Ft. Pierce~ Front row and I met Lindsey!

Dena · #1 03-11-2007, 11:46 PM

First off, the venue was really interesting~ a restored theater in a little downtown area that seated 1200. It was really full~ hardly any empty seats! I have never sat front row at any show except Ft. Lauderdale the other night and tonight. Tonight was extra nice though~ the pit~ the first 3 rows WAY up front had these nice big, leather chairs while the rest of the theater had regular ones. Anyway, Lindsey was much closer to the edge of the stage than Ft. Lauderdale (b/c of the shape of the stage) This was JUST fine with me~

I could see his fingers move clearly.

He was in great spirits tonight. He seems to be really into the new drummer~ I think he called him something like "CubanRuban" as a nickname or something like that~ lol! Anyway, he told the audience that he has only been with the group for the past 2 shows and is new on this leg but is "kicking ass!" During his drum solo, Lindsey parked himself, drank water and sat crossed legged and seemed to be loving this guy (so did Brett)!

During GYOW guitar share, he leaped across this section of the stage blocked by speakers to land on this little part of the stage way off to the side to play for the folks off to the right. He seemed to know people in the front row again and there were a few folks from the Ft. Lauderdale show the other night. Setlist was the same~ still had "Turn it on" and ended with "Shut Us Down".

So, after the show I talk my really sweet husband into walking around back where the truck and motor home are. I see a white van with a driver walking around waiting. I tell him~ they are going in that van, I just know it! So, everyone was gone by now and I approached the driver and asked "Is Lindsey taking pictures with fans as he comes out?" He said he didn't know, but that "the boys" would be out in a few minutes. I couldn't believe that no one else was waiting! Anyway, sure enough after a few minutes, he comes out and heads for the van. I approached him and said "Lindsey, could I get an autograph?" He said (while carrying a bottle of Coke), "Sure, let me put this down" (meaning the bottle). He signed my CD and my husband piped up and said that I'd been to 3 shows and Lindsey said "Thank you for that." Then my husband asked if he could take our picture and he said "Sure". He did and I just had the BIGGEST smile~~ We thanked him and left. They really seemed in a hurry to get to the airport b/c within a minute they had passed us on the road.

~Wow, I finally met him. I just cannot believe it~

DavidMn · #2 03-11-2007, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Dena

First off, the venue was really interesting~ a restored theater in a little downtown area that seated 1200. It was really full~ hardly any empty seats! I have never sat front row at any show except Ft. Lauderdale the other night and tonight. Tonight was extra nice though~ the pit~ the first 3 rows WAY up front had these nice big, leather chairs while the rest of the theater had regular ones. Anyway, Lindsey was much closer to the edge of the stage than Ft. Lauderdale (b/c of the shape of the stage) This was JUST fine with me~

I could see his fingers move clearly.

He was in great spirits tonight. He seems to be really into the new drummer~ I think he called him something like "CubanRuban" as a nickname or something like that~ lol! Anyway, he told the audience that he has only been with the group for the past 2 shows and is new on this leg but is "kicking ass!" During his drum solo, Lindsey parked himself, drank water and sat crossed legged and seemed to be loving this guy (so did Brett)!

During GYOW guitar share, he leaped across this section of the stage blocked by speakers to land on this little part of the stage way off to the side to play for the folks off to the right. He seemed to know people in the front row again and there were a few folks from the Ft. Lauderdale show the other night. Setlist was the same~ still had "Turn it on" and ended with "Shut Us Down".

So, after the show I talk my really sweet husband into walking around back where the truck and motor home are. I see a white van with a driver walking around waiting. I tell him~ they are going in that van, I just know it! So, everyone was gone by now and I approached the driver and asked "Is Lindsey taking pictures with fans as he comes out?" He said he didn't know, but that "the boys" would be out in a few minutes. I couldn't believe that no one else was waiting! Anyway, sure enough after a few minutes, he comes out and heads for the van. I approached him and said "Lindsey, could I get an autograph?" He said (while carrying a bottle of Coke), "Sure, let me put this down" (meaning the bottle). He signed my CD and my husband piped up and said that I'd been to 3 shows and Lindsey said "Thank you for that." Then my husband asked if he could take our picture and he said "Sure". He did and I just had the BIGGEST smile~~ We thanked him and left. They really seemed in a hurry to get to the airport b/c within a minute they had passed us on the road.

~Wow, I finally met him. I just cannot believe it~

Hes a great guy isnt he? I'm looking forward to seeing your picture!

Livia · #3 03-12-2007, 12:25 AM

Cool! Congrats!

gretchen · #4 03-12-2007, 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Livia

Cool! Congrats!

Yay!!!!!!!!

The Catdancer · #5 03-12-2007, 02:51 AM

That is awesome.Congrats!!!!

shackin'up · #6 03-12-2007, 06:37 AM

great for you!!!!

is Save Me A Place out of the set this leg??

MacMan · #7 03-12-2007, 06:47 AM

[This is an article from March 8th, pretty much a rehash... But, has a different picture... The other one I've seen of this photo shot his eyes were closed or looking at the guitar]

Fleetwood Mac's Buckingham plays Sunrise Sunday
By BILL DEYOUNG
entertainment editor
March 8, 2007
http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/music/arti...404581,00.html

As the guitarist and co-lead singer of Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham's always understood the team player thing. From Day One, however, his rebellious streak was a mile wide.

Buckingham, who'll perform Sunday at the Sunrise Theatre in Fort Pierce, was the first to punch holes in the group's multiplatinum success by countering the finely honed pop music of the "Rumours" album with crude homemade recordings, via "Tusk."

