[seteca]

I became a fan at a very young age after my older brother bought the Tango In The Night album the day it was released in 1987. I remember thinking that all the songs on it were amazing and when I saw the Big Love video I thought Lindsey (who I thought was called "Steve" after reading the album liner notes! ) was the coolest guy ever to walk the Earth! It was also the same year that I'd started playing guitar (I'd started teaching myself by playing along to my parents' Shadows records) so I listened to the album over and over trying to play simple "pluck-pluck" versions of the songs on my junior-size acoustic. From then on, I began listening to all my brother's and parents' Fleetwood Mac cassettes and I fell in love with the band and their music. Lindsey Buckingham became one of my two inspirations (the other being Hank Marvin) and to say that I was "extremely happy" when I heard that LB had rejoined for the Dance in 1997 would be the understatement of the century! I would say I definitely fall into that category of fans who are primarily a fan of a specific member, rather than the band as a whole, and in my case that member is, of course, LB.