Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac

by Mark Blake

An illuminating deep-dive into everything Fleetwood Mac—the songs, the rivalries, the successes, and the failures—Dreams evokes the band's entire musical catalog as well as the complex human drama at the heart of the Fleetwood Mac story.

Fleetwood Mac has had a ground-breaking career spanning over fifty years and includes some of the best-selling albums and greatest hits of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But the band’s unique story is one of enormous triumph and also deep tragedy. There has never been a band in the history of music riven with as much romantic drama, sexual tension, and incredible highs and lows as Fleetwood Mac.

Dreams is a must-read for casual Fleetwood Mac fans and die-hard devotees alike. Presenting mini-biographies, observations, and essays, Mark Blake explores all eras of the Fleetwood Mac story to explore what it is that has made them one of the most successful bands in history.

Blake draws on his own exclusive interviews with Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, and the late Peter Green and Christine McVie, and addresses the complex human drama at the heart of the Fleetwood Mac story, including the complicated relationships between the band's main members, but he also dives deep into the towering discography that the band has built over the past half-century.

Genres: Music, Biography, Nonfiction, Audiobook, History, Memoir, Pop Culture

426 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 1, 2024

Reviews

[Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

"During one [1975] recording session, [bassist and founding member] John McVie watched Stevie Nicks dancing in her ballet slippers and shawl and turned to [producer] Keith Olsen. 'We used to be a blues band,' McVie grunted. Olsen grinned and said, 'But John, this is a much shorter road to the bank.'" -- on page 183, before the group's explosion into worldwide popularity

Although founded in 1967 - by drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie (which provided the moniker), and soon to be joined by McVie's then-spouse Christine Perfect on the ivories - as a British tribute to American blues, the group truly came into its own with the addition of the U.S. vocalists / songwriters Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks in the mid-70's. From 1975 to 1987 this classic line-up essayed five hit albums - including the unstoppable blockbuster Rumours in 1977 - featuring dozens of songs which are now instantly recognizable as classic rock standards. But while the music was certainly durable, the increasingly soap operatic lives of these five musicians were anything but - various tales of in-fighting, romantic affairs, and financial issues . . . many of which were powered by volumes of champagne and cocaine that would've overflowed even the highest seats in Dodger Stadium. British music journalist Blake documents the group's approximately half-century of rollercoaster existence in his excellent bio-like Dreams, which smartly avoids a lockstep A-to-B trajectory to freely bounce around with the personalities involved and many of their anecdotes / experiences, plus all of that great and memorable music. Also, I liked that he devoted respectable page time to singer/songwriter/guitarists Peter Green and Bob Welch, who fronted the group at different times in the early 70's during some regional triumphs, but just missed out on the later wild success. (While Green sadly battled mental health issues for the rest of his life he remained a highly-respected 'axe-slinger,' and Welch then achieved notable solo success with his disco-rock songs 'Ebony Eyes' and 'Sentimental Lady' in 1978.) This was a thorough and interesting book, as author Blake was often sharply witty and seemed very knowledgeable on the subject matter.

[Ken · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mark Blake's tell-all biography is called DREAMS and subtitled "The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac."

The word 'Dreams' is a safe, generic title. It is apropos to most bands' aspirations to fame and fortune. A distinctive and recognizable 'sound', an imitatable look, an international audience and multiple platinum albums. Groupies, sold out tours, MTV videos, hitting the charts in the U.K. and the U.S. So, yes, the title could have just as well applied to The Beatles, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, and on and on. A good universal, plug-in-your-your-fav-band title.

The telling part, the distinctive part is the tag: 'The Many Lives of'.
There were at least four different Fleetwood Macs over their 50-plus years as a group. That includes one totally counterfeit group of five male musicians sent on tour by a very ticked-off manager who got tired of the individual egos and infighting. He claimed he legally owned the Fleetwood trademark. Sadly, it took several concert appearances before "fans" realized they were duped and finally started demanding their money back.
Otherwise there was the original MAC founded by musical prodigy Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood and John Mcvie. The face of the group as well as the sound changed dramatically over the coming years: two players over the years were schizophrenics, one an agoraphobic. Heavy cocaine use was common. Flings, affairs, infidelity and divorces. Egos: questions of who was in charge, who had to leave for a solo career and eventually beg to come back. Mick Fleetwood and John McVie were the only constant factors.

