Tusk is coming out on DVD Audio, LB's next solo album, etc.
 

Saw this link on Burnish - thanks, Tracy!!

Rocky Mountain News

Am I the only one who interpreted this interview as him saying that a new FM album will probably never happen?

Someone please tell me I'm wrong! :distress:

I think what he means is it would be pointless to tour next summer, without a new album to promote - and it's unlikely that they'll go into the studio this fall, and have an album completed in time to release in the spring.

I think some of this was the reporters words:

Sunday's show will probably be the last around here for a long time, maybe the last ever.

Lindsey didn't say that the reporter did. I think Lindsey feels if they don't go back into the studio this fall there's no sense in them touring next year, that doesn't mean he's closed off to them doing another FM project down the road. If they don't go back this fall and Lindsey does get some solo things out there, we're probably looking at a longer wait for a new FM cd and tour.

That's my interpretation of it. Of course there could be things he said to the reporter that didn't make it into the article and that might paint a gloomier picture and account for the reporter using the word ever

And then again, he opens all doors again with the last sentence. :eek:

I read something else in here: managers are pushing to extend the tour and not go for a a money-sucking studio-album now. And hey! Surprise: Our man does NOT think that's a good idea and the man uses the media to slip that out.... so I read bandpolitics again....

Who knows how recent this interivew even was? It says he was in his home studio. As far as the not touring thing, I suspect that may have been done to pump up the show, as it didn't originally sell all that well here. I wonder if House Of Blues papered this show?

He was just home on 6/18 for almost a week so it could have been very recent. It seems to mirror an interview from a few weeks ago.

To be honest, at this point, I just want a new Lindsey album. If that means there isn't another Mac album for ten years, so be it. :wavey:

I'm disappointed to read that Lindsey isn't thinking in terms of Fleetwood Mac for his new material... I thought he had pretty much concluded that there wasn't enough of an audience for his solo work and his songs were best heard in the context of the band.

Not to put to fine a point on it, but Fleetwood Mac are getting old. They can't afford to wait another 5 or 6 years to make another record.

Amen!


-Curtis

If LB and Stevie both put out solo albums and they both tour - that's just double the fun, imo!! :D

As much as I want a new Mac album, it might be nice for both Lindsey and Stevie to stretch their solo wings again, before reconvening with Fleetwood Mac.

I know some disagree, but I still think that both Lindsey and Stevie have certain types of songs that are best-suited for their solo albums (though that line has been blurred even more these days, with the inclusion of "Running Through The Garden," "Murrow," "Illume" and "Come" on 'SYW')... and I'm sure they have a desire to continue with those areas of expression.

Going back and forth between their solo careers and Fleetwood Mac, they can have the best of both worlds. :)
Let's just hope it doesn't take them forever to come back to The Mac!

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

newp..
 

I take his comments to mean he doesnt see any point in touring next summer without a new album to promote. He seems to be saying, beneath the lines, that there are people, maybe managers or label people, who want them to keep touring and touring. He does not want to do that without having a new album to promote. He does pretty much say that it is not looking like all the band members want to jump right back into another FM album, which bums me out, but we do know they have one more in their contract, so hopefully we will get one in the next few years.

LOL LOL!!!! :D
My thoughts exactly!!

Eh...

It'd be fine with me if Lindsey and Stevie just did solo albums and never did another FM album. I'm sure Stevie will be coming out with another one in the next year or two, and I'm anxious to hear it. As for Lindsey...I'd love to hear an album from him, too, but I don't know that I'd expect it before Stevie does hers. I hope we get to hear them both soon, though.

I want them to just do Fleetwood Mac, but they just can't agree on when to go back into the studio.

Notice the difference in tone. This is a very recent interview, a conclusion to which you can arrive by using your powers of deduction. Lindsey went home for a few days, worked on some new material and did an interview or two.

