solo album April 2018!
 

from our own button_lip:

I just heard Lindsey’s solo album will be released in April. How come they have that kind of info here in Argentina?

— Ana (@button_lip) January 15, 2018

seems legit to me - that's been a pattern with LB news - some radio dj or some promoter always leaks the info randomly, about a month before we get any real confirmation. Ana heard this info from the radio station she listens to in Argentina, and they confirmed it when she asked them on twitter.

What sort of time-frames do you think he'll be looking at tour-wise? How long after their release did he tour for UTS, GOS and SWS and how long did they last?

UTS and GOS he toured right when the album was released or a few days before. there's that recording from one of his first tour dates where he says something like "and the album..... [somebody yells tuesday!}..... is not out yet?! tuesday? yes right, will be out tuesday."

so i'm hoping he'll do apr-may tour.

unless he has some better ideas. as long as he tours this year solo, i'm good. :]:]

Past CD Release Dates and Touring Starts
 

Elle is correct:
Under The Skin, CD Released October 3, 2006, Touring Start October 6, 2006 (88 dates through June 30, 2007)

Gift of Screws, CD Released September 16, 2008, Touring Start September 7, 2008 (28 dates through October 19, 2008)

Seeds We Sow, CD Released September 5, 2011, Touring Start September 10, 2011 (39 dates through November 14, 2011; Nine (9) dates cancelled in the UK due to Neale Heywood’s Back surgery)

I have to confess I gave a sigh of relief after I heard the news today. I was afraid Mick and Stevie would force him to go on with the FM tour and postpone his own album/tour. :mad::mad:

Now I'm happy! :]:]

First it was January, then March, now April. I could understand delays like this if the album was partially completed, but the album was supposedly done last Summer, albeit for one additional track.
Yes, Lindsey takes his time, and, yes, he could have added some new material, but I won't be 100% comfortable about this happening until we have a title and street date. Both Atlantic and Azoff Management have been less than forthcoming with any info.

pretty sure album is completed. in recent times, it had nothing to do with Lindsey taking time or album not being done, but the record company or other issues related to actual release.

remember, Seeds were done at the end of 2010, he did live show and played 6 new songs in april 2011 and album came out in sept 2011. BuckVie was done at the end of 2016 and came out in jun 2017. so if this album was finished at the end of 2017, release in mar or apr fits the pattern (or is faster than the other too). jan and mar came straight from Lindsey's mouth, this is the first outside source. wasn't there some upcoming albums list people used to check where you can see what's expected to come out in the next few months? can somebody check that?

but i'm with you, i'll believe is when i see it! still, i was relieved to see this, i think it's a very positive indication!

I assume they want to announce the album and the tour together. So I’d guess in Feb we’ll hear about both.

found by One of our members on http://pauseandplay.com/ on this page for "more upcoming releases" meaning after March 2018 http://www.pauseandplay.com/news/mor...ming-releases/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/8972...9176485530173/

Lindsey Buckingham -- title TBA -- Atlantic (2018)

I work very closely with Gerry and P&P....this is from a few months ago. Still trying to get more current info, but as I said earlier, neither Atlantic or Azoff Management have been very forthcoming.

I'm concerned about how little info there is, but I guess I should try to keep positive - this album WILL materialize sooner rather than later! I'll just keep saying that!

Still, he needs to announce his tour dates before Fleetwood Mac announces theirs. I have a concert budget to plan, and I need to see how many of his dates I'm going to be able to go to.

Right now, I would happy with just an album title!

ICE Magazine :thumbsup:

just annoyed that we are not hearing anything about this new album yet... was hoping Sirius FM channel will start and we may get some new interview with LB where he'll give us some indication of his plans - since there were pics of Mick and Lindsey visiting Sirius while they were in NYC for Grammy week / MusiCares. but we didn't even get that channel launches as promised, let alone any info.

The fact that there was nothing tied into all the MusiCares press, which would have been the perfect springboard, doesn't bode well.

Nooo! I need something to motivate me for Spring semester! David Byrne can only do so much for me. LB for sure makes better albums. From what I've heard of Byrne solo, I only like a few songs and the rest are interesting. At least w/ LB, the album is usually enjoyable and interesting!

