60 Minutes of Music That Changed LB

[michelej1]

[From 1998]

60 Minutes with Lindsey Buckingham

Vic Garbarini in Guitar World, April 1998

From ... the hour of music that yanks the Fleetwood Mac guitarist’s chain.

Whether he’s fingerpicking blazing electric solos on classics like Go Your Own Way or stunning audiences with dazzling acoustic workouts like Big Love, Lindsey Buckingham plays with a raging intensity any punk or metal guitarist would envy. His songwriting, production and arrangement skills helped make Fleetwood Mac one of the greatest bands of the Seventies and Eighties. He was also the key to the band’s amazing comeback album, The Dance, and subsequent tour last year. No wonder his admirers range from REM’s folksy Peter Buck to Alice in Chains’ gritty Jerry Cantrell. While Buckingham may or may not do more work with the Mac, he’s currently finishing up his first solo album since 1992’s Out of the Cradle (Reprise).

His choices for the 60 minutes of music that changed his life highlight an eclectic batch of guitarists and bands who, like himself, integrate unique playing styles with a flair for creative arrangements, combining raw passion with innovative production concepts.

A Whiter Shade of Pale Procol Harum (Deram, 1967)

‘There were a lot of songs based on classical themes back then. But there’s something really transcendent about how Procol Harum integrate Bach's Air on a G String into this one. It still makes me cry every time I hear it. It’s got a sophisticated level of production, particularly for its time, and yet they’re still dealing with the limitations of the technology. Great drum performance. Great vocals, too. It’s like a classical soul song.’