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Offline NEZHEAD42

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Bob Welch dies
« on: June 07, 2012, 04:36:22 PM »
Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist, Bob Welch, died of an apparent suicide. That sucks. I am a huge fan of the man, his songwriting and guitar playing. He was great in Fleetwood Mac and afterward during his solo career.

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Re: Bob Welch dies
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2012, 05:05:27 PM »
Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist, Bob Welch, died of an apparent suicide. That sucks. I am a huge fan of the man, his songwriting and guitar playing. He was great in Fleetwood Mac and afterward during his ...

That is a shame... I hadn't heard that before reading it here. I did see where Ray Bradbury, the Sci-fi writer, passed away as well.
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Offline Ruffs

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Re: Bob Welch dies
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2012, 05:37:18 PM »
This is sad news  I like early Fleetwood MAC. They have some great music that never really got air play on the radio really until 1977 but by then Bob had left the band & did well with FrenchKiss. Sad to hear

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Re: Bob Welch dies
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2012, 08:15:44 PM »
This is sad news  I like early Fleetwood MAC. They have some great music that never really got air play on the radio really until 1977 but by then Bob had left the band & did well with FrenchKiss. Sad to hear







Very sad indeed John, My favorite tune of his was Ebony Eyes, But the other songs were classics as well, RIP Bob.

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Re: Bob Welch dies
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2012, 01:11:23 PM »
Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist, Bob Welch, died of an apparent suicide.
Wow. Wonder if he was depressed, hated his life or had some kind of mental illness. It's strange to me when people who have had a decent amount of success commit suiside. I'm not judging because I haven't been in his shoes, but damn, what could of been so bad?
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Offline bigtomi

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Re: Bob Welch dies
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2012, 03:17:27 PM »
Wow. Wonder if he was depressed, hated his life or had some kind of mental illness. It's strange to me when people who have had a decent amount of success commit suiside. I'm not judging because I haven't been in his shoes, but damn, what could of been so bad?
From an Internet news site:

Tragic former Fleetwood Mac star Bob Welch took his own life because he didn't want to become a burden to his wife after failing to recover from spinal surgery, according to a close family friend.

The singer/guitarist shot himself in the chest at the couple's home in Nashville, Tennessee on Thursday, aged 65.

His pal, Bart Herbison, the executive director of the National Songwriters Association, reveals Welch underwent surgery three months ago, but failed to recover and found himself becoming more and more dependent on his wife, who found his body.

According to local newspaper The Tennessean, a suicide note left by Welch for his spouse read: "I'm not going to do this to you".

Herbison says, "It had become apparent to Bob that he was not going to recover, that he was going to become an invalid. He had seen his father become an invalid and watched his mother care for him for many years."


All I can say is, he's a very brave and unselfish man. I honestly don't think I could have done what he did. He'd rather die than burden his wife? Wow. I wonder how his wife feels about that?
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Re: Bob Welch dies
« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2012, 10:06:32 AM »

All I can say is, he's a very brave and unselfish man. I honestly don't think I could have done what he did. He'd rather die than burden his wife? Wow. I wonder how his wife feels about that?

Gee I hope he asked her first. You can't change your mind after. Brave? Considerate? Unconsiderate? Cop Out? Now she's burdened with not being able to interact with him at all. A lot of people always say, "if I ever get like that just shoot me" but when they say that they are healthy and I don't think that they are being so literal. Once something affects your life in a big way, you would have to THEN make the call. I guess that was the call he made, sorry no coaches challenge here.
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Re: Bob Welch dies
« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2012, 04:52:13 PM »
Gee I hope he asked her first. You can't change your mind after. Brave? Considerate? Unconsiderate? Cop Out? Now she's burdened with not being able to interact with him at all. A lot of people always say, "if I ever get like that just shoot me" but when they say that they are healthy and I don't think that they are being so literal. Once something affects your life in a big way, you would have to THEN make the call. I guess that was the call he made, sorry no coaches challenge here.

A mans death is more his survivors affair than his own. Personally i think it was/is a cop out. Looking down the barrel never occured to me, all i wanted to see was the fight ahead and me winning. I was my dying mothers caregiver, i was my sick wife's caregiver. NEVER did i once think they were a burden, i cherished/cherish every day with my loved ones, and would do it for as long as it took. What he did was selfish and a crime against God. I've worn the shoes of adversity, this is how we find out who we are, and who the people around us are. If i was going to take my own life it would be because i was the last one left. Brave is fighting the fight, weak is giving up. If he had the strength to pull the trigger, he had the strength to hug and hold his wife.