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DavidMn
06-24-2005, 02:46 PM
I was just wondering why Lindsey changed his look in '78. IE shave the beard, trim the hair. I've always heard that it was his response to the punk movement and that he wanted that new wave look. this true?
sodascouts
06-24-2005, 03:12 PM
I was just wondering why Lindsey changed his look in '78. IE shave the beard, trim the hair. I've always heard that it was his response to the punk movement and that he wanted that new wave look. this true?

I've alway suspected it, though Lindsey denies it. An interview from Musician Magazine in 1981:

MUSICIAN: Your stage demeanor has changed tremendously in the past five years. The guy with the peasant shirt and the beard and the curly hair of a few years ago hardly seems like the same person as the one on the Tusk tour, with the gray suit and short hair and the demonic stare fixed at the audience. Did that change come about as the result of any groups you'd seen or listened to?

BUCKINGHAM: No, absolutely not. I'm not even aware most times of what I'm doing when I'm up there doing that.

MUSICIAN: But what about the change in appearance?

BUCKINGHAM: Well, I decided to cut my hair long before everyone else did. It wasn't necessarily to look punk or anything. I was just tired of the beard, so I shaved it. Then the hair didn't look right without the beard, so I cut the hair. It's all been gradual. Found a couple of new clothes stores, started buying some new suits... As far as the movements, it's funny, because I used to do more of that when I was playing bass in Fritz. I think maybe when I first joined the band, it was such a new thing, and I wasn't sure of my role, I just sort of withdrew into the back. It's not something that wasn't there before, as far as the stage presence; it just wasn't coming out for a long time. It was sort of beaten back, I guess.

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Although I found this quote from the 2003 Mojo article interesting:

"But Buckingham was not for soothing. Engineer Ken Caillat, a Tusk co-producer and the boffin behind the DVD version due out early next year, still frowns on the guitarist’s contrariness: "He was a maniac. [...] Early on, he came in and he’d freaked out in the shower and cut off all his hair with nail scissors. He was stressed. And into sound destruction."
goldie
06-24-2005, 05:52 PM
He's a sexy beast to me any which way. :nod:
glitter_fades
06-24-2005, 09:53 PM
Lindsey changed his look in '78. IE shave the beard, trim the hair.

a dark day in my life :(
David
06-25-2005, 12:59 AM
I was just wondering why Lindsey changed his look in '78. IE shave the beard, trim the hair. I've always heard that it was his response to the punk movement and that he wanted that new wave look. this true?I think he just wanted a new look. That old folky hippie look served him for quite awhile.

His suit & cropped hair look for the start of the Tusk tour did sort of resemble the David Byrne thing. There may have been a conscious influence there.

It may have been purely aesthetic, too: the Turner looks better with the suit than it would have looked with the shaggy hair, beard & kimono. That latter look went better with the Les Paul.
Miss Vicky
06-25-2005, 01:10 AM
a dark day in my life :(

Agreed. :nod: (nevermind that it was a few years before my birth, but anyhoo...)


All those wonderful curls.....

just <b><i>gone</i></b>. :distress:
glitter_fades
06-25-2005, 01:27 AM
Agreed. :nod: (nevermind that it was a few years before my birth, but anyhoo...)



Showing my age. Yikes! :eek:
Miss Vicky
06-25-2005, 01:37 AM
Showing my age. Yikes! :eek:

Hey, I insist that I was born in the wrong friggin' generation. My parents generation got greats like Lindsey Buckingham, Tom Petty, Walter Egan, Warren Zevon, etc... My generation? F*cking Britney Spears. :distress: :eek:
shackin'up
06-25-2005, 07:54 AM
"He was a maniac. [...] Early on, he came in and he’d freaked out in the shower and cut off all his hair with nail scissors. He was stressed. And into sound destruction."

I'd LOVE it if the maniac is coming back the same way on his new solo-album OR/AND Mac-album....Shave of everything with a guitar-pick and back into sounddestruction.................
trackaghost
06-25-2005, 02:31 PM
I'm sorry but this is the best Lindsey look, thank god he cut that hair!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/trackaghost/LB1/LBuckK07.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/trackaghost/LB1/LBuckLive801.jpg
Miss Vicky
06-25-2005, 02:40 PM
I'm sorry but this is the best Lindsey look, thank god he cut that hair!



And I'm sorry but the "Tusk" look is the <i>only</i> Lindsey look that I don't like.

I'll even take the somewhat pudgy look of circa '82 over the gaunt and androgynous look of Tusk. :nod:

But we all have our opinions. :)
sodascouts
06-25-2005, 02:46 PM
This is the Lindsey that appears in the X-rated movies in my head:

http://www.buckinghamnicks.net/lb/images/LBuckRTB02.JPG
trackaghost
06-25-2005, 02:51 PM
And I'm sorry but the "Tusk" look is the <i>only</i> Lindsey look that I don't like.

