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  • Total Drive Shaft Rip off ;-)

  • People are dumb every person that looks at Stevie Nicks falls in love with her and that's how rumours got started

  • As far as I know (or care), Stevie may or may not have "done" Welch and "a whole lot of other guys". She definitely did "do" Welch's career a big favor by appearing - as did C. McVie and Buckingham on his studio produced records "French Kiss" and "3 Hearts". His commercial appeal was not going to sell records that sold because Stevie and F. Mac had huge star status at the time. Folks bought these lps because Nicks and band mates played on them. BTW this song is from French Kiss.

  • @writeurselfabook You're completely, 100%, full of shit. The success of the "French Kiss" album was completely hinged upon the success of "Ebony Eyes" and "Sentimental Lady", both of which were penned solely by Bob Welch. In fact, as this video proves, Stevie Nicks made the song sound much WORSE with her shrill and asynchronous backing vocals. Good god, she sounds fucking HORRIBLE on this song. Get a clue, pal.

  • @sullenthrills have you seen a professional? you know, anger management can be helped by a shrink.

  • @sullenthrills also, before you get started on a reply to my post, as far as I'm concerned you can go fuck yourself, "pal" - whatever shit spews out of your mouth means zilch to me; however my original post said nothing about the way Nicks sounds on the video or who wrote the songs on French Kiss. -ergo your reply was both angry and stupid - see a shrink - you might need meds - hell, you could be psychotic - did you take a little short bus to grade school?

  • Also I might add..this Goddess of a woman is 64 years old and she stills gives me boners...Rock on ancient queen.............

  • budmang got it right, love those black eyes, ...... mystery?

  • Stevie adds nothing to this otherwise wonderful song

  • @liraloo OH!!! she added alright..she was there for eye candy and to give Welch a rock hard boner for this gig...........which i have one right now..OH God Steive!!!!

  • Stevie done Welch, He wrote this song about her black sexy eyes

  • if that's really welch, he got a rug stapled on and some contact lenses...............

  • Classic Stevie Nicks one of the best female vocalist to come out of the eaerly 70s,Stevie you Rock but sucked on American Idol las year.

  • @taxidriver508 You have to know how stevie thinks..with her heart..she did not want to show up the amateur's on the show..so she tone it down a bit....she does that with all her performaces with new comer's to give them a chance...like the Dixie chicks and Sheryl crow and others

  • Oh well....alto just ain't her range I guess, but it was damn nice to see her.

  • Oh My Lord - I am a Bob Welch groupie!!

  • Pretty bad ass....wth ever happened to him?

  • Stevie Nicks running around in a short mini skirt in 1981...what was she up to?

  • He traded that goofy hat for a wig.

  • I never get tired of hearing and watching this video - very satisfying!!!

  • Whoever gave this a thumbs down ... stand up, present yourself, be a man, and let us shoot you at sunrise !!!

  • I didn't know Carrot Top had a band too!

  • Thank u-tube..Man.. to live through these songs again and again, WOW.. next to the Great sounds of the 60's, to relive this time period, amazing. THANK YOU.. sure as Hell, beats the SHIT(R.A.P.) crap they call music nowadays.

  • Just cannot get enough of this great video!!!

  • He looks very handsome! I think that Stevie and him have a lot of chemistry when they perform together. Her best and most energetic performances are always with him.

  • "Stevie Nicks sit on my face!"-courtesy of the former WBCN Boston-

  • Bob looks just like my ex-boyfriend - maybe that is why I think he looks so hot!!!

  • Love it!

  • Welch gets some great sounds on the lead w/ that Les Paul and chorus pedal. Too bad it also makes his upper lip get sucked into his nose.

  • Damn Stevie's hot! And what a voice too

  • If you read the Steve Adler(Guns'n'Roses drummer) book, Bob was REALLY messed up!!!Sad, I worshipped this song & his playin'

  • @bunniman1908 You can tell in this video he had a problem with some serious demons. He is so thin, but he still sounds great.

  • So cool, always had a crush on stevie

  • wonder if he's wearing contacts? if not he must be blind as a bat

  • I think Bob Welch had a thing for Stevie!!!!

  • @98michellesanders What? Is there someone who *didn't* have a thing for Stevie? ;-)

  • I love Bob Welch - wit his total make-over - no glasses, lost some weight, great clothes, great hair, very sexy!!!!

