Video: Fleetwood Mac - Future Games

MGMT: “Future Games”

Fleetwood Mac - Future Games
Of course MGMT would chose to cover a song from Fleetwood Mac 's "Welch Years" for their contribution to upcoming tribute album Just Tell Me That You Want Me . The band, in full and perfect psychedelic form, take Bob Welch's "Future Games" (from the under-appreciated 1971 classic album of the same name) and flip its seductive qualities on their heads, stripping the song of its summer daydreaminess and filling that void with nervous and unsettling tones and melodies once dreamt up by a [...]

Early Fleetwood Mac Guitarist Bob Welch Dead

Fleetwood Mac - Future Games
Former Fleetwood Mac member Bob Welch was found dead in his home after committing suicide. He was 65 years old and had been suffering from recent, undisclosed health issues according to the LA Times . Welch was an influential early member of the 1970s rock group. He played a pivotal role in the transition away from their bluesy sound. The California musician — whose father had roots in film as a producer and screenwriter for Paramount Pictures in the '40s and '50s — felt he was snubbed when the rest of the band [...]