surviving FM - new interview in Men's Journal
 

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Friday, March 08, 2013
As Fleetwood Mac kicks off its first tour in four years, Lindsey Buckingham reflects on the band's drug-fueled nights

Surviving Fleetwood Mac

As Fleetwood Mac kicks off its first tour in four years, Lindsey Buckingham reflects on the band's drug-fueled nights, blowout fights, and unbreakable bonds.

By Brian Hiatt - Men's Journal [April, 2013 issue]

For Lindsey Buckingham, recording an album used to mean doing just enough coke to nail a guitar part at 3AM, getting in screaming fights with Stevie Nicks, and, in one case, allegedly throttling an engineer who erased the wrong track. But that was all long ago. These days, he wakes up at six, has breakfast with his three young kids, hits his home studio alone, and is done by dinner. "It's a nice balance," says Buckingham, 63, who is reuniting with Fleetwood Mac for an arena tour beginning this month (and has a solo live album, One Man Show, out now). "That's the whole lesson for me now. For many years in Fleetwood Mac, it was a study in life out of balance."

You had your first child at 48. Do you recommend late-life fatherhood?

It depends on the man. You could almost say I'm someone who doesn't practice age. I went to a high school reunion a few years back, and all these people seemed 20 years older than me, physically and mentally. So having kids late is good if you're the kind of person who needs to wait - though i 20 years, I may have a different perspective.

Your most recent studio album, Seeds We Sow, got great reviews but didn't sell. Why?

There's a disconnect between the preconceptions that go with being the age I am and what the music is. I sent the ablum to Daniel Glass, who runs [hip record label] Glassnote, and he loved it. Then he played it for his staff, guys in their twenties, and they said, "Well, what are we going to do with it?"

What do you remember about the argument that led to your leaving Fleetwood Mac for a while in 1987?

All I reall is that Stevie ran after me crying and yelling and kind of beating on my back. I don't remember any physical confrontation, not to say there wasn't.

Is it safe to say, though, that ou had a temper in the past?

Sure. it's been well documented. But we were doing all sorts of substances, too, that probably had something to do with blowing certain behaviors way out of proportion.

Has age calmed you down?

some of it was situational. You've got to understand, it was very difficult for me to have Stevie break up with me and to still be in a band with her, to never get a sense of closure. It took its toll emotionally.

How come drugs never got too out of control for your?

The substances that were in the studio were not part of my lifestyle at home. I had to take them so I cold stay up till two our three, and even then, Mick [Fleetwood] would want to go later. My MO if I really wanted to leave would be to say, "I'm going to the bathroom," and then walk out the door and drive away.

Now that pot is practically legal in California, are you tempted by it?

No. I did a lot of that back then, and it was good for a certain kind of abstract thinking. But we all thought we had to be altering our consciousness on a daily basis in order to be creative, which turns out to be crap. It's just about finding your center, that quiet place.

You and Stevie broke up decades ago, but you have to deal with her forever. What's that like?

You get used to it. And for me, getting married and having children was a positive outcome. I wonder sometimes how Stevie feels about the choices she made, because she doesn't have a relationship - she has her career. But there are a few chapters to be written in the Stevie-Lindsey legacy. There's a subtext of love between us, and it would be hard to deny that much of what we've accomplished had something to do with trying to prove something to each other. Maybe that's fu*ked up, but this is someone I've known since I was 16, and I think on some weird level we're still trying to work some things out. There will never be romance there, but there are other kinds of love to be had.

It's about as complicated as a relationship can be.

Oh, my Lord, yes.


Posted by Nickslive at 3/08/2013 08:22:00 PM
Labels: Fleetwood Mac Tour 2013, Lindsey Buckingham Men's Journal Interview

Great Interview!
 

Probably the most straight-forward, honest interview with LB that I have ever read. Thank you for posting.

That was great!! :cool:

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Didn't people here point out some funny business in a scene of Destiny Rules?

Lindsey...... we get it.

:laugh: doesn't everybody say that?

also, even if true (and we know it is, we saw pics from his reunion), you don't say stuff like that... i'm sure people from his class would greatly appreciate reading something like that. ;)


anyway, love it when LB just bullsh*ts honestly and in a straightforward way like in this interview, without a care in the world. :thumbsup: :xoxo:

I love when Lindsey does these more off the cuff type interviews. We get gems like cheese and this bit:

He's probably just afraid of this happening:



:D

:D:thumbsup::laugh:

If you were doing drugs of all sorts in the studio but not at home, how do you explain your physical behavior at a meeting about a tour in Christine's house? I do appreciate him saying his violence is well documented. Now let's move on...

thanks for the link to this. it was great. he's clearly well aware of what's out there about him and, unlike Stevie (whom I love) he doesn't try and spin it into a fantasy alternate magical time. (all entertainers spin to some extent in interviews) but he seems these days so much more someone you'd have a great conversation with than he did in the past.

This is nice. We got some details that we didn't have before. Thanks for posting.

Michele

A little blurry, but...

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you son of a bitch!

say you will was recorded, what, nearly ten years ago at this point? maybe he hasn't smoked since?

Originally Posted by elle
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There will never be romance there, but there are other kinds of love to be had.
you son of a bitch!

maybe you are just being facetious : )

but I get that he would want to be respectful to his wife, and his kids are certainly now old enough to read stuff and react to it... and he IS out there doing lots of handholding and love-talk with Stevie... so the man just wants to be clear. Ah well. Isn't it sexier to think that any love between them now has to be unconsummated and smolder under the surface? :D

I kinda feel like it's too sad if they were still romantically in love with each other because it's so seemingly nonnegotiable that they won't be together. Easier if they can actually move on.

