Lindsey Buckingham blames Stevie Nicks for the absence of new audio from Fleetwood Mac, telling Typical Rock magazine that the fact that the legendary rock band haven’t introduced a studio album considering the fact that 2003‘s Say You Will “wasn’t for deficiency of seeking.”
Buckingham, who produced a self-titled solo album earlier this year, was fired from Fleetwood Mac in 2018, and claimed previously this 12 months that Nicks was the catalyst for that decision: speaking with the LA Situations, the guitarist explained that Nicks issued a ‘him or me’ ultimatum to the band, in a bid to assert extra manage more than the team, an accusation Nicks has denied.
Now, in a new job interview working in the new challenge of Common Rock magazine, on sale on December 7, Buckingham suggests that his former partner’s reticence to get associated in the creating and recording of new Fleetwood Mac substance is the motive there’s been no new album from the band in 18 many years.
Buckingham claims that operate had in fact started on a new Fleetwood Mac album back again in 2012.
“I had a bunch of tracks, and Mick [Fleetwood] and John [McVie] and I went in with the producer Mitchell Froom and reduce a bunch of things,” he tells Classic Rock. “This was before Christine [McVie] returned to the band in 2014. We very a lot desired to draw Stevie in, and for some cause she refused to take part.”
Buckingham promises that Nicks, “has type of gotten a very little bit disoriented in her seeking to go after Stevie Nicks in cash letters, if you will.”
“I imagine she sort of lost track of her composing a tiny bit,” he states, “and probably didn’t assume she had anything she felt she could give, and so did not want to be a part of it.”
“That exertion to engage her was revamped all over again when Christine returned,” Buckingham suggests, “because it was like, ‘well, Christine’s again, it’s possible now Stevie will want to do this.’ Christine had a bunch of tune suggestions and I aided her with these, and we finally went in the studio and minimize those people. And we have been nevertheless hoping to make that a Fleetwood Mac album, and Stevie wouldn’t do it. That grew to become the duet album that Christine and I did [2017’s Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie]. So it wasn’t for lack of attempting.”
In other places in the interview, Buckingham suggests that he’s open to the concept of an additional reunion with the band.
“Who is familiar with, probably we’ll control to see very clear to have a single additional pleasant run out there,” he suggests. “That would be the proper way to go.”
For much much more from Lindsey Buckingham, pick up the new difficulty of Classic Rock journal, which is on sale from December 7.
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