  • Stevie was and still is the hottest rock chic ever.

  • That skirt is hot, to say the least!

  • I just love the way Bob Welch looks in this video. He looks like he lost some weight and also looks great without the glasses and love his outfit! I love his energy - great video!! Thanks so much!!

  • was stevie very, very friendly ?

  • 1:10 in -- what, is that Milly Vanilly on the drums?

  • Good Times!

  • Stevie Nicks was a drug addict deluxe. I saw her in 1976 in Austin, Texas at the Sunday Break with Fleetwood Mac and they had to literally carry her onstage. She was blasted but able to sing. I also heard she like sex and while out of it, screwed anyone she could which is why Lindsey Buckingham dumped her. She was a rich kid from Scottsdale, AZ. I will say this, she is a great song writer and singer. Now she's sober and about 62 years old. I guess we all grow up sometime.

  • @taypar11 Lindsey was smart to dump her.

  • @theberrybest

    Uh, she dumped HIM!

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  • @theberrybest Lindsey was smart to dump her because then she had such more that she has going on with her life instead of been controlled by him. Look at her now - Lindsey, whom I think is one the greatest guitarists of this century does not pale in comparison to what Stevie has accomplished or her fan base or her writing skills and alot more!! Yes Lindsey is handsome still and a great guitarist and songwriter, but is Stevie the one who has sold out to this day so many concerts worldwide??

  • @taypar11

    I don't think so, dude.

  • @taypar11

    Bullshit. 

  • Great drummer...ask a certain K.R.

  • Does anyone know who the lead guitar player with the mustache and dark hair is?

  • When Stevie WAS Stevie... not a characature.

    Mrr. Welch rocks!!!!!

  • this boy was frightening looking!

  • doesn't Stevie have ebony eyes?

  • @sara31tx yes! Welch wrote this song about her.stevie done him and a whole lot of other guys! lucky bastards..

  • Thanks for sharing this! Great song, vid & memories!

  • Great Classic Rock Music and at the Roxy

  • @ TER521FAD - You're right. And Alvin's resume is VAST beyond what we've mentioned. Even today, Alvin is FIRST CLASS. He told me the other day that they're doing a book on his life and it should be a great one. He

    's played with every big name there is. WATCH FOR THAT BOOK.

  • The song was fine until Stevie came in. She added nothing to this song.

  • Hey! That's the great Alvin Taylor on drums!!!!

  • @ThomKF3V Alvin Taylor was the drummer on George Harrison's "Thirty Three and a Third" album. That's one of my favorite Harrison albums. He can also be seen on the very first Saturday Night Live show from October '75 playing drums behind Billy Preston.

  • What a "Babe-a-Donna"!

  • Fine Fuckin' Stevie.

  • Stevie was pretty hot back then. . .

  • What a long way this band has come, ever changing, ever new!

  • And all the Rappers thought they had these pants first??? I still have mine!!

  • Did Bob get a hair transplant or wear a wig ??? He was practically bald when with the Mac

  • Stevie was so skinny back then.... she's amazing, but it's funny how she's kinda fudging her way through the song..... love Stevie, though.

  • @Vanasse1 "Your eyes got me i don't know the rest of the line" lol

  • @Vanasse1 by this time she was on never never land. Just a year before that her voice was able to do anything she wanted it to...but later she gave her all to the partying and less to the show. A few months later Fleetwood Mac would film the Mirage tour Live at the LA Forum where she was even worse for wear.

  • @maxti6 I know, Stevie went through so many 'phases' in her career.... but she's still one of the greatest rock and roll chicks of all time....

  • @maxti6 yes, very true. i was actually at that live forum show. great show (especially visually), but the bands vocals were far from top form, actually lindsey sounded pretty good but christine sounded kind of dull and stevie was very rough. saw them a couple weeks earlier in irvine and she sounded even worse.

  • @Vanasse1 "skinny "? ummm... no its called being a hottie :) " fudging" No just buzzed and sitting in on a gig. :) I still laugh at the dolts who dont realize stevie is on stage. lol

  • Bob was really great in his Fleetwood Mac days- cool seeing Stevie singing with him here!

  • His voice sounds much better here than in the studio version where he sounds like a stoned Kermit the Frog.

  • God, I miss those days. I'm in mourning for those days.

