Trying Something New

[David]

Lindsey has referred repeatedly to the goal of some of his new picking & layering techniques used on his solo material (which got turned into this newest Fleetwood Mac album)---of wanting to make one guitar (or two guitars at most) do the work of a whole track using more experimental fingerpicking & sharper, more defined arrangements, as well as trying to create a very percussive, drum-like energy with the guitars. And you can hear this approach exactly in "Red Rover" & "Try for the Sun" & "Say Goodbye" & some others. He also relied on this new technique of his when he played the George Harrison song at the tribute on ABC last year.

I can't help thinking that this new instrumental dynamic is going to play some part in what Lindsey means by "trying something new" for a specific segment of the Fleetwood Mac show.