Is Lindsey Buckingham Cool ?

[madformac]

He isn't cool in the definition, as accepted in "rock" music.

Cool to me is leading a fashion or an image, whatever you want to call it. Lindsey's playing is a little too neat to be considered cool. He is getting better, but to me "cool" and "hip" mean playing the same song differently every single time and not being afraid to f**k it up every now and again. Admittedly its difficult with the Travis picked songs but Lindsey has his comfort zone and likes to stay within it live, after its been perfected in the rehearsal studios of course.

But he has changed arrangements and been a little more out of his normal territory on this tour so kudos for that. Throwing in stuff like Bwana etc has been great after so many FM tours with the same songs in the same order night after night after night... He is still not chilling the room when he breathes but he is a little cooler than he was. I'm assuming he is smoking the herbal stuff again 'cos he seems to have loosened up a bit in interviews too.

The Stones are cool, despite everything. OK, they can't play as well anymore, but they are gigging when they should be retired which is somewhat cool and they change the songs every night. The last couple of tours they have had 400 songs rehearsed and ready to throw in. And they are not afraid to "blag it" as we say here, and just play on with mistakes. That is pretty cool to me...

Fashion wise, Lindsey wears a leather jacket that went out of style 10 years back and he needs to get a t-shirt that fits properly, otherwise he looks pretty cool for his years.