  • Damnation, Stevie Nicks was hot back then and that voice could just knock down walls. Great performances all round, but Bob Welch looked like a scary heroin addict, yikes!

  • @MaidNoMore I think he was a heroin addict back then actually! So says wikipedia at least.

  • @MaidNoMore He had bad eyesite......wore coke-bottle glasses previously.

  • Make urself known u 4 idiots that don't dig this.

  • wow Stevie Nicks plays a mean tamborine!

  • nice, ty for posting

  • Bob Welch has always kicked ass, but I don't like this speedy version. Its waaay too fast. And the guy singing backup(before Stevie) sucks.

  • Party! I would have loved to see this show.

  • Thanks for sharing!!! Stevie sounded great as usual!!!

  • I love this thanks for sharing!!!! Stevie was awesome at Cal Jam!!!!!

  • Was "Ebony Eyes" written about Stevie? Then again would we ever really know anyway?

  • Do you know the other guy on guitar? I think it's an old friend Joey Bashlem

  • What an astounding video.................

  • Ok maybe I was wrong now that I see the cover of his 1981 live album

  • God, Stevie Nicks was GORGEOUS back in the day. Not too bad now either, but back then, holy cow!

  • What the hell is this? That's not Bob Welch!

  • @kingofallwhites Why do you think its noy Bob, King??

  • @madmikeastoria check out my reply and see if you agree

  • @kingofallwhites You are serious, aren't you?

  • @alienhuman Yes. I am not a Bob Welch expert. In 1978 I was only 10. But look at other videos of him at this time and look at the picture of him on the album of this (French Kiss). Look at videos of him in Fleetwood Mac from the early 70's. He has thinning hair- pretty much going bald. This guy isn't and looks younger.

  • @kingofallwhites I am not an expert either, but it is him. First of all, Nicks would not be on stage with an imposter.

  • @alienhuman Yeah I was wrong. I was thrown off by the hair in some pics and his parachute pants. Nicks would be on stage with anyone though if she was coked out of her mind.

  • @kingofallwhites Evidently guys with perms and thinning hair could do strange things wth it. LOL ... and yeah Nicks would get on stage with anyone offering free coke back in the day!

  • @alienhuman yep, one thing about her... she sure loved her blow back in the day.

  • Bob had MC Hammer pants before it was cool.

  • i loved this rare performance. there is no other time like those days and they rocked and were having a great time. these are times i wish i could have been but i am grateful they were captured on film!

  • My happiness Asian Beauties **lushfmlk.info**

  • Damn good guitar playing..

  • Was this song about Stevie Nicks? She really does have beautiful "ebony eyes"!

  • If I remember, this concert was shown on MTV in 1981 or 1982, because I think I remember recording it on our Beta Max. Was sad weeks later when it got recorded over.

  • i CANNOT HEAR THIS SONG ENOUGH 2DAY........AND I LOVED IT WHEN I FIRST HEARD IT IN '78 BUT WAS 2 YOUNG 2 KNOW HOW SPECIAL THIS SONG ACTUALLY IS...........TODAY ;) and to see S.M. Nicks look so happy.........and shine in this special special song..........I am breathing great right now.......Mmmmmmmmmmm love is GRAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • BOB'S WEARING A WHIG!

  • @jfrey1 You're an illiterate moron. You can't even type one short sentence and get it right.

  • @jfrey1 NOT TRUE _ I know Bob personally!

  • This is a great live version of this song. Cal Jam 2 version is rockin' too.

  • This song is groovy and happening in a far out way.

  • Big change in Bob's appearance. Lost the big specs and decided to get serious about his hair care.

  • That is totally not a wig but the miracle of modern medicine at work. And rocked the pants long before Hammer!

  • Simply awesome. Didnt get enough cred in australia

  • Love the parachute pants! Fabulous song!

  • stevie was so hot

  • @tacomonster98 Stevie was hot. With extreme hottiness.

  • Bob Welch IS TOTALLY WEARING A WIG !

  • didn't recognize him w/o his funky glasses. 

  • Stevie wrecked it.

  • AWESOME! Thank you for posting!!

  • Welch got a total make over: That is a wig -- absolutely no chance he has hair. The Cal Jam hat covered a dying yard back then. And he ditched the coke bottles for contacts or lasik. Stevie is totally wasted -- she doesn't know the order to the chorus (same at Cal Jam) and F'd up at 2:23 LOL!!!

