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.
But I don't use a pick onstage at all.
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.
Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87.
Years on, Christine and John still have a deep love for each other, as do Stevie and I - we've been working together since I was 17.
Even though I had pushed through the Tango album, it was just not a very good environment to be in on a daily basis. In many ways, this is the best time of my life.
That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.
They tried to get me to use a pick when I first joined the band. They had certain things they thought were appropriate. I tried to adapt as much as I could.