Excerpt from The Five L's Interview with Yes Weekly

http://www.yesweekly.com/triad/artic...-pack-it-.html

By Jordan Green June 12, 2013

The dressing room at Bucked Up Super Saloon in Kernersville would seem an unlikely site for the high drama in the cosmic cycle of life and death to play out.

But it’s not as though the venue is off the map.

“Lindsey Buckingham slept on this couch,” Five L’s guitar player James Hilton jokes, alluding to the rock mojo in the place, as the band assembles in the dressing room. And, indeed, the Fleetwood Mac member did play a concert here in 2012.

Lindsay Buchanan blows your mind :laugh::lol::thumbsup:

Trouble
 

This is a little audio snippet from a radio show in the UK. Earlier the disc jockeys were asked to play Frozen Love and they did not know the song and did not know Lindsey's name. They knew Stevie Nicks and Buckingham and had to scramble to think of Lindsey's first name. So, then a listener wrote them and asked them how they could not know the name of a "musical genius" like Lindsey.

http://mms.tveyes.com/transcript.asp...FF8E6E0D4CD174

This is the clip where they didn't know his name:

http://mms.tveyes.com/transcript.asp...77391E40B032FF

Excerpt from Zicos INTERVIEW: Jeff Sahyoun of letlive.

http://en.zicos.com/proaudio/i294229...f-letlive.html

[Don't say "oddly enough" dude]

Friday July 5, 2013. 04:06 AM , from I Heart Guitar

What about favourite players? Who are your guys?

I definitely look up to John Mayer. I’ve been on a John Mayer run for the last few months, actually. I like his finger technique. Jack White, Matt Bellamy from Muse, Tom Morello of course. And oddly enough, Lindsey Buckingham from Fleetwood Mac.

Oh totally! I was listening to his solo album Out of the Cradle recently, and I read that on the tour for that album he had something like four other guitarists on stage, in order to play all the overdubs live.
Yep! I love it! My dad introduced me to him when I was younger. And Jack White, I have a similar style of making an instrument out of anything I can build. Y’know, I get my influences from nerding out my guitar and building things here and there from Tom Morello and Matt Bellamy. Putting pedals and whatever I can into the body of my guitar to take the weight off my feet. Those are my main guys.

Star Tribune Entertainment

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/214175111.html

Before launching into a fiery cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” during her set Saturday at Somerset Amphitheater, Brandi Carlile coolly mentioned that she’d met Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham a week earlier. Apparently, she wasn’t so nonchalant, however, about running into Saturday’s headliners, the Avett Brothers, backstage before taking the stage. “I said, ‘We must read a lot of the same books,’ ” Carlile goofily recalled. And then she got all geeked out: “I’ve been obsessing over your lyrics for the past year.” Wonder if this means she’ll be covering “Kick Drum Heart” or some other Avetts tune next week.

I can't stop watching this.
http://visions-of-johanna.tumblr.com...the-chain-live

Rolling Stone: USC Music School Teaches the Art of Making a Pop Hit

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...#ixzz2YTM7ieTX

Beyond their performance work, students also get to see weekly guest speakers such as Ballard and Fleetwood Mac's Lindsay Buckingham. Perhaps most importantly, the program's location gives them a chance to play for more than just their fellow students – one reason that many pop program students opted for USC over specialized schools such as Boston's Berklee College of Music.

http://assets.rollingstone.com/asset...1372799741.jpg

how cool. wish someone who was there would post something about what he said

there's an old thread somewhere in this forum, and there was a recording of most of that session. just do a search. maybe Lindsey at USC or something like that.

it was in jan or feb 2012, his guitars were still in the container being shipped back from the ill-fated UK/Ire tour... i think he played Big Love and another song and there was something controversial at the time that he said, i think it was about june 2012 being to late to make up the UK solo tour.

i think he was there because Walfredo's niece or somebody was going to that school.

Here's the thread.

http://www.ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/sh...ndsey+students

[I think Lindsey was born to a well-to-do family, rather than millionaire rich]

Rock Stars Who Were Born Rich by Michael Gallucci, Ultimate Classic Rock

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/rock-...ere-born-rich/

Lindsey Buckingham

Before he hooked up with Stevie Nicks in Los Angeles for a singer-songwriter duo that would eventually transform Fleetwood Mac from lumbering British blues band into world-dominating rock stars, Lindsey Buckingham spent his time in a California suburb. His dad owned a successful coffee plant. Young Lindsey, along with his two older brothers, spent a good deal of his free time swimming competitively. In high school, he became a star water-polo player, which says all you need to know about his pre-Mac finances.

I'm not sure if this is the correct thread for my little tidbit, but Time Precious Time was played before the lights went out at The Postal Service concert I'm at! :thumbsup:

That's great. I bet you were the only one in the audience who knew it.

