I was going to post this exact comment. I'm glad you beat me to it! I was brought up with my Mum listening to Rumours era stuff and as an adult only musical journey I got into blues and blues rock which naturally took me to Peter. I overlooked this era for a long time. That's what I love about music, it's a journey of constant discovery.
Bob Welch is just too much! He was and is an incredible musical talent. I've been listening to this ever since it happened. The real music 🎶 🕉 Thank you Fleetwood Mac ✨️ 🙏 All incarnations are divine.
Christine is really Great. Very Jazz & Blues influenced - And Creative. After Stevie & Lindsay joined the band, she used that to create a New Sound! She just loved to play❤
I just Loved the way Christine always seemed to fit in the group no matter how many guys there were.. she was always the only Girl but seemed to love it! I must admit though, Chris was a Beautiful, Talented and welcomed addition and would be to any band.. FM was very lucky to have her
@straycatttt2766 Yeah; but it was never the plan to have Stevie Nick's join.. Originally Mick Fleetwoid only wanted Lindsay but he wouldn't commit unless his girlfriend (Stevie) was also hired.. the band really didn't Need Stevie, because they already had a Great Singer, Musician in Christine McVie.. That's the way in my opinion itshould have stayed. Stevie was cute but she really couldn't sing and I just didn't care for the Dark vibes within most of her songs. With Christine, the band had everything. Chris could Sing, write, play the Piano, organ ,guitar, accordion plus she was a Beautiful person inside and out.. She was very Intelligent and Articulate , Talented and Beautiful and to me she was the better of the two.. The only reason I ever l ever paid much attention to the band was only because of Chris. I so admired her and feel so bad that she is no longer with us May she RIP
I saw them in Houston around that time on the bill with Jefferson Starship. Bob Welch kicked major ass. Went out the next day and bought a number of Fleetwood Mac AlbumsWhen a short while later, the "new" lineup showed up we were really disappointed.
The lyrics on the first song were pretty bad. "Deep thoughts" about Hare Krishnas and Andy Warhol. Not as bad as Danny Kirwan's lyrics, but that's a pretty low bar.
This was, in hindsight (always 20/20 as you know) a point when Fleetwood Mac had to reach back deep into the basic thing that made them 'get on with it', as Christine McVie said. They had just lost Bob Weston on lead guitar, and Bob Welch was having to pick up a lot of it. "Black Magic Woman" takes me back to Peter Green and both his absence and presence here. The whole history of this band is a great trip into the unfolding of a musical tapestry through time of an important Band that tells that recurrent story.
Yes- I think personally this was the band's apex- perhaps because I cannot listen to nickie without ONLY HEARing HER LITTLE NASAL THING. Like a crack of light which my OCD prevents me from sleeping. A little crack ruins my whole night
WHOAH!! BW putting down a lead at 13 mins or so- MAGNIFICENT- really- QUALITY NOTES , CHORDS, and tone.. But again, I SUFFER FOR HIM as he , like a pianist needing a page turner BW needed a "slide my glasses up babe"
Bob's wife Wendy(RIP) said that it was Christine that kept Bob out of being inducted. He was suing them at the time for unpaid royalties, and Christine reportedly told Mick, "if he's there, I won't be", so Mick didn't include Bob. Which is a damned shame, because those five albums with him are great!
A very interesting incarnation of this band. NO other has had such success through MASSIVE personnel and style changes. Deep Purple is the only other that comes anywhere close…
1. Miles Away 0:00 - 4:24 ('Mystery To Me' 1973) 2. Believe Me 4:24 - 9:38 ('Mystery To Me' 1973) 3. The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) 9:38 - 14:44 ('Then Play On' 1969) 4. Spare Me a Little Of Your Love 14:44 - 18:46 ('Bare Trees' 1972) 5. Bermuda Triangle 18:46 - 28:42 ('Heroes Are Hard To Find' 1974) 6. Rattlesnake Shake 28:50 - 38:52 ('Then Play On' 1969) 7. Black Magic Woman 38:52 - 46:00 ('The Pious Bird of Good Omen' 1969)
Qué lástima que ya no se encontraba Danny Kirwan. De por sí es difícil encontrar conciertos completos en video del antiguo Fleetwood Mac, y ahora que aparece uno, ya no figura ninguno de sus primeros guitarristas líderes.
I LOVE THAT 4 EYED MAN RULED THAT GROUP / he has a jazzy rock guitar thing- very sophisticated imo WELCH is an Enigma- You know they were playing HOT POTATO as to who was going to be trhe "MC" and BOb hung onto that potato
Great time for Fleetwood Mac. No jealousy, sexual tension, cheating, resentment and all that came later. Sure, there was some tension between Welch and Weston for some control, but they played very well together. Welch was a real musical talent, and elevated the band up to the mainstream. They had clean, positive synergy then. Went huge later with Buckingham and Nicks, but I hated the drama in the band with that lineup...But it did make for some monster hits.
