CNN Interview: ONE-ON-ONE WITH FLEETWOOD MAC - Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood

CNN's Carol Costello spoke with the band, Fleetwood Mac, about their success, the drama and their new songs. CNN

Lindsey Buckingham Guests on Upcoming NIN Album Hesitation Marks

Nine Inch Nails has revealed the tracklist and full album credits for their new album, Hesitation Marks, which is out later this fall.

The album, the eighth from the Trent Reznor-headed band, will feature 14 new songs by the industrial rockers, including the lead single “Came Back Haunted.” It’s produced by Reznor, along with Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder, and it will feature collaborations from Pino Palladino, who has played with The Who, and—if you can believe it—Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham.

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It's not clear which track on the album Lindsey guests on.  He's simply listed as a collaborator.

"Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams" Due Out as Digital Download on July 1st >> With Bonus Footage

"Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams" Due Out as Digital Download on July 1

Virgil Films will offer a digital download release of one of the musical cinematic events of the season, Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams, which is being issued on the heels of the film's recent successful theatrical run. Starting July 1 fans will be able to download a version directly from the filmmakers (Stevie Nicks and Dave Stewart) at inyourdreamsmovie.com. 

This exclusive download will feature never-before-seen bonus footage from the film. Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams will also make its VOD premiere through cable and digital retailers across the country on July 1. 

The doc is an intimate portrait of Stevie Nicks, the Grammy-winning artist and member of legendary rock band Fleetwood Mac, as she creates an album with Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame. Co-produced and co-directed by Nicks and Stewart, the film goes behind the scenes as Nicks and Stewart embark on a musical journey to write and record the critically acclaimed album In Your Dreams. 

Outtake scenes would be cool.... But I hope some of that bonus footage are the full videos for the songs... 

Buckingham talks new Fleetwood Mac music

Buckingham talks new Fleetwood Mac music

By Sarah Rodman
Boston Globe

Lindsey Buckingham is not a big fan of looking back or investigating the various versions of his songs.

The Fleetwood Mac guitarist has not seen “Sound City,” the recently released Dave Grohl documentary about the LA recording studio that played a pivotal role in the formation of the Buckingham-Nicks incarnation of the band. The episode of “Glee” devoted to the classic Mac album “Rumours” also escaped him. He has not heard the various tribute albums dedicated to the group. He didn’t catch Little Big Town and Keith Urban performing “The Chain” on the recent CMT awards. He does not have a favorite cover. “I’m not well enough informed,” he says with a laugh on the phone from a Chicago tour stop.

When it’s suggested he gather all these various items together and spend a day immersed in them, he jokes, “Yeah, I’ll spend a whole day and drop a tab of acid and watch all this stuff. Hopefully, I’ll have a good trip.”

We chatted with Buckingham, who plays with Fleetwood Mac at the Comcast Center on Friday, about the trip so far.

Q. Recently Fleetwood Mac released a four-song EP. After the various reissues, does it feel good to put out new music?

A. Last year we contemplated things we could do that would set this tour apart and might sow some seeds for down the line. So John and Mick came over from Hawaii and we got in the studio and cut a bunch of stuff without knowing exactly where it was going. I won’t say it was a surprise, but I will say it was a pleasant outcome and we were all very excited about it.

Q. So these four songs could be a launching pad?

A. That would be on our wish list. Fleetwood Mac’s politics are sort of like walking through a minefield. (Laughs.) I guess a lot of bands are really. So we’ll see how it goes.

Q. Two of the four tunes really struck me. One is your ballad “It Takes Time,” which feels like a very honest look back at the band and your relationship with Stevie.

A. It is. It’s probably fair to say a lot of what she’s done on her own and a lot of what I’ve done on my own and to some degree what we’ve done within the context of the band has been — at a distance — to prove something to each other, even though we haven’t been together for years and years.

Q. And her song “Without You,” was actually written back when you were together and sounds of a piece with your early work with the group. The two songs feel like bookends of a kind.

