How and why I became a Lindsey Buckingham fan

[secret love]

Buongiorno a tutti!

This thread is just me reflecting on how I started out as a Nicks fan and gradually moved away from her to be more loyal to Liddy Buck instead.

Stevie attracted me with her smoky voice and her physical beauty.

Lindsey's music sounded frenzied and paranoid, especially on Say You Will. His physical appearance also repelled me a little bit because to be frank, he looks a bit creepy until you get to know him better...by listening to him speak in relaxed environments on radio and on film.

I would still be more loyal to Stevie, were it not for her focusing on 24 Karat Gold instead of being in the studio with Lindsey, Christine, Mick and John earlier this year, in 2014.

Stevie has lost my loyalty because of her blatant, undisguised selfishness and narcissism. An interviewer asked her once about her singing abilities now and she agreed with the interviewer that she sings better now than she did in the seventies and went on to add that she could teach voice.

Sorry, Stevie, but you sounded so much better in the 1970's than you do today. You still have a great singing voice and can hold a tune, just like Judith Durham of The Seekers fame in Australia.

Lindsey has never been as narcissistic or as self-obsessed as his ex-girlfriend. He has especially over the last ten years revealed himself as a very mellow, relaxed and smooth kind of guy. His music has become more mature, more inward-looking and reflective than self-obsessed. His songs are reflecting on his life and extrapolating that to his audience - he writes songs that most ordinary people can probably identify with on some level.

Songs like Hard Advice and I Don't Care are just perfect examples of why I no longer feel any loyalty towards Stevie Nicks' solo work.

Hard Advice is a song with a great instrumental track but the lyrics only reveal a story about advice that would not have been difficult to take for a well-grounded individual. I am a writer myself, although I have not been fortunate enough to be published yet. I have experienced writer's block, just like Stevie has. The difference between me and her is that I push through it on my own. I don't wait for Tom Petty to come around, hug me and smile, then say "Go and write some real songs! Stay out of music stores! Don't buy that doll!"

I Don't Care is another song with an excellent underlying instrumental track and I happen to enjoy the lyrics written over that track by Stevie Nicks. However, I am sure that there are a lot of people including myself who are yet to find love at all (I'm only 21), or who have been searching for love to no avail for years. To sing a love song about how she pushes away someone who cares deeply about her just illustrates her selfishness, in my view.

Anyway - does anyone else have a story of which individual band member they most identify with and, has it always been that way for you?