Confirmed - Gyow

[David]

Originally Posted by amber

Nice. Thanks for the info. I know Linds fans like to snobulate about, and discussinate ad geniusism, but - I'm glad he's doing the show, and sometimes musicians just sing all around and do shows, and it's fine. I think it's fun to bring him in with modern people - he'll shine either way. I mean, he could easily show up C. Underwood, but also the song could sound great anyways.

Yeah I agree, but a great deal of the less than enthusiastic perspective that people like Gerald have on stuff like this seems to originate with Lindsey himself. As far back as the Rumours tour, Lindsey was telling the press how boring such a long tour was because you had to play You Make Loving Fun or Dreams every night for a year, & that he vastly preferred recording studio work, where he could always work on something new. The "staying fresh" soundbite in Lindsey's speech & thinking goes a lot further back than the 1997 reunion. It's a thirty-year-old motive in his mindset. HE'S the one who started talking about how pointless & bland it was to play the old hits every year, & how it stymied growth in an artist. That never occurred to the other guys in Fleetwood Mac. That was Lindsey's thinking.

Remember one of the interviews he gave during the 1997 tour in which he complained that standing onstage playing Rhiannon made him forget what year it was? I actually thought when I read that: "Well what about Go Your Own Way & I'm So Afraid? Your own material is the same old hit material as the stuff you feel weird playing today."

In the early 1980s, he didn't even want to tour solo until he felt he had enough material to be able to "make a statement" that was different enough from the typical Fleetwood Mac show. Even with two solo albums completed in 1984, he didn't tour. However bogus that view of his was, he really believed it & stuck to it by not doing any live work.

I think the point is that Lindsey has changed a lot of these opinions he used to have. I think the 1981 Lindsey Buckingham would have looked at the plans for the Say You Will tour with something like shock at the idea of gearing the whole thing to big arenas filled with people wanting to hear Dreams again. But by 2003 or whenever that tour was, he was of a different mind. He has made many recent comments about how a Fleetwood Mac show "needs" to include many of the old hits & the old approaches -- "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown," he seems to be saying.