Michele

[Ha. The comment is funny and fair enough, but why do people always assume that Lindsey is confused about his solo record sales? I mean, maybe he was in the eighties, but surely he hasn't been in the last 20 years]


Excerpt from a review of Sam Phillips

http://thecommonills.blogspot.com/20...lly-comes.html

That's Sam Phillips oft repeated chorus to "When I'm Alone." It's cloying and really requires a ukulele. In fact, you can easily imagine Lindsey Buckingham both writing and recording the song (convinced he'd 'connected) but he'd probably record the uklele with an echo chamber and then play the recording backwards while multi-tracking his chipmunk vocals and then, finally, be perplexed that he'd yet again made a solo recording that failed to sell.

Oh man, his fingerpicking is the strangest one I've ever seen, I love the fact that he made his sound by his own. Thanks youtube for showing these gems of the past.

[The writer doesn't elaborate, about why he likes LB solo better. It's just the way he ended his article on Haim.]

http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/wild-mer.../the-haim-wars

I’m not crazy about Haim, and I really should have better things to do than feel self-reflexively guilty about it. Now let me tell you about how much I prefer Lindsey Buckingham solo to Fleetwood Mac…
Read more at http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/wild-mer...FBg5qu2hGCV.99

So, the Bottle Rockets apparently have a song called:

15. This Is What It Sounds Like When You’re Listening to Lindsey Buckingham and Thinking of Your Friend’s Girlfriend at the Same Time (1994 Acoustic Demo)

Here's a write up on their music (but not that particular song) here.

http://www.bottlerocketsmusic.com/bo...side-re-issue/

[This guy was tearing apart a Kevin Smith interview and Kevin was trying to put together a horror movie called Tusk (a walrus tusk, not having anything to do with FM) and in attacking Kevin this commenter made a LB reference]

http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2013/10/...8Film+Drunk%29

You’re kidding, right? This keeps going? This isn’t a cliffhanger, Kevin. The audience is a tangle of shattered limbs at the bottom of the ravine by now, and you’re just poking us with your typing wand to see if we’re still listening.

But good luck with TUSK. I’m sure it won’t turn into something you dangle in front of your fans for the indefinite future. And don’t worry about the second mortgage, either. Because what are the odds that a project called TUSK will turn into an exorbitantly expensive artistic disaster?

BONUS LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM BURN! (*shreds guitar for what seems like forever*)


Read more: http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2013/10/...#ixzz2hLo0fX1F

As a Kevin Smith fan, I am inclined to agree with the author! This movie concept really doesn't do anything for me. The part about Kevin having "something to dangle in front of your fans" is my favorite line. He really has been stringing us along with Hit Somebody and Clerks 3!

But he crossed the line referring to the album as an artistic disaster. :rolleyes:

From an interview with Eddie Reader in the Nottingham Post:

"I GOT the songs I originally wanted to sing for Love Is The Way by editing, arranging and using other people's songs and I enjoyed that," she says of her 2009 long-player.

"Never Going Back was my lyrics on to a song by Lindsey Buckingham, Declan O'Rourke had written Love Is The Way, and I took it back to what I'd heard. Others, like Dragonflies, Boo Hewerdine had been playing for two years and I got it when a relation of mine died – I had an epiphany.



Read more: http://www.nottinghampost.com/Interv...#ixzz2ih2dULBQ

Merci Blah Blah blog post:

http://www.merciblahblah.com/2013/10/hello-moto.html

2. All the Stevie Nicks on this season of American Horror Story makes me happy. And because I was YouTubing a bunch of Fleetwood Mac before work this morning, Imma just go ahead and say that nobody rocks a white man 'fro like Lindsey Buckingham back in the day. WEARING A KIMONO, no less. Go on witcho bad self, LB.

Interview with Robby Bacca [glad that technique is becoming synonymous with LB]

http://www.metalunderground.com/news...m?newsid=96872

Frank. (laughs) Haahha. So what is your favorite guitar technique that you utilize in the songs?

Robby: I found myself, on the last record, doing a good chunk of finger-picking on electric guitar.

Frank: Lindsey Buckingham style.

Robby: Yeah, which I found, in the studio, was something I needed to work on as far as dynamics go. I wasn’t really thinking about, how, when you’re finger-picking, this finger you’re hitting harder than this other finger. I found myself enjoying a lot of the finger-picking stuff, and I’m actually writing a bunch of stuff that is centered around that technique.

