Showing posts with label Solo Acoustic Tour 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Solo Acoustic Tour 2012. Show all posts

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham: Amazing and Favorite Shows of 2012


Amazing shows of 2012 a prelude to big events of ’13
The Edge - Boston Herald
by Jed Gottlieb
A look back at the best in live music in 2012 in Boston

8. Stevie Nicks (July 9, Bank of America Pavilion): 
Every rock list is front-­loaded with dudes. All this male dominance makes Stevie Nicks’ glory greater.­ On the classic “Stand Back,” she roared like the Golden God; her take on “Landslide” remained as sublime as ever. But “Gold Dust Woman” was the highlight: Not only was her voice spot-on, but when she sang, “Rulers make bad lovers/You better put your kingdom up for sale” with that still wild rasp, it was awesome.

Erika Goldring Photo
Music writer Alison Fensterstock's favorite regional shows of 2012
Nola.com
By Alison Fensterstock

3. Lindsey Buckingham, Aug. 18, One Eyed Jacks
Lindsey Buckingham’s solo albums don’t telegraph the kind of power the guitarist can deliver on his own. “Fleetwood Mac is the big machine, and this is the small machine,” Buckingham said onstage at One Eyed Jacks, explaining his choice to play a full tour of stripped-down shows in small clubs. It was a good choice – the force and passion of his unadorned voice, guitar and songwriting skill in the 300-capacity room was riveting. Fleetwood Mac, of course, will reunite for a world tour in early 2013, and it’ll be fabulous, I’m sure – but after that intimate show in August, I may be a convert to the power of the “small machine.”



Tommy Mann Jr. Photo

Best concerts of 2012
Tommy Mann Jr.
The Orange Leader

7. Lindsey Buckingham at Lutcher Theater for the Performing Arts in Orange (Aug. 19, 2012)

Fleetwood Mac member Lindsey Buckingham opened the 2012-2013 Lutcher Theater season in style in a show which featured only the musician and his arsenal of electric guitars. Although he only performed a handful of Fleetwood Mac songs, it was night to remember.

Friday, November 30, 2012

Lindsey Buckingham Ready For Fleetwood Mac Return in 2013

Lindsey Buckingham is ready to get back into Fleetwood Mac in the coming year, but he was happy to go his own way in 2012. 
by Gary Graff
Billboard Magazine

Though he expected the band to be working this year rather than in 2013 -- it held off to allow Stevie Nicks more time to support her "In Your Dreams" album -- Buckingham took the opportunity to stage his first completely solo concerts, which have been captured on the new digital album "Lindsey Buckingham: One Man Show." "It's been an experiment on any number of levels," Buckingham tells Billboard. "It was not something I had an agenda to do, but I'd been kind of thinking about i for awhile. After Fleetwood Mac's plans got shuffled around, I had a chance to try something new, and this is what it was. I'm always looking for something that's slightly outside of my comfort zone whenever I can." 

"Buckingham says he's looking forward to doing more one-man shows and expanding their repertoire, but his focus is turning to Fleetwood Mac, which is expected to announce its 2013 tour dates soon, with, he says, a likely early April start."

Buckingham, who had toured with his own band in 2011, acknowledges that the one-man show "was kind of odd the first couple of nights; I kept looking around to see where everybody else was. But that fell away, and I think it really did turn into a real focal point for the audience, where there was nothing else up there but me so they could really zoom in on what was going on. I always talk about looking for the center, and I think this was an obvious extension of that."

Particularly intriguing, Buckingham adds, was using technology to layer additional guitar parts into several of the songs during the shows. "When I came to a moment of clarity where I realized I was going to want to do 'Go Your Own Way' or 'So Afraid,' and the logical conclusion is you've got to be able to hit a pedal or have a loop or have a guitar part coming in," he explains. "You're not fooling anybody in doing that. You're not trying to pretend it's not there. But it kind of caps off the concept of this (one-man show) idea. I think that's the point where the show really kinda completes itself." And bloopers, he says, have not been an issue. "It's been pretty seamless for the most part. It's just a matter of keeping your eye on the ball as things are going. You'd think that because you're so exposed there'd be more of that, but so far that hasn't happened."

Buckingham says he's looking forward to doing more one-man shows and expanding their repertoire, but his focus is turning to Fleetwood Mac, which is expected to announce its 2013 tour dates soon, with, he says, a likely early April start. "I'm looking forward to it," Buckingham says. "I get to go out there and try these other things on my own, and the more that defines me as an individual and the more it tends to differ from the Fleetwood Mac experience, then the more I'm able to just let the group thing go where it's gonna go."

