'This was not my choice': Lindsey Buckingham addresses firing from Fleetwood Mac for first time

www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | Updated: 09:36 EDT, 13 May 2018 | By Ross Mcdonagh

[Red Badger]

Lindsey Buckingham has publicly addressed his firing from Fleetwood Mac for first time.

The 68-year-old was playing a fundraiser gig for Democratic congressional candidate Mike Levin in California on Friday night, when he spoke about his sacking three months ago.

[Red Badger]

You left out the Bob Welch era...................

[subterfuge]

Mike Campbell is definitely an upgrade but he doesn’t sing.

[Charles Martel]

When you’re 68 it’s time to retire anyway. Stop touring and do infomercials for Time-Life oldies collections.

Before all this drama with Buckingham, I'm pretty sure the band's PR people were pitching the upcoming tour plans as a "farewell". Now, they're yammering about the practice sessions with Mike Campbell and how this feels like a "rebirth" of the band, so who knows?

I am glad that Campbell found another significant gig so soon after Tom Petty's death; I know he wasn't ready to hang up his guitar just yet.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Lindsay Buckingham is the most egotistical, conceited POS I have ever heard interviewed. I’m not a Fleetwood Mac fan but Buckingham is beyond a jerk.

[Red Badger]

Seems to be a consensus.................

[a fool in paradise]

To make way for the Sum-41 reunion tour this year???

[af_vet_1981]

Eyes of the World was a song written by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter, appearing on the Grateful Dead album Wake of the Flood in 1973. How Lindsey authors a song by the same name but different lyrics and style in 1982 is a mystery ...

The real Flleetwood Mac, Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green, and Danny Kirwan had a very memorable jam with the Grateful Dead and other notables one snowy evening in NYC, Fillmore East, 2/11/1970.

[Dixie Yooper]

Not to worry Lindsey, they were nothing more than a cover band, covering themselves. Get out of the business, before they’re treating you like BB King in his final years.

[Calvin Locke]

The Idea that there are 70 year old Rock & rollers

Yeah, maybe they should read that Grace Slick interview about rockers retiring after turning 40 or so.

[AlaskaErik]

Fleetwood Mac is nothing more than a one hit album wonder. I haven't listed to their music since the 70’s. Tusk, their followup album to Rumours, was total garbage. But by then the musical renaissance that was the 80’s was in full swing and I no longer listened to music from the dark ages that was the 70’s, and so I never listened to FM again. I, for one, have no interest in any band from the 70’s other than Blondie, which was the late 70’s and heralded the arrival of the 80’s renaissance.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

And, Bob Welch left and went on to the D-list.

Mostly because he just re-recorded the Bare Trees stuff (his way...so, take that MickF!) and then toured playing the Bare Trees stuff. Too bad.

[Steve_Seattle]

"You left out the Bob Welch era..................."

I missed that period. I don't think he was on the albums I had.

[Steve_Seattle]

Dave Clark (DC5) was the only rocker I know who refused to continue touring after his heyday. He said something like, “That was teen music, I had my fun, but it’s over.”

[NormsRevenge]

Saw Fleetwood Mac way back in the mid 70s.. Fargo Jam..

I wanted to go backstage and offer to have Stevie Nicks kids. Didn’t make it. Dang. :-)

Quite the show,, I wish I could remember who else was there.. it was kind of smoky in the stadium taht day as I recall,, vaguely. ;-)

[dfwgator]

I better run on the double.

He needs to take the "Holiday Road".

[dfwgator]

Mike Campbell is definitely an upgrade but he doesn’t sing.

I think Neil Finn will do the vocals just fine.

[Axenolith]

If you’re 70+ and you Rock you check out like Lemmy Kilmister...

[Red Badger]

The Bob Welch era (71-74) proved to be a smooth transitional era between the originals and the Buckingham-Nicks era..............

[Calvin Locke]

I heard Al Kooper say that as each generation of musicians come of age, they write songs for the generation coming behind them.

Must have been in the 1990s and he had just moved to Boston to teach full-time at Berklee.

[Red Badger]

Sadly, Fleetwood Mac never played anywhere near where I happened to be in the 70’s...................