You can listen to the stream of that song here:

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture...s-reissue-song

[Put him on your resume. I loved this lawyer's profile!]

http://www.lawdragon.com/lawyer_prof...s/ca/90024/326

Before founding the firm in 1983, he served as defense counsel in several prominent cases, including representation of former L.A. Dodger pitcher Carlos Lopez, former U.S Congressman, Andrew J. Hinshaw (People v. Hinshaw), Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac, the Vatican, GTE Directories Corporation, Ayerst Laboratories and Wyeth Laboratories, now known as American Home Products/Wyeth Pharmaceutical, and the late movie mogul, King Vidor.

A TUNE A DAY (May 12, 2013)
http://atuneadayblogdotcom.wordpress...tephanie-1973/

"On the plane over to San Francisco on Saturday (I’m over for a week on a business trip), I had the chance to watch the new documentary Sound City, about the Sound City recording studios in Los Angeles. The film was made by drummer Dave Grohl (Nirvana/Foo Fighters) and is excellent throughout. But one part was particularly interesting for me. It focused on the recording of Buckingham Nicks, the album that led to Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joining Fleetwood Mac in the 1970s, starting with Fleetwood Mac (1975) and then Rumours (1977). It’s a great record and like a blueprint for the subsequent Fleetwood Mac releases, though little heard today because for some reason it never made it onto CD. I have an old vinyl copy but can’t play it any more.

A standout track for me is the instrumental “Stephanie”, composed and played by Buckingham – whose distinctive guitar style pervades all the tracks. Buckingham uses his thumb to pick out the bass and lower parts (like the left hand for a pianist) while using the rest of his fingers for patterns, arpeggios and the melody on the upper strings in a highly independent way. And to make this work more effectively he also changes the typical guitar tuning – something he apparently tried to keep secret in his early days so that other guitarists wouldn’t copy him. It sounds so full it’s hard to believe there’s just one player or no overdubs – except for the electric guitar melodies on the record, but these aren’t really needed, this is essentially a solo piece.

“Stephanie” reminds me of the folk-influenced finger-picking guitar style Paul McCartney used on “Blackbird” taken up a few notches, and it’s evident again on the Rumours track “Never Going Back Again”. Although the original is still hard to find, Buckingham has been playing the piece live recently and there are performances available on YouTube. But if you are interested in how it is played, take a look at this fascinating tutorial by Sara Carter. The prospect of a cover version on YouTube is typically something to avoid at all costs, but not in this case – she absolutely nails it here."


I'd never heard that before. When did Lindsey say that?

It would be nice to have him expound on that. Michele

From a review of Delivery Man by Soren Andersen

http://seattletimes.com/html/enterta...yndication=rss

Dr. Music here. My motto: There’s a song lyric to suit every occasion.

Today’s occasion is the arrival of “Delivery Man.”

Fans of Fleetwood Mac will remember this one: “It’s not that funny, is it?”

And this one: “Don’t make me wait.”

A musical twofer! All hail Lindsey Buckingham. Long may he wail.

Sunday, November 24, 2013

http://the-reaction.blogspot.com/201...mac-never.html

Listening to Now: Fleetwood Mac - "Never Going Back Again"

By Richard K. Barry

This is one of my favourite Fleetwood Mac songs. "Never Going Back Again" was the third track on the first side of the legendary Rumours album, which was released in 1977. Maybe I like it so much because Lindsey Buckingham's guitar part is such a blast to play.

I have no idea about the origins of this clip, but it's clearly more recent. Love it.

[From an article about concert speeches. Hey Lindsey's comments don't make Timothy Schmit's any less annoying!]:

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed...-family-affair

‘In a time when it’s all so confusing / We can win and it feels like losing’: but I doubt whether Timothy Schmit ever feels like losing

It’s hard to believe some people find Timothy B. Schmit’s ‘rambling’ at his solo gigs annoying. I read a pretty negative review of one of his live shows on the Poconut[1] forum website but can’t find it again now.

If you want to hear someone really ramble, go see Fleetwood Mac. Lindsey Buckingham should by rights be togged up in a gilet and walking boots, with his trousers tucked securely into some sensible socks and a laminated map nestled next to the pac-a-mac in his pocket.

Lindsey has a tendency to deliver self-aggrandising mini-lectures between numbers, which only really serve to prove that he has not let anything go or matured significantly over the years. Stevie Nicks was only once guilty of an overlong song introduction but at least it had a point. Other than to prove that she’d been right along, which was the gist of all of her bandmate’s diatribes. Honestly, why is he trying to justify Tusk now? As Don Henley might advise: ‘Get over it.’

But you put up with it for the music. They tell their stories better in song and, apart from the odd self-indulgence, the shows are amazing.

