Bob Welch 1978-08-26 Cleveland Lakefront Stadium Cleveland, OH

 

Bob Welch
Cleveland Lakefront Stadium
Cleveland, Ohio
August 26, 1978
(Master / JoeRay Archives)

Transfer: Master Cassette > Nakamichi DR-01 > Sound Devices USBPre2 > Audacity > Adobe Audition > iZotope RX > xACT 2.50 > FLAC

01 Instrumental Intro
02 Mystery Train
03 Hot Love Cold War
04 Hypnotized
05 Sentimental Lady
06 Outskirts
07 Danchiva
08 Ebony Eyes

Known Faults:
-None

1978 was the height of the outdoor rock festivals, festivals stretched coast to coast with a core set of artists appearing at multiple events. My venue was the Cotton Bowl in Dallas where I attended the Texxas World Music Festival (Texxas Jam) in July '78 and about three weeks later Fleetwood Mac headlining a four band lineup.

Four World Series Of Rock shows were planned to be held in the Summer of 1978 at Cleveland's Lakefront Stadium. The first taking place on July 1st featured The Rolling Stones and also included Kansas and Peter Tosh, the second took place on July 15th headlined by Electric Light Orchestra and included on the bill Foreigner, Journey and Trickster. The third 1978 World Series Of Rock was to take place on August 5th headlined by Fleetwood Mac with support from Geils, Eddie Money and Bob Welch. However, the third event had to be postponed shortly before the date when Lindsey Buckingham became ill.

Fleetwood Mac being one of the biggest bands in the world at the time was rescheduled for August 26th, this resulted in the cancellation of the 4th event scheduled on that day which was to be headlined by Bob Seger with support from Todd Rundgren/Utopia, Blue Oyster Cult and The Cars.

For the re-scheduled event, Geils dropped out and was replaced by Todd Rundgren/Utopia and The Cars while retaining the originally scheduled Eddie Money and Bob Welch in the lineup.

Though this is from the master, we are releasing as from the JoeRay archives because JoeRay did not do that actual taping. He lent his equipment to a friend, his friend did and excellent job with what he did capture. Unfortunately there are only three sets available, Eddie Money, Todd Rundgren (not dime or TTD compliant) and Bob Welch.

A rather tight set from Bob Welch riding the wave of his first solo LP release after leaving the short lived trio "Paris".

In 2012, Welch had spinal surgery, despite the surgery he was told his prognosis for recovery was poor and he would eventually become an invalid. Not wanting to be a bruden to his wife Wendy and still in considerable pain on June 7, 2012 Welch committed suicide, shooting himself in his Nashville home.

Thanks as always to goody for his pitch excellence and to JoeRay for keeping the master tape safe for all these years and doing considerable work on the tape which made my part a whole lot easier.

mjk5510 & JoeRay

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