And, he says, that may include some new music. Buckingham says he, drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie convened earlier this year in his home studio and "sat down and tracked some stuff," which he's recently shown to Nicks for her input. "We may be able to organize something -- I wouldn't think a whole album, but possibly something before we hit the road or, if not then, possibly something a little more extensive after the tour, depending on what everybody wants to do," Buckingham says. "The material is quite good, but we have to get everybody on the same page with that, and we'll see where it goes."

There's more to this... Check out the full article at Billboard.com


LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM ON "EXTRA" 
"40 - 50 Fleetwood Mac dates in the United States"





Tuesday, November 27, 2012

INTERVIEW: Lindsey Buckingham Talks 'One Man Show' and Fleetwood Mac


By Richard Bienstock

Earlier this month, Lindsey Buckingham released the live document One Man Show exclusively through iTunes. The album captures the legendary singer and guitarist onstage in Des Moines, Iowa, during a stop on his most recent tour — his first playing a full set of music in a solo acoustic configuration.

Buckingham recently sat down with Guitar Aficionado to discuss the impetus behind doing these shows, the process by which he adapts his music to an acoustic setting, and his feelings on returning to the “Big Machine” — his term for Fleetwood Mac — for a scheduled tour in 2013.

GUITAR AFICIONADO: What led you to embark on this solo acoustic tour?

My mentality for a while has been of this idea of ever moving toward the center, so to speak, in terms of presenting my songs with only guitar and vocal. So it was kind of an experiment. And I wasn’t sure how it would go. I knew in my head I could do all the stuff on my own, but figuring out how to plan the arc of an entire set was more difficult. But the main thing I had to get used to was the idea of standing up there all alone. Those first couple of shows I was looking around the stage going, “Where is everybody?” [laughs]

When adapting your electric songs to an acoustic setting you tend to discard much of the known arrangement in favor of re-imagining the composition from the inside out. What is your thought process?

With an ensemble approach, generally speaking you’ve got a lot going on. And all the different parts tend to simplify out and become thematic, in the sense that maybe guitars and other instruments go in and out of the mix, and the constant is the rhythm section. But when suddenly the rhythm section does not exist, then you have to think in terms of covering as much ground thematically and melodically and rhythmically as you can with just one guitar. So that’s what I do. And I guess because a lot of my background as a guitarist stemmed from me just sitting around alone and developing a fingerstyle approach that was somewhere between folk and classical, it lends itself to playing in this way.

So when I think about doing a song like “Big Love” or “Go Insane” as a solo acoustic piece I start by throwing away everything that was there expect for the lyric and the melody. Then it’s just a matter of figuring out what works around those things and trying to keep it interesting. It’s what I was doing earlier on songs like “Never Going Back Again” as well. But it was really the point where I started transitioning songs from being ensemble pieces to solo pieces—and I think “Big Love” was the first one—where some kind of light bulb went off in my head in terms of feeling like I was revisiting a part of myself or potential in myself that was not being used very much. And then it became something that I actively pursued, if not a major part of the representation of any new thing I’d be doing.

How would you describe your approach to the acoustic?

I guess I like to think of myself as a refined primitive. [laughs] In terms of articulating or intellectualizing it, I find I have a hard time dissecting what I do on guitar. It’s just what feels right. And if you go in with a certain intention to present something in a particular way you just look for it until it sounds like you hit on the right thing.

What guitars have you been using for these shows?

My main acoustics are my Turner Renaissance guitars. I have some regular ones and then a couple of baritones. I’m also using my electric Turners [the Model 1] on three songs, as well as a few Taylors. And there’s a Gibson Chet Atkins on “Big Love” and “Go Insane.”

You’ve been recording and performing as a solo artist—what you refer to as the “Small Machine”—for the past several years. Are you ready for the Big Machine to start back up?

Well, yes, I am! I’m actually looking quite forward to it. The only thing you can say about the Big Machine is that every time we get together it seems like things are different on some level, politically or whatever. You always have to bring your sense of humor. As of now, everybody in Fleetwood Mac agrees that we want to go tour. But I don’t think anyone knows exactly what we’re gonna do yet. It’s to be determined in rehearsals. Because there are a lot of moving parts in Fleetwood Mac. And the trick to existing in that world is, if I can use a saying, to sort of walk through the minefield without stepping on anything. [laughs] And hopefully that will be something we’ll all be able to do.

