Popdose Top 50 Guitarists, LB #14
 

http://popdose.com/popdose-listmania...tarists-20-11/

Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Popdose Listmania: Top 50 Guitarists (20-11)
by Popdose Staff

In pop culture, lists are everything; they lends a sense of order to an otherwise orderless world. From film and literature to music, critics and readers alike love to put things in tidy rows. It is with this in mind that Popdose presents: Listmania, a weekly series counting down the staff’s favorite things.

This week we break into the top 20, with guitarists representing everything from the blues to arena rock. So the question is: who is missing? Have we completely missed the mark? Many of you have been vocal already, and I have a feeling we’ll hear more as we close in on the top 10.



14. Lindsey Buckingham. Lindsey Buckingham started playing guitar when he was a child, first on a plastic, four-string and eventually on a three-quarter size Harmony acoustic. He never took guitar lessons and never bothered to learn to read music. He doesn’t use a pick, instead preferring to use his fingers and fingernails, playing the guitar like one might play a banjo. He joined his first band as a senior in high school, which is where he met Stevie Nicks, who became his girlfriend and bandmate. After hearing a track from Buckingham Nicks, the ill-fated album Buckingham and Nicks released as a duo, and admiring the guitar work, Mick Fleetwood expressed interest in having Buckingham join his band, Fleetwood Mac, which was in need of a new guitarist. Buckingham agreed — but only if Nicks could join as well. Buckingham proved to be a valuable addition to the group, not only as a guitar player, but as a songwriter and producer and the group’s most successful albums, including 1977’s monster hit, Rumours, came during his tenure with them. Buckingham also has enjoyed a successful solo career, releasing five studio albums and a live record, as well as contributing to various movie soundtracks. But some of his best material always seems to end up with the Mac – five songs on the band’s 1987 hit album, Tango in the Night, were intended for his third solo album and seven songs from the band’s last studio album, Say You Will, were originally recorded for another solo record, Gift of Screws. But with the success of his last two solo albums, and subsequent tours, Buckinhgam has reminded the world that he is a force to be reckoned with all on his own. – Kelly Stitzel

It's always interesting to me how none of these articles really spend much time at all on Lindsey's technique, and why he is unique/talented enough to merit inclusion on these lists. It seems journalists just spew out the same old banal schpiel. It is good to see him being recognized more and more, though. :)

FINALLY. I'd love to see more of this and I absolutely agree with louielouie. They should focus more on LB's technique because I think even we have a tendency to take his talents for granted. He's so consistently brilliant that I even forget how singular his talents are. Thanks for posting this.:wavey:

Anyone who doubts this has never seen him on one of his solo tours.

I completely agree with that. Journalists do that a lot, forgetting about someone's talet and just go on about their fame. Then again, they've also said FM was a pop band (my parents even said that if they were a pop band, then why were they played on all the cool rock station back in the day, and still played on classic rock stations now?), AC/DC and Van Halen were metal bands (they're both very good rock bands), Alice in Chains was a grunge band (they're a metal band that just happened to come out of Seattle during the grunge movement), and, probably the mot unfathomable to me, The Who were the godfathers of punk (in the mods vs rockers in the UK, they were the mods, who weren't rebels at all).

Basically, I think it's nice that Bucky made a list and getting the recognition he deserves, but these journalists are still dumber than a bag of rocks.

Our Genius...Lindsey BucKingham!!!
 

Hay Louie...Your the Man!!! Are you still writing music?

MissLadyLoki....a large bag of rocks!!! They are not as
well read as they ought to be. Perhaps they are not
even musicians...so go on gossip alone! Whatever! (:+

Better yet, change my attack on critics' intelligence to something my marketing professor would say: they have an IQ of 2.