Fleetwood Mac Forum

I love it when other artists, some of whom Lindsey probably doesn't have a clue who they are!, mention Lindsey. I thought it would be cool to start a thread and gather all the mentions together.

Here's girl guitar hero Kaki King speaking about Mr Buckingham last year:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04062008/ent...105200.htm

April 6, 2008 -- WITH her unusual approach to her instrument - all hammered-on notes and percussive thumps - Kaki King is often regarded as a burgeoning guitar hero. But her dulcet singing voice and soothing atmospherics betray a very different path than most who earn that title. As evidence of just how outside the guitar-hero norm she is, she cites one of her biggest influences as Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham.

Note her reaction when this reporter expresses surprise.

"Really? He's one of the greatest! That's crazy!" says King, 28, who brings her hard acoustic style to the Bowery Ballroom Wednesday night. "He was a great finger-picker, but played rock guitar with his fingers."


And Animal Collective mentioning him too

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/fe...collective

Noah, actually, says a lot of my songs remind him of Lindsey Buckingham...I like Fleetwood Mac a lot, in terms of older bands or pop bands, they're one of the greatest. Tusk, Rumors-- the Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, that whole lineup has definitely been an influence on me.


And Joanna Newsom in 2007 listed her favourite songs of 2006 and top of the list was Shut Us Down by Lindsey. She simply wrote:

"I love him"

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/fe...nna-newsom

And of course Matthew Sweet and Pete Droge of The Thorns love Lindsey too:

http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1471154/...orns.jhtml

Droge: Early on Matthew and I definitely bonded over Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk. We’re both fanatical about the Lindsey Buckingham stuff on that record.

Sweet: I love the Lindsey Buckingham-Stevie Nicks era of Fleetwood Mac. Our record has their vibe, that Fleetwood Mac sound, even though we don’t have any female singers.

I remember Radiohead mentioned him too but I can't find the quote

I don't have any articles to quote, but Keith Urban cites Lindsey/FM as an influence.

Also Monte Montgomery, Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains) and guitarist from The Darkness (don't know his name, sorry!). I did research for a book I made/gave to Lindsey back in 2004 at the Houston SYW show. All the book pictures/quotes are on another hard drive right now though.

I almost made a thread like this when I saw the Animal Collective quote. That made me really happy. It's so cool knowing that one of your favourite bands is inspired by another favourite. I wonder if Lindsey is influenced by any of the people who he's influenced (excluding John Stewart).

Not specifically on Lindsey but this is Greg Dulli (The Twilight Singers/The Gutter Twins) on the Mac:


"while we were touring the twilight's first US leg, i began obsessing on the greatness of fleetwood mac's "california cocaine trilogy". on stage i did a stevie nicks weave of "sara", "rhiannon" and "gypsy". when it came time to cut, i got a hard on for hotwiring the end of "second hand news" from "rumours" to the end of "what makes you think you're the one" from "tusk"...

...so, i did."

Also: http://www.spinner.com/2008/08/29/greg-d...to-sub-po/

"Lindsey Buckingham, watch the f---ing Fleetwood Mac 'Behind the Music.' It's fantastic. Let it be known that I love Fleetwood Mac."



Apparently Ryan Adams named Lindsey as one of the guitar players he was influenced by on a radio show back in 2004:

http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=16161



And here's Colin from Radiohead speaking about the Mac, again not specifically Lindsey. I'm sure they mentioned Tusk before though. Mari?

"Well I try to tell everyone, I'm a complete fan of Fleetwood Mac. I put a couple of thing on the webcast and I thought I would hear some mutterings about it. I didn't say what it was, and they'd say, 'Wow, that was great, what was it?' and I would say, 'Fleetwood Mac, you bastards!' Our manager introduced me to Fleetwood Mac years ago because he knows Peter Green-era, sort of psychedelic folk blues. Just the way it was recorded with the drums, the dry drums with the percussion in the background. Just really amazing and it sounds really modern to me as well. I just think it's great." — Colin Greenwood

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/1..._pynchon/6

Colin Greenwood again, this time to Pitchfork:
"I'm going through a Fleetwood Mac Tusk and '71 Greatest Hits obsession."

http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews...radiohead/

I have been searching the internet like a madman when I read that back then. Never found any boots where we could hear that stevie-weave or that Lindsey-hotwire..... still hoping though...

Well, the Lindsey hotwire is on the cover of What Makes You Think You're The One. He sort of adds a bit of the "bam, bam, bam" thing from Second Hand News at the end of the track.
As for the Stevie weave, well I can hook you up with that. Let me find it!

another reason why I should give Animal Collective another try, I guess.

.. dunno, I love Panda Bear but AC just doesn't do it for me (yet?)

.. did someone say radiohead?

well, I can remember them mentioning Tusk, and Rumours, and Peter Green (House Of Cards is supposed to be based on Albatross), but not Lindsey in specific.

Try the new album, Merriweather Post Pavilion. It's got a bit of a Person Pitch-ness to it. Sort of. It's excellent and I can't wait to see if something tops it this year because if anything comes out better than it I'll be very happy with new music this year.

Here's the (trippy) video to one of Panda's songs from the new album: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zol2MJf6XNE (best viewed in HD)

ok, that one I like!
I'll try the new album.