Well, someone who's been a reliable source in the past just told me the album's been shelved for now.
I'll wait until I see a second source confirming that, but I tend to believe it!

:distress: anything else? any reasoning why?

we know the album is basically done. and that he has a label. shades of GOS ...............................................

My source wouldn't say anything more, but it almost sounded like it did have something to do with the Fleetwood Mac tour...maybe (another) new Greatest Hits?
Going to try to get confirmation from Azoff Management, but getting an answer from them is like pulling teeth!!

Yes... I'm thinking some new music from the 5.

Why would he need to shelve his solo album for a new GH album?

My guess is he’s waiting to see if the songs would work better as part of another LBCM album.

His "new" album won't be out until next year. There is some kind of greatest hits package coming out. I don't think the FM tour is set in stone yet. Looks like it was in the works. Not sure now.
LB wants to tour solo but I think the FM tour would be finalized first. Once again not sure what's going on with the FM tour.:shrug: I doubt the FM would start before August.
There is some kind of issue going on. Not sure what the issue is but once again this is Fleetwood Mac and it's always "complicated"

Speculating/opinion time:

Really? Geez. If the LB Greatest Hits is the case, then I hope the unreleased Gift of Screws Rolling Stones covers and other song demos from that time are on it but they're re-done or polished up. I really like the FM Deluxe releases, but I have no idea if LB can warrant that treatment or really wants it.

I don't know how I feel about his solo album being shelved into next year. He probably would make a lot more money collaborating with Christine again or doing a farewell FM album. Like, 5 songs from LB, 5 from CM, and 3 demos that are re-done or songs from Stevie. Then, LB can put the last 5 songs for another LB/CM or just distribute them into more solo albums.

Is it wrong of me to just want FM to stop touring after this one, unless the next one actually produces a final album? I don't know about John's health and unfortunately time is not on Christine's side.

This band's drama is so meme-worthy.

A Greatest Hits from Lindsey seems kind of silly.....other than "Trouble", "Go Insane" and "Holiday Road", what could they really include?
I guess you could call it a Best Of or a Retrospective, and flesh it out with tracks from his other albums, but that just seems like a stalling technique.
And he seemed so thrilled about this album last summer....!!!🙄

thanks so much for the update, this is not exactly good news but who knows maybe something great will come of it! :wavey:

i wish FM would stop touring right now! the time is not on any of their sides, and wasting Lindsey and Christine's productive time and health on another huge GH Mac tour is silly. i understand the fans who never saw them live - but hey, they can do some one-offs here and there (5 shows in LA Forum or something?) and not kill the whole years with those never ending cash grabs! if Mick couldn't hold to his money by now, another cashgrab tour will not help him, he'll be right back where he started after it is done again. plus the market is currently saturated with all the other dinosaur bands selling hugely expensive tickets for their farewell tours, Mac is coming in too late for this and next year anyway.

WelshWitch can correct me, but i believe he said Best Of not the GH. his GH is not anything that would make me happy. but his Best Of has a potential to be fantastic and there are all those amazing songs he never did live or maybe did just once that could see the light of the day if he selects them for the album and tours them. so after being initially hugely unhappy about this turn of events (almost looks like labels always spell some kind of trouble for LB :distress:), i can see the upside if he selects the right songs. for years now i've had a huge list of his solo stuff (+ some Tusk and SYW songs) that i would LOVE to hear live and the list keeps growing as he releases new songs. why not highlight those amazing songs? Rodeo. To Try for the Sun. Twist of Fate. Gift of Screws. Red Rover. Rock Away Blind. he's gotta huge list of fantastic but relatively or completely unknown songs that deserve to be heard. :thumbsup:

oh and i will live in hope he may put a couple of completely new songs on that Best Of album too.

Maybe another post 74 Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits album with two to four new Mac tracks with a re-tweaked couple of them coming from the shelved Lindsey album..

Not great, but, possible..

If it's ANOTHER fleetwood mac greatest hits - no comment.
If it's an LB greatest hits - I can see why they want to do it.

I cannot see the justification for a FM greatest hits. It's not like they are going to put any of the SYW singles on it. It will be the 2004 set re-shuffled.

