And he wonders aloud whether Nicks, who was dating Buckingham when they joined Fleetwood Mac together in 1975, struggled with his ability to start a family in his 40s and 50s while she remained childless. And so, it became a little bit like Trump and the Republicans.”īuckingham also speculates that Nicks refused to make a new Fleetwood Mac album after the classic lineup’s ultra-successful 2015 tour because she didn’t have any new songs to offer. ![]() He continues to blame Nicks, who “wanted to shape the band in her own image, a more mellow thing.” Buckingham says the other members of Fleetwood Mac could have stepped in to keep him in the band, but they cower before Nicks: “I think others in the band just felt that they were not empowered enough, individually, for whatever their own reasons, to stand up for what was right. He thought they were still in negotiations about it when he received word from Azoff that he was out. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Buckingham says he was fired because he asked Fleetwood Mac to delay an upcoming tour so he could release this new solo album and take it on the road. In a pair of new interviews this week, he finds incendiary new ways to communicate the same concept. Speaking to Stereogum that year, he called Mick Fleetwood “weak-willed” and summed up his attitude toward his former bandmates: “I just have to forgive them because it’s really just Stevie being so needy for a certain kind of attention and maybe not wanting to compete with the vitality that I have.” Soon after his dismissal, he told an audience, “I think what you would say is that there were factions within the band that had lost their perspective,” and he later said Stevie Nicks had manager Irving Azoff fire him over the phone. It’s also his first album since being kicked out of Fleetwood Mac in 2018 shortly after the band’s performance at a MusiCares event in New York.īuckingham has not been quiet about that ordeal. Nicks, McVie, Buckingham and Fleetwood all used this opportunity to release their first solo albums.ĭespite the mixed reception it received at the time, Tusk has often been remembered as “one of the more interesting and artistically sounding albums in Fleetwood Mac’s catalog” with NME naming it one of the 500 greatest albums of all time in 2003.Next week, Lindsey Buckingham will release a self-titled album, his first solo effort since 2011. When the tour was over, the band took a much-needed break. Ultimate Classic Rock later described Tusk as “full of artistic left turns and sonic experimentation”.Īn extensive and exhaustive nine month world tour followed to promote the album that left the band ‘physically and mentally drained and barely able to stand the sight of each other’. Rolling Stone called it “less a collection of finished songs than a mosaic of pop-rock fragments by individual performers” and pointed out “its fits and starts and restless changes of pace”. ![]() ![]() The result was a massive hodgepodge of music that was met with ‘distinctly mixed reactions’. Buckingham’s prolific output of off-beat music inflated the work into a double-album while Nicks and McVie contributed the more familiar-sounding (and radio-friendly) songs fans were expecting. The band racked up an unprecedented $1 million dollar cost making of the album, including indulging in excesses like exotic foods and crates of champagne. It was later revealed by his then-girlfriend Buckingham was “obsessed” with the band Talking Heads and wanted Fleetwood Mac to be relevant as post-punk became popular in the late 1970s. Despite selling a million copies right out of the gate, and another million in less than a year, it was soon labeled a comparative failure to the band’s two previous albums Fleetwood Mac and Rumours, which had made the band into international superstars.īuckingham insisted that Tusk not be ‘Rumours Part 2’, writing several experimental tracks on his own while dominating over recording sessions to ensure the album’s sound found ‘new territory’. It reached the top 10 in nine countries and spawned the three US top 20 hits “Sara”, “Think About Me” and the title track. Tusk is Fleetwood Mac’s twelfth studio album.
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