Lindsey Buckingham: C o' D?

Love it.

I just bought Out of the Cradle. Seems good so far (his guitar playing is, as always, amazingly clean and crisp (and he can be bluesy, too)). Crazy comparison, but Surrender the Rain sounds a little like a Richard Hawley song, to me (not a bad thing at all!).

Anyone else have this disc? Like it?

beautiful record.
probably his best solo record.

Haven't heard it in years, but I agree it's his best, with consistently beautiful guitar. "Soul Drifter" and "Turn it On" (is that the right title?) are favorites.

I know they're solo discs, but now I'm wishing that Buckingham gave his solo songs more of a full-band feel. Down on Rodeo, for instance, from Under the Skin, has a great SoCal-drenched band feel (obv., the presence of Fleetwood Mac and John McVie helps), and it worked beautifully.

Buckingham is god.

UH

I guess that's more true than "Clapton is God," but still...

Classic (but not god).

He's a brilliant guitarist. I'm pleased at the love he's getting on this thread, instead of just hailing him as a mere singing/songwriting/producing genius. My favourite Lindsey look is the besuited, droopy afro'ed one on the inside sleeve of the 1975 album. Someone post an image, please!

he turns 60 this year

60? Wow. He looks younger. See the photo on the cover of Under the Skin.

He is classic for "Tango In The Night" alone. Although that album is usually underrated when compared to their most popular mid 70s work.

He's classic for a lot of the Fleetwood Mac stuff, but his solo discs have a very different sound and feel (not worse, by any means, just v. different).

I may be misreading, but it looks like Under The Skin is available from Amazon for 99 cents.

'Under the Skin' was a tremendously strong album. Man, such a shame that it barely received any attention at all.

I may be misreading, but it looks like Under The Skin is available from Amazon for 99 cents.

Sadly, I'm not surprised. It's amazing to me that such a talented -- and successful (with his band) -- artist has had such trouble finding an audience.

maybe thats because he became too old for the youngsters and too "arty" and minimalist for the mainstream listeners.
or u can blame it on bad marketing.

I still spin "Go Insane" on Dj nights. Such a great single.

Under the Skin is very nice, yes. I thought I'd never want to hear another Stones cover until "I Am Waiting" started to play.

this is pretty much the best clip on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yllqie08a7U

-- Stormy Davis (diamond),

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Damn. What was that clip, Stormy?

new album out in a couple of months!!!

god his last one was amazing

http://i34.tinypic.com/3450940.jpg
My favourite Lindsey look

eugh not for me by a longshot

they all look like shit in that photo; i think they got good stylists after the s/t took off

"god his last one was amazing"

yes, it was.
vaguely hoping for a full electric/weird pop new album, though.

completely off topic but "fleetwood" hypem radio brought this up "Fleetwood Crack": http://www.zshare.net/audio/134226990668c4aa/

Very nice

It is somewhat based on "Tusk"

so what do you think of Buckingham's new single "did you miss me"?
(Gift Of Screws coming out in Sep.):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfJNeTvIjhI

I wonder what's going to be on it, since a lot of "Gift of Screws" (as originally planned) wound up on Say You Will. I'm really excited to finally get the title track on CD, since it's one of my favorite FM related songs.

i don't know, but the Track List is totally different from the original GoS.:

"Great Day"

"Time Precious Time"

"Did You Miss Me"

"Wait For You"

"Love Runs Deeper"

"Bel Air Rain"

"The Right Place to Fade"

"Gift of Screws"

"Underground"

"Treason"

early reviews says the new GoS is somewhere in between Under the Skin kinda songs and more "rock" songs like "did you miss me"

(except for GoS, the song, which is on both, and is an awesome song btw):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXMmvgElVSE

wait, which album is "Somebody's gonna change your mind" on? I thought it was the demos for this I had it in. If so, that was the best one, weird to have left it off. This should be good, I think a part of me actually prefers solo Lindsey.

