Tour postponed - new dates August

[vivfox]

Not to be a Debbie downer but I predict these dates will be cancelled also. I doubt ANY band will tour this year.

[michelej1]

I think people will tour this year, but not that early. Even if the virus recedes in hot weather I don’t think concert goers will be ready financially until later on.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by michelej1

I think people will tour this year, but not that early. Even if the virus recedes in hot weather I don’t think concert goers will be ready financially until later on.

Agree, I think maybe October would be the earliest. But, I love LB's tenacity. He's still got it!

[michelej1]

Today, I am remembering how “Use Me” was played before Lindsey shows. For such a short career, Bill Withers had a lot of hits.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Today, I am remembering how “Use Me” was played before Lindsey shows. For such a short career, Bill Withers had a lot of hits.

Lean On Me was released in 1972. How is that a short career?

[michelej1]

I just mean that he left the business when he was only 45 and obviously still had so much more to give. He was not active for long.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by michelej1

I just mean that he left the business when he was only 45 and obviously still had so much more to give. He was not active for long.

I never realized that he'd left the business. I figured he was just playing small rooms these days.

[elle]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Not to be a Debbie downer but I predict these dates will be cancelled also. I doubt ANY band will tour this year.

duh.

(where's that Billie Eilish meme when you need one?)

[secondhandchain]

One can only imagine what M$ck would have done if he was asked to cancel his tour because of the virus. He would have sold zoom meet and greets and promised to dance naked. Nothing comes between money, and money grubbing M$ck. NOTHING. Hell he'd even fire the architect of the FM sound if .....oh wait that did happen. Scarve wearing gumby jerk.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by secondhandchain

Hell he'd even fire the architect of the FM sound if .....oh wait that did happen.

You must be really bored.

[UnwindedDreams]

I hope Lindsey is happy with however his voice sounds to him these days. He was supposed to start his original spring tour pretty soon.

[michelej1]

If Lindsey can speak audibly he’s probably happy. We know he can whisper. Well, he enjoys screaming too, so if he can do that ... I don’t think he’s cared a lot about how his voice sounds musically in a while.

[elle]

https://bestclassicbands.com/lindsey...-2020-4-13-20/

Lindsey Buckingham Reschedules 2020 Tour
by Best Classic Bands Staff

Lindsey Buckingham has rescheduled most of the dates of his brief solo tour that had been scheduled for spring 2020. The musician had a dozen dates planned for April and May. Eight of them have been moved to the summer.

When he postponed the tour on March 24, Buckingham wrote, “It is with great sadness that we are having to postpone my tour dates… due to the Covid-19 pandemic.” He noted that he is in the process of rescheduling the concerts.

The original Feb. 11 announcement of the tour arrived one year after the shocking news from his wife, Kristen, that the musician had had heart surgery in early February 2019.

Buckingham’s planned tour consisted of just 12 dates, one of which, the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, Tenn, was announced on Dec. 20. The annual festival has since been moved to Oct. 16-18, though as of April 13, the organizers had not yet announced their revised lineup.

Buckingham’s spring tour of theater-sized venues was scheduled to begin April 25 and continue through May 13. Surprisingly, there were few days off and at one point, he had shows on six of seven nights. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com.

Kristen Buckingham had shared the news of her husband’s health on his social media platforms on Feb. 8, 2019. He had suffered vocal cord damage and was “recuperating at home and each day he is stronger than the last,” she wrote. He turned 70 on Oct. 3, 2019.

Related: On New Year’s Day, Kristen shared a great photo of the two of them

Buckingham had a highly visible parting from Fleetwood Mac in 2018. The band completed a tour this fall with two replacements – the Heartbreakers’ lead guitarist Mike Campbell, and longtime Split Enz/Crowded House guitarist-vocalist Neil Finn. Buckingham spent much of his time in 2018 organizing an anthology and performing on a solo tour.

Watch him perform in 2018

Related: Our review of a Buckingham concert in October 2018

Lindsey Buckingham 2020 Tour (Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com)

To Be Rescheduled
May 03 – Memphis, TN – Beale Street Music Festival
May 05 – Atlanta, GA – Woodruff Arts Center
May 12 – Tucson, AZ – Fox Tucson Theatre
May 13 – El Cajon, CA – Magnolia PAC

New Dates
Jul 31 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant (was May 1)
Aug 02 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater (was Apr 30)
Aug 04 – Wichita, KS – Orpheum Theatre (was May 9)
Aug 05 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion (was May 10)
Aug 07 – Boulder, CO – Boulder Theater (was April 28)
Aug 15 – Las Vegas, NV – The Smith Center for the Perf. Arts (was Apr 25)
Aug 29 – Huntsville, AL – Von Braun Center (was May 7)
Aug 30 – Knoxville, TN – Bijou Theatre (was May 6)

Related: Listings for 100s of classic rock tours

[UnwindedDreams]

Hi, Elle,

If not germane, I apologize as it is a thread you created, but for his meet & greets: how many people attend like 50-60?

Thank you very much.

[elle]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

Hi, Elle,

If not germane, I apologize as it is a thread you created, but for his meet & greets: how many people attend like 50-60?

Thank you very much.

yup, in 2018 it was anywhere between 40-60, depending on the venue.

back in 2012, it was way less, like 20 or so per show, and was more relaxed, less professionally done.