LOOKING BACK AT FLEETWOOD MAC
FLEETWOOD MAC FUTURE GAMES LINEUP L to R: John McVie, Danny Kirwan, Christine McVie, Bob Welch, Mick Fleetwood
I’ve just recently finished reading guitarist/vocalist Walter Lure’s autobiography, To Hell and Back. Walter has a great story about his days in Johnny Thunders’s Heartbreakers and his own Waldos. Until he died in late August, you could still hear him playing with the Waldos and running periodic tributes to Johnny. But he also took some space to write about his first band, a hard-rock dance band called Bloodbath that pounded the risers in the North Bronx at the dawn of the 1970s. I had the extreme pleasure of being the vocalist and master of revels in this two-guitar maelstrom. We covered Fleetwood Mac songs that fit our concept: “Rattlesnake Shake” and “Tell Me All the Things You Do” worked especially well.
Like a lot of other blues fans, we held Fleetwood Mac, and particularly lead guitarist Peter Green, in high esteem. It’s strange to think that this band we thought so much of would seem so alien to the group the vast majority of Fleetwood Mac fans think of when the and .