A. Well yes, because [hers] is, on a subject matter level and even on a stylistic level, very innocent and naïve in a way, and maybe not even fully formed in terms of the place we got to. But more importantly, it’s very idealistic and full of illusion, and we need our illusions. But later on you have to grow and come to grips. Mine was written at a time where instead of all this being before us, it’s more or less behind us and in a very appropriate way all of those illusions have been cast aside.

Q. What does your wife think about the fact that you’re still writing songs about Stevie Nicks?

A. That’s a good question. She’s secure enough, and knows who she is and knows who we are enough, to be philosophical about it and to be able to separate the professional side of my life, and the role that I might be playing at this point, from the reality.

Videos | Photos: Fleetwood Mac Live in Albany 6/19 at Times Union Center.

FLEETWOOD MAC LIVE

ALBANY, NY - TIMES UNION CENTER

JUNE 19, 2013

By GREG HAYMES

Times Union

ALBANY – It’s been a long time since we’ve seen Fleetwood Mac. They canceled their 2009 Albany show due to poor ticket sales, and the last time that the band rolled into town was a decade ago, when Albany’s big downtown concert venue was still named the Pepsi Arena. Now it’s the Times Union Center, and on Wednesday night they filled it with more than two and a half hours worth of pretty much non-stop hits. Or at least instantly recognizable songs. Yes, the big Mac attack was back, and from Mick Fleetwood’s galloping drum intro to the opening “Second Hand News” straight through to their fourth and final encore of “Say Goodbye,” they managed to come pretty darned close to re-capturing their “Rumours”-era glory days.

Fleetwood and bassist John McVie have always been the band’s muscle, but the focus these days is clearly on vocalist Stevie Nicks and vocalist-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, who respectively provide the mystic heart and the brains of the band.

In 2011 when Buckingham dished out a brilliant concert at The Egg, he explained his approach to his musical career in Hollywood terms, saying that sometimes he’s in a box-office blockbuster movie (Fleetwood Mac, or as he says, “the Big Machine”) and sometimes he’s in a gritty, indie art-house film (his solo work). And like, say, Johnny Depp, Buckingham brings plenty of indie quirk to the table even when he’s playing with the Big Machine. Take for example, the string-strangling, big guitar freak-out that he injected into “I’m So Afraid,” the willfully eccentric “Tusk” and his dark but furiously scintillating solo rendition of “Big Love.”

Nicks, of course, has had the bigger solo career, and her twirling rendition of “Stand Back” was the lone song of the night that wasn’t culled from the Fleetwood Mac catalog. She shined brightest in the sparser musical setting of the sublime “Silver Springs” and “Landslide” (stripped to a simple duet with Buckingham).

Nicks’ witchy woman psychedelic swirl of “Gold Dust Woman” was unfortunately marred by an aimless, meandering jam, and likewise, “World Turning,” the only song of the night that hinted at Fleetwood Mac’s pre-platinum pop success as a blues band, was burdened with Fleetwood’s drum solo, which was more entertaining than musical.

Bolstered throughout the night by at least five backing musicians, the band did offer a couple of new songs from their “Extended Play” EP, although the best of them was the charming “Without You,” a previously lost Buckingham Nicks song from their pre-Mac days. But after a night of what was predominantly ’80s nostalgia, it seemed somewhat ironic that they would wrap up their first set of encores with “Don’t Stop” – penned by departed member Christine McVie – singing, “Don’t you look back…”

Where: The Times Union Center, South Pearl St., Albany

When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday

Length: Two hours and 40 minutes

Musical highlights: Buckingham’s guitar freak-out on “I’m So Afraid,” McVie’s thundering bass solo in the middle of “The Chain,” Nicks’ sublime, subdued treatment of “Silver Springs” and the blues-laced “World Turning”

Smartphone moment: “Landslide”

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GOLD DUST WOMAN.. Probably the only real fluid song of the night, this and Mick's drum solo, where you really don't know what your going to get... Another great performance!  She seems to be projecting a rather fragile vocal here tonight.  And the yellow light stuck around for the ending of the tune when she holds up her shawl... in the last few performances it seemed like the light was fading too fast before her dramatic finished.

NEVER GOING BACK AGAIN
LANDSLIDE
GO YOUR OWN WAY

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