[Article on Haim, excerpt] Drowned in Sound

http://www.drownedinsound.com/in_dep...fluence?ticker

Haim have often been compared to Fleetwood Mac, but they bring to mind a very specific embodiment of the band. 1987’s Tango in the Night, maybe the Mac’s most finely produced record, is so bright and glowing that even the lesser songs give off a kind of incandescence. Each instrument gently descends into view, but with a virtual depth and glimmer that lend them the qualities of tropical weather. Lindsey Buckingham never played his guitar so elusively again, particularly on “Everywhere” where it settles like percussion around John McVie’s bassline. It's as if Christine McVie’s keyboards get caught in the sweetness of its rotation.

[From Irish Central. This is a sad year end wrap up for the writer, but she does mention enjoying Lindsey with the deceased. This is an excerpt]

http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/A-...238652911.html

By YVONNE WATTERSON, IrishCentral Contributing Writer

There was more to 2013 than its last forty-six days; there was a time when we were three instead of two. Like lightning bugs, the memories flash. Ken tapping his feet at a Fleetwood Mac concert this May, marveling at the genius of Lindsey Buckingham, wondering what Lindsey must be on and if he could get his hands on some of it. My fiftieth birthday and the wood floors I’d wanted for two decades in this little house finally installed. Expense be damned, I wanted it to feel like a California beach-house underfoot. Art supplies for Sophie’s summer college class. Binge-watching Breaking Bad in late summer. The three of us watching on my computer screen, an animated film in which a frail yet fervent 83-year old Maurice Sendak gives his final interview, each of us in tears when Sendak tells the interviewer,

That's part of that gift he has, I always talk about. His ability to really move people beyond just his playing. His playing is what was enjoyed here, but it obviously went deeper than that, and now will always mean so much more to the writer.

[From an article on the Best Music of 2013]

http://newsok.com/best-music-of-2013...rticle/3922349

2.Haim, ‘Days Are Gone.'

Sure, I hope Haim and Lindsey Buckingham surprise everyone and decide to tour together in 2014, but the mastery of “Days Are Gone” goes far beyond just good taste in classic California pop-rock. Este, Danielle and Alana Haim built a swooning album of tough and sweet earworm songs (“The Wire,” “Falling,” “Honey & I”) and display melodic acuity that feels supernaturally assured for a debut.

[This is from an app review. The guy told the app that he liked Rolling Stones and Alan Jackson and it created a Lindsey Buckingham playlist for him. Now, I wish he had told us what the songs on that playlist were]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/p...music/4430383/

Beats Music may cultivate – or rejuvenate – your love of recorded music.

And it could also press "Play" on a new wave of evolution in streaming music. The new service from Beats Electronics, the company best known for its Beats By Dr. Dre headphones, becomes available Jan. 21 ($10 monthly fee).

But I've had a chance to test-drive the still-in-beta testing mode service over the last few days – a full-fledged review will come closer to launch – and have to admit that I am smitten.

STORY: Beats Music banks on curation for streaming success

STORY: AT&T teams up for Beats Music family offering

Upon opening the app the first time, Beats Music asked for three favorite genres – choices include Pop, Rock, Country, Hip-hop, Blues – and three artists that you like or love – Rolling Stones, Alan Jackson, fun, for example – to provide some input for its music presentation algorithm.

Its resulting elegantly-designed entry screens on my IPhone 5s offered multiple opportunities for music discovery. Underneath the opening "Just For You" page. I find a Foo Fighters family tree playlist – complete with text introduction – and clickable albums such as General Public's All the Rage and Minus the Bear's Menos El Oso.

Scroll down a bit and you see a "Best of Lindsey Buckingham" playlist and a mix called "Sleek and Sexy Pre-Dinner Drinks with selections from Michael Jackson, Daft Punk, Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake and Lorde.

[Excerpt from Q & A with theater actors Danielle Hope and John Partridge]

What would your three Desert Island discs be?

DH: Ben Howard, Celine Dion, Kelly Clarkson

JP: Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush), Big Love (Fleetwood Mac), Changes (David Bowie).

Ten Silly Predictions by Chris Gray of the Houston Press

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/..._for_sunda.php

We're going to get a really, really, really hard-rocking version of a hit from Rumours.

This week the Grammys announced that QOTSA -- who will be in Houston exactly two weeks after the show, February 9 at Bayou Music Center -- and Nine Inch Nails will make their Grammy performing debuts, closing the broadcast alongside Dave Grohl (who is on every year) and Lindsey Buckingham. So in our minds the only question is whether they lead into the local news with "Go Your Own Way" or "The Chain." We'd actually take both.

[Well, someone noticed]

Slate's Mistakes for the Week

http://www.slate.com/articles/briefi...27.single.html

In a Jan. 27 Music Box, Carl Wilson described Jared Leto’s Dallas Buyers Club role as being a transvestite. Leto played a transgender woman. He also misspelled Lindsey Buckingham's first name.