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Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours' came out when I was in my last year of high school.
And by then my friends and I had already tossed 'Frampton Comes Alive' aside long before* so that we could move to the harder stuff.
Which meant that we just didn't give Rumours much of a chance at all, at least compared to all the other stuff we were listening to and trying to play.
Which was too bad because, in addition to the hooks and the hedonism, there is some king hell good stuff in there.
Take 'Go Your Own Way', for example.
Who knew that the bare bones of the thing was literally what was going on in Lindsay Buckingham's life.
And who knew that he really, truly and honestly didn't want Stevie Nicks to go.
How do I know all of this, for sure, right here and now in present tense time?
Because Mr. Buckingham explains it all, both the lyrical bones and the layers of musicianship that fleshes them all out, including convincing John McVie to play dreaded eighth notes on the bass' throughline, on a recent, fantastic edition of the podcast 'Song Exploder'.
Have a listen.
It's 22 minutes of your life you won't want, or even need, to get back.
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*Which was approximately 8 months if I remember things correctly. This, of course, is eons in high school garage band time...
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2 comments:
Buckingham is truly one of the greats albeit a little inconsistent at times, his body of work is phenomenal including a late career string of solo albums that are wonderful. Check out his '92 Out of the Cradle for some of the best pop/rock ever recorded.
Unfortunately for him and the band, he was inexplicably booted from the final greatest hits machine tour last year, and word is that was lead by Stevie Nicks.
bcw--
Agreed about Mr. Buckingham's place in the pantheon.
That call had all kinds of weirdness, including the fact, IIRC, that Mr. B. had other dates of his own that led for him to ask for a delay that the Fleets didn't take kindly to.
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