Originally planned as a British "white blues band" the sound and direction changed dramatically with the eventual additions of Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham. Both prolific song writers. Ironically, the imitatable face of MAC became the twirling tambourine player with the platform heels, vintage clothing and gauzy shawls. Stevie Nicks played no musical instrument. A Barbie doll in her image was released by Mattell and sold out in hours.

RUMOURS (1977) became the 12th best selling album of all time. It topped the charts in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Australia. They would never hit anywhere near that success before or after that one album. It was the illusive, defining sound that came and went for ever after.

DREAMS is a collection of music journalist Mark Blake's essays, interviews and mini biographies. Individually they are well written and informative but collected in one volume like this they may seem very repetitive. But the repetition is easy to overlook as each time a player is revisited or incident reoccurs, the story is expanded. And the names and personalities become more familiar, more personalized. This is a story that will stay with you for a long time after its final pages are turned.
It is a tale of figures of mythical proportions brought down to earth and shown to be all too human.

All victims of their own dreams.

[R.F. Gammon]

I’m sure this is meticulously researched. I just can’t wrap my head around writing a biography on FLEETWOOD MAC and it being this…dry

[John Schorg · Rating 4 out of 5]

For those of us of a certain age, Fleetwood Mac and Rumours continue to hold a resonance. There are many accounts of the band and its crazed history, but this is a good overview, stretching back to the Peter Green days. At times, the style of writing gets a little confused, jumping back and forth between eras and people. But it all makes sense in the end, and one must admit that the writing fits the subject matter.

[CorAlex · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stevie Nicks is a fan of "Daisy Jones and The Six"? I feel validated beyond belief.
A fantastically entertaining and informative biography.

[Mike Mikulski · Rating 3 out of 5]

A typical rock biography with an interesting story of a band's rise to popularity and fame followed by mid-career rock excess and late age course correction for the artists.

What is unique in Dreams is the over 5o year life of a band with many line-up changes and two musical styles and with Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Christine McVie the constants through the years. Credit to band biographer Blake for not choosing a typical chronological account but spreading out the member bios, providing short essays on the background of memorable recordings and giving audience to the seventeen artists who were in Fleetwood Mac at some point over the band's lifetime.

[Sophie (RedheadReading) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This works through the band's history chronologically but also has a non-linear aspect to it - every new member gets a chapter dedicated to them in a "potted history" style and then we bounce around between spotlights on certain songs, specific events or gigs in the band's history etc. The downside of this is the book can get very repetitive with certain details being mentioned/explored multiple times as well as occaisionally reading like a promotional puff piece (do I need to know every product that Mick Fleetwood has put his name to?). In its favour, though, is that this is a very easy read with short chapters so is super accessible whether you know the band well or not!

[Jason · Rating 5 out of 5]

Because Fleetwood Mac is my husband's favorite band, I already know a lot about their history and their music. Blake's work cobbles together previous articles he wrote and new interviews to take a new tact on the story of this classic group. Blake has managed to write an engrossing biography from articles that work to form the narrative, and provides many perspectives on the band from band itself, those that worked with them and for them and people who had passing dealings with them. Informative for folks who don't know the band, fun for those of us who do.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Would be a five star but the editing is the kookiest I’ve ever encountered. Stories are repeated, and the timeline is nonexistent.
I do love a book that requires me to keep my iPad at my side to “you tube” performances— especially the early Peter Green references (am I the only one who did not know that “Oh Well” was a Fleetwood Mac song?)

[Linden · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not just a chronology of the band and its personnel, there is enough detail about musical styles (and of course band gossip) to satisfy both fans and readers interested in music history. And it's even better if read while listening to their music.

[ry · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Please don’t kill each other on my driveway!”
3.75💫
What a wild ride this band had. Book was kinda mid but I enjoyed it.

[Georgette · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good retrospective of the Mac. Goes deep into the cursed guitarists, the later albums and the ousting (I refuse to call it anything but what it is) of my beloved Lindsey. Quick read once you get going.

[Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just when you believe you know all there is to know about Fleetwood Mac, read this!
Driven by Mark Blake's unapologetic truth and dry wit, this is a must read for all fans.

[Tanya · Rating 5 out of 5]

You will love this book if you love reading about music and you loved Fleetwood Mac. Really short chapters make it so easy to pick up and put down. I didn’t want it to end.

[Amy Sauschuck · Rating 1 out of 5]

couldn't finish... couldn't get into it

[Matthew Lanza · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really fun and accessible book about one of my favorite bands. It’s fragmented and jumps around timelines but that’s what makes it readable. Most chapters are no more than 4 pages.

I would’ve liked more depth on certain topics such as the band’s songwriting process and some of their escapades. It felt like the author glossed over how good these musicians truly were. I know Blake is a long time music writer but it felt like the book took for granted the quality of the music and what it takes to create that.

Overall very good and I learned a lot. I listened to a ton of Fleetwood Mac while reading this and think that’s ultimately what the artists would want.

[Floyd Garrett · Rating 5 out of 5]

Unless you are a diehard Fleetwood Mac fan, meaning you know they had a lengthy career well before Fleetwood Mac (the White Album), you are in for a treat with the wealth of personalities, drama, creativity, and details about the ten albums prior to the coming of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

There were ten albums after their arrival, some including the couple, some not. Throughout, besides Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, the real centering of the group and unsung hero is really Christine McVie. Above the others, she was the chief songwriter of the majority of their hits. She doesn't get the attention of Nicks, who went on to have an extremely successful solo career, or the attention of Buckingham, who Blake paints as a testy, brilliant genius.

Blake also peppers in other unsung heroes of the group, mainly Peter Green, the mostly forgotten lead guitarist of the early incarnations of the group.

Overshadowing all, besides the drama of the well known Nicks/Buckingham relationship, is the hidious amount of drugs and alcohol that overwealmed their creativity. The Buckingham/Nicks group really only had three albums blown out to the world until drugs, touring, and further relationship drama took its toll - Fleetwood Mac (the White Album), Rumours, and Tusk.

But, when your discography includes Rumours, well, everything else gets a bit overshadowed.

Even a passing fan should find this book fascinating and want you scouting your preferred music streaming service for albums or songs you are not familiar with if you just know the core three albums. From 1969 to the present, there is plenty to listen to for the rest of the year. All together, their were eighteen members of the group between 1969-2022. And at the end of the book, you probably won't admire any of them! Except, possibly, Christine McVie, nee Perfect.

[Selena · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m conflicted as to how to rate this. I would give the research and throughness 5 stars. However, there were parts of it that bored me. There is only one version of the band that interests me, and this book is devoted to all versions of Fleetwood Mac.

I’m generously rounding up to four stars. My actual rating would be 3.5.

[Jeremy Wade · Rating 2 out of 5]

There’s a lot to learn from the author’s research, but questionable editing/local writing choices, less-than-effective structure, and a focus on the sensational over anything like analysis or argument leave me disappointed.

Readers with some basic, Wikipedia-level knowledge of the band will get the most out of this comprehensive, sometimes repetitive collection of chapters. Sometimes those chapters focus on a person or a song and are more or less in chronological order, but if you want a narrative like Spitz’s Beatles tome or other rock bios, you’ll be a little frustrated.

[Trevor Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

A throughly researched wonderfully entertaining story of on of the greatest bands of all time.
Pleasingly all the incarnations of the band are covered in detail, not just the Peter Green/BuckinghamNicks eras.
Chock full of really interesting and funny stories as well as incredible sadness.
A fascinating read about a fascinating band.

[Kristian Gunn · Rating 3 out of 5]

A repetitive and jumbled mess by both author and editor. In a rush to finish before it’s even started . Chapters written in isolation not recognising that the content has been referenced countless times previously. Only bothered to finish the book as it’s such an easy read and the Fleetwood Mac story is so eminently interesting.

[Matthew · Rating 3 out of 5]

Boy, is this book a mixed bag. I have only read two other memoirs about Fleetwood Mac—both written by drummer/bandleader Mick Fleetwood, the first of them referred to in this book by Lindsey Buckingham as "trash," and the second one was fine, but a bit of a rehash.

