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Fleetwood Mac guitarists in the 60s and 70s was a dangerous gig
Peter Green - went quite mad, wrote a great song about the demons closing in on him (Green Manalishi) left the band in 1970. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, spent time in mental hospitals and then went to live with his mum.
Jeremy Spencer - never quite recovered from a mescaline trip in 1971. Before a scheduled show at the Whiskey in LA, he went out to visit a bookstore and just never came back. The found him several days later, but he had joined the Children of God cult, and just didn't come back.
Danny Kirwan - paranoia, booze and drugs are a bad combination, was kicked from the band after going apeshit before a show (got mad at someone tuning up before the show, bashed his own head through a wall and destroyed his guitars. Was homeless for much of the 80s and 90s
Bob Weston - in 1973 he banged Mick Fleetwood's wife (Jenny Boyd, the younger sister of Patty Boyd - George Harrison's wife the Clapton stole with the song "Layla"). Eventually died of an aneurism.
Bob Welch - it was Welch who Kirwan was pissed off at when he spazzed out. Welch quit the band in 1974, when it all became too much. Somehow ended up partying with GnR in the mid 80's ended up hospitalized to detox from cocaine and heroin. Ended up killing himself.
ironically, when Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks replaced Welch, and the band just decided everyone would be fucking everyone else on piles of cocaine, was when they had their greatest stability.
Peter Green - went quite mad, wrote a great song about the demons closing in on him (Green Manalishi) left the band in 1970. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, spent time in mental hospitals and then went to live with his mum.
Jeremy Spencer - never quite recovered from a mescaline trip in 1971. Before a scheduled show at the Whiskey in LA, he went out to visit a bookstore and just never came back. The found him several days later, but he had joined the Children of God cult, and just didn't come back.
Danny Kirwan - paranoia, booze and drugs are a bad combination, was kicked from the band after going apeshit before a show (got mad at someone tuning up before the show, bashed his own head through a wall and destroyed his guitars. Was homeless for much of the 80s and 90s
Bob Weston - in 1973 he banged Mick Fleetwood's wife (Jenny Boyd, the younger sister of Patty Boyd - George Harrison's wife the Clapton stole with the song "Layla"). Eventually died of an aneurism.
Bob Welch - it was Welch who Kirwan was pissed off at when he spazzed out. Welch quit the band in 1974, when it all became too much. Somehow ended up partying with GnR in the mid 80's ended up hospitalized to detox from cocaine and heroin. Ended up killing himself.
ironically, when Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks replaced Welch, and the band just decided everyone would be fucking everyone else on piles of cocaine, was when they had their greatest stability.
) my wife thought the song was called COOKIE.
