Bucked Up 8/3
 

some photos from the Bucked Up FB site -

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=1&theater

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=1&theater

what seems to be a photo of LB with the place owner and her son:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=1&theater
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=1&theater

Shut Us Down - sounded like a good crowd :)

wow - nice clean pics in these vids - you were close!!

and, with all these southern love and special intros he's been giving, if they ever do some kind of mini-BN tour, seems like if it's any place it should be in the south!

A few more photos from Bucked Up on Facebook
 

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...5100011&type=1

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...5100011&type=1

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...5100011&type=1

I finally got home from this show. I have to tell you, it was a unique experience and that's one reason why I went. Not in a million years did I ever think Lindsey would play this kind of honkytonk bar. Honestly, when I first heard about it, I thought it was probably a new country dance club. Nope. This place is an old, watering hole in the middle of really nowhere.

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Anyway, once I heard about the acoustics and set up of the place, I was sort of nervous about Lindsey's performance. We all know how particular he is about the sound and I thought there was no way this place could meet his expectations. The stage was hardly a stage, the ceiling was very low, there were bars in the back of the room, chairs set up on a dance floor and tables set up randomly on the side. It was a disorganized, hot mess for sure. When I got there, 30 minutes before show time, there was at least 100 people or more still lined up outside in the parking lot and to the main highway to get inside.

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The owner and her staff were obviously not prepared for a show of this size. Once inside I noticed the capacity sign, it read: 650. I heard the locals outside after the show saying there must have been 1000 or more, but there's no way that place could have even held 1000 and 650 would have been pushing it, I think. But, I promise you every minute of this craziness was worth it! I was so close to Lindsey I could have literally reached out and touched him by taking two steps forward. The stage was about 2 ft. high. It was as if he was giving a performance in someone's living room.

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You could tell that it was probably worse than he expected too from his initial interaction onstage, but I can't say that I totally blame him and he did handle it very well. His only complaint was the two professional photographers who were down in front of the stage for the first song, snapping pictures with a flash in his face. (I don't use a flash because I've heard it bothers them and also you get better photos a lot of times without it). Anyway, here is his face watching the photographer:

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After the song, he said "These guys are going away right?" This was the first thing he said at all. He looked over back at the management and one of the guys went away, but the other one was still in front of me. Lindsey repeated, "You're going away, right?" And the photographer said, "Yes, sir!" and got out of there. He was a pretty burly guy and Lindsey said, "It's very distracting."

Notice the photographer in the bottom of this photo:
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He paused and said, "What was THAT all about?" as he looked back at the management and the guy who was with him, his tour manager maybe? It wasn't Jimmy Johnson so I'm not sure who it was.

Anyway, he went on with the show and the sound got better - which had been pretty bad at first - it was REALLY distorted and loud for the room. Also, in the above pic you can see Lindsey's guitar tech, Stan who is having to work onstage tuning those guitars behind a sub-par partition.

A few other things I'll mention - Lindsey's speech about the South was of course very generous and it was the first time he showed signs of getting a better attitude by cracking a joke about "THAT album" (Buckingham Nicks), which you can see in the video I posted. Then, he was really happy at the end of "Stephanie" by the audience response. He smiled and laughed at the end while the crowd whooped and hollered. When it quieted down one lady, (not me!) said, "Thank you!" and Lindsey just mouthed to her, "You're welcome." It was cute.

On "Not Too Late", I really like the way he laughs during the line "You know you should never believe what you read." I'm not sure if he's always done that because it's not a song I usually pay much attention to.

At one point he told the audience "you're small but mighty!"

When he did "Come" a young girl was apparently singing all the words. He was making faces at her during the song and at the end he was like, "Aren't you too young to know the words to that song?"

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And, she or someone with her said she had known it since 7th grade. He just sort of did that nod with his eyebrows lifted and said, "Ok. Well, thanks mom and dad." in a condescending kind of way. It got a big laugh.

But, he singled this girl out and interacted with her a bit throughout the night, with smiles and eye contact. Other than that, he really did not make eye contact with anyone else. I noticed, even in this small of a venue, he looked over our heads or closed his eyes throughout the show. I managed to say, "Thank you" and get a small handshake at the end of the show, but he didn't even smile. I don't know if he was just bothered in general, ready to get out of there, upset because he saw me film "Stephanie", or if it was just the close proximity of the crowd.... (Now that I think about it, it's that same pursed lip look he gave Stevie at The Wiltern when she went to bow as he was trying to kiss her head and missed and then when she finally stood back up and was nodding her head at him with her sincere thank you look, he just pursed his lips at her, so maybe I shouldn't feel too bad. LOL.)

