Lindsey Buckingham Discusses Writing New Material with Fleetwood Mac
 

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Lindsey Buckingham Discusses Writing New Material with Fleetwood Mac

By: Gary Graff

11/21/2012

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 07: Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac performs on stage in concert at Acer Arena on December 7, 2009 in Sydney, Australia.

It's no secret that Fleetwood Mac is going on the road in 2013 -- you can expect an announcement of dates soon, in fact.

But singer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham is also hoping that some new music might result from the trek, either before or after. In fact, Buckingham says, he's already started that process with drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie:

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"It's interesting. John and Mick came over from Hawaii quite a few months ago, and we sat down and tracked some stuff. But...we haven't quite banded together to make it into something beyond that. Obviously Stevie (Nicks) would have to come to the table for that. So that's a work in progress. We may be able to organize something -- I wouldn't think a whole album but possibly something before we hit the road, or if not then possibly something a little more extensive after the tour, depending on what everybody wants to do."

Fleetwood Mac's last album, "Say You Will," came out in 2003. The group last toured in 2010 and was planning to go out in 2012 but was waylaid by solo projects.

Buckingham has just released "Lindsey Buckingham: One Man Show," an iTunes chronicle of his current solo tour that recently wrapped up.

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no Lindsey no!! do what you can now, not AFTER the tour! don't you remember how recording the new FM album after the last tour ended up?? :rolleyes:

surprised nobody reacted to this - FM album AFTER the tour if just enough time for a few songs before?

although i guess it's no secret that Lindsey wanted to do a FM album since 2009...

He said the same thing before Unleashed. Stevie has already stated that after the 2013 tour is over she's gonna make another solo album with Dave Stewart. An all new FM album? It ain't happening.

I think we've all be strung along by empty promises just like these for far too long to put any stock into proclamations like this latest one. :eek:

That's not happening. I don't even know why he said it. Whiskey.

Michele

Stevie says one thing and then she changes her mind and says exactly the opposite. even i know that by now :p

i hope you are right and that it's just Lindsey's wishful thinking.

but wording it the way you did just strikes me as so unfair towards LB, frankly...

obviously Lindsey was stating what he wants. and seems Mick and John might be on his page, if judging by 8 tracks they recorded at the beginning of this year, and Mick's Playboy interview that everybody jumped on. Stevie stated herself she didn't want to do Mac album in 2009, or 2010, or beginning of this year, and as Vivfox said, she apparently will not want to do it after the Mac tour (and for that, again, i'm eternally grateful to her!). when Lindsey just gives his stock answers, everybody complains that he says nothing new. when he doesn't edit himself and actually says what he thinks he's being accused of "stringing people along" - and, again, i don't think that's fair. maybe he's saying it publicly to try to get something done - or send a message (such as "let's do it now, we have time so why not?") to a band member who always likes to say how hard she works but the results of all that work don't seem to be very visible to a regular working person who is a non-fan. :shrug:

b/c he would like it to happen. i'm glad Stevie doesn't seem to be on the same page. 2010-2012 seemed to have been one of his most productive periods - all because "the time opened up" during which he was initially was hoping to do a FM album. :cool: :thumbsup: :angel:

Oh good grief...

Even with the song titles, I'm still not getting my hopes up. This is a cash grab...

i don't think releasing new music is a cash grab.

i agree with you re tour, but why wouldn't they do it (however much you or i may not like it)?

i don't much like song titles, but then again i loved a title like "Sick Of You" and the song snippet we've heard does not sound that promising. so maybe it will be the opposite with these 2 songs?

Yay! I think I love her for once! No FM after tour and we get Lindsey back! :D:p

You'll probably get a handful of new music from him while us Stevie fans wait an eternity for hers.

Actually from the vibe I got from watching her and Dave at the Mill Valley film festival I think we will get another solo album much more quickly than we got IYD.I'm going to make a prediction by early 2015.I also think that unless she does a complete about face that there will not be another Fleetwood Mac album with her involvement.

Although I agree with everything..I cannot stress enough (to myself or to everyone as I post) that I 100% agree this will be the last FM material..and most likely tour with Stevie. Somewhat cornered by the band's comments last year, and loving her collab with Dave, I just cannot see another FM opportunity post 2013-14.

Don't get me wrong, that possibility makes me sad. However considering age, all band members' comments and AGE aka reality of time makes me see that as truth. It's hard to take sometimes..

BN and other prolific revelations (much like LB's one man show) are things that I dream and believe will happen. Ultimately FM, formally as we know, may end soon but many developments are to come in the future.

[More from the same Gary Graff piece]

http://www.billboard.com/news/lindse...08031892.story
Lindsey Buckingham Ready For Fleetwood Mac Return in 2013

by Gary Graff, Detroit | November 30, 2012 10:00 EST

Lindsey Buckingham is ready to get back into Fleetwood Mac in the coming year, but he was happy to go his own way in 2012.

Though he expected the band to be working this year rather than in 2013 -- it held off to allow Stevie Nicks more time to support her "In Your Dreams" album -- Buckingham took the opportunity to stage his first completely solo concerts, which have been captured on the new digital album "Lindsey Buckingham: One Man Show." "It's been an experiment on any number of levels," Buckingham tells Billboard. "It was not something I had an agenda to do, but I'd been kind of thinking about i for awhile. After Fleetwood Mac's plans got shuffled around, I had a chance to try something new, and this is what it was. I'm always looking for something that's slightly outside of my comfort zone whenever I can."

Buckingham, who had toured with his own band in 2011, acknowledges that the one-man show "was kind of odd the first couple of nights; I kept looking around to see where everybody else was. But that fell away, and I think it really did turn into a real focal point for the audience, where there was nothing else up there but me so they could really zoom in on what was going on. I always talk about looking for the center, and I think this was an obvious extension of that."

Particularly intriguing, Buckingham adds, was using technology to layer additional guitar parts into several of the songs during the shows. "When I came to a moment of clarity where I realized I was going to want to do 'Go Your Own Way' or 'So Afraid,' and the logical conclusion is you've got to be able to hit a pedal or have a loop or have a guitar part coming in," he explains. "You're not fooling anybody in doing that. You're not trying to pretend it's not there. But it kind of caps off the concept of this (one-man show) idea. I think that's the point where the show really kinda completes itself." And bloopers, he says, have not been an issue. "It's been pretty seamless for the most part. It's just a matter of keeping your eye on the ball as things are going. You'd think that because you're so exposed there'd be more of that, but so far that hasn't happened."

Buckingham says he's looking forward to doing more one-man shows and expanding their repertoire, but his focus is turning to Fleetwood Mac, which is expected to announce its 2013 tour dates soon, with, he says, a likely early April start. "I'm looking forward to it," Buckingham says. "I get to go out there and try these other things on my own, and the more that defines me as an individual and the more it tends to differ from the Fleetwood Mac experience, then the more I'm able to just let the group thing go where it's gonna go."

And, he says, that may include some new music. Buckingham says he, drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie convened earlier this year in his home studio and "sat down and tracked some stuff," which he's recently shown to Nicks for her input. "We may be able to organize something -- I wouldn't think a whole album, but possibly something before we hit the road or, if not then, possibly something a little more extensive after the tour, depending on what everybody wants to do," Buckingham says. "The material is quite good, but we have to get everybody on the same page with that, and we'll see where it goes."