Will we never get the great book about Fleetwood Mac? Dreams reveals that several have actually been published, though most of them focus on either a single album or on a single author who was not in in the band but had a peripheral tenure with them in one form or another. I had high hopes for Dreams, but the genuinely great parts only serve as rewards for the lot of stuff you have to slog through. I am a true fan of the entire history of Fleetwood Mac, having long owned their albums dating back to the late-sixties, Peter Green British-blues era when they started. Still, there is no getting around the fact that things only get truly interesting once Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined the band, and this book does not get to that until page 145.

To be fair, a ton of stuff happened with this band, not least of which was quite the revolving door of personnel changes, over the eight years that preceded Buckingham and Nicks. It just doesn't have the flair, the romance, the thrill of reading that came with the "classic lineup" that began in 1975—with a massive turning point coming with the "white Fleetwood Mac album" becoming their first-ever multi-platinum seller—only for it to be dwarfed two years later by Rumours selling more copies than any other had up to that point. These huge turns of events render their history prior not entirely irrelevant, but close to it.

But author Mark Blake devotes chapters to every single member of Fleetwood Mac there ever was—no fewer than 18 of them, with 10+ pages devoted each to the "classic lineup" (Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks), and all of the others given fairly equal but far less time of just a few pages each. There are also chapters dedicated to every single album; key singles from most albums; many of the revolving romantic partners of band members; and key producers of their work. It's all presented in a very chronological way, which is why for nearly 150 pages I was interested but not fully locked in; and from the point Nicks and Buckingham appear and through to the end, I absolutely devoured this book.

Still, this organizational style brings with it a kind of "empty calories" feel, covering anything and everything in the band's history and therefore by definition never getting into very much depth on anything or anyone. What's more, in the later chapters of the book, detailing the last 25 years or so of their history, Blake seems to lose a bit of his dedication to things like, well, fact-checking. In the chapter on the 1997 live album and tour The Dance, Blake simply lists every single song in the setlist on the concert special that aired that year, editorializing with dubious authority, and making at least two glaring errors (the blurb that is clearly about "Over My Head" is inaccurately labeled "Over and Over," a song from two albums later; "Say You Love Me" is referred to as a "1977 hit" but was released in 1976 from the white Fleetwood Mac album, whereas 1977 was when Rumours was released). It feels like an increasing lack of attention to detail as the book nears its end, which only makes me wonder what else in the book that I took at face value was actually incorrect.

Honestly, a better idea might be five separate biographies of the same length, dedicated to each of the "classic lineup" members. This would provide an opportunity for much more compelling contextualization of the early years, for instance, with Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. I'd be all over that shit, especially up-to-date biographies on Stevie Nicks and, in particular, the true glue that cemented the band's vocal chemistry: Christine McVie. Given that she passed away in 2022, finally cementing the end of Fleetwood Mac once and for all, it's fitting that Blake ends Dreams with the chapter dedicated to her. It's all of twelve pages, though, beginning with her birth and ending with her death. And as with every other chapter in this book, how can that possibly do the subject justice?

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's no entirely his fault, but Craig Brown's "99 Glimpses of the Beatles" (among others) has not prompted a really great trend. Mark Blake's "Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac" is a case in point. Instead of narrative flow, Blake tells the long and winding saga of The Mac in dozens of three-to-four page "chapters" covering dozens of quite specific topics. This makes for an easy and consistently entertaining read, albeit one that left this reader seeking more insight into the music itself.

Granted, the soap opera that surrounded this enormously successful band looms large in the group's often brilliant musical output. And Blake can't be blamed for giving today's short attention span-plagued readers what they want. He offers a veritable mountain of cocaine, rock star excess and band infighting. It makes for a compelling, yet quite sad, story of a great band that self-destructed far too soon.

Fans of Stevie Nicks may not enjoy Blake's portrait of a drug-addled prima donna whose sexual escapades took its toll on her excellent songwriting and bewitching vocals. Just one example: Nicks sometimes demanded a white grand piano craned up to her hotel suite --an instrument she could not actually, well, play. At the same time, Blake reminds us that Fleetwood Mac wouldn't have reached the rock summit without her unique persona.

