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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Turrican, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Fleetwood Mac owned the Colombian soccer team! :D
― Turrican, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fi3NGwnE3c
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
Lindsey was so hot in this period.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
Lindsey was so hot high in this period.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― Turrican, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, 'clean shaven', rather than 'clean cut' - that's probably the wrongest phrase to describe Lindsey in this particular era of the Mac.
― Turrican, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
" 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
― nostormo, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 07:21 (twelve years ago) link
Don't damn him!
lol @ indie "challenges listeners"
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
mmm..i think for the mainstream Rumours etc fans his current stuff is a challenge
― nostormo, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
just out of curiosity - why doesn't pitchfork review Buckingham's records?
― nostormo, Saturday, 17 September 2011 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
It will when he produces Deerhunter.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 17 September 2011 12:02 (twelve years ago) link
I know they've covered his chill wave side project Neon Indian.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
love this guy, can't wait to see him
― Master of Treacle, Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
Seeing him tomorrow night!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Dominique, Saturday, 17 September 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlzZlWQKlNY
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 September 2011 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― jer.fairall, Monday, 19 September 2011 05:02 (twelve years ago) link
quite. i think the tunes are as strong as the last two solo ones but i feel this one is his most lyrically weak
― royal ballache (electricsound), Monday, 19 September 2011 05:33 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― thinveneer, Monday, 19 September 2011 06:14 (twelve years ago) link
And I haven't examined lyrics, but Seeds We Sow is just a gorgeous album to listen to.
― thinveneer, Monday, 19 September 2011 06:17 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 September 2011 12:57 (twelve years ago) link
Out of the Cradle is still my favorite.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 13:11 (twelve years ago) link
There are not enough hearts in the world to express my love for Stevie and Christine in that "Second Hand News" vid posted above.
― Woolen Scjarfs (Phil D.), Monday, 19 September 2011 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
Mmmbop.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
Listened to the new album twice through, and its gorgeous. So this is what I've been missing by ignoring solo Buckingham?
― jer.fairall, Friday, 7 October 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
yes, and more.
― nostormo, Friday, 7 October 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
D.W. Suite. Expansive. I like it.
― Mule, Thursday, 20 October 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
new one is really good, I like out of the cradle a lot as well.
― akm, Friday, 21 October 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
it's good? i buy, then.
― turkey in the straw (x2) (remy bean), Friday, 21 October 2011 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
that's the way love goes sounds like a rumors era vintage fleetwood track w/ slightly more modern production
― turkey in the straw (x2) (remy bean), Saturday, 22 October 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― wiki weimar germanyu (Call the Cops), Sunday, 23 October 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
Yep.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 23 October 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― wiki weimar germanyu (Call the Cops), Sunday, 23 October 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno. All of Lindsey's solo stuff on "Tusk" is awesome.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 October 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 24 October 2011 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― ffs sorrow (electricsound), Monday, 24 October 2011 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
The man is tan and taut.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 October 2011 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
I am in the throes of Linndrum fun these days in my studio -- and am really enjoying the hell out of Go Insane, which is almost all Lindsey alone, btw.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 19 February 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
Further listening to Go Insane reveals that the first side is loaded with tunes that would've made for a damned good Fleetwood Mac record. If you put aside the Fairlight/Linndrum production, "I Must Go" would've fit right in on Tusk. The harmonies on "I Want You" make it sound like a full-on Rumours cut. In fact, given that he did almost this entire record on his own, I think you you can safely say that a bunch of the tunes on Rumours had Lindsey singing harmony with himself.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
I downloaded the album during the holiday break and liked it too, especially "I Want You." I'd heard the startling remake of the title track before the original version; it sounds like a 15th century madrigal or something.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
after reading ^ I pulled this out of the cassette box and put it on repeat. Play in the Rain is properly spooky, kinda reminds me of Byrne/Eno Qu'ran
― "renegade" gnome (remy bean), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
I am in the throes of Linndrum fun these days in my studio -- and am really enjoying the hell out of /Go Insane/, which is almost all Lindsey alone, btw.
I stand by my earlier comments -- Go Insane has some of his tastiest solo tunes. For those upthread who lament that Buck's solo career lacks the tunes and gonzo production touches of his Tusk/Mirage FM stuff, this is the one to dig out.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 29 July 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
on some other thread i totally stan for go insane and probably mention the audacity of ending your first side with a locked groove
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 29 July 2012 05:11 (eleven years ago) link
lol it's this very thread
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 29 July 2012 05:13 (eleven years ago) link
I would recommend newbies start with "Out of the Cradle."
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 July 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
I've been so hung up on the title track of Go Insane that I don't think I've ever really spun the whole album. Will do today.
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 29 July 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
Jealous of you getting to experience it for the first time! Tell me "Slow Dancing" doesn't make you want to sing "Abracadabra" by the Steve Miller Band, though...
― Clarke B., Sunday, 29 July 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link