As a matter of fact at the time of the 1973 clip Mick had found out that Bob Weston (the guitarist in white) was banging his wife, and Weston was fired shortly thereafter. The band went on hiatus and their manager put a fake Fleetwood Mac on the road, claiming he owned the name. The 1974 clip is after they got the rights to their name back.
major tension, cheating & resentment went on in '73, with Weston diddling Mick's wife Patty Boyd & getting fired over it, but i think his playing was probably inspired by her, as well as his having great songwriters to play off of - he was masterful on this album, & would've been world famous if he'd kept this gig up
1. Miles Away 0:00 - 4:24 2. Believe Me 4:24 - 9:38 3. Green Manalishi 9:38 - 14:44 4. Spare Me a Little Of Your Love 14:44 - 18:46 5. Bermuda Triangle 18:46 - 28:42 6. Rattlesnake Shake 28:50 - 38:52 7. Black Magic Woman 38:52 - 46:00
@@michaelweinman9051 Yes, Bob is with them for two albums ("Penguin" and "Mystery to Me") Unfortunately, those two songs from the Midnight Special are apparently all the footage we have of those tours. At least Bob Welch got some performances filmed both before that, and as seen here, afterwards.
This lineup knew they were in trouble. Bon Welsh had no business being in this band. The Mac were not about texture....they were about PETEE GREEN....KIRWIN AND SPENCER. BLUES MEN. But Peter knew when creating the thing that he wasn't gonna stay long. That damn group that night in Germany just scrambled both guitarists brains. They were never the same. This lineup minus the original 3 here just bores...... im asleep.
Can we please acknowledge how great McVie's bass is on this!?
esp on the first tune, so smooooth
That's why Peter Green named the group "Fleetwood Mac" because Mick on drums and John's bass are such a great rhythm section!
He is great.
ALWAYS!
The Bob Welch and Danny Kirwan era of FM was my favorite. Future Games and Bare Trees were extraordinary albums.
In my opinion, Christine is the greatest, most talented female member of any rock band in history. She could do it all. RIP beautiful lady
No argument here.
not here she's not. Way off key, flat n wonky. Better in the studio.
Agreed! Her harmonies on Miles Away are incredible! Her voice is just so goddam comforting.
Man 😖😫
IT AINT NOT !!
Still Great.@@baliscotsurf
Such an underrated and underappreciated period of Fleetwood Mac
I was going to post this exact comment. I'm glad you beat me to it!
I was brought up with my Mum listening to Rumours era stuff and as an adult only musical journey I got into blues and blues rock which naturally took me to Peter. I overlooked this era for a long time. That's what I love about music, it's a journey of constant discovery.
To me the only better Mac was with Danny. He was so talented, wish he could have gotten help and kept his head together.
BOB WELCH!
Bare Trees has them both. What an album!@@thaddaeuslawrence
Fact
One of the best of the Bob Welch Era. And one of the best live cuts ever...
Bob Welch is just too much! He was and is an incredible musical talent. I've been listening to this ever since it happened.
The real music 🎶 🕉
Thank you Fleetwood Mac ✨️ 🙏
All incarnations are divine.
Bob Weston was one of the greats
nice camera work on him too
Christine McVie never wrote a bad song in her life. ❤️
Agree!
Christine Perfect
@@generaljj71 exactly
Bob Welch era FM takes top honors in my book.
Your book would make good toilet paper
🧻 💩 🚽
@@ezsmith3765 Your mouth is likely your sub for TP
@@ezsmith3765 I am not much of a fan of that era either, yet I think the song 'Hypnotized' is really cool.
Bob Welch, Bob Weston (who I think replaced Danny) Christine, Mick and John. A great line-up!
Christine is really Great. Very Jazz & Blues influenced - And Creative. After Stevie & Lindsay joined the band, she used that to create a New Sound! She just loved to play❤
I think if I'd been born in Baltimore, I'd have wound up writing for The Rolling Stone & Billboard Magazine 😂?
Christine was So full of passion for her music, a Bright Light dimmed too early, still Love her. Great Band!
You can see that this band had fun jamming together. They just went with it!!
I'm glad someone thought to use a split screen on Bob and Christine.
Bob Weston is great on lead here and on Penguin + mystery to me❤
I just Loved the way Christine always seemed to fit in the group no matter how many guys there were.. she was always the only Girl but seemed to love it! I must admit though, Chris was a Beautiful, Talented and welcomed addition and would be to any band..
FM was very lucky to have her
Christine was not always the only girl in the group. A girl named Stevie Nicks joined the group in 1975.