Amid Mick Fleetwood's abuse of the white powder, John McVie's frequent drinking binges and Christine McVie's often painful love life, it's Lindsay Buckingham's ambition and musical obsession that seems to have kept the band afloat. If Fleetwood was the soul of the band, Buckingham was its brain. Blake reports the guitarist could be domineering and egotistical, but took the band to new creative heights. While Nicks and McVie's songwriting and vocal gifts produced The Mac's biggest hits, it seems clear that Buckingham's Brian Wilson-like studio adventures propelled the group forward.

Blake's well-researched story begins with the band's British blues origins - and the procession of weird departures that made for a revolving door of lead guitarist - through Fleetwood's sage decision to bring Buckingham and Nicks aboard in 1975. But sometimes the music gets lost in his warts-and-all stories. It's not that the Mac didn't earn their sordid reputation. Their romantic misadventures did sometimes overshadow some wonderful music. Maybe Blake has made the best choice in his focus on that part of the story. It's just that this devoted fan would have enjoyed a more nuanced view of the band's musical brilliance.

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disappointing. I LOVE Fleetwood Mac. Still like to punch up a boring afternoon (because work) by calling up the video of "Blue Letter" from 1975 in Largo MD and yelling along at the end with "Yeah. We love you. Fleetwood Mac!" [try it sometime -- if you work from home it's ok]

Bill James wrote that you could divide Rickey Henderson's career in two and have two Hall of Famers. I'd say by analogy that Fleetwood Mac could qualify about 4x over. If you listen to "Spare me a Little" "Storms" "Think about Me" "Oh Well," "Sentimental Lady", "Silver Springs" "The Ledge" etc. etc. etc. it's like several different great bands.

I waited in a crazy-long line in the parking lot at Capital Centre for hours to see them [this was toward the end of the use of "festival seating" -- the tragedy at the Who concert in Ohio was yet to come] only to be told that Lindsey Buckingham needed a spinal tap and the show was cancelled......but still had a great time seeing them when rescheduled i think a few months later.

Anyway, that's probably the only anecdote about the band NOT included in this book, which I'll get back to actually reviewing now.

Awful choice of organizational scheme, which was to divide the story into about 150 chapters, mostly around 2 pages each, devoted to albums, songs, band members or associates, or incidents. Perhaps you can already see the problem -- repetition! The very same thing (this couple started an affair; that one broke up; this person replaced that person, who left because.....; this one was too drunk to play one night....the drum sound was made by banging on tissue boxes in the recording studio.......) gets written up in the chapter about the song, the one about the album, the one about that band member, the one about that era or tour.....until you want to scream (or skim, better for remaining calm). It was as if there was no editor, and the writer worked on each chapter a month apart from the others and never read it over again as a whole.

Anyway, if you really want to know which future band rented a garage from, and did a lot of drugs with, Bob Welch (it was Guns N Roses), or whether the guy who made the viral skateboarding video featuring "Dreams" during the pandemic made much money off it (he did), you may wish to slog through this one. Otherwise, I recommend enjoying the music forever but skipping the read.

[Kurt Reichenbaugh · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bought RUMOURS in the summer of '77 with lawn mowing money. "Dreams" played constantly on the radio that year and I never really cared for it. I bought the album because I heard "Gold Dust Woman" playing in the record store at the mall and thought I could take "Dreams" as long as the record had cool songs like "Go Your Own Way" and "Gold Dust Woman" on it. I remember liking most of it at the time. I wasn't alone since it seemed to stay number one on the charts well into my junior high years. Now, more than 40 years plus gone, as much as I like RUMOURS and TUSK and the Buckingham/Nicks era of Fleetwood Mac, I like the Bob Welch years of the band even more. Most people now probably have no idea about albums like FUTURE GAMES or BARE TREES. Songs like "Hypnotized" have long since been dropped from classic rock stations. And no one I ask remembers that for a brief time Bob Welch had a moment in the Top 40 spotlight with "Sentimental Lady" and "Ebony Eyes" or that he spent five albums in the band synonymous with a twirling Stevie Nicks and a temperamental Lindsey Buckingham. This book goes into great detail on the dysfunction, the drugs, the fighting, the breakups and the affairs of Fleetwood Mac that most of the world remembers now. The Bob Welch era is covered briefly but left mostly alone, like the records themselves, unplayed and forgotten in used record bins pushed underneath the more popular stuff that buyers want. The mental instability of the Peter Green era gets a good exposure here too, but that era never really appealed to me. Mostly, reading this book, I get the sense that I'm glad I'm not dependent on unstable and mercurial personalities for my livelihood. I probably would have bailed out long before our shelf life expired. The book itself is good. It jumps around in time and explores tangents and sideways alleys of peripheral players in the long career of the band. I did notice a few errors here and there that I'm surprised didn't get caught in the editing, but nothing that really deters from the main history. A good enough book for music fans and a fun look at a time in rock music that is likely gone forever.