Though he is very diplomatic, bless him, he seems to be souring on the Fleetwood Mac thing again. Either that or disagreements with other band members about the next step have made him change his tune. Keep in mind that while after the release of SYW he was talking in terms of doing another FM record, Stevie was not. She seemed to hint at wanting to make another solo album and left a question mark about another FM record, if I recall correctly.

Now Lindsey has written a lot of new material and he wants to release it. Of course we must take his sense of urgency with a grain of salt, but I suspect something has happened to change his mind about doing another FM record as opposed to a solo album. He has even revealed more about the reconvening of the band for The Dance than ever before. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this account of a dinner meeting at which he was talked into doing The Dance is a new revelation. Previously there has been some vague talk of it happening spontaneously.

If he is serious about a solo album, he should get it out in a hurry. He already has a bunch of songs he could use, and for new stuff, he should use the approach he took on Love Minus Zero/No Limit. Though it sounds like big production, the song is actually rather simple in comparison to a lot of other stuff on the record. At most there are two guitars, but it might even be just one.

Get your guitar out, Lindsey, put the songs together and get them out there. We'll listen.

"Being someone who thinks of sound in terms of images, it's almost like slopping paint on a canvas."

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGHHH!!!!! SHUT UP about the PAINT thing already!!

but the rest of the interview is a nice read;)

But then about three months ago, one of our local pop/rock radio stations, during its "VH1 Music-News Minute" segment, played a new interview with Stevie where she said they've been having a lot of fun on the road, and she's looking forward to doing a new Mac album "when everyone is ready."

So maybe her early trepidation was based on concerns of whether or not they'd get along during the course of the tour, and that trepidation then subsided as the tour progressed... leaving her optimistic about the future of Fleetwood Mac?

And (and this isn't necessarily directed at what you said, Carne, but just in general) I still didn't take Lindsey's comments to be somehow negative towards Fleetwood Mac, or the idea of them working together again.

All he said was that, in his opinion, they couldn't continue to tour every summer (since we have to keep in mind that this is the second summer in a row that they've toured), unless they record another new album... otherwise it would look like it's just for the money.
So he's saying that, unless by some chance they'd manage to all get in a recording studio this fall and complete an album in time, they won't be touring next summer.
It was the journalist's assumption that this could be the "last ever" tour.

But who knows what's going on with them. :shrug:

I agree. To me, it seems that he would be very interested in starting a new FM album in the fall. However, I get the feeling that is not what the other members want to do. It has to be Stevie, which is surprising because she always said that FM came first and now with only two writers in the band she has more room to put her songs out. It can't be Mick and John, what else do they have to do besides another FM album?

From Mark Brown, author of the article in an email to me:

"I can't remember the exact date, but it was about four weeks ago, I believe. It was before this leg of the tour.
I may have more notes about the solo stuff that didn't make it into the article. He did sound very serious about getting it out, and specifically mentioned touring in the spring of '05."

:wavey:

Did I ever tell you you're my hero? :laugh:

Thanks, darling! Cross your fingers everyone!

Thanks much!!!!!!
 

My thoughts exactly Christy!!

ITA - bless his vociferous heart :laugh: - between that metaphor and the self-portrait he paints ( sorry :laugh: ) of the long suffering always unwillingly intervened on solo artist . . . :cool:

but, maybe this time he will find an outlet to release his solo work before Stevie and the gang form an imposing caring circle around him that winds up with in another FM record after Stevie's next two solo records.

Alas, such is FM and I LOVE them for it :laugh:

If he's thinking 2005, he must be planning to release the GOS leftovers. Really, he could do that and add a two or three new tunes. The other new stuff could be shelved for an FM release in a couple of years.

As much as I want to get excited about this, I will refrain. This is Lindsey we're talking about.

