[28][29] He was reported to have died on an unknown date from the effects of a gastrointestinal haemorrhage caused by cirrhosis. [12] (It was this situation which gave rise to the "Bogus Fleetwood Mac" saga in which its manager Clifford Davis hired a new group of musicians, passed them off as Fleetwood Mac, and sent them out to complete the tour).

[1] While working at the University's campus radio station, WJUL, he began mixing live performances of Boston-area bands such as Pixies and the Blake Babies. Weston was born and raised in Waltham, Massachusetts. Visualizza i profili delle persone di nome Bob Weston. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/bob-weston-early-70s-guitarist-with-fleetwood-mac-6287377.html, http://rockasteria.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-kinetic-suddenly-tomorrow-ep-live.html, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pHEKUlaCdM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goQ09ZJNAdc, https://musiciansolympus.blogspot.com/2012/01/bobweston-guitar.html, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2bHhlavflo, http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/discog/discog.php?pid=584, http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/qa/bobweston_qa1.htm, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQZnfRcQiE, http://discog.fleetwoodmac.net/discog.php?pid=116, https://ultimateclassicrock.com/mick-fleetwood-fleetwood-mac-band-drama/, http://discog.fleetwoodmac.net/discog.php?pid=117, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1365495/fullcredits, http://discog.fleetwoodmac.net/discog.php?pid=121, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH-BXKUbu5I, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoyBcvqQY8k, "Fleetwood Mac star dies | Showbiz | News | Daily Express", http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/fwm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=35, "Ex-Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Weston dies", The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions 1967–1969, The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown), Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonite, Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Weston_(guitarist)&oldid=979208602, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 19 September 2020, at 12:47. Bob Weston (born 1965) is an American musician, producer, recording engineer, and record mastering engineer. [1][11] Fleetwood had got on well with Weston before this, and tried to carry on with the arranged live performance schedule due to the legal and financial penalties that would be incurred by the band for a cancelled tour, but after a gig at Lincoln, Nebraska in October he informed the band in Weston's absence that he was no longer willing to work with him. [25], In his last years Weston was resident in North West London, occasionally playing in impromptu sessions at The Duke of Hamilton public house and gigging with a local band called Mad Dog Bites.
During the summers of 1985 and 1987, he marched as a bugler with the renowned Garfield Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps from Garfield, New Jersey. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Lowell in Lowell, MA. The band signed to the French label Disques Vogue and released into the French market a long-player entitled Live Your Life (1967), with Weston being the band's principal songwriter,[3] and two EP's, Live Your Life (1967),[4] and Suddenly Tomorrow (1967). 'Fleetwood Mac: Behind the Mask', by Bob Brunning (Pub. Weston still plays trumpet, as on the albums The Sea and the Bells by Rachel's (1996) and Things We Lost in the Fire by Low (2001). [12], During a tour of the United States of America in 1973, when the band were beginning to gel particularly well in its live performances,[13] it emerged that Weston had started a clandestine romantic relationship with Mick Fleetwood's wife, Jenny Boyd. Fleetwood Mac in concert playing 'Believe Me', 1973. Critic Jason Ankeny declares that "Weston's name and fingerprints are all over the American underground rock of the post-punk era, producing and engineering dates for a seemingly endless number of bands." Iscriviti a Facebook per connetterti con Bob Weston e altre persone che potresti conoscere. [7] In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Weston worked as a guitar for hire, performing and recording with a number of acts of the then in vogue British blues movement, including Graham Bond and Long John Baldry, and touring in continental Europe and America. S. Borthwick and Ron Moy, Popular Music Genres: an Introduction (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004). Online Q.& A. with Weston, 6–19 December 1999. Bob Weston. Critic Jason Ankeny[1] declares that "Weston's name and fingerprints are all over the American underground rock of the post-punk era, producing and engineering dates for a seemingly endless number of bands." It is with great pain that I must announce that Bob Weston has died. In early 2007, Weston opened Chicago Mastering Service with Jason Ward on Chicago's west side. Robert Joseph Weston (1 November 1947 – c. 3 January 2012) was a British rock guitarist, who was a member of Fleetwood Mac in the early 1970s. Published on YouTube 25 September 2011. He also recorded and performed with a number of other musicians, including Graham Bond, Long John Baldry, Murray Head, Sandy Denny and Danny Kirwan. Under Albini, Weston honed his studio production skills and has gone on to record and mix material for bands including Sebadoh, June of 44, Polvo, The Coctails, Archers of Loaf, Chavez, Rachel's, Ken Vandermark, 33.3 and Rodan. 'Mad Dog Bites' in performance at the Hampstead Christmas Festival, 2011. [3], In 1988, he earned a B.S. Online Q.& A. session with Weston, 6–19 December 1999. 'The Independent', 10 January 2012. [24] While working there he met Frank Baijens, a Dutch singer-songwriter who was recording his album Odd Man Out at the studio at the same time, and Weston played on one of the album's songs, "Where the Heart Belongs". Published on YouTube 7 January 2012.