I could live with just a couple of shows in The Forum and/or MSG. That's enough for me. Besides, if they're all on such bad terms, a long fake tour, with fake hugs and fake compliments (and fake sentimental stories) won't do any good to any of us (and to any of them either). Do it quickly and move on to the real thing: BuckVie 2 and Lindsey's solo tour.

I also wouldn't mind a Best Of albums. I never see Lindsey on a solo tour, and I love all his work, so he can sing anything to me and I will be happy. :]:]:thumbsup:

Lindsey shelving an album bodes well for an FM tour - there's really no other reason for him to delay a release and solo tour, assuming he is in good health. These Fleetwood Mac tours take months to plan, to line up venues, to get everything arranged. Lots of money is involved. It would have to be something catastrophic to have all those plans cancelled. Hopefully whatever is going on per WelshWitchPMD's source is not catastrophic.

I've never seen FM live, and I don't want to be tempted to pay as much as I did for BuckVie to get not nearly as good seats for FM. Unless FM can get their stuff together for a new album or he finally changes up what he wears on stage every once in a while, I don't want to pay up the nose.

lol, about Mick. Does his accountant suck or does he just flat out ignore that person?

I consider Greatest Hits and Best of to be the same, since they're both compilations. I get what you're saying though on that they're actually different.

Hi Soda! Even though we may not agree on wanting the FM tour or not, I really appreciate your take on it. As much as I don't want an FM tour because of the cost, LB makes way more money on it, which allows him to be ok with solo tours and albums and do the project with Christine. If he had enough money, why would he continue to work with FM or is the relationship between all of them not as bad as we perceive it to be?

Was Lindsey playing up the release of a new "pop" sounding album a way to put some kind of pressure on the other Macsters (i.e., Stevie)?

I do agree his new found poppy state of mind is a ploy to lure Stevie into the studio. She hates when he gets "weird". I like a mixture of both.

According to Mick, he hears what they say and when it includes "stop spending so much" he ignores them. e.g., the Rolex story.:eek:

Pop Sound
 

I don’t think Lindsey recording a “pop” album was an attempt to lure Stevie into the studio. Per previous interviews, Lindsey announced that he would be releasing a “best of” and had already recorded an album that would be released in March. He said, when asked, that it was a pop album. Was the recorded pop sound intentional, subliminal, or by chance? Who knows. Since March has all but come and gone, there has been a lot of fan speculation. My personal opinion is that Warner liked the sound of Buckingham McVie and the new solo album and are now trying to manipulate that into an FM album. To me, Lindsey’s songs generally sound the same whether on an FM album, solo or Buckingham McVie. His greatest contribution has always been the impact that he has on the other songwriter’s songs. While that studio time may be painful for other band members, the success of FM in the Buckingham Nicks era is indisputable.

I think "pop" in Lindsey's mind is like Seeds we Sow.

But when the other half of that successful team that joined the band 42 years ago doesn't want to do another album just out of spite , and the band founders support that idea just to please her, instead of trying to convince her, then you know that that band is done. And they should stop touring and they should go their separate ways instead of staying together just to hurt each other while cashing astronomical tickets for the same tour they have been doing for the past 15 years. :wavey:

not exactly coming out in april - but he's finishing the album, he's been working with Mark Needham on mixing it just last week -

Yes, I did this interview last week :-) I'm glad you enjoyed it!

— Mark Needham (@markneedhamusic) April 3, 2018

News!
 

Elle, thank you for posting! This is the first real news we have had in about six months. It sounds like the solo CD will be finalized soon. Hopefully a June release followed by a tour.

This is an interesting Podcast. Lindsey comes up at the beginning (there is no “box” around Lindsey’s creativity) and towards the end (discussing remote versus in person interaction with artists). Lindsey was mentioned as one of the few artists that is intimately involved in the mixing. Needham mentioned that even bands in LA won’t drive across town, but will correspond by e-mail and Skype to select different sound/mixes.

I didn't hear anything about him currently mixing an LB album.

Working with Mark Needham
 

At the 8:37 mark “he was in here yesterday.” At the 42:47 mark “... (I have) just been working on this solo album with Lindsey...”