Did She Leave it Sitting Against a Stair?
 

The Onion's A. V. Club staff talks about interesting interviews. Here is part of what Andy Battaglia contributes.

9-11-09 http://www.avclub.com/articles/celeb...unters,32745//

The other interview story that competes was talking to Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham about a woman paying insufficient attention to a CD-R he had made for her. He looked and sounded miffed and genuinely hurt (the way makers of insufficiently attended mix-discs often do), but it turned out the woman he was talking about was Stevie Nicks—the whole legendary rock myth of Buckingham/Nicks discord distilled down to talk of an underappreciated CD-R.

Here's Andy's blog post, from when the interview took place:

http://jupitersite.blogspot.com/

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Today started with coffee sipped while interviewing Lindsey Buckingham at the Ritz Carlton and ended with beer finished just as two guys in (really rather convincing) gorilla suits bounded onstage to join the 10 other earthy/galactic freaks making a go of it at a Basement Jaxx show at Webster Hall.

Friday, October 13, 2006
Wine, chocolate and '80s pop

Bret Thorn, Restaurant News Food Service Blog

http://nrnfoodwriter.blogspot.com/20...d-80s-pop.html
October 10

During a wine-and-chocolate event on the Upper West Side I got a call from Andy Battaglia, who writes about music and edits the city section of the New York edition of The Onion.

He wondered if I wanted to go to a Lindsey Buckingham concert.
He then explained that Lindsey Buckingham was one of the key people in Fleetwood Mac, a group he correctly assumed that even someone as ignorant of music as I would be familiar with.

I try never to pass up the opportunity to hear live music, so I skipped the baseball-themed Maker's Mark party to which I had been invited, stopped by the Time Warner Center for a ham and cheese sandwich at Bouchon and then to Town Hall, a music venue in Times Square, and witnessed the bizarre but not unenjoyable spectacle of a man in his 50s playing music with which I was vaguely familiar, complete with '80s-era light show.

During the concert I realized that even in the 1980s I wouldn't have paid the $16 or whatever it would have cost to witness Fleetwood Mac live, but seeing Lindsey Buckingham for free with my friend Andy was worth the opportunity cost of missing a bourbon party.

Andy and I closed out the evening with Irish whiskey on the rocks at Siberia.

[I can't find the actual interview Battaglia did, but here is the Onion's Review of UTS from November 21, 2006 by Keith Phipps

http://www.avclub.com/articles/music-in-brief,22600/

On the other hand, Under The Skin (Reprise), the latest from Fleetwood Mac stalwart Lindsey Buckingham, is a revelation. The production has Buckingham's trademark immaculateness, but on most of the tracks, his hushed voice and intricate acoustic guitar work fill the space with reflective songs that sound little like anything he's done before… A-

Lindsey made Stevie a CD-R of something? What -- Gift of Screws?

Hmmm. This was 2006 or earlier. It would be nice to know what he put on the cd, indeed.

Michele

well, he actually did the same when she gave him "bella donna". he left the album sitting against a wall!

Yeah, I know she said he did. That's where I got the thread title.

Michele