Guitar Aficionado

"One Man Show" is available exclusively at itunes

Thursday, November 22, 2012

TAP... TAP... TAP... Lindsey Buckingham tells security to get outta the way

Oh to be known as the man that Lindsey Buckingham tapped on the head!
Check this out... Lindsey Buckingham taps a security guard on the head basically telling him to get out of the way so that people can come up to the stage during "Go Your Own Way".  It happened in Eau Claire, WI on November 19th.



Never Going Back Again

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Reviews: Lindsey Buckingham Live in Minneapolis

Photos by: @amp1979
Lindsey Buckingham solo acoustic: Loud, angry and too short
by: Jon Bream
Star Tribune

The Dakota Jazz Club offered free earplugs at the door (unprecedented). The classy downtown Minneapolis club also suspended food and drink service during the concert (not too common but prudent). And the performance of Lindsey Buckingham left many in Tuesday’s sell-out audience unsatisfied (not common).

Why? Buckingham’s solo acoustic performance lasted only 72 minutes (including the encore). And tickets cost $125 and $80. I imagine his soundcheck – for his four guitars, multiple amplifiers and effects pedals – might have lasted longer than the gig itself.


Buckingham’s previous Twin Cities shows with his own band (once as many as 10 pieces) have been longer if occasionally indulgent affairs. Wearing the same outfit he sported last year at his 110-minute Pantages performance with his backup trio, he called this solo session part of a little experiment. He commented about the shallowness of the Dakota—not the people, the space, he said. He talked about the small machine (his solo projects, namely six solo discs since 1981 but three since 2006) being necessary to balance the Big Machine (Fleetwood Mac) and how one couldn’t function without the other.


Using occasional backing tracks, Buckingham’s finger picking was fancy, fast and often phenomenal. He received standing ovations at the end of every long solo passage – and they weren’t just Fleetwood Mac tunes.

At 63, Buckingham came off as an angry man. Well, at least the songs he chose to sing from his solo career were very angry, from the radio faves “Trouble” and “Go Insane” to “Come.” And loud – for acoustic music. He sang hard, like he was trying to project in an arena.

Of course, the Fleetwood Mac tunes – including “Go Your Own Way,” “Never Going Back Again” and “I’m So Afraid” – weren’t exactly happy tunes. We knew that Buckingham wouldn’t be sweet, but we had no idea that he’d be so short.


Lindsey Buckingham
Dakota Jazz Club, Minneapolis
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
By Danny Sigelman


"This song is significant to me. Looking at the lyrics when this was written it 
accurately describes the person I was." causing some in the audience to laugh. 
"It wasn't so funny for me!" he cried defensively, "You try being in
 Fleetwood Mac. It's a god damn mine field out there!"  
- Lindsey Buckingham  "Big Love"


Whether it was the intro music of himself playing acoustic guitar or his stacks of amplifiers, you get the feeling Lindsey Buckingham has lived life mostly on massive stages and is most comfortable bringing his big personality and larger than life sound to adoring fans. As long as he has been performing he truly operates with a majesty and with perfection the giant body of work he has created with Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist. It was from that pool of unforgettable songs that he magnificently showed his true self to the sold out Dakota Jazz club Tuesday night.

Springing towards the microphone Buckingham showed immediate gratitude towards the audience. Though in the intimate setting of the Dakota, he exhibited passionate delivery and a true rock star presence on "Cast Away Dreams" and the first of several Fleetwood Mac tunes of the evening, "Bleed to Love Her." The latter sounded much more personal and devout as it brought the song out from under the '90s production style of the recording which hasn't aged as well as the lyrics themselves.

Full Review at Citypages


The Minneapolis performance last night concludes Lindsey's solo acoustic tour this year.  
It's been an incredible year of touring for Lindsey and a great opportunity for his fans to see him up close and personal in some of the really great, small, intimate venues scattered across north america. Since late 2011 we've seen Lindsey with a full band... completely solo... and in conversation at the 92 Street Y in New York City, not to mention the various Meet and Greets that were offered at a lot of this years shows where fans, for a relatively small price, were given the opportunity to meet with Lindsey after the show.

It's been fun following along!

