Toronto Star (article)

[MacMan]

Nothing new here.... Pretty much the same article that ran in Billboard Magazine.


Sudden maturity strikes guitar whiz
Fleetwood Mac's Buckingham adds wife, solo career
Sep. 10, 2006. 01:00 AM
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NEW YORK—For his first solo album in 14 years Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham looked to his own life for lyrical inspiration.

"It gets into a more bare-bones look at what's going on with me after all this time," says Buckingham, who at 57 now has three young children. "I've finally gotten married and am slowly shedding the dysfunctional thing everyone in the band seemed to have emotionally.''

Under the Skin — due out Oct. 3 — includes two tracks featuring the Fleetwood Mac rhythm section of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. The other eight tracks find Buckingham generating all the rhythm simply via his own percussive guitar playing.

"It's something I've been interested in for a long time: trying to distill down the essence of that certain thing I do," he tells Billboard.com. "I want to still have it sound like a record, but very much in the spirit of someone sitting and playing guitar.''

Buckingham wrote most of the material for Under the Skin while on the road with Fleetwood Mac in support of its 2003 comeback album, Say You Will. Now he's heading out on only his second solo trek ever, starting Oct. 6 in Atlanta. (No Toronto show has been announced.)

Buckingham will be backed on the road by Fleetwood Mac percussionist Taku Hirano and guitarist Neal Haywood, plus guitarist/keyboardist Brett Tuggle.

As for the status of Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham says he and the other members of the band — made famous in the 1970s for their emotional connections and confrontations — are all up for future touring but unsure if any recording is in the cards.

"It's important that we end up in a place where we are good, as a group of people," he observes, "A place where all the politics are left behind for what's really real. Despite what has gone on, this is a group of people I'll know as well as anyone I'll ever know except my family. I've been through more with them than I've ever been through with my own family," he says, laughing.

Billboard.com