The Buckingham McVie album! Out June 9th, 2017!!!

[elle]

you all should also read that Village Recorder article, lots of Lindsey and Christine snippets there too.

[lbfan]

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

Well, apart from Mick, they don't need the cash cow. They are stinking rich- never need to ever work ever again. They only need to do it for the love of making and playing music and that's what is so refreshing.

True, but they obviously all love Mick, and touring with Ms. Nicks helps the attendance ($). I think they all enjoy the perks fivesome tours bring - private jets, huge arenas, the adoring large crowds, etc.

[elle]

Originally Posted by lennonfan

Just saw this with a couple great pics...so they're calling it Buckingham McVie? I kinda like it!http://www.latimes.com/la-et-ms-vill...htmlstory.html

thanks! i didn't realize your link is also to Village Recorder article.

all i have to say is - FINALLY.

here's the other article, on Buck-McVie duet album http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...113-story.html -



Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham talk about making their first duet album

Although Mick Fleetwood and John McVie are also working on the album, it won’t be released as a Fleetwood Mac album. (Jan. 13, 2017)
Randall Roberts

Longtime devotees of the rock band Fleetwood Mac might be forgiven for letting out a gleeful yelp when registering the news that singer-keyboardist Christine McVie shared with The Times in December while sitting next to her band mate -- guitarist, singer and producer Lindsey Buckingham.

“I've been sending Lindsey demos in their very raw form,” she says, sitting in the Village Studio’s storied Studio D in West Los Angeles, “and he's been doing his Lindsey magic on them, which I love.”

The product of that magic is tentatively scheduled to come out in May, and the two are at the Village to work on vocals. Working with them are two familiar names: Mick Fleetwood, whose towering drum kit is in the next room, and bassist John McVie.

The album coming out of these sessions, however, won’t bear the Fleetwood Mac imprimatur.

Rather, the release with the working title “Buckingham McVie” will arrive as the first full-length collaboration between the pair.

For hard-core fans, it’s not news that, save band mate Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac’s members have been holed up at the Village. At various intervals over the past few years, the band has acknowledged working on an unspecified project thought to be a new Fleetwood Mac album.

In fact, during a studio visit in 2014, The Times’ Randy Lewis sat down with Christine McVie and Buckingham to discuss her return to touring after 16 years away from the band.

“I thought, I'm really missing out on something — something that's mine, that I’ve just given up,” she said to Lewis. “I'm not paying respect to my own gift."

Nearly three years later, sharing a couch in the same suite where decades earlier Fleetwood Mac recorded its epic album “Tusk,” Buckingham says that after her return, he and McVie generated an entire album’s worth of material during the sessions.

“We got in here, and it made sense to me with what she had given me and what I done with it. But we still didn't know how it was going to play out in the studio,” Buckingham says.

He quickly realized that he’d had a pent-up enthusiasm for this kind of collaboration. “I loved doing it, because it's something that I haven't had a chance to do for Stevie as much as I did in the past,” he says, stressing that he continues to compose for solo projects.

“Those are a little more esoteric and off to the side,” he says, “but that's not the same as doing it for somebody else.”

Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie in 2014 at West L.A.'s Village Studios.

McVie says she reconnected with Mick Fleetwood prior to joining the 2014 Fleetwood Mac “On With the Show” tour. She’d been living a solitary life in rural England when the drummer traveled to London in order to escort her to Hawaii, the destination she chose to help her overcome her fear of flying.

“I'd been virtually doing nothing in the country in 16 years of being a retired lady. Being busy walking my dogs — actually not doing anything very constructive,” she says. “I made one little solo album in my garage.” (2004’s “In the Meantime.”)

Buckingham remembers Fleetwood calling him soon thereafter. “He said, Christine's been over here and, you know, she would like to maybe rejoin the band." For Buckingham, it was a no-brainer.

McVie lets out a big laugh. “It’s unprecedented!”

“Yeah, but a lot of things about Fleetwood Mac are unprecedented,” says Buckingham. “I left for a long time and you guys got two guitar players and went ahead and did that for a while. Then I came back.”

“Weird times,” McVie says.

“Yeah,” Buckingham agrees. “I mean it's a band like no other.”

A better thing's never happened to me. I've reconnected with the band and found a fantastic person to write with.
— Christine McVie on her new collaboration with Lindsey Buckingham
McVie, who is best known for writing and singing Mac gems including “Don’t Stop,” “Over My Head” and “Think About Me,” acknowledges that, early on in the Buckingham-McVie project, she doubted her ability to reconnect with her muse.

“I suppose I wondered if I believed in myself,” she says. “But I was like, 'Go for it, Chris. Go for it.' And, you know, a better thing's never happened to me. I've reconnected with the band and found a fantastic person to write with.”

Looking at Buckingham, she adds, “We've always written well together, Lindsey and I, and this has just spiraled into something really amazing that we've done between us.”

