]

I was a huge fan of CKLG-FM from the start of their full-time "Underground" format in early 1968, until I left Vancouver for good at the end of April 1974. They always seemed to have a "most frequently played" album cut for 6 or more months at a time. An early one was "White Bird" by It's a Beautiful Day. Likely still going strong when I left was "Hypnotized" by Fleetwood Mac, still my favourite Mac tune, and I liked a lot of them, from "Oh Well" to new material in this century.

I have long assumed it was Bob Welch on both vocals and lead guitar on "Hypnotized" but a closer look at the liner notes of the CD "Mystery to Me" makes me think the great guitar work is mostly that of Bob Weston. Oddly, there is some almost identical guitar work on an album I heard on KTAC-FM in November 1972 from a local Tacoma band, which would be BEFORE the Fleetwood Mac album.

[jon]

Fleetwood Mac guitarist found dead
By Mike Collett-White and Paul Casciato, Reuters
January 6, 2012

(Reuters) - Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Weston has died at the age of 64 in London.

Weston's official website said on Friday he was found dead at his home in north London by police on Tuesday after friends became concerned that they had not heard from him for several days.

"Cause of death has been attributed to a gastrointestinal hemorrhage," said a message posted by the website's webmaster and Weston friend Steve Fairhead.

London police confirmed Weston's death, and said they were not treating it as suspicious.

Weston joined Fleetwood Mac in 1972 as a replacement for Danny Kirwan, and played on the albums Penguin in 1973 and Mystery to Me later the same year.

But according to online biographies, during an American tour Mick Fleetwood discovered Weston was having an affair with his wife, Jenny Boyd, and Weston was sacked in 1974.

He went on to release several solo albums and played with musicians including Long John Baldry and Murray Head.

"My family and I have lost a dear friend; the world has lost an enormously talented musician, with unfinished business," Fairhead wrote on the website.

ref. - http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertai ... story.html

[jon]

One of most intriguing album covers ever: