Guitar World magazine

[Moz]

Lindsey is featured in the newest Guitar World magazine (with Tony Iommi on cover) with a 5 page article with pictures! The first page has a nice large pic of him and his guitar. There's also tabs/chords for Big Love (acoustic). It comes with a cd-rom with "Lindsey Buckingham: Private Lesson".

The cd-rom has sort of an interview - lots of talking, anyway, and lessons on how to play Big Love, Landslide and Time Precious Time (which he says sounds "sort of Asian"). There's lots of closeups, and he plays the songs at normal speed and slow. He doesn't sing at all. It's very nice. If you can find it, pick it up!!

[Peestie]

I might have to get it. Tony Iommi and Lindsey are my two favourite guitarist so I don't know how much more I could want from a guitar mag!

I also want to check if my tab for TPT was correct, though I think it's pretty close anyway. Sounds right to me when I play it anyhoo.

[michelej1]

Well, I might not have run to my newsstand under normal circumstances, but since you told us about CD-rom, I have no choice!

Thanks.

Michele

[Moz]

I'm typing this out one page as a time.. please be patient!

MAC DADDY
Lindsey Buckingham details how to play the Fleetwood Mac hits "World Turning" "Landslide" and "Big Love" and talks about his latest solo release Gift of Screws
By Andy Aledort

"I tend to think of myself as a refined music primitive." Seated in the spacious comfort of his home studio in Brentwood, California, legendary Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham laughs gently at the somewhat derogatory classification. "I never learned to read music, and honestly, I don't really know what I'm doing! But I've learned to work within my limitations and try to be true and do the best I can with what I have."

And he has done very well, indeed. Buckingham, 59, experienced a meteoric rise to fame when he and singer Stevie Nicks, his partner in the duo Buckingham Nicks, joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974. The band's first release to feature the pair, 1975's Fleetwood Mac, was an instant hit, yielding the smash singles "Rhiannon," "Landslide," "Over My Head," and "Say You Love Me" as well as Buckingham's blues-inflected fingerpicking showcase, "World Turning," the latter offering a prime example of the guitarist's unique approach and virtuosic fingerpicking prowess.

But it was the band's subsequent release, 1977's Rumours, that gave the group superstar status on the strength of the singles "Go Your Own Way," "Don't Stop," "Dreams," "You Make Loving Fun," and "The Chain." To date, Rumours has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and is one of the best-selling rock albums of all time.

Buckingham took over more control of the songwriting and production for Fleetwood Mac's 1979 followup, Tusk, while working on what would be his first solo album, 1981's Law and Order, which featured the hit track "Trouble." His next solo releases were 1984's Go Insane, 1992's Out of the Cradle, and 2006's Under The Skin.

With Mac, Buckingham contributed to 1981's [sic] Mirage and 1987's multi-platinum Tango in the Night, notable for the hit tracks "Big Love," "Little Lies," "Seven Wonders," and "Everywhere." It was following Tango, however, that the multi-instrumentalist and songwriter left Fleetwood Mac to work primarily as a solo artist.

In 2002, Buckingham planned to release another solo album, to be titled Gift of Screws but Warner Bros. convinced his to contribute seven of these songs to a new Fleetwood Mac album, released in 2003 as Say You Will.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by Moz

I'm typing this out one page as a time.. please be patient!

MAC

That's very kind of you. Thanks. Michele

[Moz]

Originally Posted by Moz

I'm typing this out one page as a time.. please be patient!

MAC DADDY
Lindsey Buckingham details how to play the Fleetwood Mac hits "World Turning" "Landslide" and "Big Love" and talks about his latest solo release Gift of Screws
By Andy Aledort

"I tend to think of myself as a refined music primitive." Seated in the spacious comfort of his home studio in Brentwood, California, legendary Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham laughs gently at the somewhat derogatory classification. "I never learned to read music, and honestly, I don't really know what I'm doing! But I've learned to work within my limitations and try to be true and do the best I can with what I have."

And he has done very well, indeed. Buckingham, 59, experienced a meteoric rise to fame when he and singer Stevie Nicks, his partner in the duo Buckingham Nicks, joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974. The band's first release to feature the pair, 1975's Fleetwood Mac, was an instant hit, yielding the smash singles "Rhiannon," "Landslide," "Over My Head," and "Say You Love Me" as well as Buckingham's blues-inflected fingerpicking showcase, "World Turning," the latter offering a prime example of the guitarist's unique approach and virtuosic fingerpicking prowess.

But it was the band's subsequent release, 1977's Rumours, that gave the group superstar status on the strength of the singles "Go Your Own Way," "Don't Stop," "Dreams," "You Make Loving Fun," and "The Chain." To date, Rumours has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and is one of the best-selling rock albums of all time.

Buckingham took over more control of the songwriting and production for Fleetwood Mac's 1979 followup, Tusk, while working on what would be his first solo album, 1981's Law and Order, which featured the hit track "Trouble." His next solo releases were 1984's Go Insane, 1992's Out of the Cradle, and 2006's Under The Skin.

With Mac, Buckingham contributed to 1981's [sic] Mirage and 1987's multi-platinum Tango in the Night, notable for the hit tracks "Big Love," "Little Lies," "Seven Wonders," and "Everywhere." It was following Tango, however, that the multi-instrumentalist and songwriter left Fleetwood Mac to work primarily as a solo artist.

In 2002, Buckingham planned to release another solo album, to be titled Gift of Screws but Warner Bros. convinced his to contribute seven of these songs to a new Fleetwood Mac album, released in 2003 as Say You Will.

Page two....

Undeterred, Buckingham put together a new group of songs and, on September 15, 2008, released his latest solo album, Gift of Screws, followed by a 29-city U.S. tour. On the strength of such writing/guitar gems as "Time Precious Time," "Bel Air Rain," "The Right Place To Fade," and the title track, which along with "Wait For You," features the Fleetwood Mac rhythm section of drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie--Gift of Screws is the latest testament to Buckingham's exceptional, one-of-a-kind musical sensibility.

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GUITAR WORLD: How did you develop your unique, fingerpicking-based approach to the guitar?

BUCKINGHAM: I had always, from a very young age, been interested in music, but when my older brother brought home Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" record, it was a life-changing event for me. Suddenly there was music that seemed like it was for us, and not for our parents. I became an obsessive listener of rock and roll.

Elvis' guitarist, Scotty Moore, was someone that played not only with a pick but also used his fingers simultaneously [a technique often described as "hybrid picking"], which created a sort of orchestral guitar style. Later on, some of Elvis' records featured [legendary country guitarist and master fingerpicker] Chet Atkins, and both of these players had a very orchestrated, integrated guitar technique in terms of how they defined the records that they were making. Those were my earliest influences that got me thinking and learning about fingerpicking.

GW: Did the folk revival and acoustic blues resurgence in the early Sixties influence you as well?

BUCKINGHAM: Yes, it certainly did. When the first wave of rock and roll started to ebb a little bit, I got very interested in folk music, and, of course, the three-finger Travis picking style is a basic technique that one must learn when playing that type of music. I was also listening to what you might call "classical lite," some pop interpretations of classical music played on nylon-string guitar that include the ring ringer in the fingerpicking technique, with melody lines brought within the fingerpicking structure.

I also picked up on the banjo, because a lot of folk groups featured the instrument. I bought myself some fingerpicks and learned to play bluegrass banjo. That is also a three-finger technique, and that style of fingerpicking informs some of the things I did later, like "World Turning."

GW: Did you ever take any formal lessons?

BUCKINGHAM: No, and I can't read music. I learned about music and guitar playing from listening to songs and from getting a chord book and playing as many songs as I could, so my approach to playing was always about the song. This also makes it difficult for me to analyze my own playing too deeply or technically.

Page three to come later...

[michelej1]

Well, I can understand that he can't analyze his own playing technically, but he should be able to analyze it deeply.

Michele

[macpai]

Much thanks for typing this up, Moz!!

[mylittledemon]

Lindsey is also featured in the new Guitar Player magazine (the one with Carlos Santana on the cover)

[gretchen]

Thanks for posting this!!!! I must get the mag since it's got the CD!

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