"Somebody's gonna change your mind" - it's in Under The Skin (awesome song ineed)

Not really what you expect from the Buck

he probably just named the album GoS (almost) regardless of the previous unreleased recordings.
most of the songs from that "album" later appeared/ruined on Fleetwood's albums and/or Under The Skin

this song is swell, swell is this song

you can see how Animal Collective are influenced by LB by listening to it

jesus, that never even occurred to me

but yeah, that actually seems really obvious actually

i like Under the Skin's minimalist atmospheric sound- at it's best it as strong and classic as Suicide's debut.

Best solo album remains Out of the Cradle, but it's not great.

You used to be cool

loved the version of "Big Love" that he did on the reunion album (the dance or whatever), with the crazy fingerpicking. I was pissed that I couldn't play that super fast banjo-esque sounding part in the middle.

Second Hand News mother fuckers.

Never Going BAck AGain

*It made me

And those two harmonized like a dream. Sometimes it's hard to tell them apart.

Has there been a McVie vs Nicks thread? My wife and I get contentious about this. I like them both but prefer McVie, who my wife can’t stand.

just to be safe I think we need like a two-week moratorium on reviving threads with any rockers over 70. brief moment of panic here.

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my life for the past 3 years when the neil young thread gets abruptly revived

And those two harmonized like a dream. Sometimes it's hard to tell them apart.

extremely otm

"Think About Me" and "Hold Me" among the singles.

Hell, probably mentioned (by me and others) how even on "Don't Stop" it's sometimes easy to miss when their voices swap.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/fleetwood-mac-lindsey-buckingham-attacked-santa-monica/3869717/

Hope Santa's ok

damn Stevie, you already killed him on Silver Springs, this is just rubbing it in.

I think he's in trouble.

Not that funny, is it?

This is some scary shit, the guy has a crazed stalker:

The woman is known to Buckingham, 76, from past incidents, law enforcement sources said. An arrest is expected soon, they added.

Authorities said they believe the woman found out when and where Buckingham had an appointment and showed up at the location.

Bucky posted a video of him playing "Rhiannon" with the teaser "coming soon..."

I'd be very surprised if he did a tour with Stevie either as FM or Buckingham/Nicks, but who knows at this point.

oh, if you go back to previous postings he just posts guitar videos and will post one focused on that song soon. way to get people's fucking hopes up

He does, but in this case he picked a pretty conspicuous Stevie song, and the "coming soon ..." seems pretty unnecessary, given we know he posts guitar videos. Like, why play a bit of the song as a prelude to ... playing the song?

Anyway, my first reaction was tour with Stevie. Then I bet they'll tour again as a band, or play the Sphere, or some shit that makes a lot of money.

nah dog he's just promoting the video series "Kicking the guitar series back into gear- starting with “Frozen Love.” Full video on YouTube."

Probably! But he's also recently hinted at a potential reunion. At the least the lines of communication are open again.

Pretty crazy how much of a blip the B/N reissue was after being unavailable for so long.

have you heard the new Geese record though

The B/N reissue was a bit of a disappointment given that there were, uh, rumours for years that it was going to get a stacked edition with demos and extra stuff.

yeah, especially given that theres a couple deluxe editions of all the FM albums they're on, box sets, full alternate albums, box sets of full alternate albums....

Yeah, it was so easy to get decent bootlegs - like good rips from good, clean vinyl copies - I don't think it would've been much of an event without some unheard bonus material. As-is, it was just "oh, a legit, affordable version from the original masters, how nice," but that's it.

I know it was brought up in interviews over the years, but weren't they usually open to releasing it, it was just more prosaic issues like "where are the masters"? I thought Nicks said that at one point, she and Buckingham were thinking of putting it out, but it physically wasn't possible for some reason.

This was from an interview promoting the new release, but it sounded like it was a disorganized mess and they just needed to get their act together to make it happen:

"It's like sharing ownership of an old car," Nicks, now 77, once said of the tangled rights to the album, which were split between herself, Buckingham, and producer Keith Olsen. "The stars never seemed to exactly align."

For Buckingham, 76 next month, the reasons for its disappearance were less clear. "One of Stevie's managers has the masters in her house," he said in an interview years later. Why? "Well, because somebody's got to have them somewhere. The politics of Fleetwood Mac are strange."

He added: "Better hurry up! That's all I can say."