It was bizarre not to have people going to the stage or standing up for GYOW, but I guess everyone was being respectful or something. It felt weird though. After that song, people started coming up to the stage and giving him the BN album to sign, or other items. He went off stage and then returned for the two encore songs. We tried to get him to do RAB but he sort of ignored the request and stuck with Trouble and Seeds. Then, we went outside and stood with several others to hopefully get a handshake or a picture with him. But, there was a lot of talk between his man and the club management about how to get him in his SUV and out of there. Basically, the bouncers had us all stand on the other side of the driveway and he just walked to his door and got in. He did roll his window down, but he was on the side where there weren't any fans so when they pulled out that was it.

Overall, despite the obstacles, Lindsey put on a great show for a lot of people who really loved him. I have to give it to this crowd. They were totally respectful and in awe of him and even if his music may not have been totally their thing, they listened intently and really made him feel appreciated and loved. They were so thrilled to have him there.

You can view more of my photos here: http://s302.photobucket.com/albums/n...202012%20Tour/

That photo is adorable :xoxo:

CAD, nice pics (and videos!), and I really enjoyed that review. That last part especially. It's so great to see him in a different kind of place - and connect with a whole different crowd :cool:

love your write-up with all those illustrations - thanks for sharing :)

some of the pics are really great - would you mind if i copy here? let me know if you don't want them here and i'll delete.

some of CAD's photos from yesterday that i love - either b/c of the pose or b/c it's just a great photo:

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:thumbsup:
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http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...436ACTION3.jpg
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even guitars were cramped lol:
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I enjoyed your review Dee and the photos. I'm so glad he fulfilled your wish to see him live. Now if only Stevie will listen...

It was cool. Of course, I understand that crowd because I used to be one of 'em - ha! And, even if Lindsey was out of his comfort zone, I hope he felt the genuine love and appreciation. I think he did.

That's cool, elle. They were just so big I didn't bother and I didn't want to resize them. :)

I'll probably never get any better photos, so I'm proud of them!


Right, Mark! Listen Mama!!!! Get your butt out there with Linds next year for a real BN reunion! I think you kids might actually make it! :laugh:

This one is my favorite! Look at me trying to be all Alicia Bailey! :lol::wavey:

Oh and I want to add one more thing. This is my favorite Lindsey tour. I saw him for GOS and SWS, but I prefer this show. Nothing against Brett, Neale and Wally, but just Lindsey and his guitar is very fitting (now if you add Stevie singing harmony... ;) )

Yeah, maybe he wanted to kiss you.

The way you described the stage, just 2 feet off of the ground, that would have been something wouldn't it? People would have been right on par with him. At the Chumash casino he came and stood down on the floor for GYOW and the people stood around him. It would have been like that. Pretty heady.

Thanks for your review and all the great accompanying photos. I really like your description of the venue, especially.

Michele

from the venue FB page, seems like the owner is a big fan... so she may have been successful in getting him there somehow even if the venue is not really set up for the show like his.

probably. seems that he had no tour manager with him during most of the west coast leg, and some new guy was hired for the east coast leg - possibly to handle m&gs. probably still the same guy :shrug:.

yeah, we've been so spoiled by his normally making eye contact with bunch of audience members throughout his shows, that i also always feel like something is off when he doesn't do that. could be he was unhappy about the setup, as you noted. who knows.

he's usually interactive when he sees people filming during his shows, i've never seen him being bothered by that... so i wouldn't be worried about that :wavey:. same with close crowds.

agree re people not going to the stage during GYOW - always bizarre when it happens. luckily it doesn't happen too much - and in most cases when it does, people seem to get to the stage when he comes back for an encore.

thanks again for sharing all these little details!:wavey:

:laugh::laugh::laugh: Just my luck...



That's cool and I thought it would be just like that - but everybody sat back down. :rolleyes:

with women and girls sometimes hanging onto his legs, it may have been a bit... well, you can imagine. ;):lol::lol: (actually my mind wouldn't even go there, a friend who was there suggested it:angel:)

Yes, it's very nice because he's slanted, but his guitar is nearly upright. The focal point.