@straycatttt2766 Yeah; but it was never the plan to have Stevie Nick's join.. Originally Mick Fleetwoid only wanted Lindsay but he wouldn't commit unless his girlfriend (Stevie) was also hired.. the band really didn't Need Stevie, because they already had a Great Singer, Musician in Christine McVie.. That's the way in my opinion itshould have stayed. Stevie was cute but she really couldn't sing and I just didn't care for the Dark vibes within most of her songs. With Christine, the band had everything. Chris could Sing, write, play the Piano, organ ,guitar, accordion plus she was a Beautiful person inside and out.. She was very Intelligent and Articulate , Talented and Beautiful and to me she was the better of the two.. The only reason I ever l ever paid much attention
to the band was only because of Chris. I so admired her and feel so bad that she is no longer with us
May she RIP
Well said. Without Christine there would be no arguments why Bob Welch isn't in the HOF. @@AlexisDellmann
I agree but...
She was ALWAYS the only girl? 🤔
Stevie Nicks couldn’t sing??? 🤣😂🤣
Christine herself would give you a proper cheek smack for that sassy remark. You are sassy ainchee??
I saw them in Houston around that time on the bill with Jefferson Starship. Bob Welch kicked major ass. Went out the next day and bought a number of Fleetwood Mac AlbumsWhen a short while later, the "new" lineup showed up we were really disappointed.
Bob Welch was amazing. With and after The Mac
The lyrics on the first song were pretty bad. "Deep thoughts" about Hare Krishnas and Andy Warhol. Not as bad as Danny Kirwan's lyrics, but that's a pretty low bar.
That's what Stevie said 😂
@@mrswimmyboy Bob and Danny are too bar for me
@@joealanouf I have no idea of what "too bar" means.
This was, in hindsight (always 20/20 as you know) a point when Fleetwood Mac had to reach back deep into the basic thing that made them 'get on with it', as Christine McVie said. They had just lost Bob Weston on lead guitar, and Bob Welch was having to pick up a lot of it. "Black Magic Woman" takes me back to Peter Green and both his absence and presence here. The whole history of this band is a great trip into the unfolding of a musical tapestry through time of an important Band that tells that recurrent story.
"They had just lost Bob Weston" Uh, isn't that him playing guitar here? 8:20 for example.
@@titostacosyes that's bob Weston..... kicked out 12 months later for trying it on with micks wife
@@titostacos, the OP is referring to the 1974 footage in this video after the band had kicked Weston out.
Yes- I think personally this was the band's apex- perhaps because I cannot listen to nickie without ONLY HEARing HER LITTLE NASAL THING. Like a crack of light which my OCD prevents me from sleeping. A little crack ruins my whole night
@@titostacosno, he was gone by 1974 which is what the poster was referencing.
Weston was sacked after two weeks of the previous tour in fall 1973.
A fantastic early video with Bob Welch and Christine McVie. Thanks for sharing!
Spare Me a Little! Always a great song. Thanks Christine!
thankyou for sharing this 🙂
WHOAH!! BW putting down a lead at 13 mins or so- MAGNIFICENT- really- QUALITY NOTES , CHORDS, and tone.. But again, I SUFFER FOR HIM as he , like a pianist needing a page turner BW needed a "slide my glasses up babe"
I never seen this lineup. Christine’s voice is a comfort.
Oh yes ! How I miss Christine . May she be resting in (true) peace .
Perfect
It's too bad Welch wasn't part of the group that got into the Roll N Roll Hall of Fame. That should be rectified.
Bob's wife Wendy(RIP) said that it was Christine that kept Bob out of being inducted. He was suing them at the time for unpaid royalties, and Christine reportedly told Mick, "if he's there, I won't be", so Mick didn't include Bob. Which is a damned shame, because those five albums with him are great!
Oh man Christine is just brilliant!!
Shame Danny had left a year earlier.....
Great live concert, I loved watching it. Rest in peace, Bob Welch & Christine McVie.
The LP is waaaaaaay better...The band broke up 'cause Weston was doing Fleetwood's wife...too bad, I like this version of FM the best...
That's True. Mic's Wife was Layla's Sister. George and Eric's family.
A very interesting incarnation of this band. NO other has had such success through MASSIVE personnel and style changes. Deep Purple is the only other that comes anywhere close…
Maybe the Allman Brothers
How had Welch never tested those glasses before? Gotta keep an eye out (pun!) for problems before they happen, lol.
Napoleon Dynamite on Vocals , thats awesome.
