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April 6, 1993 Tuesday, Reuters HEADLINE: Lindsey Buckingham shaking off ghost of Fleetwood Mac. BYLINE: By Dean Goodman BODY: LOS ANGELES, April 6, Reuter - Lindsey Buckingham, the brains behind Fleetwood Mac, refuses to slam the door completely on his times with the 1970s' supergroup even as he savours his newfound freedom as a solo performer. The 45-year-old musician is currently playing mid-sized venues in North America with a 10-piece backing band on his first ever tour without "the Big Mac", which he quit in 1987. While he is relieved to be free of the backstabbings and intrigues that plagued the Fleetwood Mac bureaucracy, he doesn't mind combining hits from that era with tunes from his latest album, "Out of the Cradle". "Over a period of time we can drop some of those (old songs) maybe, but I'm saying this is phase two of something, and I don't feel a need to divorce myself from any of that," he told Reuters in a recent interview at his Bel Air, California, home. "I think that would be in a way almost inappropriate." But songs like "Go Your Own Way" and "Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow)" from the huge "Rumours" album from 1977 obviously get a different treatment with his current band. The extreme example is "Big Love", a song he wrote for solo use but which was co-opted for Fleetwood Mac's 1987 "Tango in The Night". The song opens the current show, but it's just Buckingham on stage with his guitar, with none of the original's lush arrangements. Having yearned for his creative freedom for some time, he quit Fleetwood Mac after "Tango", most of which was recorded at his house when the band was going through yet another messy period. For example, singer Stevie Nicks participated in the year-long process for just two weeks. "Other people also had personal problems at the time. It was almost impossible to get anything done," Buckingham says. "It was demoralising." The group's problems were highlighted in Mick Fleetwood's recent autobiography, which contained scathing comments about Buckingham and recounts some incidents that Buckingham says never happened. But Buckingham got his own back in the song "Wrong" from "Out of the Cradle". It's a savage putdown of Mick Fleetwood with the chorus "Young Mr Rockcock, where do you belong?" Fleetwood and Buckingham have since patched things up, and the band reunited in January to play "Don't Stop" -- which was the Democratic Party's unofficial campaign song -- at President Bill Clinton's inaugural gala. "It didn't have a huge emotional attachment for me," Buckingham said of the reunion. "The fact that we could play that song in our sleep -- in fact we probably did play it in our sleep a few times -- it was easy. "Being involved in such a specific event for such a specific purpose, it provided a nice sense of closure for the band," he says. While he doesn't rule out further reunions, Buckingham says the prospect seems rather distasteful. "For other people in the band there may be other reasons, like money, to want to do it. I've earned the right to make the kind of choices I want to make." At the moment, his new solo career is the main focus. The tour kicked off last month in Los Angeles and the show was marked by standing ovations for most songs from an adulatory audience. A single, "Don't Look Down", is being released to coincide with the tour and "Out of the Cradle", which was lauded by critics but shunned by record buyers, may get a second chance as people catch his show. Buckingham doesn't mind either way. What matters, he says, is that he's got a band of keen unknowns, and he's finally getting to do things on his own terms. "I think I'm probably enjoying this more than I ever did Fleetwood Mac, although I suppose that's not surprising," he says. |
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Globe and Mail Canada, November 28, 1981
HEADLINE: INSIDE THE SLEEVE POP Law and Order Lindsey Buckingham BYLINE: Alan Niester; GAM BODY: Asylum X5E-561 This is one of those genuine solo albums, where the hero (in this case, the lead guitarist for the ultra-successful Fleetwood Mac) goes in and plays all the instruments himself, over-dubbing frantically. This time, the one-man-band approach was a mistake, because Buckingham is no Todd Rundgren when it comes to studio wizardry or instrumental eclecticism. He would have been better off to follow old friend Stevie Nicks' lead, bringing in a bunch of friends to do things properly. Which is too bad, because Buckingham has no shortage of ideas. He resurrects some nifty oldies - such as September Song and It Was I - and shows a knack for writing oddly structured little songs that roll along quite nicely. He has imbued the material with a loose, echoey feel, reminiscent of John Lennon's post-Beatle work (Instant Karma springs to mind). In all, it's a pleasant, albeit self-indulgent and very minor work indicative of an artist well enough established to feel no pressure in its creation. Had the instrumental mix and production been beefed up, Buckingham might have had something interesting here. |
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Globe and Mail (Canada) July 31, 1987
HEADLINE: RIFF RAP End near for Fleetwoood Mac BYLINE: DEIRDRE KELLY; GAM BODY: "I HAVE ABSOLUTELY no interest in touring," said Lindsay Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac . "I know some of the others want to, but for me it's out of the question." Buckingham, speaking from his home in Los Angeles, said the days of Fleetwood Mac are nearing an end. Even with the current chart success of Tango In The Night, Fleetwood Mac's first studio album in five years, it's unlikely the band will tour in support of the LP. If they don't, it will be the first time the band hasn't gone on the road to support one of their albums. "All of us are now doing projects of our own," he said. "I really don't think any of us would be willing to go back in the studio and do another album as a group." Buckingham, a singer and songwriter, is currently working on a solo album; drummer Mick Fleetwood is doing club tours with his band, the Zoo, and singersongwriter-keyboardist Christine McVie is working on a second solo album. Singer Stevie Nicks is planning to put out a fourth solo album if the band doesn't tour, while John McVie is intending to make a solo album next year. He's the only one in the group who hasn't. Fleetwood Mac started as a blues-rock band 20 years ago. It emerged in the 1970s to become one of the most popular pop-rock bands in the world. Rumours, released in 1977, became one of the best-selling LPs of the so- called easy-listening California sound. Buckingham joined the band about 12 years ago with Stevie Nicks. He said Rumours was a blessing and a curse. "It got so we couldn't play anything but material from the Rumours album when we went on tour; it was that popular. But then when we wanted to do something different we couldn't. I think Tusk (the experimental album which followed Rumours) was our way of rebelling aginst the notion that we should do anything resembling a Rumours II album." There was a three-year break between Tusk and Mirage, the last studio album that came out in 1982. Buckingham said during that time Fleetwood Mac was on the verge of disbanding. Preventing an actual split was the group's desire to put out a last album that would do justice to their timeless sound. "Tusk just wasn't the swan song we wanted." Apparently, Mirage wasn't to be the band's last word either. Buckingham said after five years of solo projects the group was ready to come back into the studio, at least one more time. Asked if there might be another so-called farewell album somewhere down the road, Buckingham said he didn't think so. "I'm feeling very productive right now. I want to continue to work on solo projects. That's what I'm pouring my energy into." |
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