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Review: Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie go their own way
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Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie, best known for their work with Fleetwood Mac.
FX JOHN BERRY/COURTESY PHOTO Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie, best known for their work with Fleetwood Mac.
By JIM HARRINGTON | jharrington@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: October 15, 2017 at 1:07 am | UPDATED: October 15, 2017 at 1:08 am
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Fleetwood Mac fans absolutely should go see Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie in concert.
The two Rock and Roll Hall of Famers are wonderful together onstage, combining forces for a show that is every bit as enjoyable as seeing them perform as part of Fleetwood Mac.

In fact, it might even be better than the Mac attack, in part because fans get to see the pair perform in intimate theaters and performing arts centers while Fleetwood Mac plays arenas, amphitheaters and even giant baseball stadiums.

The setting heavily factored into the equation when Buckingham and McVie visited downtown San Jose on Oct. 14, kicking off the second leg of their North American tour in support of the new album “Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie” at the City National Civic.



The two legendary performers sounded magical together, as they left their backing band offstage and opened the 90-minute show with a four-song acoustic set. Vocalist-guitarist Buckingham took the first number, coaxing out a starkly appealing take on “Trouble,” the first single from his 1981 solo debut, “Law and Order.”

Vocalist-keyboardist McVie followed with an even more striking “Wish You Were Here.” No, it wasn’t the Pink Floyd song – although, now that you mention it, I’d love to hear McVie tackle that as well. Rather, it’s the oft-overlooked gem that brings Fleetwood Mac’s “Mirage” (1982) to a close. And it’s likely never sounded better than it did on this night.

The four-song acoustic set – which would’ve worked wonderfully at one of Neil Young’s Bridge School Benefit concerts – came to close with another Buckingham solo cut, “Shut Us Down,” from his fourth solo album, 2006’s “Under the Skin.” Then the four-piece backing band, consisting of guitarist Neale Heywood, bassist Federico Pol, drummer Jimmy Paxson and multi-instrumentalist Brett Tuggle, joined the two stars onstage and shifted the focus squarely onto the new album.

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The segment opened – just like the album itself – with “Sleeping Around the Corner,” then continued to mimic the track listing with “Feel About You” and “In My World.” The spotlight on the new album finished, at least for the moment, with a bluesy, beat-happy take on “Too Far Gone.”

The new material sounded pretty good – and definitely stronger live than it does on record. But, of course, that’s not what the fans had primarily come out to hear. They wanted the Fleetwood Mac favorites.

And they’d get them.


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Lindsey still sounds great (and Christine sounds awesome as well).
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Buckingham and McVie definitely got the crowd into the game as they locked voices in impressive fashion on the “Mirage” hit “Hold Me” and “Little Lies,” the “Tango in the Night” (1987) single that still stands as the band’s most recent top 10 hit in the U.S. The group then knocked it right out of the park with the joyfully turbulent title track to 1979’s “Tusk.”

The Los Angeles-based Buckingham was the more talkative of the two onstage, making sure to let everyone know that he was glad to back in the Bay Area.

“This is pretty much a hometown crowd for me,” said Buckingham, who grew up about 20 miles north in Atherton. “I have lots of family here tonight – love you guys so much.”

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The band saved its best work for the end of the main set, charging through the charmingly romantic “You Make Loving Fun” and a powerful “Go Your Own Way.” Yet, nothing topped Buckingham’s fretboard fireworks that closed “So Afraid” and earned a standing ovation from the crowd.

Of course, this is a side project for the two performers, who plan to reunite with their fellow Fleetwood Mac members come spring and begin rehearsing for a massive world tour. Yet, it was good to learn that Buckingham and McVie want to keep making music as a duo as well.

“Hopefully, we are going to do this again down the line, because we’ve really found something new,” Buckingham said near the end of the show. “Thank you for being a part of it.”

Right back at you, Lindsey. It was our pleasure.
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