[K · Rating 3 out of 5]

Having been a Fleetwood Mac since the late 70s, of course I was going to purchase "Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac". I did learn a few new tidbits (such as, Lindsey dated Anne Heche, and the song "Come" from Say You Will might be about her). I esp. enjoyed the chapters about pre-Buckingham Nicks.

What came across to me mostly was, how after The White Album, they didn't "enjoy" making music together. In my opinion, they never again achieved the brilliance of Rumours. Despite that fabulous and timeless disk, and the under-appreciated genius Tusk, the band didn't show much enthusiasm after those albums. Frankly, I found their story became tiresome (except for Christine!). Whether it was drugs or old resentments, I'm not entirely sure. Maybe both of those things.

I had no desire to see Neil Finn and Mike Campbell try to replace Lindsey, though there's no question they are both worthy artists whom I adore.

I think FM should've retired after Tango.

One quibble...a pretty familiar and oft-read story about how Stevie Nicks came up with the title of "Edge of Seventeen" is changed here - I'd always heard that Jane Petty said "age of seventeen" but Stevie heard "edge". Blake claims Jane did in fact say "edge."

[Ralphz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is not a neat chronological tale of Fleetwood Mac. It's a series of anecdotes in short chapters - and for this legendary, unruly band, it works.

There are brief band biographies and tales of albums, songs, the road, and other challenges.

The band starts out as another British blues group, with middling success and one hit ("Albatross," which the Beatles stole for "Sun King"). It moves into the Bob Welch years ("Oh Well," "Sentimental Lady," "Hypnotized," the original "Black Magic Woman"). Then it makes the huge stylistic change of adding Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, and massive popularity followed with "Say You Love Me," "Rhiannon" and "Over My Head," along with the entire Rumours album.

There's a lot about the famous tension in the band at the height of its powers (affairs running rampant) and the heady mixture of creativity and drugs.

The era passes, band members quit and join and quit, and the band finally wraps it up after the death of Christine McVie.

Great fun to read about this band, but the book really needed photos.

[Dahlia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was disappointed in this book. The writing felt detached and superficial. While the author clearly knew the complicated history of the band, he failed to present their story in a compelling or meaningful framework. Minute details and lists were given a lot of space while so many more fascinating angles were glossed over. The jumping around was often frustrating. I left the book wondering: but what did it all mean? What did it mean to the core members of the band? What did it mean to the author?

[Robin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting book, and pretty well done, given the twisty, confusing history of this band. I particularly enjoyed the first part of the book, as my fandom goes back well before Buckingham and Nicks joined the band, and I really wanted to know what happened with the brilliant Peter Green. I felt like I was getting a lot of the story straight in terms of who did what when and to whom. If the last part of the book was less compelling to me, well, we do not, as of now, have any kind of hero finish to the tale, and all the trips to rehab became repetitive without musical high points to cherish.

[rob morton · Rating 5 out of 5]

A look under the tent

I have of course loved their music since the early days. And lucky to have met the Future Games crew at rehearsals and after shows courtesy of my old friend Bob Welch. I was especially curious to read how Bob's legacy would be conveyed. For the most part it was fair and positive.
However I still don't understand how he wasn't included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Fleetwood Mac. Bob didn't either. Apparently only Mick and Jan Wenner know and they aren't talking.
Overall interesting in depth read