Great
1. Miles Away 0:00 - 4:24 ('Mystery To Me' 1973)
2. Believe Me 4:24 - 9:38 ('Mystery To Me' 1973)
3. The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) 9:38 - 14:44 ('Then Play On' 1969)
4. Spare Me a Little Of Your Love 14:44 - 18:46 ('Bare Trees' 1972)
5. Bermuda Triangle 18:46 - 28:42 ('Heroes Are Hard To Find' 1974)
6. Rattlesnake Shake 28:50 - 38:52 ('Then Play On' 1969)
7. Black Magic Woman 38:52 - 46:00 ('The Pious Bird of Good Omen' 1969)
Miles Away - Mystery to Me 1973
Thanks, I threw this together while fighting off the urge to go to bed.
@@dominickdepaolo6668 thanks great show
thanks for the listing 🙂
@@user-zh9ow3jz1t YW 👍
Qué lástima que ya no se encontraba Danny Kirwan. De por sí es difícil encontrar conciertos completos en video del antiguo Fleetwood Mac, y ahora que aparece uno, ya no figura ninguno de sus primeros guitarristas líderes.
Hasta la actualidad no existe nada sobre pobre Danny.
@@aaarauz1 love Danny he was my favourite
✨️🙂✨️
Bob Weston was a strong addition to the band - too bad he had an affair with Mick Fleetwood’s wife.
well Mick will do the same thing to Lindsey's girl soon after
later on they were all messing with each other partners RIP mr welch
Mind you,bob put in a good profomance
I LOVE THAT 4 EYED MAN RULED THAT GROUP / he has a jazzy rock guitar thing- very sophisticated imo WELCH is an Enigma- You know they were playing HOT POTATO as to who was going to be trhe "MC" and BOb hung onto that potato
The Peter Green Mac and The Bob Welch Mac are the best aggregations ever in my opinion followed by the most succesful and commercial Mac!
They project such a sound that I wasn't even thinking about Peter or Danny. Wondering who the guitarist is in white?
"ANYONE IS REPLACEABLE" may be DIFFERENT but the same level of talent
The guitarist in white is Bob Weston.
All I want to know is who had the bright idea to add a second keyboard player, instead of a second guitarist...🤔
Christine was a big fan of PG way back and she hung around with the band before she joined it. Drew the cover for Kiln House.
Great time for Fleetwood Mac. No jealousy, sexual tension, cheating, resentment and all that came later. Sure, there was some tension between Welch and Weston for some control, but they played very well together. Welch was a real musical talent, and elevated the band up to the mainstream. They had clean, positive synergy then. Went huge later with Buckingham and Nicks, but I hated the drama in the band with that lineup...But it did make for some monster hits.
As a matter of fact at the time of the 1973 clip Mick had found out that Bob Weston (the guitarist in white) was banging his wife, and Weston was fired shortly thereafter. The band went on hiatus and their manager put a fake Fleetwood Mac on the road, claiming he owned the name. The 1974 clip is after they got the rights to their name back.
major tension, cheating & resentment went on in '73, with Weston diddling Mick's wife Patty Boyd & getting fired over it, but i think his playing was probably inspired by her, as well as his having great songwriters to play off of - he was masterful on this album, & would've been world famous if he'd kept this gig up
no cheating? Weston was doing fleetwood's wife.
FM had two BW 's at this era. Oh . never knew that.
BW'S?
@@thadonis., guitarists named Bob W.
could anyone time stamp these songs please:)?
1. Miles Away 0:00 - 4:24
2. Believe Me 4:24 - 9:38
3. Green Manalishi 9:38 - 14:44
4. Spare Me a Little Of Your Love 14:44 - 18:46
5. Bermuda Triangle 18:46 - 28:42
6. Rattlesnake Shake 28:50 - 38:52
7. Black Magic Woman 38:52 - 46:00
Very well, bit I steel prefer Green and Kirwan era.
needed Danny Kirwan , Bob Weston was a nearly man .
Bob Weston. ok, a F Mac member of this era? oh , never knew that. Big fans here in L.A.
@@michaelweinman9051 Yes, Bob is with them for two albums ("Penguin" and "Mystery to Me")
Unfortunately, those two songs from the Midnight Special are apparently all the footage we have of those tours. At least Bob Welch got some performances filmed both before that, and as seen here, afterwards.
Don't know "nearly man" u mean a he/she?
In the '74 footage is John playing an Alembic?
This "great' group was circling the Kohler bowl at this time.
Thank you Lindsey and Stevie for saving it !!
Ted Bundy played guitar in Fleetwood Mac ? How weird is that ?
Bob Welch was magic with this version of FM
This lineup knew they were in trouble. Bon Welsh had no business being in this band. The Mac were not about texture....they were about PETEE GREEN....KIRWIN AND SPENCER. BLUES MEN. But Peter knew when creating the thing that he wasn't gonna stay long. That damn group that night in Germany just scrambled both guitarists brains. They were never the same. This lineup minus the original 3 here just bores...... im asleep.
sadly very true