I'll even take the somewhat pudgy look of circa '82 over the gaunt and androgynous look of Tusk. :nod:

But we all have our opinions. :)

Except of course that my opinion is right, so there!
You can have pudgy Mirage Lindsey then, but only the version in my avatar, aka Terrorist Lindsey.
amber
06-25-2005, 02:53 PM
Except of course that my opinion is right, so there!
You can have pudgy Mirage Lindsey then, but only the version in my avatar, aka Terrorist Lindsey.
So there? I don't care for Tusk Lindsey, either, although when I watch him live he does look better. It's mainly the eye makeup I don't like.
David
06-25-2005, 04:58 PM
So there? I don't care for Tusk Lindsey, either, although when I watch him live he does look better. It's mainly the eye makeup I don't like.But you can't just group all Tusk together. There were several different Tusk looks, particularly on tour. Which ones do you like, & which ones do you not like? I'd like to know, amber!
amber
06-25-2005, 05:06 PM
But you can't just group all Tusk together. There were several different Tusk looks, particularly on tour. Which ones do you like, & which ones do you not like? I'd like to know, amber!
eyeliner/eyemakeup - don't really like. No eyeliner eye makeup - those are ok. There. That should be easy.... :laugh:
wondergirl9847
06-25-2005, 05:13 PM
I love the Tusk eyeliner...but I'm weird that way. I love the Tango era too. I'm not a huge fan of the fro era, but some pics are hot. I don't like the Dance era pudge. :distress:
sodascouts
06-25-2005, 05:20 PM
Lindsey is hottest in the Tusk period when he has no eyemakeup, no New Wave suit, no clothes... oops, I mean regular clothes, tight T-shirts, jeans. Like he is in the documentary.

http://www.buckinghamnicks.net/lb/images/LBuckTV03.jpg
trackaghost
06-25-2005, 06:18 PM
Lindsey is hottest in the Tusk period when he has no eyemakeup, no New Wave suit, no clothes... oops, I mean regular clothes, tight T-shirts, jeans. Like he is in the documentary.

http://www.buckinghamnicks.net/lb/images/LBuckTV03.jpg

Oh yes, I am liking pink-shirt Lindsey too :nod:

And then there's the Going Home documentary featuring those Tusk outtakes with Lindsey on the floor in that pink shirt, recording I don't know what.... :shocked:
Miss Vicky
06-25-2005, 11:44 PM
I love the Tusk eyeliner...but I'm weird that way. I love the Tango era too. I'm not a huge fan of the fro era, but some pics are hot. I don't like the Dance era pudge. :distress:


I don't see why so many people say that Lindsey was pudgy during The Dance. In all of the pictures I've seen of him from that time he just looks healthy. Not fat and not thin. :shrug:
Miss Vicky
06-25-2005, 11:53 PM
But you can't just group all Tusk together. There were several different Tusk looks, particularly on tour. Which ones do you like, & which ones do you not like? I'd like to know, amber!

Several Tusk looks on tour? What the "gray suit look" and the "brown suit look"? :rolleyes: It's all the same to me: Gaunt and androgynous (read not attractive).

<font size="1">(I know this was directed at Amber, but I had to chime in anyway.)</font>
sodascouts
06-26-2005, 01:46 AM
Just remembered a REAL favorite but way-too-brief Tusk look:

http://www.buckinghamnicks.net/lb/images/LBuckCowboy.jpg
sodascouts
06-26-2005, 01:47 AM
Several Tusk looks on tour? What the "gray suit look" and the "brown suit look"? :rolleyes: It's all the same to me: Gaunt and androgynous (read not attractive).

<font size="1">(I know this was directed at Amber, but I had to chime in anyway.)</font>

Gray? Brown? Check this mofo out!

http://www.buckinghamnicks.net/lb/images/LBuckTC1.JPG
Mari
06-26-2005, 06:43 AM
Just remembered a REAL favorite but way-too-brief Tusk look:

http://www.buckinghamnicks.net/lb/images/LBuckCowboy.jpg

:blob2: :blob1: :blob2: :blob1: :blob2: :blob1: I LOVE THAT PICTURE!! :xoxo:
Mari
06-26-2005, 06:47 AM
oh well, if we're posting great lindsey pictures, here's one I have to show (I forgot the subject of this whole thread maybe :D )

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v470/voxincident/genius.jpg
trackaghost
06-26-2005, 09:06 AM
Several Tusk looks on tour? What the "gray suit look" and the "brown suit look"? :rolleyes: It's all the same to me: Gaunt and androgynous (read not attractive).