[5] He appears on and recorded the albums ONoffON, The Obliterati, The Sound The Speed The Light, and Unsound. [3] Weston was also Albini's Assistant Engineer on Nirvana's In Utero album. Bob Weston was best-known as the guitarist for Fleetwood Mac during their "mid" period (1971-1974). In retrospect, Weston felt that his contribution to the band's work in this period did not receive the formal recognition that it deserved. And it’s pretty easy to tell on what sort of session your musical opinion is wanted or not." In 1987 Weston joined The Volcano Suns, playing bass guitar.

This led to a vacancy filled by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, who brought to the band a more mainstream rock sound, which would in the late 1970s-1980s lead to its greater popularity and commercial success.[11]. History of 'The Kinetic', 'Rockasteria' website (2018). Biografia Filmografia Critica Premi Articoli e news Trailer Dvd. on '45 Cat' website, a French historic records catalogue (2018). [26][27], Weston, who lived alone in his final years, was found dead by police officers in his flat in Brent Cross in London on 3 January 2012. [1][31], For the American bassist and recording engineer, see, Bob Weston (right) in 2011 with Culture Club's. According to a 2006 interview,[4] being a musician has helped shape Weston's work recording, mixing and mastering: "It’s obvious to me that the best recording engineers have played in bands. [30] He was 64 years old. The Suddenly Tomorrow EP drew notices in the British music press to the act as having commercial potential, but no more recordings appeared, and it disbanded within a couple of years of its formation. [2], Moving to London from Devon in the mid-1960s (he retained a soft West Country burr to his voice for the rest of his life), in 1967 he became the lead-guitarist with a mod-beat band called The Kinetic, which was based at the time in Paris, playing as a support act to Jimi Hendrix and Chuck Berry gigs in France. The Kinetic performing 'Suddenly Tomorrow', unidentified television show (1967/68). [23], In January 2008 Weston announced that he had started working on recording some new material at Markant Studios in the Netherlands. [10], In January 1973 Fleetwood Mac recorded the long-player Penguin, Weston playing the record's distinctive slide guitar on the song "Remember Me", and its harmonica and banjo tracks on "The Derelict". Entry for 'There's a Heaven' on 'Fleetwood Mac.net' website. As a performer, Weston is best known as the bass guitarist in the groups Volcano Suns and Shellac. [11], Weston's involvement in the band had an effect beyond purely the musical, as the spin into which his relationship with Boyd had put it contributed to Bob Welch's departure from its line-up in 1974. He was found dead at home in his London flat in the evening of the 3rd January, by police making a forced entry. Entry for 'Nightlight' (1980) on 'Fleetwood Mac.net' website. They had gained entry to the property after his friends had reported concerns over unexpectedly not hearing from him for several days. However, Weston's recording and mixing work is not limited to music: he occasionally freelances for National Public Radio, often working on comedy quiz show Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, which is headquartered in Chicago.[5][6]. In 1979 he wrote and recorded a blues rock album titled Nightlight, which was produced by Alan Callan at Basing Street Studios and at Roundhouse Studio in London, and commercially released the following year through the French record label AZ International. Mick Fleetwood played drums on one track, "Ford 44", the first time that he and Weston had worked together since the acrimony of 1973. The group was led by Peter Prescott, (previously the drummer for Mission of Burma, who had broken up in 1983). Weston went on to record and tour in Europe and North America with Murray Head, playing on his second album Say It Ain't So (1975), for which he co-wrote the song "Silence Is a Strong Reply".