For his part, Buckingham’s initial songwriting contributions were the product of sessions with Fleetwood and John McVie, which Buckingham invited Christine McVie to augment.

“It was just pieces with no wording,” she says. “ so I put melody and lyrics on some of his material.”

“That was a first,” says Buckingham. “She would write lyrics and maybe paraphrase the melody — and come up with something far better than what I would have done if I'd taken it down the road myself.”

All these years we've had this rapport, but we'd never really thought about doing a duet album before.
— Lindsey Buckingham
Those up on the history of Fleetwood Mac might note in the Buckingham McVie moniker the echo of an earlier duet album, “Buckingham Nicks.” Released in 1973 by the two future Fleetwood Mac members when they were a romantic and musical partnership, the Nicks and Buckingham release led Fleetwood a year later to invite the couple to join his band.

Nicks hasn’t contributed to the forthcoming Buckingham McVie project. She’s been on her own trip. In 2016, Nicks embarked on her “Rockin’ 24 Karat Gold Tour” with the Pretenders as openers. That tour will continue with a few dozen more dates across early 2017.

Her schedule, however, had little bearing on what Buckingham and McVie were creating, says Buckingham.

“All these years we've had this rapport, but we'd never really thought about doing a duet album before,” Buckingham says. “There is that album that I did with Stevie back before we joined the band, but other than that, it's all been Fleetwood Mac or solo.”

Interrupting with a tone of bafflement, McVie says, “And why on Earth? It seems absurd after 45 years.”

“Sometimes,” Buckingham says, “it takes, oh, about 40 years of perspective to figure it out.”

[FuzzyPlum]

Originally Posted by lbfan

True, but they obviously all love Mick, and touring with Ms. Nicks helps the attendance ($). I think they all enjoy the perks fivesome tours bring - private jets, huge arenas, the adoring large crowds, etc.

Oh yes, absolutely. That's why I think this album is quite bittersweet for them. Of course they are happy to get an album out and I'm sure proud of what they've created. They are probably quite frustrated its come to this though. Its certainly far from their chosen scenario.

I think Lindsey in particular has changed his attitude to the 'Big machine'. Though he obviously doesn't need the money I think it helps his ego within the context of his family. I'm sure he's proud his kids get to see their Dad as a huge star. I think that has as much to do with it as the money. Christine and John are just happy going with the flow.

[AlexD]

Stevie is too upset to record an album because there wasn't the "landslide" she predicted on November 8th

[elle]

another offshoot of the same article, with different title -and referring to FM as a non-producing mother-ship:

http://bestclassicbands.com/lindsey-...album-1-13-17/
NEWS PLUS: THIS JUST IN!
Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie Album Due
by Best Classic Bands Staff


BFF’s McVie and Buckingham on the cover of 1982’s Mirage

Fleetwood Mac fans eager for a follow-up to 2003’s Say You Will will have to make due with the news today of the unlikely pairing of members Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie. In an interview published in the January 13 Los Angeles Times, the pair revealed that they are collaborating on a studio album with the rather ordinary working title, Buckingham McVie. The paper says it’s expected in May.

And to further tease Mac fans, two of the quintet’s other members–the band’s namesakes, in fact–Mick Fleetwood and John McVie are participating in the project. That leaves one Stevie Nicks as the sole member of the band who’s not involved.

After her return to the band, following a long (1998-2004) hiatus, McVie and Buckingham began collaborating. McVie tells the Times: “We’ve always written well together, Lindsey and I, and this has just spiraled into something really amazing that we’ve done between us.”

Watch the band perform at her first concert back, September 30, 2014

Buckingham had apparently been noodling around with various songs. “It was just pieces with no wording,” McVie says. “So I put melody and lyrics on some of his material.”

“That was a first,” says Buckingham. “She would write lyrics and maybe paraphrase the melody — and come up with something far better than what I would have done if I’d taken it down the road myself.”

For Fleetwood Mac, McVie penned the classic rock hits “You Make Loving Fun,” “Don’t Stop” and “Think About Me” and co-wrote “Hold Me.” Buckingham wrote “Go Your Own Way,” “Second Hand News” and “Tusk.”

1973’s Buckingham Nicks album is long out-of-print

The collaboration’s working title is reminiscent of a 1973 release from Buckingham Nicks. Though a commercial flop, the two were subsequently invited to join Fleetwood Mac in 1975.

Related: The story of Fleetwood Mac’s “Tusk”

Of the new work, Buckingham says: “All these years we’ve had this rapport, but we’d never really that about doing a duet album before.”

As for “the mother ship,” for those keeping score at home: since 1990’s Behind the Mask–a span of 27 years–the group has released a whopping two studio albums.

[elle]

and Billboard's take -

http://www.billboard.com/articles/co...source=twitter

Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac to Release First Full-Length Duet Album
1/13/2017 by Lyndsey Havens

Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriters Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham have a long and winding shared history, much of which will be chronicled on the pair's upcoming duet album, tentatively titled Buckingham McVie.

