Anybody Know the Details of the Les Paul Custom Played by Fleetwood Mac's Bob Weston?

Ed Driscoll said:

After I mentioned Bob Welch in Xpensive Wino's Basement Tapes post last night, I started poking around YouTube for material from the post-PG pre-Lindsey Buckingham wilderness years of Fleetwood Mac, and came across this clip from a 1973 Midnight Special segment, when Bob Weston (who died in 2012) was briefly* in the group, and playing some tasty licks:

Interesting Custom that Weston is playing. I found a close-up of the guitar, which has a P-90 in-between the two humbuckers, its own volume and tone control, and an aftermarket truss rod cover. I assume it's a modified Norlin? Anybody know any more details?

* This just in: Hooking up with the boss's wife will often speed up your unemployment.

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Art Werck said:

Bob Welch reminds me of a high school history teacher I had. They looked and dressed the same.

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IMMUSICRULZ said:

Bob Weston played a Gibson Les Paul Custom when he was in Fleetwood Mac. One was yellow, and another was a black Les Paul. There are also pictures of him below using what looks like an ES 335
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He also played a Gibson SG, a Fender Stratocaster, and a Fender Telecaster electric guitar. But he was also into the Ibanez Electric guitars (Bob Welch also played one in the 1980s,) And the picture sleeve of Bob Weston 1980 solo album Nightlight shows him playing a red Gretsch guitar

He also played with Robbie Patton on the album Distant Shores, and was one of several guitarists (alongside Bob Welch, Walter Egan and Fleetwood Mac guitar technician Ray Lindsey) to be featured in the music video for Lindsey Buckingham solo single, "Trouble."

I always wondered whatever happened to his guitars. I bet they're in a music store in London.

Then again, all the guitarists in Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green, Bob Welch, Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan et al) used a Les Paul, so who knows?

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IMMUSICRULZ said:

Bob Weston played a Gibson Les Paul Custom when he was in Fleetwood Mac. One was yellow, and another was a black Les Paul. There are also pictures of him below using what looks like an ES 335
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He also played a Gibson SG, a Fender Stratocaster, and a Fender Telecaster electric guitar. But he was also into the Ibanez Electric guitars (Bob Welch also played one in the 1980s,) And the picture sleeve of Bob Weston 1980 solo album Nightlight shows him playing a red Gretsch guitar

He also played with Robbie Patton on the album Distant Shores, and was one of several guitarists (alongside Bob Welch, Walter Egan and Fleetwood Mac guitar technician Ray Lindsey) to be featured in the music video for Lindsey Buckingham solo single, "Trouble."

I always wondered whatever happened to his guitars. I bet they're in a music store in London.

Then again, all the guitarists in Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green, Bob Welch, Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan et al) used a Les Paul, so who knows?

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Xpensive Wino said:

Bob sadly died in 2012, and owned the guitar at the time of his death. No idea what happened to it.

More info here:

http://www.bobweston.com/

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