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Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham wants to play a song for President George W Bush called ‘Treason’ | Daily Telegraph

By Urmee Khan
11:35PM GMT 10 Nov 2008
Daily Telegraph (UK)

The Democrat supporter has already played for one President, when the group performed at Bill Clinton’s inauguration ball in January 1993.

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Their song, “Don’t Stop”, had been used as a campaign theme by President Clinton.

But he was pithy about performing for the current Republican incumbent of the White House.

He said he would be willing to play a song for President George W Bush and has already got one written: “It’s called Treason and it’s all about selfishness and greed.”

However, he said he is hopeful the group will be asked back to play for Barack Obama when he celebrates his arrival at the White House in January.

“I would be delighted if we could do that again,” Buckingham told the Daily Telegraph’s Mandrake. He concedes, however, that Bruce Springsteen is in a better position “especially as I see Bruce has already got himself the Superbowl slot”.

Treason is on his solo album “Gift of Screws,” which was released in October. Continue reading Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham wants to play a song for President George W Bush called ‘Treason’ | Daily Telegraph

Gift Of Screws – Uncut Magazine Review + Q&A

ALBUM REVIEW:
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM – GIFT OF SCREWS

Fleetwood Mac man’s punchy pop-rock manifesto

He was, incredibly, the new wave one in Fleetwood Mac, but Lindsey Buckingham’s much-tromboned love of the Gang Of Four, Prag Vec and the Delta Five (or similar) never really seemed to make it into his music. (Certainly very few people who ever heard Love Like Anthrax ever went on to make a double album like Tusk). But he’s always had more of an adventurous spirit than his fellow band members. And this presumably why Mick Fleetwood and the McVies invited Stevie Nicks and him to join their old blues band, effectively bolting a Mustang body onto an old Bentley.

In fact, Buckingham’s extra-curricular creativity has been something of a problem for him, in that he keeps writing a lot of the best songs in his old band, all the while initially intending them for himself. Thus the first incarnation of Gift Of Screws which he worked on between 1995 and 2001, and which was, in a way, his Smile. A double album, it never came out, as Buckingham was persuaded to stripmine seven of its best songs for Fleetwood Mac, who duly recorded them, had big hits, and went away again. Buckingham released instead the perfectly acceptable Under The Skin in 2006, and no more was heard of Gift Of Screws until, as they used to say on Tomorrow’s World, now, that is. Continue reading Gift Of Screws – Uncut Magazine Review + Q&A

The Sunday Times (UK) Review of Gift Of Screws

The Sunday Times (UK)
September 14, 2008

Lindsey Buckingham: Gift of Screws
The Sunday Times review
Dan Cairns

Buckingham’s last solo album, 2006’s Under the Skin, was a thing of wonder and beauty, but Gift of Screws finds him on even finer form. Fated for ever to be thought of as the man who reshaped Fleetwood Mac into a world-conquering rock band, the guitarist issues albums that, if they bore the group’s name, would sell by the bucketload; and he’s fated, too, to have his unsung status as one of the great geniuses of American sonic architecture obscured by his talent for undislodgable melody lines and radio-friendly hooks (though the hits invariably contained some deeply eccentric music-making). Here, commercial Lindsey again does battle with his darker, more experimental side. Great Day is pure Tusk-era Mac, its refrain of “It was a great day” shadowed by the characteristically droll riposte “It wasn’t such a great day”. Time Precious Time finds him giddily looping and lapping his extraordinary guitar-playing; Did You Miss Me may be the most beautiful song he has ever written; Love Runs Deeper just needs Ms Nicks on harmonies to scoot up the charts; Underground bemoans an entertainment industry interested only in instant cash prizes (“They heard 15 seconds, and that was enough”); the title track’s yelps and howls are almost sectionable; Treason nails the neocon age of permissible torture and executive malfeasance, to the sweetest of tunes. Sensational.

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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4734208.ece

 

Fleetwood Mac legend Lindsey Buckingham mixes the old and new | The Times

Priya Elan
Published at 12:01AM, September 13 2008
The Times (UK)

Lindsey Buckingham tells our correspondent how he found happiness after the madness of Fleetwood Mac

Miles beyond Sunset Strip, beyond the Hollywood sign and Laurel Canyon, a familiar sound is coming from a rehearsal stage.

The opening couplet of Go Your Own Way wafts across the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank, California: “Loving you/ Isn’t the right thing to do . . .” The Fleetwood Mac legend Lindsey Buckingham is in final rehearsals for a six-week solo tour. A tour de force of Californian angst, the song first appeared on Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours album – whose smooth curves masked a partner-swapping, drug-snorting epic of dysfunction. Those songs still resonate today – in recent months both Vampire Weekend and Fleet Foxes have covered Mac songs. Continue reading Fleetwood Mac legend Lindsey Buckingham mixes the old and new | The Times

The Big CD: Lindsey Buckingham – Gift of Screws

The Times
September 13, 2008
John Mulvey

It is rarely edifying to hear a multimillion-selling rock star whinge about lack of credibility. But on his previous solo album, Under the Skin, Buckingham just about got away with it. Buckingham, remember, was the man who had propelled Fleetwood Mac to their commercial zenith in the mid-1970s. And consequently, he was also one of the prime musical enemies of anyone who had invigorated their record collections with punk rock.

