what should LB do before FM tour
 

according to this new interview http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showpo...07&postcount=1 (however we don't have the whole interview yet i suspect, so maybe he said something different), it seems that FM is done with recording for now, after 2 months at the village.

so what should Lindsey do these 2 months before the rehearsals start:

• work on his solo stuff / album?
• tinker with 16 recorded FM tracks?

there are some other options i could think of, like collaborating on other people's albums (we know whenever he had a couple of weeks free in 2012, he was working on projects like NIN, This is 40, or putting out live OMS), but i will offer just these 2 options for now, because they seem to be the most probable.

my preference is clear - he promised us in vegas he'll try to get to some small machine work in between the mac stuff this year... seems like about now he actually has some time to do it!

Oh jeez. I don't know :/ if he tinkered with the fm songs, he could either over-do them, or make them brilliant... It can go either way. I'd rather he just get his ass back on tour OMS style! But maybe less is more, Tusk-style. I guess I'll go with solo! :D

well, yeah, that would be my first choice, but i don't see him doing it on such short notice although he does still owe us that "request" tour! :nod:. plus he already did SWS and OMS tour after his last album, so he'd probably want to get some new music in before getting back on the road.

except in the case they are waiting to add stevie to them, it seems he would be just wasting his time before they are completely recorded.

Solo stuff of course! :D

We only have May and June, though.

I assume when his kids get out of school, he'll vacation and then it's into rehearsals for FM in July.

Michele

he always vacations with kids in july, that's when he has his solo tour breaks. so i think rehearsals start in august which still gives them 2 months for rehearsals which i don't see why they'd really need.

so yeah, he has may and june. plenty of time, he just recorded 8 songs with Christine in 2 months, and as many with the boys in like 2 weeks i think in 2012.

But one of them said July. Christine, I think. It was in her USA today interview.

Michele

yeah, same as lindsey said the tour starts in the summer. turns out summer is the last day of september. ;)

As far as I remember they worked for about six weeks in 2012 with Froom.

I want him to write some more new FM songs. He wrote Stevie-friendly songs in 2012. Just to seduce her back in the studio. Now Chris is back! Stevie is still not there, so crank out a bunch of songs in the style of The Ledge, WMYTYTO, Great day, Gift Of Screws, or a modern, driving track like this one from War On Drugs,
who copied your style anyway for their new album into 2014. Respond in your own gritty way. Be the counterpart of Chris and Stevie on the new Mac album please. It's your job dammit.

http://youtu.be/1LmX5c7HoUw

Listen,please, this is getting big over here. Time for Lindsey to counter it with a driving, grooving macsingle.

Yes, I want at least two avant-garde songs on there at least. Even if they don't appeal to me personally, I think the album will need them for balance.

Michele

Have you heard that War on drugs clip? You may like it...

i concur, and not just because WMYTYTO is one of my favorite songs...

I share the fear that over-tinkering would be detrimental. Lindsey seems to have gotten better in recent years with a less-is-more approach, and when he goes for more, it can get messy. He once did it better than anyone else, with Go Insane and OOTC, but things change.

Now, Tusk, however, isn't necessarily less is more. It's an exercise in restraint because as we know, there is actually a lot underneath the tracks we hear, not to mention all the stuff that was thrown out.

I like less-is-more when it comes to production and instrumentation, but I do wish he'd polish up his vocals a bit more. No shrieks, no whispery breathy stuff, nothing sped up or slowed down... just the powerful and passionate vocals of Lindsey at his best.

Like his disliked-for-whatever-reason This Is 40 songs! ;) I freaking love them, at least She Acts Like You and Sick Of You. Brother and Sister is my least favorite.

Very good point. :nod:

seems like this question has been solved! Lindsey is reportedly in the studio with Peter Mayes and Empire Of The Sun.

Heard the clip. Not the whole album. Stuff.co.nz said that they had one of the best albums so far this year.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment...lf-time-report

The War on Drugs, Lost In The Dream: This will be the album that will feature at the top of more best of the year lists than any other record released in 2014. Seems a fairly safe prediction to make. Thankfully, it really is a wonderful album. A strange throwback to so many things from the 1980s - Don Henley, The Waterboys, Chris Rea and Lindsey Buckingham - well, you'd think it shouldn't/couldn't work. But it does. Boy, does it ever.