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Two Interviews with Lindsey Buckingham on Fleetwood Mac's Unleashed Tour.
The first interview was with Lindsey in late February a week or so before leaving for Pittsburgh and the beginning of the tour. Interviewed on Atlanta station WSRV 97.1 The River.
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
ATLANTA WSRV 97.1fm The River
This second interview on March 4th is just prior to the Auburn Hills, Michigan show:
Six weeks into Fleetwood Mac's "Unleashed" tour, its first in five years, singer Stevie Nicks, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie appear to have reined in their combustible personalities and have confined the fireworks to the concert stage.
At least until the last week, when Stevie Nicks questioned Britney Spears' rock-star credentials during an interview on the tabloid TV show "Extra."
The 60-year-old vocalist also created a stir when she told People magazine she whittled almost 60 pounds off her her 5-foot-1 frame using an exercise device called the Power Plate.
But those flare-ups aside, all seems to be harmonious among the members of one of rock's longest-lived bands as Fleetwood Mac prepares to visit the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
"Lindsey's been in incredibly good humor since we started rehearsing on the fifth of January," Nicks, the band's only female since keyboardist Christine McVie retired from the road in 1997, reported during a teleconference. "When Lindsey's in a good humor, everybody's happy."
Added Buckingham: "Knowing that we did not succeed as well as we could have last time we did an album and tour together ... we have something to shoot for that is a little higher. ...
"We are a group of contradictions ... [with] the whole being greater than the sum of its parts."
For this tour, Mac has no new record to promote, so its concerts are two-hour-and-20-minute hit parades, relying heavily on material from the '70s and '80s heyday of the band, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
Nicks, Buckingham, Fleetwood and McVie, supplemented by two musicians and three female backing singers, have been opening with 1975's "Monday Morning" and ending with "Silver Springs," an outtake from 1977's "Rumours" LP.
In between, they've beenplaying trademark tunes such as "Go Your Own Way" and "Don't Stop," as well as Nicks' "Gypsy," Buckingham's "Go Insane," "The Chain," "Tusk," "I Know I'm Not Wrong" "Sara" and "Landslide." The Peter Green-era is represented by the blues track "Oh Well."
Said Buckingham of playing the classic Fleetwood Mac material.
"It frees you up to enjoy each other as people," said Buckingham. "Let's have a good time and value the friendships and history ... It takes the pressure off ... and allows more fun than we would normally be able to have."
"WE wanted to make music again," announces Lindsey Buckingham. "We have no album to promote so we're just going to have fun."
It isn't an idle boast. In a gobsmacking two-and- a-half-hour set, the guitarist leads the Mac - and a team of five backing musicians - through dazzling versions of classics like The Chain, Rhiannon, Big Love and a breathtaking Go Your Own Way.
While Stevie Nicks smiles, sways, twirls and sings like an angel, the rhythm section of John McVie and Mick Fleetwood drive everything along at cracking pace.
Buckingham himself, meanwhile, is on stunning form, letting fly with a silvered solo here, a chunky chord sequence there
One of the highpoints is a rare performance of the Peter Green classic Oh Well but, to be honest, it's hard to pick a standout in a show absolutely packed with them.
They finish with dazzling romps through Don't Stop and Silver Springs. Afterwards, Mick tells A-Listed he hopes to bring this greatest hits tour to Britain later in the year. Make sure you beg, steal or borrow to be there.
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