Everyone has had their moments of weakness, and I just look at it that way." "I communicate with Mick all the time," he later says. But they had to go along, and I don't hold a grudge for that. All of that stuff that happened, it wasn't something Christine or Mick really wanted. She's back in England.but everything is fine with her. "I don't really communicate with Christine much. Fin Costello/Gettyīuckingham says he remains on good terms with most of the other members of the classic 1970s Mac lineup. Guitarist and singer Lindsey Buckingham of British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac in a recording studio in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, October 1975. But again, I don't think they had much of a choice." And it bothered me that they were okay with that. And so when I saw the setlist they were doing, which had Peter Green, Crowded House and Tom Petty in the set, I thought, 'Well, this is not honoring the legacy of what we accomplished.' That was the only thing that bothered me. That has been in many ways the legacy of the subtext of Fleetwood Mac beyond the music. "The only thing I felt about that was that we had spent 43 years together as a band basically overcoming so much difficulty personally in order to fulfill a destiny that we knew we had. "I can't say that I was crushed," Buckingham says. On the band's 2018–2019 tour, Tom Petty guitarist Mike Campbell and Crowded House singer Neil Finn replaced Buckingham. In addition to his solo music, he is also performing songs he wrote for Fleetwood Mac, a catalog that includes "Go Your Own Way," "Big Love," "Second Hand News," "Tusk" and "Never Going Back Again." On some level, we're all waiting for the circle to come around again, and what we're doing while we wait is basically dancing the dance of life."īuckingham is touring the U.S. In the process of doing that, there were times when she tended to leave not only me in the lurch, but maybe our kids, too. I think at some point that some of those lyrics cross-pollinated with what was going on in my own life at home with some of the issues that my wife and I were trying to sort out-the fact that she was looking for something that she hadn't quite found yet.
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"Some of it could have been sort of a notion that was based on Stevie," he says, "and how she tends to sort of isolate herself emotionally and has put all her priorities into her professional life. Lindsey Buckingham ends on a philosophical and somewhat melancholic note with the atmospheric and stark ballad "Dancing." Buckingham says some of the song's lyrics may have been inspired by Stevie Nicks. It was a way of having a little slap across the face just when you thought the album might be a little too pretty." "I wanted to do something that felt a little more techno," he says, "and the drum loops were just a great starting point and pretty much led to everything else. Two tracks, "Swan Song" and "Power Down," which Buckingham says are his favorites on the album, incorporate somewhat uncharacteristic electronic elements.
The first single, the uptempo "I Don't Mind," has all the recognizable elements of his sound: melodic hooks, intricate production, multilayered vocals and shimmering guitar. But I do have to say that perhaps the themes that I was touching on, with all that's happened in the last three years, does inform the material in a way, which makes it way more visceral for me now for sure."īuckingham recorded the album at his home studio in Los Angeles, and as on most of his solo projects, he produced it and played all of the instruments. There was some resistance from certain people to allow me to do that, which was disappointing. "When I finished that duet album with Christine and toured it, then it was my idea to put this current album out back-to-back with that and do just a short American tour before going back out with Fleetwood Mac. The material on Lindsey Buckingham had been prepared prior to his split from Fleetwood Mac. Today, Buckingham says he's feeling great and is readying the release of his self-titled solo album (due out September 17), his first since 2011. Then in 2019, during triple bypass surgery his vocal cords were damaged by the insertion of a breathing tube. The band's enormous success over 45 years was in no small part due to Buckingham's work as singer, songwriter, guitarist and arranger. In 2018, he was fired from Fleetwood Mac. Lindsey Buckingham is once again playing to live audiences on his latest American tour, which is somewhat miraculous given what he's been through over the last few years.
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