Little blurb in Guitar World, July 2003
 

Guitar World
July 2003

Lindsey Buckingham

Guilty Pleasures
A few of his favorite things.
by Vic Garbarini

SONG:
Theme from "A Summer's Place"
Percy Faith
Percy Faith's Greatest Hits (Columbia, 1960)

"I remember being a kid and doing things with my family after dinner as this played on a portable radio. The melody is simple but beautiful, and a little schmaltzy. It still moves me, partly because I'm connected to how I felt about it as a kid."

MOVIE:
City Lights
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Imagine Entertainment, 1931

"I'd always thought of him as the little tramp with the sped-up walk. It took me a while to get on the wavelength of his old silent movies, but I was in awe of this movie and the number of sketches in which the detail and invention are so rich. It blows me away."

BOOK:
Chaplin His Life & Art
by David Robinson
McGraw-Hill, 1987

"I read this not long after I left Fleetwood Mac in the late Eighties. I was looking for the strength to move forward. Chaplin took many aspects of his creative process in his own hands and fought to get things done the way he envisioned them. Plus he constantly reinvented himself. His example gave me the courage to get myself going again."

Oh, I just got a little image of him in my brain. I can see him just sitting there in the dark watching Charlie Chaplin films and laughing. What a sweet image.

I think the one thing about him that I also find so appealing is that you can tell he has a sense of humour...he is very tongue in cheek and also just but what he likes...he's lighthearted.

I think 20 years ago you couldn't say that, I guess 1987 WAS a survival move and if he stayed, maybe he'd still be so bitter and taking himself so seriously.

Don't ask me how I got into all THAT from that blurb, Im sorry!

Thanks Les.....again.!

I LOVE LINDSEY!!!!
 

THANK YOU LES!!!!!

SONG:
Theme from "A Summer's Place"
Percy Faith
Percy Faith's Greatest Hits (Columbia, 1960)

"I remember being a kid and doing things with my family after dinner as this played on a portable radio. The melody is simple but beautiful, and a little schmaltzy. It still moves me, partly because I'm connected to how I felt about it as a kid."

That is one of my favorite pieces of music as well. I loved it as a kid too and growing up (and still to this day), I wonder why no ice skaters have skated to it (maybe it's too short?), because it's just GORGEOUS!!

One thing I love about Lindsey is the fact he loves ALL KINDS of music...we go from Percy Faith to Eminem to Talking Heads!!! He is an eclectic music lover....like myself. :)

Give me more.

You betcha, my pleasure. :D

Re: Little blurb in Guitar World, July 2003
 

How funny. We were just mentioning this Robinson book in the movie newsgroup. I've had it for 15 years, but I never bothered to read it. So the other movie newsgroupers said that it's a well-researched, useful little book, especially compared with some of the other dreck on Chaplin that's out there. "City Lights," along with "The Gold Rush" & "Modern Times," is Chaplin's feature-length pinnacle. There's an excellent Kino Video DVD of it that's been restored & remastered.

The "Summer Place" theme music is a mossy evocation of the 1950s, when it was written. It seems to resonate similarly with a lot of us. It's schmaltz that we can't forget. It was one of the first pieces of music I ever played on the piano. The composer, Max Steiner, a Hollywood movie music dean, was an expert at writing melodies that insinuated themselves into your brain, despite your better impulses. He wrote the "Gone With the Wind" music, among many others.

Re: Little blurb in Guitar World, July 2003
 

I hear "A Summer's Place" on Lindsey's Out Of The Cradlle album on the song "You Do Or You Don't". There are textures of the song throughout the song, but the closing instrumental and humming are clearly "A Summer's Place." A nice tribute to a great old song.

Re: Re: Little blurb in Guitar World, July 2003
 

My favourite LB solo song containing a tribute to one of my favourite pieces of music of all time....doesn't get it any better than that!:nod::cool:

The live Center Stage version is the definitive version of that song IMO....where he fully sings (i.e. not hum!) that Theme from A Summer's Place....and that final note he magically sustains for what seems forever....awesome stuff!:cool:

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