Tour Stats:

After the release of "Seeds We Sow" on September 6, 2011 Lindsey kicked off the 39 date "Seeds We Sow Tour" September 10, 2011 in Reno, NV. With a full band in tow, Lindsey played dates across the US and Canada bringing the tour to a close in Tulsa, OK on November 14, 2011.  A planned 9 date UK tour in December, 2011 was first postponed, then cancelled due to an injury suffered by his guitarist Neale Heywood.  Lindsey took a break over the winter, geared up for this little experiment of playing completely solo and acoustic and was back on the road May 3, 2012 in Solana Beach, CA. Ultimately, with this solo show success, the tour ended up being extended through the spring, summer and fall culminating in the Minneapolis show last night. With a total of 77 US and Canadian dates this year alone plus the 39 dates in 2011, Lindsey's managed to rack up 116 live performances since September 10, 2011! 

Not only has Lindsey been a beast on the road, but in terms of released music he's been no slouch! Since September 6, 2011 we've seen released:
 

"Seeds We Sow" - CD released September 6, 2011

"Songs From The Small Machine Live in L.A." - DVD/CD released November 1, 2011

"One Man Show" - Digital only live album released November 13, 2012

And Lindsey's not done releasing new music this year!  
On December 11th three new tracks, newly recorded this year, one of which features Nora Jones, will be included on the "This is 40" movie soundtrack due to hit stores December 11th.

With a Fleetwood Mac tour on the horizon for 2013, it will likely be 2014 before we see Lindsey solo again where he's promised to include some sort of request segment of the show, no doubt spurred on by the many requests during his shows to play various solo and Fleetwood Mac tracks not featured in his set.  I, like many, hope he can follow through with that.



Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Q&A with Lindsey Buckingham on Finding Happiness Balancing an Enormous Band and a Cozy Solo Project

The veteran Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter-guitarist talks with THR about being onstage alone, changing the way he sings some songs and why "Rumours" would create a feeding frenzy today.

As a guitarist known for his rich, almost orchestral finger-picked playing style, solo acoustic might be the last thing you expect from Lindsey Buckingham. But the Fleetwood Mac veteran isn’t limned in by expectations. (Something about co-penning a 40 million-selling album and being a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.) Last week he released Lindsey Buckingham: One Man Show, culled from his current solo American tour.

When commercial concerns became an issue in Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham’s experimental explorations manifested a solo career that has endured fits and starts. Of late he’s been quite prolific, releasing three discs in six years exploring the kind of intimate, keenly crafted and emotionally edgy songwriter pop favored by indie artists such as Sondre Lerche, Joe Pernice and Ron Sexsmith.

Following the raw, almost lo-fi intensity of 2011's Seeds We Sow, on which he played every instrument, Buckingham took the next logical step embracing the austerity of the solo performer. He captured a Sept. 1 show in Des Moines, Iowa, and made it available online through the wonders of digital distribution.

Buckingham spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about the freedom of being onstage alone, defying the mediocrity of commercially successful career artists and Fleetwood Mac’s immediate plans -- calling from a concert stop near Grand Rapids, Mich., where, liberated from a tour bus, Buckingham had wandered off the beaten path again.

The Hollywood Reporter: It seems that after Rumours there was a choice of how your career would be going forward. Did the way Fleetwood Mac handled that inform your artistic choices?

Lindsey Buckingham: Oh, absolutely. Tusk was clearly a line in the sand that I drew. If that album had been … embraced longer term by the band -- I mean, they were happy with the results of that album, until it didn’t sell anywhere like Rumours numbers. Then there was this sort of dictum that came down, “We’re not doing that anymore.” It was really only at that point that I said, “OK, if they aren’t going to explore the left side of the palette, I guess I’m going to have to do solo work.” Otherwise maybe Fleetwood Mac would’ve gone in a whole other direction and there would never have been any need for the solo work. But, you know, that was fair enough.

THR: Well, it feels like otherwise we would’ve lost a lot of great music that would’ve had to pass through that filter. I think we got the best of both worlds.

Buckingham: I do too. It hasn’t always been easy, but you get to a point where you’re not doing the solo stuff with any kind of expectation in terms of commercial or a business outcome, you’re doing it because you believe in this. The fact that I have the freedom to do that and, I guess, after all these years still have that kind of ethic is a nice place to be. Because a lot of times people that have been doing it this long -- it’s not necessarily like you forget who you are, but you just don’t care anymore. So to have the idealism and feel like I’ve got the small-scale thing to keep me moving forward and at least aspiring to be an artist and can take risks. It’s a nice place to be.

THR: It’s funny because I was talking to Richard Thompson and he was saying, kind of puckishly, “The secret to my success is my continued failure.” Do you agree?

