A towering achievement • Lindsey Buckingham comes to Tower Theatre, Bend,OR

For all the things Lindsey Buckingham has done in his life, his place at the helm of Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” — one of the 10 best-selling albums of all time, according to the Recording Industry Association of America — continues to tower over his career.

One can imagine that shadow as both a blessing and a curse. Without “Rumours,” who knows where Buckingham, a Californian and multi-instrumentalist, would’ve ended up. Certainly his talent for pop music might have carried him to stardom, but there’s no doubt that tens of millions of records sold and an Album of the Year Grammy will open a few doors, including the one to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which Fleetwood Mac joined in 1998.

Surely, Buckingham is appreciative of the opportunities that came his way post-“Rumours.”

Still, 35 years after its release, it’s not hard to see how Buckingham might also be tired of hearing about — and playing songs from — his grand, emotionally raw masterpiece, especially given that he continues to record, and prolifically. Last year’s “Seeds We Sow” was his third solo effort in five years.

For example: Buckingham will come to Bend Thursday for an intimate one-man show — billed as “an evening with” — in which he’ll play songs from “Seeds” and previous solo faves. Plus, says his website, “a variety of Fleetwood Mac classics.” As if, at this point, he has a choice.

Lindsey Buckingham; 

Thursday May 17th - 8pm

Tickets: $62 and $96 plus fees available through the venue; Tower Theatre, 835 N.W. Wall St., Bend; www.towertheatre.org.

— Ben Salmon
Bendbulletin

Lindsey Buckingham - Carmel, CA (Setlist and Vids)

Lindsey Buckingham Live in Carmel, CA - May 10, 2012

Photo by Ron Emery

The set remains intact (without Dancing) and looks like it will stay that way... The mystery each night seems to be which jacket Lindsey will be wearing... Leather or Suit!  In Carmel, he went with the suit jacket!

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Lindsey Buckingham Contest: Win Tickets To Spokane, WA Show May 21st

Lindsey Buckingham Live in Spokane, WA 

The Bing Crosby Theater Monday, May 21st at 7:30pm.

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Deadline to enter is Sunday, May 13th.

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Buckingham Ready To Rock Near Sell-Out Show - Redding, CA May15th

Buckingham ready to rock Redding, Cascade May 15th with decades of hits
Staff Reports - Thursday, May 10, 2012
Redding.com

Polydor Records made a lot of good moves during its heyday, but dropping Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks in 1973 was not one of them.

The pair recovered nicely, riding the critical acclaim from their only album, “Buckingham Nicks,” into a long stay with Fleetwood Mac during that band’s long and lucrative pop music phase. The band’s 1977 release, “Rumours,” has sold more than 40 million copies and featured Buckingham’s “Go Your Own Way.”

Buckingham, a self-taught guitarist and California (Palo Alto) native, has not exactly been in cruise control in the intervening 35-plus years and the fruit of those labors will be on display Tuesday at the Cascade Theatre.

Buckingham, 62, continued to perform and record with Fleetwood Mac on an intermittent basis while simultaneously fashioning a solo career. His first solo album, 1981’s “Law and Order,” was a well-received blend of his guitar playing and studio production skills and featured the Top 10 single, “Trouble.”

Other solo projects included “Go Insane” in 1984 and “Out of the Cradle” in 1992. “Under the Skin,” released in 2006, followed a long gap and was written while Buckingham was touring with a reunited Fleetwood Mac a few years earlier. “Gift of Screws” in 2008 was followed by his latest solo effort, “Seeds We Sow,” in 2011.

“You work in a band, and it tends to be more like moviemaking, I think. It tends to be more of a conscious, verbalized and, to some degree, political process,” Buckingham recently told a National Public Radio interviewer. “I think when you work alone — the way I do it, anyway — you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas. And you get different results.”

Buckingham will perform several songs from “Seeds We Sow” as well as a handful of Fleetwood Mac hits.

Very Few Tickets Remain... Buy now at Cascadetheatre.org

Fleetwood Mac: Producer Ken Caillat On 'Making Rumours' - Huffington Post Interview

Fleetwood Mac: Producer Ken Caillat On 'Making Rumours'
By: Debra Ollivier - Huffington Post

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Behind every great band there's often great drama, and Fleetwood Mac was no exception. The band marked the 70s with huge hits, including its album Rumours, which produced four top-ten singles, stayed on the charts for 31 weeks, sold over 40 million copies and won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1977. But Fleetwood Mac's creativity and rise to stardom was marked by chaos: divorce, infidelity, intense creative struggles, and endless partying, which nearly tore the band apart.

In Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album, Ken Caillat chronicles what went on behind the scenes with band members Christine and John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, and how the band overcame obstacles despite adversity. "All of us were in our 20s," says Caillat. "We were young and kind of wide-eyed. Success hadn't struck anyone yet. I actually don't think this book should be called a music book, It's really a success story about personal triumph. And I was really lucky to be there."

Caillat has worked with a number of notable artists, including Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock, and his own daughter, Grammy-winning singer Colbie Caillat. (Caillat produced her number one album, Breakthrough.) Making Rumours coincides with the 35th anniversary of the release of Rumours.

Full Interview at Huffington Post

Review: Lindsey Buckingham Salano Beach, CA May 3rd

Lindsey Buckingham - Live at The Belly Up
Salano Beach, CA - May 3, 2012
Written by Rick Ostop
KPRIFM

Towards the end of his show at the Belly Up Thursday night, May 3, Lindsey Buckingham explained how Fleetwood Mac is the “big machine” and what he is doing now is “just me - the little machine.” Though the “machine” might be smaller--just him and his multitude of guitars--the results were grandiose.

Buckingham, taking the stage for his hour and a half set by himself, seemed a slight bit tentative as he started working on a simple chord pattern. He wrestled with it over and over, before slipping into the first song of the night “That’s The Way Love Goes” (Note: It was actually Castaway Dreams) from his new album Seeds We Sow.  The new song was an interesting choppy choice for an opener and left the room kind of flat.  The familiarity, though, and the crowd response to the second number “Bleed To Love Her” was a whole different story. The fire and intensity Buckingham put into the performance seemed to awaken any apprehension he might have carried.  Buckingham drove the Fleetwood Mac song hard, soaring his vocals and intensely working his amazing finger picking guitar playing. To be able to carry off a full show by yourself, you have to display a confidence and talent level that can hold and captivate an audience. And when Buckingham finished “Bleed To Love Her,” he had everyone in the palm of his hand.

And here’s where the Belly Up truly shines. To be able to be no more than 10 feet away from a legendary musician, who you usually see playing an arena, is what this venue is all about. Being able to experience an artist with such stature and clout that close gave the audience a rare glimpse at Buckingham’s fascinating finger-picking guitar stylings.