Bob Welch, Ex-Fleetwood Mac Guitarist, Commits Suicide

Late musician also found success as a solo artist after leaving the band in 1974.

By Kara Warner (@karawarner)

Bob Welch, a former member of "Fleetwood Mac," was found dead in his home in Nashville on Thursday (June 7) from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

According to the Nashville police, Welch shot himself in the chest, and his body was discovered by his wife around noon. The police told WKRN-TV, Nashville's local ABC station, that Welch had been suffering from health issues recently and that he left a suicide note.

The Los Angeles-born guitarist joined Fleetwood Mac in 1971, when the band was beginning to evolve from its initially conceived beginnings as a hard-edged British blues combo into a polished pop/rock act. Welch played guitar and contributed vocals on five Fleetwood Mac albums, Future Games, Bare Trees, Penguin, Mystery to Me and Heroes Are Hard to Find, the band's first to crack the U.S. top 40. He was also responsible for penning two of the band's early hits, "Sentimental Lady" and "Hypnotized."

Welch left the band after Heroes, an opening that paved the way for Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham to join, which re-energized the group and launched the band toward their long-desired commercial success and future Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 1998.

After leaving the band in 1974, Welch later formed the British rock group Paris in 1976 and found success as a solo artist. His 1977 album, French Kiss, reached platinum status and spawned three hit singles: "Ebony Eyes," "Hot Love, Cold World" and a re-recording of "Sentimental Lady," on which Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham provided backing vocals.

Welch was 66.

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CTE

We must organize an effort to make guitar playing safer.

Question - will you let your kid play guitar now that you've heard this news?

I honestly thought this was the Oakland A's pitcher.

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+1

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You know me like that.

The last 27 game winner.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Nowhere in the article does is state it isn't him. Maybe he was a moonlighter. Or would you say, he moonlighted? He moonlit?

That will probably never happen again.

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Same here. I was gonna feel real old.

Never knew there was somebody named "Bob" in FM.

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+1 x2.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

He must have run out of money...

The wife did it.

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Me too when I first heard it.

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I also thought this was the pitcher.

I believe his videos were on "Video Concert Hall"

Not too get all SHARKy about it.

I thought this was the old Dodgers pitcher.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

What a coincidence. I immediately thought of the guy that pitched for Oakland.

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man i thought this said "bo welch" and i was gonna be real sad to see one of our great production designers in film go. but he's still truckin' at 60.

Im a little weirded out by how relieved I was that it wasnt the baseball player.

I thought it was the juice guy.

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Bob Welch probably was on the juice.

That entire A's squad was.

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You watch your mouth when you're speaking of Carney Lansford, you understand me?

I thought this was the pitcher.

Carney was the goods.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

That poor pitcher

I hope Carlos Marmol doesn't try to go out that way. He would probably miss and shoot himself in the foot or something.

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Guy with same name of A's pitcher Dies.....Make fun of cubs


White Sox Fans!

The wife broke the news to me, and I asked her the same thing...

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Not a mult.

There's really only one Sox fan here who turns everything into Sox/Cubs.

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My guy Frank.

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