Buckingham: Well, yeah. He’s right. Because, again, you sort of hit on it when you talk about Tusk and the aftermath of Rumours. There are many elements and a lot of pressure from the business-model side of things that wants you to uphold this brand. That can be something which works well in the short-term. Certainly, from the business point of view, part of the model is if something’s working to run it into the ground and then move on, right? But from an artist’s point of view, it can be the beginning of painting yourself into a corner. I’m sure that’s what Richard means; he’s never had to do that.

THR: Having that pressure of people expecting that thing from him ...

Buckingham: If you can be who you are and remember who you are -- that’s half the trick when you have a certain amount of fame, and lucky for him he never had to go through that. I’m quite happy Rumours didn’t occur at a time where, say, the media is where it is now. It would’ve really fed off that. I mean, we brought out the voyeur in everyone because the album was a tabloid on our lives, but there was a certain amount of respect to it. I think people were actually invested in it. It would’ve been more of a feeding frenzy today.

THR: You’ve been fortunate to indulge both parts of your brain, as you say. You’ve written for arenas with thousands of people, and now you have a much more intimate album. How is it different?

Buckingham: Well, it is, and I think it took me a couple shows to get comfortable up there. The first couple shows I did by myself I was looking around wondering where the rest of my band was.

THR: You’re so exposed.

Buckingham: Yeah, but that’s a good thing too. You really are right at the center of what you do. The real challenge of putting the show together wasn’t -- I knew I could do a series of songs on my own, but how do you make a whole show that has an arc and goes somewhere? I realized doing something like “Go Your Own Way” or something like “I’m So Afraid,” which I do in the show, I was going to need a little help from a pedal to play an extra part. I’m not trying to fool anybody, I’m just doing it sparingly and tastefully, and that really opens up the whole vocabulary of the possibilities for this show to succeed and also for other things to try down the line now that I know they work.

THR: It must be a very different experience sonically to play solo instead of with a band.

Buckingham: For sure, plus when you’re up there by yourself without anyone else, you have a freedom to sort of spontaneously work a dynamic or to explore the possibility and the range of dynamics in different ways. One of the things I’ve gotten more centered on during this particular set of shows has been my vocals. It actually changed the way I sing some of these songs a little bit because you can hear so well, and there’s so little going on it’s liberating.

THR: What’s the story with Fleetwood Mac reconvening?

Buckingham: We have some dates on the books next year, and we’ll start rehearsing in the beginning or middle of February, so that’s a good thing. It’s about a year too late, but that’s the way it goes.

THR: Could these rehearsals lead to new music, or will you need to get together separately?

Buckingham: Rehearsing is really just rehearsing. If we were to get into something new-material-wise, that would be something we decided on ahead of time and you put yourself more in that format. There are some things I’ve cut with John [McVie] or Mick [Fleetwood]. I don’t even know what they’re for, but if they turned out great, maybe some of that would turn out being something down the line. But we haven’t spent enough time together to figure out what we want to do with that stuff. Anything is possible.

 The Hollywood Reporter

Monday, November 19, 2012

Review Lindsey Buckingham South Milwaukee "It was a little strange. It was also fantastic."


"About the concert: It was a little strange. It was also fantastic. Definitely more fantastic than strange."

By Steven Hyden
Grantland

Lindsey dressed his taut frame in a black leather jacket, a black shirt with the top two buttons undone, and dark slacks. His skin was bronzed and tight, and his chest appeared smooth and shiny. He is a 63-year-old man who could find work as a body double for a member of One Direction. When he walked out onstage, he briefly held a facial expression that said, “I can’t believe I’m playing a high school auditorium on a Saturday night at my age.” But that quickly dissipated. Lindsey got to work. Lindsey played by himself, switching between electric and acoustic guitars. He worked way harder than he had to. He played loud; even on the acoustic, the arpeggios sent shock waves down to my soles. When he sang, he sang with the twitchy, hammy, totally-unnerving-when-you-see-it-in-the-flesh Lindsey Buckingham intensity. “Go Your Own Way” might be a soft-rock oldie that scored a million divorces and 100 million barbecues in the past 35 years, but for Buckingham, it seems like it still kind of means something emotional and painful. When he denounces Stevie Nicks as unfeeling and slutty, he makes you believe the anger is fresh for him. Onstage, Lindsey Buckingham does not seem at all settled.

Full Review Here

Lindsey Buckingham Review - Madison, WI + Stevie Nicks Photos

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM LIVE
The Barrymore Theatre, Madison, WI - November 18, 2012

by Andy Downing

With neither a backing band or an opening act in sight Sunday night at the Barrymore Theatre, Lindsey Buckingham gamely delivered in a sharp, 75-minute set that drew equally from his solo career and his time in Fleetwood Mac.

"Though a workmanlike singer at best, Buckingham remains a virtuosic guitar player, and his skill set was on full display this night. His fingers remained in near-constant motion as he plucked out weightless notes that fluttered like airborne butterflies and snarling riffs that mimicked great, mythical beasts. On the instrumental “Stephanie,” the guitarist conjured chiming acoustic notes that somehow mirrored distant church bells, while “Not Too Late,” a song about refusing to give up on your dreams, swung from delicate acoustic picking to urgent strumming, like a quiet mountain creek morphing into a raging river."

Check out the full review at Madison.com

STEVIE NICKS and LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
Photography by Piernot

Some nice captures by this photographer... 
Not entirely sure where the photos were taken but seems to be the NY/NJ area.
Check the links above for the gallery

Saturday, November 17, 2012

A treat for the eyes... 46 Amazing Lindsey Buckingham Photos Live in Chattanooga, TN


Track 29 have uploaded 46 photos of Lindsey Buckingham Live in Chattanooga, TN from November 7th.  Whomever took the photos... Well done!

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Review: Lindsey Buckingham Live in Lexington, KY at


In performance: 
Lindsey Buckingham
The Opera House - Lexington, KY - November 14, 2012
by Walter Tunis
The Musical Box

Deep into a riveting solo performance last night at the Opera House, Lindsey Buckingham found himself in the thick of I’m So Afraid, a tune that has been a staple of his repertoire since he uncorked it on his first album with Fleetwood Mac some 37 years ago.

Last night, drum loops set the rhythm, an elegantly frenzied guitar solo fueled the rock ‘n’ roll charge and his voice – that wild, hopped up roar that still sounds downright primal for a performer so versed in the ways of vintage pop – merged into a mighty one-man-band display.

“I’ll never change,” Buckingham sang as the song crested with an almost seething intensity. “I never will.”

That was a telling line. While Buckingham offered an especially revealing comment on the subject of change earlier in the evening, there was a remarkable sense of pop invention throughout this show. Though billed as a solo acoustic performance, this was by no means some folky variation on the often masterful pop he has created in and out of Fleetwood Mac over the decades. This was, in every way, a rock ‘n’ roll show.

Continue to the full review

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

REVIEW: Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham plays sold out show in Louisville

Photo by Stephen J Cohen

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM LIVE 
Headliners Music Hall, 
Louisville, KY November 13, 2013
by Pam Windsor
Louisville.com

Fleetwood Mac guitarist and singer/songwriter Lindsey Buckingham performed before an enthusiastic, sold out crowd at Headliners Music Hall Tuesday night. And while it may have been a one-man show – he rocked the house like a full band.

Buckingham took the stage at 8 pm and for the next hour and fifteen minutes made it very clear he is one with the guitar. In fact, he was one with a steady stream of guitars switching them out between nearly every song in a fast-paced, high energy show both he and the crowd truly enjoyed. Time and again, Buckingham demonstrated his mastery of the instrument whether using the fingerpicking style he made famous on the acoustic, or rocking out on an electric guitar. At one point, one fan noted, “He really gets into it!”

The crowd was so strong and responsive throughout the show – Buckingham raised his guitar several times in appreciation and acknowledgement.

Continue to the Full Review




Monday, November 12, 2012

"Trouble" at The Orange Peel

Lindsey Buckingham Live at The Orange Peel
by: Jason Bugg

When he walked out on stage I thought for a moment that I might hate him. His hair is well-coiffed and curly on top, his leather jacket tight, his jeans tighter and his shirt unbuttoned a little too far and displaying a cross necklace on his sweaty, hairless chest. He wears boots with a slight lift in them and he sucks in his cheeks while standing still on stage. Every movement in done in a completely self-conscious manner and many of the self-penned songs he performs references the author as a “visionary”.

The man was Lindsey Buckingham, and everything about him screamed Southern California sleaze; too much money for too long coupled with a lot of cocaine in his distant past. The Peruvian Bam-Bam is gone now, and the rock legend remains. His delivery is slower and less frantic than it has been in the past, but each moment is measured and calculated for maximum effect. But despite the personality quirks and an ego-maniacal persona, his show at the Orange Peel on November 11, 2012 was good. Damn good.

Full Review at Jasonbugg.com

Not Too Late
Awesome video Elle!

The Latest "One Man Show" Preview from Lindsey Buckingham


"Bleed To Love Her"
From Lindsey's live acoustic album
"ONE MAN SHOW"
Available Tuesday via itune.


Great song that first appeared on the live Fleetwood Mac album "The Dance" in 1997 as a full on band version and was subsequently released as a studio version on the 2003 "Say You Will" album.

Lindsey Buckingham Live Tonight in Knoxville at the Bijou

Rock ’n’ roll legend plays Bijou
BY: MORGAN MCCONNELL
The Daily Beacon

Lindsey Buckingham, renowned guitarist and male lead singer of Fleetwood Mac, will perform at 8 p.m. tonight at the Bijou Theatre in Knoxville, TN

Buckingham, whose signature finger picking style has earned him a place on Rolling Stone's list of most influential guitarists, is touring in promotion of his new album, "Lindsey Buckingham: One Man Show," set for release this Tuesday.

His first ever solo acoustic album, "One Man Show" features recordings from a live performance in Des Moines, Iowa, where Buckingham played songs from his former Fleetwood Mac heyday, including "Never Going Back Again" and "Go Your Own Way."

Full Article at The Daily Beacon


New videos on Lindsey's VEVO Channel

Two showcase tracks "Never Going Back Again" and "Big Love" from Lindsey's 2011 show at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, CA and released on the live DVD/CD "Songs From The Small Machine: Live in L.A.", have been added to his official Vevo Channel.  Both tracks are featured during Lindsey's current solo tour that runs through November 20th and on tomorrow's digital only release "One Man Show".  Own the DVD/CD

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Review: Lindsey Buckingham Live in St. Louis Nov 9th

Lindsey Buckingham show is sweet but short
By Daniel Durchholz Special to the Post-Dispatch

“Always leave them wanting more,” is a time-tested showbiz adage, but there’s such a thing as taking even good advice too much to heart. Such was the case Friday night at the Pageant, where once-and-(presumably) future Fleetwood Mac guitarist and sonic auteur Lindsey Buckingham put in a brilliant but exceedingly brief night’s work.

Clocking in at a mere 75 minutes, the show found Buckingham performing without the support of a backing band or even an opening act. Neither factor is a fault in itself. It’s often preferable at concerts to dive right into the headlining set; and solo shows can sometimes offer insights into heavily layered studio creations like Buckingham’s by stripping them bare.

So that much was fine. But the show was billed as “an evening with” Buckingham, and it was hardly that.

For the time he was onstage, however, Buckingham burned brightly, delivering dazzling guitar work and singing each song with energy and intensity.

"The show was terrific, but simply too short."

Read the full review at stltoday.com


 Twitter pics by: @speakersincode and @justjesslauren

Lindsey was spotted outside the venue after the show
Photo by @gDel_Rey



Lindsey Buckingham gives us Trouble

Song Premiere: 
Lindsey Buckingham, “Trouble (Live)”

This Tuesday, November 13th Lindsey Buckingham will release "One Man Show" a live acoustic album that documents his current US tour which ends later this month on November 20th.  The release captures Lindsey during his September 1, 2012 Des Moines, IA show and is a straight from the console, no post-production, live... raw..., true sense of being there recording where just a few mics were added to the room to enhance the recording.  From the 4 previews released, it sounds fantastic!

American Songwriter has the latest preview: "Trouble".  Take a listen here

13 Song Track List:
  • Cast Away Dreams
  • Bleed to Love Her
  • Not Too Late
  • Stephanie
  • Come
  • Shut Us Down
  • Go Insane
  • Never Going Back Again
  • Big Love
  • So Afraid
  • Go Your Own Way
  • Trouble
  • Seeds We Sow
Check out the previous album previews:
Big Love - Rolling Stone
Go Insane - MSN
Never Going Back Again - Paste Magazine
Go Your Own Way - Good Housekeeping

One man Mac
By Walter Tunis, Contributing Music Critic

The last time Lindsey Buckingham played in Lexington was fall 1982. The pop warhorse he co-piloted, Fleetwood Mac, was in the midst of its third Rupp Arena concert in five years. To give you a sense of the time, Men at Work was the opening act.