In the past few years, however, Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac have undergone something of a critical rehabilitation. Buckingham’s obsessive perfectionism in the studio, his occasionally deranged sonic experiments, and the excruciating emotional honesty that he shares with all his old bandmates are seen as fine things. On Under the Skin, a little bit of praise seemed to have pushed Buckingham into a doggedly solipsistic display of his leftfield chops. The album began with him noting: “Reading the paper, saw a review/ Said I was a visionary, but nobody knew,” and mainly consisted of him constructing nervy guitar loops in what may well have been his bedroom. A lovely album, but one of strategically limited appeal.

Gift of Screws is a more varied affair. There are fantastic solo workouts, such as Time Precious Time, on which Buckingham yelps harmoniously over some frantically intricate acoustic guitar. But then there are also pop songs – Love Runs Deeper and Did You Miss Me – that are blessed with the same combination of stadium thump and spiritual fragility that proved so lucrative for Fleetwood Mac.

Since that band’s venerable rhythm section – Mick Fleetwood and John McVie – contribute to Gift of Screws it is tempting to wonder why Buckingham did not save these songs for the next Fleetwood Mac album. But then an earlier solo album, also entitled Gift of Screws, was aborted, and a good few songs from that turned up on the Mac’s Say You Will in 2003. Maybe this time, Buckingham anxiously wants to prove that he can do it all himself, from avant-garde guitar noodles to fabulously airbrushed pop. The critical acclaim is in the bag these days. Now, if only he could sell millions without the Fleetwood Mac brand name.

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Rock review: Lindsey Buckingham, Gift of Screws

The Guardian, Friday September 12th 2008
Dave Simpson

Lindsey Buckingham
Gift of Screws
Reprise, 2008
Lindsey Buckingham - Gift Of Screws

At the height of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours supernova, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham suddenly started listening to Talking Heads and the Clash. Gift of Screws’ harder moments suggest these influences remain, though Buckingham has returned to the ethereal pop-rock songwriting that spawned the band’s classic hits. With the trusty Mick Fleetwood-John McVie rhythm section giving lots of sonic wallop, this is more than just a Mac album without the female vocalists: Buckingham seems to be rediscovering some sort of idealism. Time Precious Time addresses life’s urgency with virtuoso brilliance. Did You Miss Me, with its uplifting hook and lyrics about dreaming and loss, is the best pop song he has written since Go Your Own Way.

Rating **** (4) out of ***** (5)

Fleetwood Mac legend Lindsey Buckingham mixes the old and new

Lindsey Buckingham tells our correspondent how he found happiness after the madness of Fleetwood Mac

By Priya Elan
Times Online

Miles beyond Sunset Strip, beyond the Hollywood sign and Laurel Canyon, a familiar sound is coming from a rehearsal stage.

The opening couplet of Go Your Own Way wafts across the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank, California: “Loving you/ Isn’t the right thing to do . . .” The Fleetwood Mac legend Lindsey Buckingham is in final rehearsals for a six-week solo tour. A tour de force of Californian angst, the song first appeared on Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours album – whose smooth curves masked a partner-swapping, drug-snorting epic of dysfunction. Those songs still resonate today – in recent months both Vampire Weekend and Fleet Foxes have covered Mac songs.

“Our first show is in two days, but I don’t feel like we’re quite ready,” he says, but that’s just the perfectionist in him speaking. In truth the show is an exhilarating mix of the old and new, reworked Mac classics combined with lost solo singles and tracks from his new album Gift of Screws. It’s a career-spanning set at a time when Buckingham is, he declares, “the happiest I’ve ever been”. Continue reading Fleetwood Mac legend Lindsey Buckingham mixes the old and new

BBC Online Review of Gift Of Screws

Lindsey Buckingham
Gift Of Screws [Reprise]
Released: 15 September 2008
Catalogue number: 9362-49833-4

by Chris Jones
12 September 2008

Lindsey Buckingham, chiselled, unsmiling guitarist with Fleetwood Mac, first began recording Gift Of Screws between 1995 and 2001. In the intervening period nearly half the songs recorded were hijacked for the reunion album by the band, Say You Will, as well as various other projects including his own acoustic album, Under The Skin (2006). Luckily Mr B is a very talented man, and despite what may have seemed the cream of the crop being diverted for the greater good, the remaining ten songs are pure gold dust. This album is a gift indeed.

The title comes from an Emily Dickinson poem. The bulk of the material is self-played and self-produced. (with two songs co-written with wife Kristen and one with brother Will). Oh, and on another three songs some blokes called McVie and Fleetwood turn up to provide the rhythm tracks. It’s one of these (The Right Place To Fade) that Buckingham approaches the classic sound of the Mac, but elsewhere he’s his own man and the results are revelatory.