Michele

Here, he looks two dimensional. Like an LB cardboard cutout. The guitar seems to have more depth and heft than his body does. Michele

I did sort of think that. Lindsey was very friendly with her. I wondered if maybe they knew each other back in the day.


Tall bald guy.


I hope not. I heard they don't like it. I remember Stevie even told someone last year to stop filming her, she said it was distracting.

But, if that's true I think they need to be a little more open-minded and embrace more social media. It's free promotion and I think it helps create interest.


Sure, I'm glad to do it. I always enjoy reading everyone else's experiences too. :)

I'd like to say I was letting the inner artist in me come out, but really that was the inner scaredy cat. After the photographer incident, I tried to be more nonchalant. :laugh:

You know, his face is "so chiseled." ;)

I remember during the UTS tour, they really cracked down on the "no pictures" thing. So, I didn't take any until the Holiday Road encore, when I figured that no one cared. Lindsey looked at me and he wasn't smiling. I think he did care. And I was just thinking, "It's Holiday Road, man. You're almost home. It's no skin off your nose and how much concentration are you really putting into that song anyway?" An usher came over to me and told me to put the camera away and I got so flustered that I lost the camera. I thought I put it in my purse, but it just totally disappeared altogether. My Leica. :(

But I think their views on cameras have evolved a lot since then. Lindsey must know what a big splash all the Stephanie videos have made on Youtube. I mean, even if there's no one else in his life to tell him, surely his kids might google Dad's name once in awhile, while watching other videos online.

Michele

I was pleasantly surprised they had no policy about cameras at this show at all. I sincerely hate sneaking a camera in and have resorted to the phone in recent months even though my camera takes the best pictures and video. I guess if I was in their shoes, I can understand after 40 years of doing this it can be totally distracting when you have a ton of phones or cameras being held up in front of you, when it used to be just a handful of people with an instamatic - and you thought the people were there to listen to your songs. Suddenly, everyone's a photographer/videographer and no one experiences the performance the artists have worked hard to present because they're too busy documenting.

That being said, I didn't think this show would be documented and I felt it was my civic duty as a fan to do so. :)

that's too bad about your camera Michele :distress:.

i can't tell about the previous tours, solo or Mac, or what SN thinks about filming (didn't she say she wouldn't do new songs before the album is out so they don't end up on youtube? i suspect LB was well aware his 6 yet unreleased songs were on youtube for months before SWS came out. if anything, it was free advertising.)

maybe he (but not necessarily they) did change his mind about filming some time between UTS and GOS?

the only thing i do know is that last fall and this summer everybody was filming at most of his shows, and i was filming right at the stage several times (for example, RAB at 2 different shows!). and in some cases he makes faces, smiles, and poses when he sees you filming, especially if you try to catch his interactions with the audience between the songs. in fillmore, half of the front row had cameras just sitting on the stage so we could film nice and still. i've never seen him being annoyed by any of it.

he did look at me somewhat strange when i was filming his backstage m&g with Abbi in DE (like "can you give it a rest?" :laugh:), but that may have been just my perception since i did feel a bit bad about it at the time. but he didn't say anything, and he could have just told me to stop if he wanted to.

:lol: and you did well! :nod::nod:

i find with the way today's cameras and phones are set up you can easily watch the show and film at the same time without it being too distracting. the only time i feel it's like a chore is when i want to dance or sing, or when i have to hold a camera high.:shrug:

there were several venues that sent emails before the show saying no photos or filming allowed, but i would just take in my little camera and was obviously filming and nobody ever said anything. then there were other venues that would make sure nobody's filming. so at least at LB's shows, this seems to be completely dependent on the venue.

EDIT: Nico had a more professional looking camera and i think somebody did tell her to stop filming at one point. so maybe they don't usually care about phones and small cameras but larger / more professional cameras are a different story?

hmm. must be yet another [new] manager. the east coast leg guy was relatively tall, but definitely not bald.

Yes, they told me to stop when I had a camera that was a little larger. It didn't have a special lens or anything, just the built in zoom. But I guess it might have looked professional to them. But even though they did say stop and I wept all night afterwards, when it came to Sara I was going to take pictures. When Stevie left her mic to go to his, I was taking photos and would brook no orders to the contrary.