  • Stevie didn't know the lyrics but what the hell. lol

  • I still have my "French Kiss" vinyl picture disc lp. Cool stuff!

  • Stevie and Bob jammed really well together and felt like a nice rock and roll pure duo...People together because they want to be , not for the money like today .

    I dont know if she was high or not in the song but looked pretty good to me and sounded like their other pairings together ,, Stevie Rocks and Bob had one of the coolest albums of the 70s and a guitar riff that hooks you ..

  • Excellent !!!

  • Im a big Stevie Nicks fan but it looks like she was in her coke heyday in this performance. You can tell by the way she is carrying herself that she is f**ked up!! But like I said Im a fan of her music. Im no angel myself :)

  • Bobby Boy .... Shouldda prompted Stevie with the lyrics a lil better but its all good !!!

  • @frase1234 It's all good? I'll bet you say that a lot since the term is so popular now. I'll bet you also say "at the end of the day" a lot too, right?

  • @MrAfroSheen

    Yeah / Nah ..... Too Easy

  • Such a sexy song,, I have always loved this song soooooo mcuh. Great Post! thanks and God Bless You.smile

  • rock on

  • Stevie could totally sing and she was so in tune with Bob. I'm happy for them that they had a good time together.... oh, those 70s,, to bring that back....

  • the fucking best.

  • sweet little Stevie I wanna hug you!

  • It would be perfect if they could remove Stevie Nicks singing.

  • the way it looks ,stevie was way fucked up,at first looked like bob wasn't letting her sing but when she tried she was gone!!

  • you can buy the cd on ebay!

  • @threebyzanablond The "French Kiss" CD is one of the hottest classic rock selling albums at Barnes & Noble online. And it's cheap at $6.99 (maybe it's lesser than that.) IMO eBay can be a total ripoff at times. Ditto w/Amazon.

  • wow...bob welsh...french kiss...one of those lps that slipped out in the 70s and slithered into everyones collection, just like that knack(r.i.p doug)lp and the 1st cars lp...on and on...sadly, this is a long gone era in rock history. geez, i wish i could back to 1974 when only the good things were happening. shrugs shoulders, oh well, whadayado???

  • CLASSIC, CLASSIC, CLASSIC!!!!

  • Welch and band sure play the heck out of this song and sexy Stevie bangs a mean tambourine! I like it when she makes a rare miniskirted appearance.

  • It's just a performance stage persona means nothing,David Coffin*

  • Ebony is black the same color as stevies eyes, the song mite have been written about her and as for her? she loves leed guitar players, if there good she follows them because it mean's money to her a liveing, she not the easy one people think she is! she's very picky about her men, most are just one night stands and it don't mean thay get what thay want ether!

  • MC Hammer  stole Bob'spants

  • Yet another retarded crowd ???

  • @atomicplayboy4u takes one to know one!

  • @atomicplayboy4u I bet that crowd ain't as retarded as the ones you see at the Grammy's or MTV VMA's. Definitely better than any American Idol audience.

  • Wasn't she a great group artist back in the day...guesting all over the place...not a prima donna...a bella donna

  • saw stevie twice 1986 and 1999. She played at the Niagra Falls casino a couple of years ago, so tempted to go.

  • great guitar ruiff , did he slip stevie a quick one . who didn't in the 70's.

  • I think I slipped her one as well

  • did you slip a lot ?

  • Nicky was very slippery

  • @mignonhenne I heard Bob had a 12 inch penis. That's why Stevie kept coming around.

  • i could have a 12" but i don't wanna get a 2" reduction.lol.

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  • What if we don't wanna call you bob? Suppose we prefer Fido?

  • That is funny...to many martini's goin down that nite! Lol...you can call me rebecca!

  • This is funny the morons in the crowd are unaware LOL

  • Bob Welch's "French Kiss" album was one of my all-time favorites... I played it over and over again! Great memories!

  • Stevie Rocks

  • A REAL comment: I didn't even recognize Bob Welch in this clip, but...yep, that's him. With Stevie Nicks of all people! Thanks for posting.

  • What's with these freakin' LAME ass "comments"??? Can't these fools advertise their shit site on some other video?

  • @mudpappy goof!!!