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
I think now we're doing the best work we've ever done. Whether or not that's recognized yet is irrelevant to me. I know how I feel about it.
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.
I use dropped D quite often and open G and open E sometimes. And sometimes I make up things, like dropping the G string down a step.
The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.
I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.
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.
The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.
That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.
I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.
But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.
Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.