The New HDNet/DVD Thread

michelej1 · #1 10-13-2007, 12:41 PM

As we prepare for the show, thought I'd post this article from back in January when it was taped:

Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth), January 28, 2007
Singer goes his own way in style

By ROBERT PHILPOT, STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER

FORT WORTH -- When you're essentially a cult artist who has sprung from a mega-selling band, sometimes you have to strike a balance in concert. For Lindsey Buckingham , that tightrope is strung between 30-year-old Fleetwood Mac songs about a relationship gone awry and present-day ones about finding peace in the marriage he's in now.

In his show Saturday night at Bass Hall, Buckingham pulled off the high-wire act and then some, playing several songs off his excellent new CD Under the Skin and his biggies from 1977's Rumours -- Go Your Own Way, Second Hand News, Never Going Back Again -- but also touching on many other aspects of his Fleetwood Mac tenure and his solo career.

The show's best moments came when Buckingham messed with the old stuff. When he pulled out an explosive, eardrum-rewiring guitar solo on I'm So Afraid, he may have risked self-indulgence -- except that he seemed to lose control, becoming possessed by the screaming tones that filled the hall. That was the high point, but it wasn't the only highlight.

Space doesn't permit listing all the examples, but another wild solo to climax Go Your Own Way and a malevolent take on the 1984 solo hit Go Insane, which sounded more like something from a spaghetti Western than the bouncy original, were among the many peaks.

Sometimes playing solo, other times with a band (guitarist Neale Heywood, percussionist Taku Hirano and bassist/keyboardist Brett Tuggle), Buckingham may have shocked anyone who still thinks of Fleetwood Mac as '70s soft-rock.

Rippling through finger-picked guitar runs, modulating his vocals from near-whispers to full-throated bellows, leading the group in the oddball sonic experiments he so loves, Buckingham showed why some people call him visionary even as his opening number Not Too Late indicated that he's uncomfortable with the term.

If the show had a flaw, it was in the momentum-threatening interruptions that occurred because the concert was being filmed for Mark Cuban's HDNet. But even with those minor glitches, Buckingham danced all over the tightrope, when he could have settled for just walking.

GRADE: A

TrueFaith77 · #2 10-13-2007, 07:36 PM

showed why some people call him visionary even as his opening number Not Too Late indicated that he's uncomfortable with the term.

I'm laughing like the assistant in "Destiny Rules." That's not how I interpret that song at all. Hahaha. Anyway, thanks for posting that article. CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE SHOW

Sarah · #3 10-13-2007, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by TrueFaith77

showed why some people call him visionary even as his opening number Not Too Late indicated that he's uncomfortable with the term.

I'm laughing like the assistant in "Destiny Rules." That's not how I interpret that song at all. Hahaha. Anyway, thanks for posting that article. CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE SHOW

What about how he says "you know you should never believe what you read" ?

Peestie · #4 10-14-2007, 06:01 AM

So will anybody here be posting this on ThrownDown (if it's back) or on another site like The Traders Den once they get it tonight?

I'm really looking forward to seeing this. Been really looking forward to it to cheer me up a bit. Can't wait to see it!

EDIT: It says that the show is one and a half hours long. Does HDNet show adverts and that will mean we'll only get an hours worth of the show? Does anyone know how long the show was before stuff gets taken out? I'm guess an hour and a half would be about right if all the guitar swaps are edited out. I'm just hoping we'll get as much of the show as possible, but if they leave some songs out to make it fit then I suppose it'll leave more to look forward to on the DVD.

AliceLover · #5 10-14-2007, 04:35 PM

I am so excited for this!!! I so loved him on this tour. I am still thrilled that he added Turn it On. That song is just amazing!

WizNicks · #6 10-14-2007, 05:24 PM

Okay, ThrownDown.net is back up again (and hopefully for a little but longer than before). Hopefully there is someone willing to upload it!

AliceLover · #7 10-14-2007, 09:35 PM

How was the show?!?!?!?

I am dying to hear soundboard recordings of these songs!

suzyvermoesen · #8 10-15-2007, 05:36 AM

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Originally Posted by WizNicks

Okay, ThrownDown.net is back up again (and hopefully for a little but longer than before). Hopefully there is someone willing to upload it!

i'm afraid it's down again ?

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