Tour Until July/New CD To Be Released in 2008

[lbfan]

Fleetwood Mac star personalizes solo CD
San Jose Mercury News

January 12, 2007

It really was just a thing of thinking about childhood and those times, and how magical they seem. And family. Whenever he gets away from his responsibilities in Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham has always gone his own way.

'It's not like Fleetwood Mac is about any one thing,' he says, 'but certainly, if you cut to the chase, it's about the bottom line in a lot of people's minds. Whatever I might be interested in is not. So you have to make the choice and then fight the fight.'

For 'Under the Skin,' his first solo album in 14 years, the Atherton native has stripped the music to its essential elements: Buckingham's intensely personal lyrics over his accomplished acoustic finger-picking, with no drums or bass.

'If I had wanted this album to reach the broadest audience it could have, I would have made a more normal album,' he says.

Instead, it's an intimate portrait of the artist as a middle-aged man, a once-restless rock star who seems to have found both creative and personal fulfillment at age 57.

Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974, along with fellow Menlo-Atherton High School alum Stevie Nicks, and his songs, voice, guitar prowess and production skills helped transform a fairly successful British blues-rock band into an L.A.-based pop-rock juggernaut.

The band hasn't been Buckingham's only outlet. He has released four solo albums in the years since, and left the band entirely from 1987 to 1997, but both Fleetwood Mac and Buckingham have found much more commercial success together than apart.

The new album's first song, 'Not Too Late,' was inspired by an article in Rolling Stone that Buckingham read while on tour with Fleetwood Mac. It opens, 'Reading the paper saw a review/Said I was a visionary, but nobody knew.'

Buckingham makes clear that 'visionary' was critic Bud Scoppa's word, not his own, but he expresses pride in having stuck to his artistic guns over the years, despite the pressures that come with being part of an enormously successful band.

'When you are in a situation where you are defining yourself in ways that others do not wish you to define yourself, you have to be your own best booster, because there's really not going to be anyone else,' he says. 'Especially when it's pitted against some large machine like Fleetwood Mac.'

The song also introduces the album's key theme: family. It's the first album he's made since getting married and having kids -- now ages 8, 6 and 2 -- and his family's presence is felt throughout the album, both in the lyrics and in the photographs that illustrate the booklet.

'It Was You' plainly and directly expresses gratitude to his wife and the family she gave him, in a multitude of overdubbed Buckingham vocals. The album closes with 'Flying Down Juniper,' a song inspired by childhood memories of riding bikes down Juniper Drive in Atherton.

'It ran right into the front of our house, so any time we would leave and go out into that world, we were going down Juniper Drive,' he says. 'It really was just a thing of thinking about childhood and those times, and how magical they seem. And family.'

Buckingham plans to tour the new album through July and then to record another solo album, which he expects to come out early in 2008. Then he'll return to his more lucrative job.

'I'm just trying to give myself the window to complete these projects properly,' says Buckingham, who on multiple occasions has seen his own solo projects cannibalized into Fleetwood Mac albums. 'And then we'll see what Fleetwood Mac wants to do after that.'

[Little Nicki]

Originally Posted by Little Nicki

Don't mean to be a downer, but this [tour] pretty much confirms he won't be releasing another album next year. Unless of course this is the tour for it, but the article neglects to mention that. I don't see even our new, efficient Lindsey completing a full album in six months.


- December 11th, 2006

She's good.

[wondergirl9847]

Thanks for posting this.

[trackaghost]

Originally Posted by lbfan

'If I had wanted this album to reach the broadest audience it could have, I would have made a more normal album,' he says.

Well, I guess after all the arguing Lindsey says it best himself.

Buckingham plans to tour the new album through July and then to record another solo album, which he expects to come out early in 2008. Then he'll return to his more lucrative job.

I'm crossing my fingers that he means he's bringing the show to Europe then! I mean he's already toured the States, he needs some new places to play

[shackin'up]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

Well, I guess after all the arguing Lindsey says it best himself.



I'm crossing my fingers that he means he's bringing the show to Europe then! I mean he's already toured the States, he needs some new places to play

ohhh, don't push the button Sharon. I can't handle that thought. I'll be in London in a sec if he comes over for only a few UK dates that's for sure.

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

ohhh, don't push the button Sharon. I can't handle that thought. I'll be in London in a sec if he comes over for only a few UK dates that's for sure.

Gerald, if I won the lottery, I'd personally pay for him to do a privvate show just for you buddy.

[shackin'up]

I'd invite some european ledgies dude. Private shows are only fun if performed clothless.

thanks in advance! Now get your ass to the store for lotterytickets!

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

I'd invite some european ledgies dude. Private shows are only fun if performed clothless.

thanks in advance! Now get your ass to the store for lotterytickets!

Yes sir!

[Sahara]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

I'm crossing my fingers that he means he's bringing the show to Europe then! I mean he's already toured the States, he needs some new places to play

Do you think it's likely? *praying*

[WelshWitchPMD]

Originally Posted by lbfan

Buckingham plans to tour the new album through July and then to record another solo album, which he expects to come out early in 2008. Then he'll return to his more lucrative job.

I was hoping that he was going to tour again with the new solo album in 2008. That would make more sense. Then he could bring that tour overseas.

[LINDSEY#1FAN]

[QUOTE=shackin'up;629439]I'd invite some european ledgies dude. Private shows are only fun if performed clothless.
QUOTE]

I would travel ANYWHERE to see a Lindsey show in that fashion!!!!!!!!! LMAO

[Mari]

only listened to Under The Skin for maybe three times so far, but if does London.. I'm there!!

[takenbythesky]

I scanned the newspaper article this morning. San Jose Mercury News, Monday, January 15, 2007.

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by takenbythesky

I scanned the newspaper article this morning. San Jose Mercury News, Monday, January 15, 2007.

He looks hot in both those pictures!

[LINDSEY#1FAN]

He does lookin smokin hot !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!