The Ledge - Post every repetitive Lindsey article here!

For two reasons:
1) so that there's no need to start a new thread for everything that has the same old stuff
2) people will have a central thread to help with their drinking game. :thumbsup:

Here goes another one:

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/...703150311/1005

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Best of Buckingham

By Rick Harmon
Montgomery Advertiser

For most, Fleetwood Mac is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group that has had some of modern music's biggest hits, including "Go Your Own Way," "Dreams," "Don't Stop," "Say You Will," and "You Make Loving Fun."

For Lindsey Buckingham, one of the group's leaders, Fleetwood Mac is the band that keeps interrupting his solo albums.

Before his solo album, "Under My Skin," was released late last year, the last independent album that Buckingham had released was 1993's "Out of the Cradle."

Buckingham, who will perform at the Davis Theatre on Friday, said he'd been working on another solo album in 1995, but after Mick Fleetwood started helping him, that album got put on the back burner.

"Suddenly there was this kind of campaign for me not to follow through with the solo work and instead to get doing some kind of project for Fleetwood Mac," he said.

He went back to work on the solo project in 1997, but when he had about 80 percent of the material done, the other members of Fleetwood Mac knocked on his door again, wanting to make an album. The material he'd written for his solo album wound up being most of Fleetwood Mac's "Say You Will" album.

But around 2000, while touring with Fleetwood Mac, he started to write songs and record them on the road in his hotel room.

"I'd ended up doing them onstage just with guitar and voice, and it got me started thinking about doing a whole collection of songs that were basically one or two guitars doing the work of a whole track and sort of a produced version of someone sitting in their living room playing a guitar," he said. "You know -- no drums, no real bass, no lead guitar.

"And that's what 'Under the Skin' wound up being."

Critics praise the album, which has made a multitude of music magazines best-album lists, including Rolling Stone's.

While critics love the album's concept, at least initially, Warner Bros. did not.

"I have another album I am going to be doing that will be released the first quarter of 2008 and some of the material from that, at least in its present form, is more rock'n'roll," he said. "Because they had that material, and they had the more acoustic stuff, they wanted me to cull the material from both those albums and make one more normal album."

Buckingham said he kept telling the music execs he wanted to keep the album acoustic.

"They'd say OK, and then a few months later it would come up again as if we never had talked about it before," he said. "It wasn't that hard to get them to agree to the album, just real repetitive."

The different style of the album has led to a different sort of tour.

"I knew going into rehearsals that we weren't going to be able to run down a body of work and play it in a generic way, that there needed to be at the center of the show a tone that was similar to the tone of the CD," he said.

He believes the current show succeeds in doing that.

"The show we are presenting is very much in the spirit of the CD," he said. "

He comes out, playing solo; then is joined by the band, and then plays some more songs solo.

"Then at the very end, you know we really start to rev it up because people would somehow feel cheated out of something if we didn't do that body of work in the show," he said. "It is a very intimate show, and the venues are fairly intimate, relatively speaking."

He plans to tour extensively behind the new album, release the other album early next year and then tour extensively behind it.

So does this mean Buckingham has finally declared his independence from the group he led to superstardom?

Yes, for now.

"For the first time, I will be putting two albums out relatively quickly, at least according to my own set of standards, and will be allowing myself the time to tour behind them," he said.

"It's nice to think in the long term that this is what I am doing, and if Fleetwood Mac comes knocking, you know they will be knocking for a while," he continued. "That said, after these two albums, I probably will be doing some more with Fleetwood Mac, but that hasn't been nailed down yet."