Fleetwood Mac's next studio album was called "Bare Trees," and would be the last record with Fleetwood Mac that Danny Kirwan participated in.
They say Danny was drinking a lot and was just irritated all the time. At one point he totally lost his cool and smashed his Gibson guitar backstage and then refused to perform, and in 1972, he was finally fired from the band.
Now it was left to Bob Welch and Christine McVie to be the ones doing all the vocals.
Bob Welch was the front man on the next three albums, "Penguin," Mystery To Me," and "Heroes Are Hard To Find."
Bob Welch then left Fleetwood Mac in 1974 citing personal issues, and was replaced by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.
The Bob Welch albums were the most successful of the band's career up to that time, and yet he's the only member of the band that was never inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Go figure!
Everybody knows what happened after that as Fleetwood Mac became more and more popular, and their fame and fortune skyrocketed.
Bob went on to have a pretty successful solo career.
Here's one of Bob's awesome songs from the 1973 LP, "Mystery To Me."
Be sure to tune in tomorrow because Rich Horton will be back with another tale for you!
"Hypnotized" was the first Fleetwood Mac I ever heard played on Top 40 radio. Its sexy hooks totally grabbed me with their sultry guitars and voices. It was still bluesy, but it was topped with a pop melody that highlighted Bob Welch's whispery lead vocal and guitar and Christine's silky background vocals. If this song didn't make you want to have sex, you must've been made out of steel.
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