Mark Brown is going to share some more of his Lindsey interview with us:

"I had a fairly long talk with Lindsey (45 mins; these days you're lucky to get 15 with anyone) and there's a bit of stuff that didn't make it into the paper. I don't think I'm going to be at my computer with the Lindsey transcript till Tuesday, and it'll take a day or two to consolidate some info, but I'd be happy to pass on the info that expands on what made it in the paper. I can also dig up the actual date of the interview.

If you don't hear from me by thursday, email me again and I'll get to it. If you want to post it, that'd be great; I don't think I can stand registering myself as a poster on yet another board!"

Thanks, Chris! Can't wait to read the rest of the transcript :nod:

That's great! Thanks for contacting him so all of us can benefit!

Patti

Happy to be of service. :wavey:

Thanks!!
 

Spring 2005!
 

Although at age 35 I often find myself wishing that time would slow down, I am suddenly anxious for the Spring of 2005!!!!!!! And I can't wait to read more of the interview!

From the article:

"Such revisions of the back catalog are difficult because "we are not a group that gets in a room and sits and hangs out," he says. "There's a kind of an all-over-town, managers-talking-to-managers aspect, which has its downside."


Does "group" refer to the band, or to other entities that have ownership or an interest in the back catalog? If he's referring to the band, is it because they can't made these kind of decisions on their own (i.e., managers have to be involved) or because these five people can't communicated without intermediaries? Also, if he's referring to the band it seems sad to me that they don't "hang out" together!

Don't be foolish! :) In Lindsey time, that means 2008.

I wouldn't get too excited if I were you.

LOL - AND Stevie and the gang will once again hijacked it :laugh:

Hopefully...
 

Linds' won't be going the way of W.Axl Rose & co. and make the fans believe the newest studio release is fast approaching when it is nowhere to be found in the stores (Only been 13 years since the last Guns N Roses studio release and still no "official" release date in site...And still waiting.)

I never do, but this time I take lindsey's plans serious ....he wants to model the iron while it's still hot now....he knows that a solo-album will never appear on a major label if he takes a lot of time now...so yes GOS plus some new gems he's fond of now....can see the light in februari. Why not.

I think that's exactly what he means because he has expressed this view numerous times since the "Gang of Four" began.

The rest of the interview
 

Thanks to Mark Brown for the rest of his interview with Lindsey! :woohoo:

In no particular order, here's some stuff from my Lindsey Buckingham interview that didn't make it into the paper (or expanded versions of what made it).



He was calling from his new studio in his house - he built a new house on the same lot he has lived on for 29 years.



On the new Live in Boston DVD:

"It's something I'm extremely proud of. The only real thing we have documenting our playing in any extensive form was The Dance, and that was a slick, more TV-esque thing. There's something about the way the band is now. We're rocking a lot more. It's really something I'm happy to have for posterity. It's a very impressive thing."



The upcoming solo Soundstage appearance:

"The other thing that I did was just a normal Soundstage show in his normal studio setting. Stevie came on for two songs. Special guest."



Solo album:

"I am actually planning on putting out a solo album when we get done with this leg of the tour. I'll probably spend a couple of months working on some new songs again. I have tons of new material now. I hadn't written anything in about three years. Suddenly about 8 months ago it started to flood in."



He'd stopped writing because "there was very little reason for me to have the energy or desire to write while we were working on Say You Will. I was slogging away on a daily basis on Stevie's material in a house. My process was such that my time was being used up in a different way. It was only when we kinda got all that past us and saw that it was going well and we'd been on the road a while that I felt like there was nothing in front of me I needed to deal with. At that point I started to write again."



Inspiration "comes and it goes. I wondered for a long time when I hadn't written in a while .... I wondered if I had dried up and if I'd ever have another idea. Suddenly it all floated in, so it's reassuring. It's so tied to the process of recording."



"I imagine it's like a painter who's on a roll, who can't wait to get out and start slapping the cans of paint down."



He'd considered doing a version of Trouble with FM on this tour. I suggested You Do Or You Don't might be a better fit. He got enthused and said "Interesting. You've just given me an idea." Obviously, neither song ever made the setlist.