Michele

This is THE classic quote for August.:)

explanation from someone just now on Fleetwood Mac News And Reviews FB page:

That is Marilyn Ingram the talent buyer for Bucked Up. Her sons are the ones that actually own the venue - Landon Ingram and Wade Ingram. Marilyn toured with her own band AURA3 opening for and also on BV's for Peter Tork (the Monkees) and Shoe Suede Blues. She was formerly Peter's manager/publicist. She loves FWM and all of the members various solo projects as well.

review [apparently] from one of those 2 photographers that LB kicked out at the start of the show:


@YESRyan
Lindsey Buckingham personally kicked me out of the photo pit @BuckedUpSSaloon. I'm not mad at him. http://www.yesweekly.com/triad/artic...essential.html

Wednesday, August 8,2012
BUCKINGHAM LIVE, ALONE AND ESSENTIAL

By Ryan Snyder

It was supposed to be a week in music storyboarded around rock’s most sordid romance saga: solo tours by Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were to cross wakes only 48 hours apart in an unlikely place. As Buckingham’s small machine rolled along with uncompromised efficiency, it was Nicks’ big machine that faltered — co-headliner Rod Stewart fell ill and their Greensboro show was canceled, a decision perhaps aided by slow ticket sales. That wasn’t an issue for Buckingham, who’s packed show on Friday at Bucked Up Super Saloon in Kernersville provided for all the intimacy of a coffee house open mic night.

The nature of those machines was one of Buckingham’s favorite topics of conversation on Friday. He noted how shows like this one — in a small town at a country bar unaccustomed to hosting performers of his caliber — were only made possible by the big machine that is Fleetwood Mac. Rather than an an oversized, idling tour bus, it was Buckingham’s silver Mercedes L Class that sat immediately outside the door from where he took the stage to the unconventional, yet stunning venue for his purposes. The club’s dancefloor was transformed into a makeshift theater with foldout chairs, but the ambiance created by the sparse lighting and hardwood construction possessed all the warmth of a more traditional venue.

Buckingham looked the part of a rock star as he entered alone, clad in a leather jacket and what could have been women’s jeans, his greying hair emphasizing his gunmetal look. His approach to his solo set is almost theatrical; he was flanked by a dozen guitars and a busy tech, the setlist taped to the floor, but he didn’t need it as requests for the little pop gem “Holiday Road” fell unacknowledged. His show hasn’t changed from city to city and neither has his stage banter as he engaged the same stories as previous nights in Carrboro and Wilmington. He reminisced about his initial invite to join Fleetwood Mac, only agreeing if Mick Fleetwood accepted his girlfriend into the band as well.

He spoke of focusing on only the essentials of songwriting during a breathy, finely wrought interpretation of Fleetwood Mac’s “Never Going Back Again.”

There’s a safe assumption that most of the room wasn’t fully briefed on his personal catalog, and the sounds of a solo Buckingham are hardly that of the numinous blues of the Fleetwood Mac. He sought out the boundaries of his guitar and his voice, from the gentle strumming and hushed tones of opener “Cast Away Dreams,” to the sheer violence with which he imbued the zenith of set closer “Go Your Own Way.” Ever the poptimist, Buckingham transformed his biggest solo hit “Go Insane” from a very dated bit of ‘80s ear candy into thoughtful, methodical folk-pop with a manic climax whose impact would have only been diminished by the biggest rooms.

As Buckingham dug deeper into both his personal repertoire and Fleetwood Mac obscurities, so too did he engage the cache of instruments accompanying him. His Gibson Chet Atkins Acoustic made an appearance for “Go Insane” and a meditative “Big Love,” while much of the show was an endorsement for his array of flat-bodied Turners. Not at all given to spontaneity, Buckingham’s guitar skills are nonetheless peerless within his sphere. He executed the unorthodox chord structure of “Shut Us Down” with impeccable fingerpicking, always preferring his natural tools over plastic or wood plectra.

The only unnatural incursions into his set came in the form of the occasional loops and a generic, but sympathetic backing beat to the 21-year old “Trouble,” possessed of the kind of sound that nourishes the Dan Bejars and Jonathan Wilsons of contemporary folk and pop. Unlike them, Buckingham is ultimately a part of a whole greater than himself, but sometimes, when there can be only one, he’s essential.