Lindsey Buckingham: C o' D?

I'm up to 'Countdown' so far, and I'm easily already liking this more than "Mirage" and "Tango In The Night" - some wonderful guitar playing, with some of the kind of individual take on folk/country that I liked about Lindsey's "Tusk" contributions - it's going to be interesting to see how this unfolds, but I am really really enjoying it.

I've found Out Of The Cradle to be an enjoyable album, definitely. I am, though, wondering how many more listens I'll get out of it before I start yearning for Christine McVie or Stevie Nicks tracks in between the songs, though!

Listen how "Doing What I Can" is a chordal rewrite of "Big Love."

I definitely heard echoes of "Family Man" in "Soul Drifter"!

xpost That's the paradox of Lindsey Buckingham. The guy's a genius, but sometimes his genius shines most brightly in the context of the others. Sort of as epitomized by the "special thanks from the band to Lindsey Buckingham" credit on "Tusk."

loving 'seeds we sow'

does not sound like the work of a man of nearly 70 at all

(whoops he's only just over 60. sorry LB)

still tho

(and haven't heard new record, but yeah, he's not resting on any kinds of laurels)

strange distortion on the chorus of 'when she comes down' - pretty much have to assume it's intentional as this is not a heavily crushed record by any means

this is not a heavily crushed record by any means

wait i take that back

It took me forever, but I finally found a copy of that Making of Tusk doc. Man, it should be subtitled "The Making of Colombia." The could fuel a small country with the amount of jittery, nervous energy on display.

Hehehehehe! Yeah, you can definitely tell that they're up to the eyeballs in the stuff. Every time you hear Mick Fleetwood speak, he sniffs between every other word! Stevie Nicks in particular is very 'not with it' as well.

Funny aside: there's a great local tribute band with a constantly rotating slate of acts that's taken them from the Band to Zappa. Not long ago they started occasionally working their way through the chronological Beatles, with a kids show or two. The last kids show featured songs from "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver," but given the nature of the audience they found a clever way to to refer to the introduction of drugs to the mix by substituting in the word "soccer." As in, "by now Paul was starting to get into soccer, and soon the other guys got into soccer, too. Their collective interest in soccer began to manifest itself in the music." That sort of thing. It was very funny banter.

Fleetwood Mac was totally into soccer.

Fleetwood Mac owned the Colombian soccer team! :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fi3NGwnE3c

Lindsey was so hot in this period.

Lindsey was so hot high in this period.

Watching that is so odd, you see Lindsey there with all of his nervous energy. Short hair, clean cut, sharp. Then the camera pans over to John McVie, who looks completely out of step with the music he's playing!

I mean, 'clean shaven', rather than 'clean cut' - that's probably the wrongest phrase to describe Lindsey in this particular era of the Mac.

" project that challenges listeners to expand their definitions of Buckingham and include him as an indie singer/songwriter." (allmusic)

otm

and he is 61 years old..quite an age to become an indie figure after such a career

Don't damn him!

lol @ indie "challenges listeners"

mmm..i think for the mainstream Rumours etc fans his current stuff is a challenge

just out of curiosity - why doesn't pitchfork review Buckingham's records?

It will when he produces Deerhunter.

I know they've covered his chill wave side project Neon Indian.

love this guy, can't wait to see him

Seeing him tomorrow night!

just out of curiosity - why doesn't pitchfork review Buckingham's records?

when under the skin came out, I actually did write a track review of it, and in fact referenced his weird graduation into indie-godfather-like status...but for the life of me can't seem to find it on the site or google anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlzZlWQKlNY

Ashamed to admit I've never heard one of his solo records. Heard the title track off the new one, though, and it's tres pretty. How likely am I to dig the rest of it?

quite. i think the tunes are as strong as the last two solo ones but i feel this one is his most lyrically weak

After going through all his solo albums, I think Gift of Screws is the strongest. I immediately wanted to listen to it again - i don't think it has a weak song.

And I haven't examined lyrics, but Seeds We Sow is just a gorgeous album to listen to.

All his solo stuff is gorgeous in this manic-Baroque style. A lot of his recent trio but especially the new one, lyrically, veers on new agey/self-helpy territory, but I can set that aside.

I was struck, btw, guitar nerds, how many of the songs he played last night were in open tunings. Like, 90%. Makes his playing that much more mysterious. He brought it, though. Love his totally unassuming trio of anonymous talented guys backing him, who look like he met them in a new dads group or at the local block garage band.

Out of the Cradle is still my favorite.

There are not enough hearts in the world to express my love for Stevie and Christine in that "Second Hand News" vid posted above.

Mmmbop.

Listened to the new album twice through, and its gorgeous. So this is what I've been missing by ignoring solo Buckingham?

yes, and more.

D.W. Suite. Expansive. I like it.

new one is really good, I like out of the cradle a lot as well.

it's good? i buy, then.

that's the way love goes sounds like a rumors era vintage fleetwood track w/ slightly more modern production

Love solo Lindsey a lot, don't misconstrue this. But has anyone else noticed how the tracks with Mick Fleetwood and that guesting are by far the best ones?

Yep.

Also not to be contentious but if any of the tracks from any of LB's solo records were transplanted into Rumours they'd be by far the worst on it. I mean there's good and then there's good, no?

I dunno. All of Lindsey's solo stuff on "Tusk" is awesome.

http://thefalconsnest.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/lindseybuck260811_w.jpg

What's up with the clinically-depressed Metalunan Blue Steel look in every photo for the past decade?

haha