Reissues:

Which is the definitive Rumours?

"Oh God. You have to go with the original, don't you?

"I'm torn there. On one hand, you have to assume the album, the way it was made, in that time, in that moment, in that context, there's a reason you put it out the way you did. If there's a song like Never Going Back that has brushes on it, there was obviously a reason you didn't put the brushes on."



He added the bonus tracks because "it's extra information that's worthy of being heard and may fill out the picture of the process, but it doesn't necessarily dignify the decisions that were ultimately made."

Being someone who thinks of sound in terms of images it's almost like shopping paint on a canvas. I'm enamored with the spaciality of whatever the word is of being able to take something that was locked into stereo imaging and have it thrown all over. You're inside the construction of it. My wish would be that had been the state of the art at that time."



"On Tusk I've not even heard the 5.1 mix (yet). Ken did such a fine job on Rumours, somehow I was not able to get down and approve it. Mick went down and said how amazing Tusk sounds in 5.1. Rumors I wouldn't have assumed lent itself to that kind of approach. I have to say ... I was quite taken with how well it came across."



Possible DVD showing the band's history, like Led Zeppelin did last year?

"That's a good question. Mick and I talk about how one of the peculiarities of Fleetwood Mac. We are not a group that gets in a room and sits and hangs out. There's a kind of an all over town, managers talking to managers aspect, which has its downside."



"As successful a group as we've been, Mick would say that we have not taken the elements we have and exploited them. It probably could be done if we were thinking along those liens. That's probably more a product of just the inertia - the stop and start kind of ailment that the band seems to have going."



"We talk about that more and more and how interesting that would be to cull any number of things that have been around for a while ... and see what can be done with them to make an overall picture."



In the meantime there's the documentary on VH1.

"I highly recommend that. It's fascinating."



Solo album again:

"Stevie's tired and wants to take some time off. I'm way more positioned to put out a solo album now."



He plans to take his family on vacation before kindergarten starts at the end of August, then spend two to three months finishing off solo album for release after the first of the year. He wants to tour in the spring.



"If next year's tour comes together, it'll be very minimalist, like the Soundstage recording he did with Stevie this year.

"One of the things fun about doing Soundstage that I did myself was when I did that Coach House show, that was like the embodiment of an idea I'd had for a long time."

Having all those guitars and that orchestration. When I did Soundstage, I tried to go the opposite way and go with as little as I could."

It's guitars with keyboard samples from his work.

"It's a very interesting format. There's no bass. Just a couple of guitars and a percussion guy and the guy with the keyboard. It was kinda like this weird folk group with samples. I hope a lot of people get to see that. If I go out on the road in the spring, that would be the format that I would take out."



Has he ever worried about sounding too much like Fleetwood Mac, too caught up in a signature sound? U2 has worried about that.

"I don't think there's anything wrong with sounding like yourself. I can only assume if U2 said that ... that it was maybe repetitive, too derivative of something they'd already done melodically. People would give their eye teeth to have a style. As long as you can not repeat yourself....even that is ok. I've made a habit of doing that in a humorous way, recycling things in bizarre sorts of ways almost as a joke."



Why recorded Bob Dylan's Love Minus Zero/No Limit for the bonus disc?

"That was just something that I had kinda fooled around with. When we first rented this house to start recording the Say You Will album - and again, almost all of my material had already been cut, there was almost nothing for me to do on my own. It was almost a year of doing Stevie's stuff. We just thought we'd try something that wasn't a Stevie song. I'd been listening to that album for a while and it just struck me how great that tune was,...how tender, now moving the lyric was.. That guy can write."



Recording in the '70s and the impact of drugs:

"There was a spirit of idealism and fun, which there should be. Sometimes to excess. I don't know if you can separate the subculture which was everyone was about those days, not just in the studio but every day existence, and how that played into the lapses of efficiency."