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Originally Posted by michelej1
Spencer Tweedy probably has more experience talking about, playing and being around music than most folks twice his age. As you probably know, the 19-year-old is Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy's son, the drummer for the father/son combo Tweedy, a founding member of his long-running rock group The Blisters, the occasional writer of thoughtful and insightful music criticism for the Talkhouse and Rookie (his piece on "Run The Jewels 2" is one of the year's most measured takes) and, most of all, a huge fan—during our first RedEye interview, our conversation went off the rails after just geeking out about The Stooges and Black Flag, among others. So, when I found out Tweedy had never heard Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours," one of the most successful and influential albums of all time, I knew I had to invite him over and play it for him.
Even his dad was pretty surprised that his son hadn't heard freaking "Rumours"; Spencer says the elder Tweedy incredulously asked, "Really? You haven't heard ‘Rumours'?" earlier that night. But Spencer hadn't just not heard that enormous 1977 record; he couldn't recall ever listening to Fleetwood Mac. Not the iconic British/American rock band's 1975 self-titled album. Or 1979's "Tusk." All he knew was that Stevie Nicks was in the group, that "Rumours" has sold a bonkers amount of records (more than 40 million copies worldwide) and that Lindsey Buckingham "shows up sometime."
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so LB "shows up sometime" - does that mean he comes around to hang out with members of Wilco or something?
it's slightly amusing to read he thinks he'd like "Buckingham Nicks" music better than FM when parts of most songs he actually likes the best are Fleetwood's and McVie's.