He's quit Fleetwood Mac several times, only to come back, and he's just issued "Under the Skin," which was recorded at home and is almost completely solo, with just Buckingham's voice and guitar.

It's the first Lindsey Buckingham album in 14 years. "I think of myself," he laughed during a recent phone interview, "as sort of the Terrence Malick of rock."

(Malick, the director of such films as "The Thin Red Line" and "The New World," is notorious for taking long periods to finish a project.)

"A lot's happened to me since the last time I made a solo album," Buckingham, 57, said. "I've got three kids now, so there's a whole subtext of intimacy, and questions that have been answered after hanging out there for many, many years."

Buckingham said that during the last Fleetwood Mac tour, in 2004, he re-invented some of the old hits as solo pieces that featured his unique finger-picked guitar style.

"Having an impact that way got me thinking about how many albums I used to make where it sounded like a guy sitting in his living room playing the guitar," he recalled. "What if you were to start there and then add your production techniques and sensibilities?"

Ancient history: Buckingham and then-girlfriend Stevie Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac, a British blues band arguably on its last legs, in 1975. The injection of fresh creative energy had an immediate effect, with the "Fleetwood Mac" and "Rumours" albums (in 1975 and '77, respectively) topping the charts — the latter, to date, has sold more than 19 million copies in the U.S. alone.

Buckingham's "Go Your Own Way" and "Big Love" remain Fleetwood Mac signature songs; his sinewy guitar work is all over "Rhiannon," "Dreams," "Sara" and the rest of the Nicks-penned Mac classics.

Buckingham, more than the others, chafed at the initial bubble of gossip-driven celebrity that encased Fleetwood Mac (all the songs on "Rumours" were about the band members' on-again, off-again romantic entanglements, which the rock media loved).

"We got to this point with 'Rumours' where it detached itself from the music; the success became about the success," he said. "There was a danger of beginning to paint ourselves into a corner, if we had done exactly what was expected of us, which was to make a 'Rumours 2.' I'm not so sure anyone thought about how far we were going the other way."

The frustration was poured into Buckingham's contributions to 1980's "Tusk." He wrote and recorded nine songs at home, then brought them into the studio, insisting they not be overly embellished.

"For Mick (Fleetwood) and Stevie I think it was more of a threat, but for me hearing the Clash and all that kind of stuff that was coming over, was very inspiring to me," Buckingham explained.

"It reinforced what I felt, which was that I would always have rather been in a band like that than Fleetwood Mac, for certain reasons." Buckingham said he enjoys working alone, and the collaborative studio process, equally. "It's sort of apples and oranges," he laughed.

"You can bring a tune in to the band and go through a process, which is certainly more political; it's a more conscious process. I've always thought of it more as shooting a scene from a movie — you have to have that scene, or that song, completely written going in.

"When I work alone, it's more like having a canvas and painting. You don't feel obliged to have a fully fleshed-out idea, and you can start throwing stuff together.

"I guess it becomes a more subconscious thing, a more meditative process, and there are a lot more surprises. Times when maybe the work will take on more of its own personality and lead you places you wouldn't have expected to go."

Fleetwood Mac, he said, will come together again — minus pianist Christine McVie, who retired and moved back to her native England five years ago.

Buckingham said it'll be a year or more, anyway — he has another solo project in the hopper.

Will it be the polar opposite of "Under the Skin," a full-band project?

"It always has the potential of being that," Buckingham said. "Then again, I could mix the drums out, and it would be something else."

shackin'up · #8 03-12-2007, 06:53 AM

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Will it be the polar opposite of "Under the Skin," a full-band project?

"It always has the potential of being that," Buckingham said. "Then again, I could mix the drums out, and it would be something else."

So that means it's gonna be basicly the GOS-leftovers without the drums? hhmmmmm.....

mondaymornin1 · #9 03-12-2007, 08:42 AM

Sweet! Congrats! I'm hoping for the same luck in Knoxville this weekend, though I'm having serious doubts that I'll be the only one hanging around there after the show hoping to see him!

Thanks for the review!

Peestie · #10 03-12-2007, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by shackin'up

So that means it's gonna be basicly the GOS-leftovers without the drums? hhmmmmm.....

I don't think they'd work without any drums. Twist of Fate and Shuffle Riff without the drums?

A mistake IMO. Saying that, I'll be glad to get anything at all.

tuigirl · #11 03-12-2007, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by shackin'up

So that means it's gonna be basicly the GOS-leftovers without the drums? hhmmmmm.....

Oh no! Not without the drums!!! But oh yes, hopefully to all the GOS leftovers, some of those are fab..I think I'd even BUY it!!!

shackin'up · #12 03-12-2007, 12:41 PM

Try to picture GOS without the drums.

But since he talked about mixing the drums out, he must have been talking about already recorded material....why mix drums out if you don't have to put them in? Doesn't make sense...or it is lindsey's new recordingtechnique: hire an expensive state of the art drummer to put the rythmtrack right, then mix him out because of your newborn musical vision. Hmmm. It IS Lindsey Buckingham, so who knows.....

danax6 · #13 03-12-2007, 01:09 PM

I doubt Twist of Fate is going to be on it, he didn't even remember the song when someone asked him about it.

shackin'up · #14 03-12-2007, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by danax6

I doubt Twist of Fate is going to be on it, he didn't even remember the song when someone asked him about it.

yes he did, he was being funny according to the one who asked him. Just because she wasn't supposed to know that track.

goldie · #15 03-12-2007, 07:43 PM

great review. I'm so happy you got an autograph, a picture, and some conversation to boot!!