Lindsey Buckingham: Getting Fleetwood Mac Back Together for One Last Tour

[Spikey]

When The Long Run was released in 1979, Lindsey told the press: "It's more of the same. I mean, why bother?"

The Eagles had a different aesthetic. They didn't want to make bold inroads into new sonic territory. They just wanted to pull their ironic songs together with tight playing & singing, & appeal to as many listeners as possible. Whereas Fleetwood Mac -- or at least certain factions within Fleetwood Mac -- specifically wanted to confound the expectations listeners had & to experiment with the traditional ways in which a track was built. (You would never have caught the Eagles recording an entire track of guitars manipulated specifically to sound like keyboards from around the world.)

But the two bands were lumped together so frequently in those days -- because they were both such massive organizations -- that the relationship has stuck to this day.

I believe Ken Caillat said in an interview that Lindsey brought "Hotel California" to the "Tusk" sessions and said something along the lines of "It all sounds the same, we're not doing a record like this."

Lindsey definitely meant something derogatory about The Eagles. They rarely broke new ground with their albums, although I do like most of them.

Can someone who knows the actual quote save me?

- Spike