I can't imagine what it's like to have to give the same answers to the same questions for thirty years, man.

Men's Journal with Our Lindsey!
 

:cool: Borrring !!!!! :rolleyes: Move on already !!! :]

I thought it was interesting that he says Stevie chased him, crying and yelling and hitting him in the back and he says it's documented about his temper, but he doesn't remember hitting back, but he might have. I wish he would just come clean and either admit it or say it's bullcrap. I do think this was the closest he's come to talking about his anger issues and kudos to the interviewer for his hard hitting questions. Good interview with Lindsey.

This interview is everything but boring.

you may wish that, but he may not remember.

yes, i thought questions were very straightforward, and i liked that Lindsey's answers were not evasive. obviously there was no pre-interview clause that some things are off-limits.

I don't think he has that kind of clout.

A+ :nod:

That's it!

Anything's possible, I guess! ;)

maybe, maybe not. he can always refuse the interview. :shrug:

was he ever asked about it before? if so, i'd be curious to know what he said.

In BAM Lindsey said Mick's book was hurtful and there were parts of it which were blatantly untrue, but he didn't feel there was a reason to dignify them with an answer. He said that Stevie apologized to him for Mick saying that Lindsey had slapped her -- not that he thought that Stevie needed to apologize.

Lindsey has also said when Mojo asked him about Rhiannon that he certainly may have mocked Stevie on stage and that he might have kicked her too. He just doesn't remember. He said what he does remember is singing off key on purpose during an entire show, just to make them all livid and they were.

Michele

thanks. i do remember reading those two, was hoping maybe there was something else, more recent. i guess this new interview is really the only place?

Lol what does that even mean? Other kinds of love?

I remember there was speculation a while back that CAD (and the fight with his wife that inspired it ) was about him hanging up his pipe. :D

oh i didn't know that. tell me more...

That's basically it. I don't remember if there were any other details. I think it was pure speculation.

Mojo was during the SYW tour. So, that's the most recent one I know.

Michele

He really has a way of pisssing Stevie off, doesn't he? Poor Stevie can't find a man, and he would never ever...
He is so reliable, whenever he gives an interview, he comes across as an ass.

I asked Neale and Brett in 2008 while we all three puffed away a sigarette, if Lindsey still smoked. They looked at eachother and then at me, and said with a smile: " No sigarettes".

huh? how do you read all of this from what he said? i only see love for her, with all her quirks, in what he says about her. as he says - there are all kinds of love. it's a big all-encompassing word. unless your definition is extremely narrow.

this interview comes across the way he comes across when talking to him in person - very direct, surprisingly so actually.

that settles it then, CAD that came out in 2006 is not about quitting pot! ;) :D

Yeah, exactly. But the speculation was that was what the fight was about. Lol.

Wow, Lindsey is getting good with interviews! :blob2: Finally, I don't have to skim through stuff because everything is basically new, more straightforward, terse, and he's not beating around the bush or doing those "cycle" and "painting" analogies. I love this.

I don't think he thinks she can't find a man. I think he knows from experience that she's found many men. But what he says about Stevie having her career is a repeat of what Stevie has said about herself many times. In Ghosts she says she depends on music like a husband a lyrical embodiment of her interview comments to that effect.

She chose a career over family. She has told 100 interviewers this. She probably reminded Lindsey of this during the 4 days she visited his house, in fact. That's probably why he said it. I think on Dateline with Mick, John and Lindsey surrounding her she explained that they all have families and she doesn't. It's a recurring theme with her. It's not like he just snatched it out of thin air to taunt her.

As for him saying that there would never be anything romantic, since he's married with 3 children, if he said that there could some day be something romantic again (like he hinted during the Dance interviews), I'd think THEN he'd look like a jerk.

In response to his Dance comments about getting back together, Stevie said "over my dead body". He certainly never said anything that blunt about the chance or reuniting with her.

Michele

I wouldn't lose your skimming powers for good. I'm sure when they do more tour interviews we'll be getting a lot more of the recycled hash. He has always been able to give good interviews when he wants. But I think when he knows he's going to do a lot of them in a short period of time, he doesn't bother trying and most of the interviewers don't try to be at all original anyway. They don't ask him anything they couldn't have asked in 1979. But sometimes, no matter what they ask, he will respond in rote manner and I bet we'll see a lot more of that this year.

It's just sometimes, when he's got free time on his hands, he'll say something different.

Michele

You're probably right Michele. But still, I'm going to enjoy the few and far between and hope that he breaks from the rote a little more often. It makes him seem more hip when he isn't giving the same rehashed answer to every question. Shorter sentences Lindsey. They are your friend. :xoxo:

Didn't Stevie make the "over my dead body" comment after she found out Kristen was pregnant? If so, understandable. Same with his comments now. I think both of them have come to terms with the fact that if they are ever together again, it will not be in this lifetime. Perhaps the next....

I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of Kristen's Karma when it "cycles" around. Whew! just sayin'

Some great answers for a change.

This Tango-era incident is still coming up. It sounds like they hit each other. I don't care who threw the first punch, once a physical confrontation starts, it's hard to not to react. No excuses on either side. They were old enough to know better by that point.

And too high to remember clearly.

The way Lindsey seems to never remember whether or not he was physical with people .... was he having blackouts or something?