You could sense the shift already. Where the appeal of Fleetwood Mac up to that point was divided more or less evenly between his songs and the music that Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie brought to the band, the '82 show clearly put Buckingham in the driver's seat. He turned the non-hit Not That Funny, a fractured bit of pop mayhem from 1979's Tusk, into a trio rampage with group founders Mick Fleetwood and John McVie that largely flew in the face of the band's sleek, radio-friendly image.

Fleetwood Mac still exists. In fact, a tour is in the works for next year. But the recent rush of solo albums Buckingham has released (five in six years) points to the kind of agitated pop craftsman he remains at heart. The 2006 album Under the Skin, the best of the solo records, boasts dizzying, finger-picking guitar joy rides (the opening Not Too Late) as well as luxurious contemplation's (the Brazilian-flavored finale Juniper). The tunes also come dressed with vocals that sound alternately stressed, possessed and enchanted.

"His stamina kept the music's energy fresh and volatile," wrote Ben Ratliff in The New York Times of a performance that followed Under the Skin's release. "At times, he seemed to be nearing a state of hypnosis while booming away on voice and guitar."

Voice and guitar also define Buckingham's newest album, a digital-only concert recording titled One Man Show, which will be released Tuesday, and the solo acoustic performance he will give this week at the Opera House.

But if One Man Show is any indication, the latter will be anything but a polite, folky affair. At 63, Buckingham is a pop soul pursuing his muse with the most restless and reliable accompanist he could find: himself.

Lindsey's show at The Opera House in Lexington, KY takes place November 14, 2012.

Tickets can be purchased at Ticketmaster

All album Available on itunes





Thursday, November 08, 2012

3 NEW Tracks by Lindsey Buckingham Featured on Upcoming "This is 40" Soundtrack

Judd Apatow's upcoming movie "This is 40" soundtrack features THREE new tracks by Lindsey Buckingham.

"Brother & Sister" [ft. Norah Jones] 
"She Acts Like You"
"Sick of You"

And it appears Lindsey didn't produce himself.  His tracks along with Fiona Apple and Graham Parker were produced by Jon Brion. Which just makes me even more anxious to hear the new tunes.  Short wait for the release is a bonus!  The soundtrack will be released on December 11th, and movie arrives in theatres on December 21st.

"This Is 40" Soundtrack Tracklisting

01 Yoko Ono: "I'm Your Angel"
02 Norah Jones: "Always Judging"
03 Graham Parker and the Punch Brothers: "What Do You Like?"
04 Lindsey Buckingham: "Sick of You"
05 Paul Simon: "Rewrite"
06 Ryan Adams: "Shining Through the Dark" (Live)
07 Paul McCartney: "Lunch Box Odd Sox"
08 Lindsey Buckingham: "Brother & Sister" [ft. Norah Jones]
09 Jon Brion: "Theme 1 (Debbie & Oliver)"
10 Graham Parker and the Rumour: "Watch the Moon Come Down"
11 Loudon Wainwright: "Days That We Die"
12 Lindsey Buckingham: "She Acts Like You"
13 Fiona Apple: "Dull Tool"
14 Ryan Adams: "Lucky Now" (Live)
15 Wilco: "I Got You"
16 The Avett Brothers: "Live & Die"
17 Graham Parker and the Rumor: "Protection" (Live) (digital-only bonus track)

The Playlist

Good Housekeeping Exclusive: 
Sneak Peek of Lindsey Buckingham's Album

Speaking of new tracks... Here's another song preview from Lindsey's upcoming digital only album "One Man Show".
Check it out at Good Housekeeping

Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Song Premiere: Lindsey Buckingham "Go Insane" [Live Acoustic] from "One Man Show"


Song Premiere:
Lindsey Buckingham 
"Go Insane" 
New acoustic version taken from the upcoming acoustic live album "One Man Show" Available on iTunes November 13, 2012.

Check it out at msn.com

Song Premiere: Lindsey Buckingham "Never Going Back Again" Live Acoustic

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
"NEVER GOING BACK AGAIN"
Listen to the acoustic live recording of “Never Going Back Again” taken from the album, Lindsey Buckingham: "One Man Show", the new digital only release features recordings from a single evening in Des Moines, Iowa September 1, 2012.


Beautiful as always!

Tuesday, November 06, 2012

'Big Love' Live from Lindsey's acoustic live album "One Man Show"

Lindsey Buckingham Powers Through Solo Version of 'Big Love'
Rolling Stone

From Lindsey's upcoming live acoustic digital only iTunes release "One Man Show".  Recorded live in Des Moines, IA September 1, 2012.  The album will be released November 13, 2012.

Full Article at Rolling Stone