Lindsey Buckingham has just announced a 34-date solo tour in support of his three-disc solo career retrospective Solo Anthology – The Best Of Lindsey Buckingham, coming on October 5th. Buckingham, who was fired from Fleetwood Mac back in April, will launch the major North American solo trek on October 7th at Portland, Oregon’s Revolution Hall and stay on the road a full eight weeks until the tour wraps on December 9th in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania at Sands Event Center. Solo Anthology will be released as a three-disc set, digitally — and will also be available as a single-disc scaled down release. A six-LP vinyl release is slated for November 23rd.
Among the Buckingham favorites on the set are “Trouble,” “Go Insane,” “Holiday Road,” and “Countdown,” along with key tracks from all his studio albums — Law And Order, Go Insane, Out Of The Cradle, Under The Skin, Gifts Of Screws, and Seeds We Sow. A third bonus disc features live renditions of such Fleetwood Mac classics as “Never Going Back Again,” “Big Love,” “Tusk,” “I’m So Afraid,” and “Go Your Own Way.” Also included are two previously unreleased songs — “Hunger” and “Ride This Road.”
Lindsey Buckingham told Pulse that in terms of his songs, he considers himself to be more of a record maker than a conventional songwriter: “I do not necessarily consider myself to never a ‘writer’ in the sense that say, Burt Bacharach is a writer, where he sits down at a piano and comes up with a complete melody and Hal David comes up with a complete set of lyrics — and that’s it — y’know, the song stands on its own. But my whole. . . the way that I look at myself is that I am not a writer in that sense. I am a stylist.”
Buckingham told Pulse recording as a solo act is entirely different than recording as part of Fleetwood Mac: “The way I work when I’m on my own, I mean, it’s very much like a painting, as opposed to working with a group. Fleetwood Mac was a lot like making a movie in the studio, because it’s more verbalizing, and there’s more links in the chain to get from point A, to point B, to point C. Whereas, if I’m working on my own, in a fairly quiet situation, it’s like a painter with a canvas where you may have a certain intent when you start out — and you have a color here and you’re filling it out and at some point the canvas will start to speak to you and take on a life of it’s own and direct you in another direction. And that was a lot of what I was interested in doing.”
Lindsey Buckingham rocks Chicago on October 17th at the Athenian Theatre.
