Hits Daily Double article about Lindsey

[kak125]

5. Lindsey Buckingham at the Saban Theatre: A special friends-and-family performance filmed for TV to highlight his upcoming solo album, the Fleetwood Mac member offered a 19-song, nearly two-hour retrospective of his career, featuring eight Mac numbers, five solo tunes and six from the new Seeds We Sow, scheduled for release in September. Buckingham is a world-class guitar player, especially on acoustic, with a thrumming style that has notes banging up against each other in cascading waves. He begins stage-center along with a guitar, starting with “Shut Us Down,” a track from his 2006 solo album Under the Skin, before launching into a slow, deliberate “Go Insane,” from his 1984 solo effort of the same name. He tells us that “the child still lives in me… as it should,” explaining how he taught himself to play listening to his older brothers’ records, before launching into “Trouble,” the 1981 hit from his very first solo album, Law and Order. That led into a pair of big Mac tunes in Rumours’ “Never Going Back” and Tango in the Night’s “Big Love,” which he describes as “a meditation on change,” explaining the line, “looking out for love” he later realized was his way of distancing himself from any emotional involvement. At this point, he’s joined by a three-piece band with Neil Heywood on guitar, Bret Tuggle on bass/keyboards and Wilfredo Reyes on drums, for a set that begins with “Under the Skin” from his 2006 solo effort Shut Us Down, then segues into his cover of the Kingston Trio’s “All My Sorrows,” from his 1992 solo album, Out of the Cradle. He then launches into a pair of songs, “In Our Own Time” and “Illumination,” from the upcoming Seeds We Sow, calling the album a “microcosm of family and relationships,” acknowledging his wife and three kids sitting in the audience, a far cry from his tumultuous pairing with Stevie Nicks back in the day, adding, “Our actions have consequences as individuals." The new songs segue seamlessly into two older chestnuts, “Second Hand News” from Rumours and his classic with the USC Marching Band, “Tusk.” Three more new songs follow, “Stars,” “End of Time” and “The Way Love Goes,” the latter finding him singing, “I’d like to take the pain away/I’d like to take your shame away.” “I’m So Afraid,” from Fleetwood Mac’s 1975 self-titled album, which marked the debut of Buckingham and Nicks, and a rousing “Go Your Own Way,” brings the crowd to its feet, as Lindsey returns for a three-song encore starting with “Turn it On,” from Out of the Cradle, “Treason,” from his last solo album, 2008’s Gift of Screws, and “Seeds We Sow,” the title track from the new album and a fitting close to a night that reaffirmed Buckingham as a world-class auteur who seems delighted to be working on a smaller “indie film” canvas that suits him better than the blockbuster-or-bust world of his famous, platinum-selling band.

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/...i?news08514m01

[michelej1]

Very nice. This was written by someone who seemed to know their Lindsey stuff.

What a pleasure to read. Thank you.

Michele

[TrueFaith77]

What I loved about this was how it made me feel the set list--and what a genius set list it is.

[elle]

Originally Posted by TrueFaith77

What I loved about this was how it made me feel the set list--and what a genius set list it is.

agree, i think it's a great set list! new songs really add to it, too. it will be such a great tour! there are just few things i'd replace to fit my personal tastes: wouldn't do UTS and sorrows, but instead maybe try for the sun or rodeo from skin, and i liked don't look down on the last tour but since he already did that, maybe hmmm - you do or you don't? definitely nice to see turn it on in the set.

and would replace treason w/ underground, and add another one from GOS - maybe RPTF; also wait for you maybe. wouldn't mind hearing GoS either.

oh and then of course i want two tusk songs - acoustic walk a thin line primarily, but wouldn't mind hearing present day version of WMYTYTO either.

now when i listed all this, i have a feeling we've already discussed it but i'm lazy to check...

[Cammie]

Thank you so much for this well done article about our guitar genius Lindsey Buckingham!
A funny thing about the royal wedding...when we
saw Buckingham Palace printed on the screen
we smiled like the true Bucky fans we are !!!

[Nico]

Thanks for posting this! I'm so glad that so many on this board not only went but also shared so much of their experience with us. Because imagine reading this article and not having seen/heard any of that?

[McTrouble]

Originally Posted by Cammie

Thank you so much for this well done article about our guitar genius Lindsey Buckingham!
A funny thing about the royal wedding...when we
saw Buckingham Palace printed on the screen
we smiled like the true Bucky fans we are !!!:cool:

Well I always have a little smile to myself when I'm looking at the travel news and there always seems to be roadworks in Buckinghamshire