Globe and Mail (Canada) July 31, 1987
HEADLINE: RIFF RAP End near for Fleetwoood Mac
BYLINE: DEIRDRE KELLY; GAM
BODY:
"I HAVE ABSOLUTELY no interest in touring," said Lindsay Buckingham of
Fleetwood Mac . "I know some of the others want to, but for me it's out of
the question."
Buckingham, speaking from his home in Los Angeles, said the days of
Fleetwood Mac are nearing an end. Even with the current chart success of
Tango In The Night, Fleetwood Mac's first studio album in five years, it's
unlikely the band will tour in support of the LP.
If they don't, it will be the first time the band hasn't gone on the
road to support one of their albums.
"All of us are now doing projects of our own," he said. "I really don't
think any of us would be willing to go back in the studio and do another
album as a group."
Buckingham, a singer and songwriter, is currently working on a solo
album; drummer Mick Fleetwood is doing club tours with his band, the Zoo,
and singersongwriter-keyboardist Christine McVie is working on a second
solo album. Singer Stevie Nicks is planning to put out a fourth solo album
if the band doesn't tour, while John McVie is intending to make a solo
album next year. He's the only one in the group who hasn't.
Fleetwood Mac started as a blues-rock band 20 years ago. It emerged in
the 1970s to become one of the most popular pop-rock bands in the world.
Rumours, released in 1977, became one of the best-selling LPs of the so-
called easy-listening California sound.
Buckingham joined the band about 12 years ago with Stevie Nicks. He
said Rumours was a blessing and a curse. "It got so we couldn't play
anything but material from the Rumours album when we went on tour; it was
that popular. But then when we wanted to do something different we
couldn't. I think Tusk (the experimental album which followed Rumours) was
our way of rebelling aginst the notion that we should do anything
resembling a Rumours II album."
There was a three-year break between Tusk and Mirage, the last studio
album that came out in 1982. Buckingham said during that time Fleetwood
Mac was on the verge of disbanding. Preventing an actual split was the
group's desire to put out a last album that would do justice to their
timeless sound. "Tusk just wasn't the swan song we wanted."
Apparently, Mirage wasn't to be the band's last word either. Buckingham
said after five years of solo projects the group was ready to come back
into the studio, at least one more time. Asked if there might be another
so-called farewell album somewhere down the road, Buckingham said he
didn't think so. "I'm feeling very productive right now. I want to
continue to work on solo projects. That's what I'm pouring my energy
into."
|