<font size="1">(I know this was directed at Amber, but I had to chime in anyway.)</font>

I really don't think he looked androgynous at all. Apart from the eye make-up (which many stage actors would wear), he's got really short hair and a smart suit on. It's not exactly glam or new romantic now is it?
I just think he looked exceptionally cool round that time. :shrug:
trackaghost
06-26-2005, 09:07 AM
Gray? Brown? Check this mofo out!

http://www.buckinghamnicks.net/lb/images/LBuckTC1.JPG

I love that pic!

Linds had more clothes/looks on the Tusk tour than he does these days (white shirt/blue jeans). :nod:
wondergirl9847
06-26-2005, 11:16 AM
Alright!! Sexy, Tusk era LB pics!!!! :blob2: You posted one of my fave pics, Nancy, that cowboy hat, good lawd!

I say pudgy, because compared to today, he was a little heavier...not huge or anything, just got a lil pudge goin' on.
David
06-26-2005, 11:22 AM
Just remembered a REAL favorite but way-too-brief Tusk look:

http://www.buckinghamnicks.net/lb/images/LBuckCowboy.jpgHollywood Bowl
Aug. 31/Sept. 1, 1980
"Camp Beverly Hills"
What a party! What a "World Turning"!
Mari
06-26-2005, 11:25 AM
Oh! It's color you want.. well ok...
David
06-26-2005, 11:39 AM
I love that pic!That white jacket made the rounds in Europe in the spring of 1980, like the June 12 Brussels show. Sometimes he wore a black undershirt with it, & sometimes a purple shirt with collar. I used to think Stevie wore all black only at the final show of the Tusk Tour, but as it turns out she also wore all black at that same Brussels show -- at least for "Rhiannon" & several other tunes. She still had her white "Edge of 17" cape for "Say You Love Me," "The Chain" & "Don't Stop."
David
06-26-2005, 11:41 AM
Oh! It's color you want.. well ok...Nice pics, Mari. Those first two are 1978 tour shots.
sodascouts
06-26-2005, 12:26 PM
Hollywood Bowl
Aug. 31/Sept. 1, 1980
"Camp Beverly Hills"
What a party! What a "World Turning"!

If only Lindsey had realized the way this look put women into a frenzy, perhaps he would have adopted it before the last shows!
AliP
06-26-2005, 02:36 PM
Tusk Lindsey is my absolute fave!!! I'm not too fond of the eyeliner, but those pics Mari posted are HOT!
wondergirl9847
06-26-2005, 03:33 PM
LOVE this photo. :nod:
Miss Vicky
06-26-2005, 09:15 PM
I say pudgy, because compared to today, he was a little heavier...not huge or anything, just got a lil pudge goin' on.

I guess I'm just a little biased towards the Dance era Lindsey, since that was when I fell in love with him. (drool)
Didn't know who the heck he was before that.
Nico
06-26-2005, 10:29 PM
I guess I'm just a little biased towards the Dance era Lindsey, since that was when I fell in love with him. (drool)
Didn't know who the heck he was before that.

Yes, I think he was very handsome in "the Dance" concert DVD. I like his style there. He looks normal sized to me, not pudgy at all. The first time I saw him was actually in the "Live in Boston" DVD and he's like thin, rugged, and older (but appearing many years younger) in that. But in "the Dance" he looks all classy and suave and the hair is sexy. He reminds me of my man in that vid! :xoxo:

The pictures of Lindsey during the "Tusk" period that are being posted are really too, too hot. I can't believe it. It's so out of my character to be so enamored by someone's looks. But I still love the music first and foremost of course.
DavidMn
06-27-2005, 10:40 AM
Hollywood Bowl
Aug. 31/Sept. 1, 1980
"Camp Beverly Hills"
What a party! What a "World Turning"!
Damn, I wouldve loved to be at those 2 shows. :( Oh well, It sucked to be 9 years old then I guess. LoL
sodascouts
06-27-2005, 12:28 PM
I guess I'm just a little biased towards the Dance era Lindsey, since that was when I fell in love with him. (drool)
Didn't know who the heck he was before that.

Same here. I remember just staring at the screen, watching him play "Go Insane," and just thinking he was one of the most attractive men I'd ever seen. Combine that with his talent (which is a part of the attractiveness in its own way) and who could resist?
Miss Vicky
06-27-2005, 01:20 PM
Same here. I remember just staring at the screen, watching him play "Go Insane," and just thinking he was one of the most attractive men I'd ever seen. Combine that with his talent (which is a part of the attractiveness in its own way) and who could resist?

His talent is a HUGE part of why I find him so attractive (although his gorgeous eyes, high cheekbones, and all those curls don't hurt anything). But of course, talent isn't everything. Otherwise I'd be having erotic dreams about Tom Petty... and <i>that</i> just ain't happening. :o :laugh: