Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Adams Buckinghamis an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer, best known as lead guitarist and one of the vocalists of the musical group Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987, and then 1997 to the present day. Aside from his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has also released six solo albums and three live albums. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2011, Buckingham was ranked 100th...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth3 October 1949
CityPalo Alto, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Everyone was probably at their worst in terms of their own personal struggles and substance abuse - anything that could detract from creativity.
If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.
When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.
That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.
I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.
After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.
I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now.
Working with the band, you're in a room with three other people and you're more verbal. It requires the other side of the brain.