2008 Tour ????

[David]

Originally Posted by madformac

Our own Seteca I personally believe plays NGBA even better than LB.

What ever happened to that guy? He didn't talk very much, he was very shy, but he found himself a band & just started rockin' & soon he came out of his shell.

Of course, you have to think the choice of notes before you play them. What comes out is a combination of what you are thinking, the tone you are using and the emotions you are feeling at the time (e.g. how you bend, strike a particular note, which can change every single time).

Sometimes I play something like the Brahms piano intermezzo Op. 118 No. 2 without any emotion at all. I just play it robotically & it comes out pretty cool!

So its the vision of the songwriter that ultimately dictates who is "better" if you want to term it like that.

Better. Worse. More than. Less than. Equal to. Apart from. Up & over. Over & out.
What ever happened to mac fan ken, who used to speak in similar absolutes/comparatives/superlatives?

[madformac]

Originally Posted by David

What ever happened to that guy? He didn't talk very much, he was very shy, but he found himself a band & just started rockin' & soon he came out of his shell.

He is fine David. Doing very well in his chosen field and really too busy to post these days. I spent a few days with him in London last week and he is just as passionate about the music.

[shackin'up]

Originally Posted by madformac

He is fine David. Doing very well in his chosen field and really too busy to post these days. I spent a few days with him in London last week and he is just as passionate about the music.

which chosen field?

[madformac]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

which chosen field?

Not sure he would want me to say. But its a very well respected trade indeed.

[SteveMacD]

Who's the better guitarist...Blah, blah, blah...

It really doesn't matter. The better question is who's the most appropriate guitarist for a situation. I mean, the Beatles would have sucked, IMO, if Ginger Baker was their drummer, yet Ginger is a much more skilled, dare I say better drummer than Ringo Starr ever dreamed of being. But, Ringo was the more appropriate drummer for that particular situation.

With this in mind, Rick was too much of a sideman in a band that needed a visionary, which they had with Peter Green and Lindsey Buckingham. In terms of lead guitar abilities, Rick Vito was perhaps their best guitarist and could EASILY mop the floor with Lindsey's afro. The fact that Lindsey has opted to use a lead guitarist, really since the OOTC tour, should tell you that even he is aware of his limitations.

Lindsey is a good finger-style guitarist in his own right, though Chet Atkins, Les Paul, almost any major bluegrass guitarist/banjo player, Joe Pass, and Andrés Segovia put Lindsey to shame. Lindsey's playing was the perfect compliment to what his bandmates were playing. Lindsey had the vision of how the band should sound, and knew how to make that happen. Lindsey was able to take songs at their most basic and turn them into modern masterpieces. I'd rank Lindsey's guitar playing at about fourth in terms of the assets he brought into Fleetwood, first being producer, second vocalist, and third songwriter.

[David]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

I'd rank Lindsey's guitar playing at about fourth in terms of the assets he brought into Fleetwood, first being producer, second vocalist, and third songwriter.

I'd rank him: orchestrator, producer, painter, concert cynosure

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by madformac

Not sure he would want me to say. But its a very well respected trade indeed.

Is he runnin' guns & heroin again?

(of course, I just jest)

[shackin'up]

I rank him as the best thing that happened to FM musically. I rank him the worst thing that happened to FM band-politically.

Anyone who splits up the mans guitarplaying from his songwriting and producing has not understood his talent.

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

I rank him as the best thing that happened to FM musically. I rank him the worst thing that happened to FM band-politically.

Anyone who splits up the mans guitarplaying from his songwriting and producing has not understood his talent.

Have you been drinking again? What a load of crap.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

I rank him as the best thing that happened to FM musically. I rank him the worst thing that happened to FM band-politically.

Anyone who splits up the mans guitarplaying from his songwriting and producing has not understood his talent.

"If I had to choose my main contributing factor to the band, it wouldn't be as a guitarist, a writer, or a singer; it would be as someone who knows how to take raw material from Christine [McVie] and Stevie [Nicks] and forge that into something."