“All these years we've had this rapport, but we'd never really thought about doing a duet album before,” Buckingham told the Los Angeles Times. “There is that album that I did with Stevie back before we joined the band [1973's Buckingham Nicks], but other than that, it's all been Fleetwood Mac or solo.”

While the album will exist as a separate entity from Fleetwood Mac, that hasn't prevented the rock band's drummer, Mick Fleetwood, and bassist, John McVie, from assisting in the studio, Los Angeles' Village, where the iconic Tusk was recorded in the late '70s. Stevie Nicks has not contributed, though, as she has been on her own solo tour -- Rockin’ 24 Karat Gold Tour -- with opening act the Pretenders, which extends into 2017.

Aside from Buckingham McVie being the first duet album to arrive from current Fleetwood Mac members, it will also mark McVie's return to music after over a decade of stepping back from the band.

“I suppose I wondered if I believed in myself,” she said. “But I was like, 'Go for it, Chris. Go for it.' And, you know, a better thing's never happened to me. I've reconnected with the band, and found a fantastic person to write with. We've always written well together, Lindsey and I, and this has just spiraled into something really amazing that we've done between us.”

While there is no release date set for Buckingham McVie, it could arrive as early as May this year.

[Jondalar]

The album is going to be great and once again, they will prove they don't need her.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

Make no mistake...this is a Fleetwood Mac album. They've spent the last 3 years making it and have spent the whole time trying to convince Stevie to participate. The initial 7 songs were Mick John and Lindsey and it sounds as if the recent recording was MJL&C. If they'd been successful and encouraged Stevie to participate do you really think the album would have other musicians?

As somebody else has said it is probably more likely a contractual issue. They are signed up for a world tour as a 5 piece. If they release a Fleetwood Mac album now the'll have to tour it. Promoters probably wouldn't allow them to tour as a 4 piece band ahead of the full world tour.

Yep.

And I think it's quite interesting that they talk about how Christine came in and put lyrics and melody onto a number of his musical tracks. That's always Stevie's forte---given that she's not a strong musical composer-- taking someone's track and putting words and melody to it. "He never did that with me!!!" a la World Turning.....

also, when did her tour become "Rockin'" 24k gold?? Did I miss the "rockin'" title somewhere along the road? Oy.

[elle]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

Yep.

And I think it's quite interesting that they talk about how Christine came in and put lyrics and melody onto a number of his musical tracks. That's always Stevie's forte---given that she's not a strong musical composer-- taking someone's track and putting words and melody to it. "He never did that with me!!!" a la World Turning.....

also, when did her tour become "Rockin'" 24k gold?? Did I miss the "rockin'" title somewhere along the road? Oy.

lol. somebody watched too much of rockin' new year's eve maybe?

although i'd say Chrissie is definitely rockin' though.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

And I think it's quite interesting that they talk about how Christine came in and put lyrics and melody onto a number of his musical tracks. That's always Stevie's forte---given that she's not a strong musical composer-- taking someone's track and putting words and melody to it. "He never did that with me!!!" a la World Turning.....

Not for lack of trying. He wrote that music specifically for Stevie back in 2012.

[elle]

Originally Posted by lbfan

True, but they obviously all love Mick, and touring with Ms. Nicks helps the attendance ($). I think they all enjoy the perks fivesome tours bring - private jets, huge arenas, the adoring large crowds, etc.

yeah...

also, not calling this incarnation Fleetwood Mac (however much that's just plain inaccurate) frees them from any commercial obligations or expectations for the album and the tour. this is a purely artistic outfit now.

while the band that is now called Fleetwood Mac has been turned into just a non-creative moneymaking oldtimers touring machine. which sullies Fleetwood Mac name somewhat but whatever.

[SteveMacD]

I wonder how much Christine and Lindsey have left in their creative tanks. If it's only this album, and not calling it Fleetwood Mac doesn't rock the boat as far as Stevie is concerned, which gets them across the finish line with the classic lineup in tact, then I get why they're not calling it Fleetwood Mac.

However, if there is a future with this, if there are several albums in them, then have Fleetwood Mac go out as creative entity. That's what people will remember.

[olive]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

IThat's what people will remember.

No.

They will remember exactly what it is they remember now... Dreams Rhiannon Sara and Landslide

[elle]

Originally Posted by olive

Dreams Rhiannon Sara and Landslide

or Don't Stop, Everywhere and Little Lies.

or Go Your Own Way and Second Hand News.

or all of the above.

they will also remember that band stopped being relevant and maybe that they in fact never created much music. that's what Steve is saying. they could have stayed relevant instead of just being an oldies band.

now Christine and Lindsey will stay artistically relevant but not Fleetwood Mac moniker. but it is what it is. the alternative was apparently no new music period.