Lindsey Buckingham

Fleetwood Mac.

Now, if your mind immediately goes to Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham when you hear that name, we need to wind the clock back a little.

Before the enormous success of that lineup, Fleetwood Mac were a British blues band led by the amazing Peter Green.

Green wrote Black Magic Woman and the band released it as a single in 1968, two years before Santana recorded the version that appeared on Abraxas.

Another heartbreaker connection here, of course, is that the boys covered Green's up-tempo scorcher, Oh Well, a number of times live.

And, of course, there's yet another connection waiting further down the road, because our very own Mike Campbell joined Fleetwood Mac for their tour in 2018.

So from Peter Green to Mark Campbell, with Lindsey Buckingham in between and a few other people, that band sure has had a few guys who know their way around a guitar.

So your question for this week is this.

Big Al International.

So the next record is called Gold, and it's by Jon Stewart with Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham.

Of course, yeah, a great record, and it's from the year... 1979.

I jump into my car and I throw in my guitar.

Davis himself later guessed he got them because he had once taken them seriously, back when they were starting their own label one writer added that maybe it was simply because he made an offer at all so was it a courtship or a rescue a long game finally won or a door that just happened to be open in the office the radiator ticks and far below the traffic goes on moving small and silent behind the glass nobody is cooking there is no long table and no smell of supper the food comes out of vending machines most of the band isn't here either they came in put down their parts and left what remains late into the night is a big console a tape machine jerry garcia with a guitar and a producer named keith olsen working through one idea after another this is sound city out in van nuys on the flat floor of the san fernando valley one of the band's managers called it a particularly sterile environment this was the record before shakedown street it was called terrapin station and it was the band's first album for their new label the label's boss had one firm condition an outside producer and olson was the man of the moment He had just turned Fleetwood Mac into a hit-making band.

By Bill Kreutzmann's telling, it was because of Olsen that Fleetwood Mac took on Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham in the first place.

Garcia and Bob Weir both liked him.

So the band moved south.

Was Fleetwood Mac the most complicated band in rock and roll history? Or were they just the most successful band to turn their personal disaster into music? How many bands could survive what Fleetwood Mac went through? And why is the Rumors album still going strong after 50 years? Think about what was happening inside that band when they made Rumors.

Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks had broken up.

John and Christine McVie were getting divorced.

Mick Fleetwood's marriage was falling apart.

So there's that compromise, isn't there, of – There were going to be sentimental things in the home that mean nothing to him.

Fleetwood Mac is a really special musical... banned for me and I ordered this print from this artist in Belfast where it's the Rumours cover but it's just the silhouette of Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks so it's not the full cover.

Gorgeous.

And it's really cool and that's also on the TV area.

So there's that compromise, isn't there, of – There were going to be sentimental things in the home that mean nothing to him.

Fleetwood Mac is a really special musical... banned for me and I ordered this print from this artist in Belfast where it's the Rumours cover but it's just the silhouette of Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks so it's not the full cover.

Gorgeous.

And it's really cool and that's also on the TV area.

A new documentary on Fleetwood Mac is set to hit Apple TV+.

The synopsis for the documentary reads, quote, Following their fortuitous meeting in 1974, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsay Buckingham, and Stevie Nicks reflect on their uncompromising 50-plus year history, from their record-breaking recordings and tours, including never-before-seen footage and exclusive new interviews, through to today.

Frank Marshall is directing the documentary, which is called Fleetwood Mac, The Chain, and is set to debut on Apple TV on January 29th.

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