Original O'Jays member BILL ISLES was not inducted with the rest of the group into the spite the fact that he sang with the group for the first 7 years.and was on 6 of the group's early charting records, including the group's very first national chart hit,"LONELY DRIFTER" in 1963. (Jerry Garcia had used his influence to get 12 members of the Grateful Dead inducted into the Hall, including some band mates whose contributions were considered marginal.) Welch said he had also communicated with Christine McVie but was still estranged from John.īobby Nunn and Leon Hughes of the Coasters However, he did believe that the lawsuit was a factor in his being blackballed, as it prevented him from getting in touch with Mick Fleetwood, whom he was not talking to at the time of the induction, who may have otherwise have used his influence to get Welch included with other members of the band. (He had never been estranged from Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, who were not party to the lawsuit.) By 2003, Welch believed that he had been snubbed by the Hall as the directors in New York, music industry insiders, did not like his style of music. The visit reconnected him with Mick Fleetwood, his ex-band mate and ex-manager, after being estranged for many years. He had recently attended a Fleetwood Mac show and visited the band members back stage after the show. In a 2003 online question and answer session on the Fleetwood Mac fan site The Penguin, Welch revised his opinion of why he was snubbed by the Hall.
He was finally able to meet with Fleetwood Mac during their tour backing Say You Will and was told by Fleetwood that was not the case at all. Guitarist committed suicide in his Nashville homeĪt least before he died, he was released from the hurt of thinking the reason he was snubbed at the R&RHoF induction of Fleetwood Mac was because he sued Mick Fleetwood.
įormer Fleetwood Mac Member Bob Welch Dead at 65 Inducted into Rock Hall Revisited in 1997 ( ranked #56). Inducted Members: Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks and Jeremy Spencer Snubbed Members: Bob Welch **Rock & Roll Hall of Famer** Category: Performer Inducted: 1998 Inducted by: Sheryl Crow Nominated: 1998 First Eligible: 1994 Ceremony
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