Most know the stories of Buckingham’s love of new wave bands that seemed at odds with the West Coast fare that his band epitomised. And indeed, Gift Of Screws approaches the avant garde in places. The opener, Great Day is quite some statement of intent. Fuelled by furiously plucked nylon strings it’s a fever pitch dash through whispered vocals and an incendiary guitar solo. Next up, Time Precious Time is no less startling. Over massed strings he intones like some alt folk hero a third of his age. From here it’s a brief (just over 39 minute) ride through pure Californian pop (Did You Miss Me, Love Runs Deeper) gonzo rock (Gift Of Screws), alien folk (Bel Air Rain) and so much more.

His voice is lithe, his fingers insanely nimble and his songwriting chops simply awesome. Really, anyone from the ages of 15 to 65 would find Gift Of Screws exhilarating. Quiet simply, a masterpiece.

– http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/p4n8/

Fleetwood Mac Reunite in the Studio

Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham has enlisted the help of band members Mick Fleetwood and John McVie on at least two of the tracks for his forthcoming fifth ‘solo’ album ‘Gift of Screws.

The three of them have worked on tracks, including the album’s title track and one called “Wanna Wait For You. “Buckingham, who earlier this year spoke of the possibility of a Mac reunion tour in 2009, has commented on his forthcoming album, saying: “This album distills several periods of time. It has false starts to make albums, songs that go back a number of years that took a while to find a home and brand-new songs. I wanted to bring it all together in one place. As an artist I’m still, for better or worse, clinging to my idealism and to my sense that there is still much to be said. This album is a culmination of that.”Gift of Screws was originally titled way back in 2001, after songs were being written and recorded between 1995 and 2000. Some of the tracks were orignially recorded live by Fleetwood Mac and subsequently used on The Dance tour.

There is no more comment on news of a full band reunion tour, but recording together is a pretty auspicious start.Buckingham’s Gift of Screws, due out in September, full track listing is:

“Great Day” 
“Time Precious Time” 
“Did You Miss Me” 
“Wanna Wait for You” 
“Love Runs Deeper” 
“Bel Air Rain” 
“The Right Place to Fade” 
“Gift of Screws” 
“Underground” 
“Treason” 

– http://www.uncut.co.uk/news/fleetwood_mac/news/11911

Lindsey Buckingham to deliver ‘Gift’ during fall tour

By Tjames Madison / LiveDaily Contributor

Lindsey Buckingham has added a pair of dates to the upcoming tour behind his latest album, “Gift of Screws,” which now has a release date set for later this year.

The Fleetwood Mac singer/songwriter kicks off the run Sept. 7 in Saratoga, CA, with the new additions both coming in October: an Oct. 7 show in Hamilton, Ontario, and an Oct. 12 appearance in Lebanon, NH. In all, Buckingham will now hit 29 cities on the headlining trek. Dates are below.

Buckingham recorded “Gift of Screws,” due in stores Sept. 16, with members of his touring band, along with longtime Fleetwood Mac bandmates Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, who both appear on several tracks. “I’d say this album distills several periods of time,” Buckingham said in a press statement about his newest studio creation, which follows 2006’s “Under the Skin.”

“It has false starts to make albums, songs that go back a number of years that took a while to find a home, and brand-new songs,” he added. “I wanted to bring it all together in one place. As an artist I’m still, for better or worse, clinging to my idealism and to my sense that there is still much to be said. This album is a culmination of that.”
The singer has also told various interviewers in recent months that he hopes Fleetwood Mac will mount a tour behind a new studio album next year.

Earlier this year, Buckingham released “Live at the Bass Performance Hall,” a live DVD documenting his performance last year at the Fort Worth, TX, venue. The package is available in a bonus set that includes more than 45 minutes of behind-the-scenes footage, and an accompanying audio CD with the same track listing as the DVD.

[Note: The following tour dates have been provided by artist and/or tour sources, who verify its accuracy as of the publication time of this story. Changes may occur before tickets go on sale. Check with official artist websites, ticketing sources and venues for late updates.]

September 2008
7 – Saratoga, CA – Mountain Winery
9 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre
10 – Portland, OR – Newmark Theatre
12 – Lake Tahoe, CA – Harrah’s Casino
13 – San Francisco – Venue to be announced
14 – Los Angeles, CA – Royce Hall @ UCLA
16 – San Diego, CA – Humphrey’s Concerts By the Bay
18 – Phoenix, AZ – The Orpheum Theatre
19 – Anaheim, CA – The Grove of Anaheim
20 – Las Vegas, NV – The Joint
22 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
24 – Denver, CO – Opera House
26 – Tulsa, OK – Brady Theatre
28 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theatre
29 – St Louis, MO – Pageant

October 2008
1 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues
2 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues
4 – Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theatre
5 – Indianapolis, IN – Eygptian Theatre
7 – Hamilton, Ontario – Hamilton Place Theatre
8 – Toronto, Ontario – Music Hall
10 – Reading, PA – Sovereign Performing Arts Center
11 – Atlantic City, NJ – Trump Taj Mahal
12 – Lebanon, NH – The Lebanon Opera House
14 – Northampton, MA – Calvin Theatre
15 – Ridgefield, CT – Ridgefield Play House
17 – Boston, MA – Berklee Performing Arts Center
18 – Glenside, PA – Keswick Theater
19 – New York, NY – Nokia Theatre