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Originally posted by seteca
I've never heard Lindsey miss a single bass note as he is an extremely gifted Travis picker.
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Beg to differ
He definitely fluffed the leadin to verse two of Big Love at the second NEC gig - not enough for the average non-musical-obsessive to notice, I suspect.
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(Furthermore, some live versions/rehearsals of "The Chain", "Landslide", "Never Going Back Again" and "World Turning" from the 70s clearly show that he was already an amazing Travis picker and could improvise whenever he felt like it.)
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"World Turning"'s a whole 'nother story
My problem with that isn't the riff, which is actually not THAT hard, but the fact that (like the very simple riff in "Peacekeeper") you have to totally disengage your playing brain from your singing brain, and leave the riff running on comeplete autopilot while you sing something that's rhythmically different over the top.
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I think that unless you sat down with both Robert Johnson and Lindsey Buckingham and timed how much they practiced and rehearsed their respective songs, it's impossible to say which one of the two is more worthy of the "3 brain accolade". There's nothing to "pretend" about - they are both musical geniuses and legends, and that's as far as their similarities go.
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In a completely different style, listen to the late and remarkably excellent Isaac Guillory: my first introduction to him was a live recording of a jazz blues, bass/chords/melody all flowing and independent. Awesome.
BTW, seteca - we clearly need to meet up for a beer and a jam sometime