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Originally Posted by The Nisse
Hi guys.
Long time fan and Buckhead here. Haven't been active on the board for a while, but wanted to share som thoughts after seeing the Mac live for the third time yesterday in Herning, Denmark.
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welcome back, please stay around a bit.
although happy to see tons of guests checking LB forum, we need more posting Buckheads throwing in their opinions around here.
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Originally Posted by The Nisse
Lindsey
Don't know exactly how to put this...but I am getting little miffed by Lindsey "tefloness". I mean, he comes out at does some amazing stuff, and turns the people on with incredible acts of musicianship - but it is almost as if he just pushes the play button and does what he does. You get the impression that is truly just a job for him, and though he says he's grateful people are there, you doubt he really means it. I don't know if this behaviour comes from being nervous or something, but it's like he puts on this facade to shield himself from being...well, himself. And the speeches...omg the speeches. Maybe in America they might work slightly, but here we just can't stand that superficial crap about being an artist. After just 10 seconds people start getting uneasy and it seems as though he can't sense it, but has to finish his thing.
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you know, it's interesting. Mick repeatedly said Lindsey is the one band member who doesn't have a stage freight, and i think i can believe that. after seeing him live about what? almost 30 times now, some solo and some with thw Mac, i think you can definitely sense it performance-wise: the days he's on and the days he's off. although like you said his performance is always so amazing that it seems unfair to say that. but i've definitely seen a couple of shows where he was off and looked like phoning it in. (maybe the show you've seen was one of those and you sensed it?) so i don't think he does it on a regular basis, and i think he truly enjoys what he does, besides being so good at it.
another thing that i found interesting to see - when you sit on the side of the stage, you can see the band behind the stage before, during and after the show. when the show was over and he left the stage (at least in Amsterdam), it seemed that all that energy that he pulls together for those almost 3 hours of playing and interacting and jumping around the stage, just drained out of him, and he exited the stage area with the lightning speed, with several guys on each side throwing a large towel over his shoulders and escorting him out. you know, kinda reminded me of a boxer after a fight.
speeches however are a whole separate thing. i don't think he's comfortable giving speeches, but seems he has certain messages he likes to transmit. in Columbus, at the first show of the tour, bunch of us very standing right in front of him and mouthing the exact words of what he was saying
(don't think he enjoyed that, which was the purpose!). seems he has been trying to change some wording a bit, but still not enough. he's so funny and "normal" when he's of the cuff, but for some reason he just doesn't feel comfortable doing it... or doesn't feel it would transmit whatever message he wants to convey. but like you said, if you heard it once it might sound good, but when you know it's exact same speech at every show... well. not that funny, is it?