Did you find it? Sounds interesting.

alright! I've always read that as a reference to a Live-thing. Ofcourse I know that cover with the slight bam bam bam, I bet I bought that album on the day of release. Now get that stevie-weave for us sister!

not exactly unprompted but... counting crows / Adam Duritz has been tweeting today about great guitarists/innovators, so i asked the following:
ellellew elle
@countingcrows how about lindsey buckingham - fingerpicker, both electric and acoustic guitar

and i received this reply/retweet - that also went to his million+ twitter followers:
countingcrows Counting Crows
RT @ellellew How about lindsey buckingham - fingerpicker, both electric and acustic guitar YES. DEFINITELY IN. GENIUS & FAR TOO UNDERRATED.

i liked that!
and, happy new year, everybody!



for context if interested, here's that whole tweet-thread on guitarists, starting from the most recent (so should probably be read from the bottom up):

countingcrows Counting Crows
RT @ellellew How about lindsey buckingham - fingerpicker, both electric and acustic guitar YES. DEFINITELY IN. GENIUS & FAR TOO UNDERRATED.

countingcrows Counting Crows
Still...I FREAKING LOOOOOOOOOVE LED ZEPPELIN. I own at least 30 collectors item bootlegs! Unbelievable live band, maybe the best ever.

countingcrows Counting Crows
Complete fucking badass rock and roll godlike geniuses...but O MY GOD did they ever blatantly steal shit from EVERYONE (with FOUR syllables)

countingcrows Counting Crows
About the Led Zep plagiarism case that came up w/ @bomani_jones earlier, any TRUE Zep fan-ASK IMMY-will tell you this: THEY. WERE. THIEVES.

countingcrows Counting Crows
Sorry for the overtweet people. And yes, I missed lots. You gotta be kidding about some of them though. Y'all mentioned some serious humps.

countingcrows Counting Crows
OK, I'm done. Just cuz this could go on forever. Off to Green bay tmw to watch @AaronRodgers12 & @desbishop55 & The Packer at Lambeau Field.

countingcrows Counting Crows
RT @TheRealXander So where does the admiration for other artists end & the inspiration to write begin? WHEN I STOP LISTENING & START WRITING

countingcrows Counting Crows
Oops-Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine. Gemma'd kill me if he wasn't here. Clarence White brought country & rock together in later Byrds.

countingcrows Counting Crows
Fighting with myself over Jerry Garcia. Left off early Blues guys accidentally-Robert Johnson, Lightning Hopkins. Shit forgot John Martyn 2.

countingcrows Counting Crows
Immy once said to me "He's the 1 guy to play slide gtr as if totally unaffected by the blues". That's a completely original thing. Unique.

countingcrows Counting Crows
George Harrison was the 3r best gtr player in the Beatles but I probably should've included him for the originality of his slide gtr style.

countingcrows Counting Crows
I left off lots of guys who are fucking great but didn't necessarily change music (w/their gtr playing)-look I skipped Prince, who I worship

countingcrows Counting Crows
Stevie Ray Vaughn was great but more of a plyr so awesome that he could do Hendrix. Not groundbreaking. Mike Campbell brought back The Byrds

countingcrows Counting Crows
Left off guys I love: Townshend-more of a great songwriter to me, all the great punks (my fave music), just forgot The Stooges guy. Add him.

countingcrows Counting Crows
Jimmy Nolen (JB's), Catfish Collins (JB's/P-Funk), maybe Nile Rodgers (for reviving funk gtr w/Chic & Bowie on LET'S DANCE but redundant?)

countingcrows Counting Crows
Clapton (for Cream & the London Howlin' Wolf Sessions), acoustic gtr is always underrated so: Roy Harper, Dylan, Paul Simon & Ron Wood

countingcrows Counting Crows
Note: I omitted the Motown Funk Bros gtrs cuz there were 6-7 guys. They're great 1guy for Stax/Volt & 1 guy for New Orleans is more defining

countingcrows Counting Crows
Leo Nocentelli & Steve Cropper (btwn The Meters and Booker T & The MGs, these two played guitar on 2/3 of all the soul music ever made)

countingcrows Counting Crows
Chuck Berry (invented the song-defining riff [include Keith Richards here as heir]), Neil Young (invented "grunge" 20 yrs before Grunge)...

countingcrows Counting Crows
Richard Thompson (greatest quad threat-singer/songwriter/gtr plyr-electric AND acoustic-EVER), Mick Ronson (groundbreaking work w/Bowie)...

countingcrows Counting Crows
No particular order 'cept maybe: Jimi Hendrix (shut up-whatever), Tom Verlaine (Television), Thurston Moore, BB KIng, Jimmy Page...

countingcrows Counting Crows
Been thinking about my favorite/best gtr players ever after this Prince discussion. Keep in mind, this list has to do with innovation too.

countingcrows Counting Crows
At 4:30, Prince just walks in front of Petty, kneels down & shreds. At 5, he glances, smiles w/mischief, & drills a fucking hole in the sky.

countingcrows Counting Crows
Petty keeps trying to restart the song but Prince is just "Fuck that! The song's called 'While My GUITAR Gently Weeps' for a reason" bitches

countingcrows Counting Crows
Well, I gotta u @bomani_jones for the vid http://bit.ly/giCi9l . Love Prince starting solo @ 3:30 & just playing OVER everyone for 3min