Can't speak for Lindsey, but pretty sure Mick and Stevie (and maybe the others?) had burned through their 70s millions by the 80s.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 August 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
It's weird to me to regard him as underrated tbh. He's been overpraised as genius arranger since the late '90s.
I'd prefer to read a piece arguing for the brilliance of Christine McVie.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 23 August 2020 00:23 (three years ago) link
I guess Lindsey sank his in a house in Brentwood, which has paid off very well.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 23 August 2020 01:38 (three years ago) link
Nice crib
― calstars, Sunday, 23 August 2020 01:51 (three years ago) link
been there two times, never going back again tho
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Sunday, 23 August 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link
Bucky pulls a Dylan, which I guess others have been doing as well?
https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/lindsey-buckingham-fleetwood-mac-hipgnosis-merck-mercuriadis-1109830/?fbclid=IwAR3tV0sK-KHlxohENaFFgNJptymHPI83peV0nCbZSCTlx6JBmtHSZgIK_Oo
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 00:09 (three years ago) link
After today's news about another big rock song catalog acquisition (Fleetwood Mac this time), it's probably worth sharing this again—my analysis of why this is happening and what it tells us about the future of the music business. https://t.co/CJVwibtCEj pic.twitter.com/YJRdKHT8sg— Ted Gioia (@tedgioia) January 5, 2021
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 01:25 (three years ago) link
That tweet is very depressing. I'm going to bed.
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 01:39 (three years ago) link
.
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 01:47 (three years ago) link
Is it? It guaranteed his family a bunch of dough forever.
― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 01:54 (three years ago) link
Good for them. B-b-but...
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 02:11 (three years ago) link
Pretty sure that Stevie already sold her rights, not sure if that registered here or not.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 02:45 (three years ago) link
yep, just one month ago:
https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/stevie-nicks-fleetwood-mac-catalog-primary-wave-1098850/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lagpYLwnSd8
― xzanfar, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 02:56 (three years ago) link
Just of a bit of yet another collapse of a way for people to be rewarded for their labors, let's be cool.
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 02:57 (three years ago) link
Variety relentlessly reports on these Hipgnosis deals (for some reason); not sure why this one registered in particular?
― Four Jacks and a Jill (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 04:28 (three years ago) link
(I’ve assumed Jem Aswad gets a kickback or some other incentive for writing up every damn Hipgnosis announcement)
― Four Jacks and a Jill (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 04:30 (three years ago) link
this was likely guaranteed long before this deal
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 10:23 (three years ago) link
Because I’m painfully fair, I must amend my above remarks to note that Aswad apparently reports on non-Hipgnosis publishing deals as well.
― Four Jacks and a Jill (morrisp), Friday, 8 January 2021 07:33 (three years ago) link
(This other company, Primary Wave, is that one that Stevie Nicks made a deal with last year.)
― Four Jacks and a Jill (morrisp), Friday, 8 January 2021 07:35 (three years ago) link
Is he right about consumers spendling less in point 3? I was under the impression that revenue was actually rising in the streaming era. Official trade body seems to think so https://www.ifpi.org/our-industry/industry-data/ that it’s not necessarily going to the right people is a different story as on the numerous Spotify threads.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 8 January 2021 08:58 (three years ago) link
Fleetwood Mac's complete and total transformation into the The Eagles is totally sad, but it's probably been a balancing act since The Dance. The writing was on the wall when Stevie and Mick tried to replace Christine fucking McVie with Sheryl Crowe. Members are fungible and profits are all that matter. It's a boomer nostalgia clown show. And I don't that Lindsey is the only trouble maker in the band and deserved to be fired. Stevie chucked a steel chair at Christine in 1987 and has done her fair share of rotten shit.
― HuskerDoolittle, Thursday, 1 April 2021 19:43 (three years ago) link
glad i got to see them all on stage around 2013
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 1 April 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
At the least the Eagles still have Joe Walsh. I'm not an Eagles fan, but I'd rather go to their show than a Fleetwood Mac that's been turned into the Stevie Nicks show.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 1 April 2021 20:07 (three years ago) link
As I see it The Eagles have always been very openly corporate. Don and Glenn never try to hide it while FM tried to foster an image of a dysfunctional incestual family, but a family nonetheless. Joe Walsh is the only reason to see The Eagles. Don Henley has always been a wet fart. Mick and Stevie also fired keyboardist Brett Tuggle, who had a close working relationship with Christine and then laughably replaced him with her solo touring keyboardist. It's sad to see that Christine is done. She's a ridiculously good writer and never got her due because her ego wasn't huge and Stevie, Lindsey, or Mick's. She's pretty much retired. RIP Fleetwood Mac.
― HuskerDoolittle, Thursday, 1 April 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link
After Peter Green left, Danny Kirwan and Christine were by far the best things about Fleetwood Mac, and with Kirwan soon gone, she carried the band IMHO. Bob Welch was okay, he had a few songs I really liked, but she was a far better and more consistent songwriter as well as a far more appealing vocalist. You can compile a truly great Christine McVie solo album from the best songs she wrote for FM before Buckingham and Nicks came on board, and afterwards she and Buckingham edged out Nicks as the best songwriters for the group. I can't imagine going to a show if Christine and Buckingham are truly gone, not unless someone else is paying.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 1 April 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
I once burned a 2 CD comp of Christine's songs in FM and it's just ridiculous how consistently great her songwriting is. The problem is that money is in touring and Stevie puts butts in the seats, therefore she gets to make all the executive decisions. Fleetwood Mac only tours and records an official Fleetwood Mac album when Stevie says so. It's a crime that Christine's last appearance on an official FM release was 31 years ago. Now Mick Fleetwood is trying to put together a ramshackle Fleetwood Mac tour involving all remaining Fleetwood Mac members. Nuts.
― HuskerDoolittle, Thursday, 1 April 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddLKaiGDPIg
fantastic imo
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
He's such a consistently great writer/arranger/producer/player.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 17:38 (two years ago) link
Beautiful, he don't miss. Seeds We Sow was his best album yet imo
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
As a Tusk lover who was ambivalent towards Law and Order, which Buckingham album might I like best?
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link
Hmm, probably Out of the Cradle. But all the albums after that are great, too, or at least less uneven.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
(Less uneven than the first couple, that is. After those two it's pretty smooth sailing in Buckyland.)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 18:05 (two years ago) link
Out of the Cradle's a solid intro if you know him as a band member; even though he plays or programs 98% of it himself, it's not as minimalist as the others.
Go Insane is a fascinating boomer-goes-new-wave moment though the songwriting's more wan.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
Yeah, was going to recommend Go Insane if you haven't heard it. It's about as ambitious as Tusk but completely different sonically--very 80s neo-psych, closer to Tango In the Night
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 18:11 (two years ago) link
Iirc, very "hmm, what does *this* button do?"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 18:16 (two years ago) link
I agree, Out of the Cradle is excellent.
BUT, the Solo Anthology is a great compilation, and I'll add that I never thought *that* highly of solo Buckingham until I got that three-disc set and listened to it from start-to-finish. I was skeptical of the whole thing - THREE discs? c'mon - but seeing it on clearance convinced me to give it a chance, and man was I wrong. (To be clear, it's more like a two-disc set with a great live disc as a bonus.)
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 18:31 (two years ago) link
(And to be fair, a lot of Out of the Cradle is on Solo Anthology - it really is an excellent album)
yeah it’s great.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
“street of dreams” haunting af
I almost nailed the acoustic intro to “don’t look down” years ago
― brimstead, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 19:13 (two years ago) link
My new self-titled album is one I’ve been intending to get out for a couple of years now, but on more than one occasion, unforeseen circumstances necessitated a postponement of plans. Now that we’re back in gear, I’m thrilled to finally be sharing this new music with my listeners!
In other words, "my new album is once again stuff I'd been sitting on for potential use on a new Fleetwood Mac album, but now that they've gone their own way, I'm keeping them for myself."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 00:34 (two years ago) link
how many buckingham solo albums that could have been parts of a respectable enough late career FM album if he'd been able to get the others on board are we up to now lol? & of course he managed to get everyone except stevie on board for buckingham mcvie
will also rep for out of the cradle & go insane, both very enjoyable stuff. love "don't look down"
― ufo, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 00:58 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcOZfU4PVCg
looked up the out of the cradle tour and why does he have 5 guitarists lmao. great performances though
― ufo, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link
that's how many it takes to duplicate his one guitar and mullet
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 01:14 (two years ago) link
xpost His fabled guitar army! Iirc, he infamously didn't play "Countdown," the single, on the tour. But here it is (with house band) doing it on Letterman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzVtMdpxYWM
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 01:36 (two years ago) link
That Center Stage thing, btw, I know people who were at that show, and apparently no one was allowed to leave, with some songs getting multiple perfectionist takes.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 01:41 (two years ago) link
Letterman With The Longbox!
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 02:00 (two years ago) link
Whatever bubbles bubbles up
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 02:14 (two years ago) link
Lol
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 02:22 (two years ago) link