Lindsey Buckingham Downplays Iconic Stevie Nicks Moment

Lindsey Buckingham Claims He’s Not Haunted by That ‘Silver Springs’ Performance

by Devon Ivie
Vulture.com

Time has cast a spell over Fleetwood Mac’s infamous 1997 performance of “Silver Springs,” a live recording that forced Lindsey Buckingham into the unenviable position of playing lead guitar on a dis track written about himself by his ex Stevie Nicks, who sang about how he’ll “never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you.” It’s an icy face-off, steeped in decades of complex romantic entanglements, that often feels too intimate to watch — so much so that Nicks once admitted she chose her steely demeanor to “leave behind for posterity, just in case Fleetwood Mac never did another thing.” Now, Buckingham is doing his best to insist this particular “Silver Springs” hasn’t lingered in his memory at all. In a recent social-media video, Buckingham was asked by his daughter about how the performance is, essentially, the female version of thinking about the Roman Empire. “This night? What was the buzz?” he responded. “The one where Stevie was staring at me? Well, you know, people are going to look for things to read into, right?” Yes, we sure do, and it doesn’t help that the duo are teasing some sort of reunion in the near future. (watch the video until the end)