Lindsey Buckingham: C o' D?

Lindsey Buckingham finally releases a new album, Under The Skin, on 10/3. He tells USA Today

[It's] kind of a reduction. There are basically no drums, very little bass. On a musical level, I've been trying to distill things. This is the best time in my life, and that's a great thing to be able to say when you're 56, and didn't become a father till you were 48.

He plans another “more rocking” album next year and (finally) a solo U.S. tour. “It's a turnaround, time-frame-wise, for someone who's been sort of the Terrence Malick of rock,” he admits.

anyone have a copy of this interview?

and i guess quite the water polo player..my friend and i were perusing his mom's high school yearbook (i think a school in Palo Alto?) only to find Lindsey mid ball-toss in the pool...He signed something lame, like "Kristen--Government was classic. Big Love...LB" (not verbatim, but something trivial). And that, friends, is my Lindsey Buckingham story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yllqie08a7U

Out of the Cradle is a great album and some of his guitar noodling is incredible.

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"

ilx-adjacent musician brad laner wrote swan song on the new record! https://www.spin.com/2021/11/jordon-zadorozny-brad-laner-lindsey-buckingham-swan-song/?fbclid=IwAR3URcrasLJ7D_1jES0lb-u_x-PU4kVoSDJ71kICDTbrrbOD0q5uXgM8qA8

LMAO, a lot of times you'll see a longtime musician like Dylan, McCartney or Prince discuss decades later how they amaze themselves when they look back at their work (i.e. "where did this come from?" or "how did I write this?") It's funny how this plays out with Buckingham stumbling on a demo he recorded 20 years ago and whoops, I guess I DIDN'T write that!

I have to imagine this sort of thing is a common occurrence amongst songwriters. I recall about 15 years ago I thought up a really nice, pretty arpeggiated melody over an elegant descending chord sequence - I was in the shower at the time but thought it was so good I threw on a towel, jumped out, and wrote down the chords and recorded myself singing the melody so I wouldn't forget it by the time I was dried off. Around the time I was working out the lyrics a few weeks later, I heard "my" song playing on the piped-in music at a McDonalds I occasionally stopped at on the way home, then realized the song I thought I'd written was something i merely heard at a previous fast-food stop when I wasn't paying much attention. To this day I don't know what song I unintentionally almost copped; this was pre-Shazam.

Greil Marcus really likes the new album too. He's always been a huge FM fan (of the Peter Green era, of Christine McVie's songs, and of the Buckingham/Nicks-era), but IIRC he's never cared much for their solo work. A search of his complete Real Life Rock Top 10 albums reveals no entries on anything Buckingham's done on his own.

Top 10 columns, not albums

kind of like the episode of the John Laroquette Show where he discovers a manuscript of his from 30 years ago and it's amazing and he's trying to recreate something new in that vein for publishing, but he can't find the inspiration, so he sends the manuscript to the publisher and it's an Ernest Hemingway novel that he had typed up for his Typing final years ago

I recall about 15 years ago I thought up a really nice, pretty arpeggiated melody over an elegant descending chord sequence

I did this once and it turned out to be "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Warrant

rocket, rocket, all of my rocket sauce

He's been doing "reaction" videos with his daughter, pretty adorable:

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

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.

Yeah, sorry, I thought of that immediately. But life goes on (for some)! At least the video provides some levity.

Yes, I saw the Eric Burdon thread and feared the worst.

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.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j)

you went insane?

I don't think I've heard solo Lindsey except for the Vacation theme song, which I deeply love for nostalgic reasons and the dog sounds crack me up.

But listening to that song in the reaction video, it's very Kate Bush! And there's not really a lot that sounds like her.

his albums are awesome, you should listen to them all.

I was skeptical but they are indeed great. The deluxe edition of Anthology is a great place to start and for awhile I found copies for cheap - like $10. (Sadly he hasn't sold that many records for his solo work in a long while, so it wasn't a surprise.) Out of the Cradle is probably the best of them. The latest one is really good too, maybe my second favorite partly due to its consistency.

Not a solo album, but the album he did with Christine McVie is up there with his best F Mac work.

The other two (minus Stevie) are on that as well, because it was supposed to be a Mac album.

It made so happy whenever he talked about Christine in the last five years of his life; he always respected her but he kept emphasizing what a pro she was, what a superb melodist and singer, etc.

*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.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, June 11, 2025 1:46 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

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."