Lindsey Buckingham

My hubby is a broadway queen - which includes Babs. At a Babs concert in NYC Lindsey was seated next to us. He’s short. He watched the show with his wife? GF? The take away is : he’s short!

He's an egomaniac. He's very very talented, but so delusional.

I think he wasn't a bigger star because he was so out there creative, but much of his work wasn't commercial sounding, outside Fleetwood Mac.

He's also a total asshole.

He got purdy hair

Yes, he's a whiny, bitchfaced cunt, OP.

He's a brilliant musician. Stevie is adequate. However, her songs resonated with a vibe that went viral. Lindsey's still angry about that. It's as simple as that. You never hear Stevie say she's jealous of Lindsey. I'm posting an hour long interview with Stevie where she refers to it. She'd just released an album with Dave Stewart.

Caution: the interviewer is my next husband. He's not even my type, but we're getting married in Malibu on Saturday. I just need to let him know.

I can’t look at him without thinking of Eraserhead.

Stevie makes him craaaazy.

I read his ex-girlfriend's "memoir" when it came out, and it clearly painted him as a narcissist and pretty violent. She was around from '77 to maybe '85. He drags her by the hair from behind the wheel of his car in their driveway over some stupid fight. He kicked Stevie on stage once, and they had a physical altercation that lead to him leaving the band in 1987. It was again about him not wanting to tour or something.

He's also epileptic and finds out after a show. I'm trying to remember more from the book. It's called Storms by Carol Ann Harris. Has anyone else bothered reading this?

R7, the thing onstage with Stevie is positively scary. They were on the Tusk tour (Tusk was the followup to Rumours). Onstage in Auckland, NZ, from out of nowhere, Lindsey grabs some article of clothing and starts twirling around in a piss take of Stevie.. Then he swung his electric guitar at her. Accd'g to Stevie if she hadn't ducked she would've been seriously injured. The band left the stage and returned to play a dull show. I read a report from an audience member who said the crowd was shocked.

Stevie should hate forever for that @R8

he’s a weirdo like Kate Bush, brilliant yet so non commercial

Like Kate Bush? Non commercial?

someone on DL who has worked with him confirmed that he was diagnosed with Aspergers.

Well, I just *love* his first name! So manly...like me!!!

Did I hear he and his wife are calling off the divorce and getting back together?

He went insane and kicked Stevie in the cuntbone

[quote] He went insane and kicked Stevie in the cuntbone

And was greatly surprised when the cuntbone kicked him back.

I read that book too. Lindsey was an abusive egomaniac.

Yes they did @R14

The death of Christine McVie has me in a Fleetwood Mac listening rampage.

Which re-triggered my crush on/fascination with/ the genius, abusive, sexy Lindsey Buckingham.

He cancelled a bunch of shows earlier this Fall

He wasn’t very hot. He wasn’t a solo star. Too many of you don’t have a clue how the public is it seems. He has talent but talent has nothing to do with success. And he wasn’t “hot”.

I sat across the aisle from him on a short flight from Lana'i to Honolulu. Small plane so I can't vouch for him being short. Aside from the way too obvious "look at me dressing like the rock star I am" clothing he was very attractive.

I think he did great things to FM music, making it better. Watching that documentary of the making of Say You Will, however, made me wonder how any of them ever speak to him.

He’s a trash asshole. Abusive. Bad addiction issues, even worse than Stevie. And being kinda handsome isn’t the equivalent of hot.

Ugh, he seems so narcissistic, abusive etc. But I love his music and he’s always been sexy to me.

He should grow his facial hair back.

Hot.

Does LB have Big Dick Energy or little dick energy?

R28 I'd guess little dick. He has that weird pouty, easily-angered "Mommy said I'm the best" thing as well.

Ah twoooo…ah threee… ah FOWAH!

Ha ha, yeah right? Lol R29.

Now, now he was an attractive man around Rumours era.

I would have fucked him when he was young and hirsute.

That 80s hair was tragic, though.

R32 I didn't see anyone say he was unattractive

In her solo career, Stevie was smart enough to realize that just like in FM, her songwriting needed outside help to rein it in from its poetic excesses.

FM also reined in Lindsey's music's paranoid excesses, but he never allowed much collaboration in his solo material and it couldn't connect with larger audiences.

I seem to recall reading that Christine McVie retaliated against him physically when he attacked Nicks onstage. Amirite?

"Amirite"

Only 90s lesbian comics use this

What is with the facial expressions at R30?

Don't try to pigeonhole ME, R37.

Stevie is only 5”0” so how tall is Lindsey?

R38 - must have been the cocaine

R40 5'10"

[quote] Accd'g to Stevie

Accd’g? Really? Are you a retard?

It was the 70s and he was so good looking then, that people wrote it off as coke, but looking back now it looks like he's got the tism

I always thought Lindsey had beautiful eyes.

Too much coke R38, combined with general nervousness. Lindsey was also epileptic and the drugs probably didn't help. He never seemed all that comfortable in front of a camera to me, unlike Stevie. Mick Fleetwood was also flying high on coke back then and pulled a lot of goofy/scary faces.

There's a clip from SNL around the same period where LB is similarly twitchy and manic. He managed to rein it in a bit for the official video.

[quote] I seem to recall reading that Christine McVie retaliated against him physically when he attacked Nicks onstage. Amirite?

Well, to be specific -- she slapped the ever-lovin' shit out of him.

Stevie got him when he looked like this:

R8 Christine gave him a hard slap in the face backstage for being unprofessional.

[quote] He's an egomaniac. He's very very talented, but so delusional.

That soujnds like Stevie Nicks, except for the talent part. Of all the members of Fleetwood Mac I thought she was the least talented. She's always needed more talented artists (all of them men) to help her career: LIndsay Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Don Henley, Tom Petty, Jimmy Iovine. She fucked them all and used them all to help her make her songs sound better.

A great guitarist, but a loathsome piece of shit. Probably a dark triad narcissist. Also, I don’t find him remotely attractive. I think he’s quite ugly.

This is Lindsey in his worst drug state . This is around the time Stevie was absent for the first time and became massive with her first solo album and FM had no idea if she would returned or not.

Dead eyed and hideous. He looks trans these days

Both he and Stevie Nicks have massive egos but I don't his conceit comes anywhere near close to hers. They had a tortured relationship; it should have ended cleanly, that is, they both should have gone their own ways and never seen each other again. But since they were in the same band they had to see each other, all the time. Nicks started a very public relationship with Don Henley, which didn't help matters any. In the midst of it all Buckingham was supposed to work closely with Nicks, helping her with her music the way he did. But it was very difficult because there were a lot of bad feelings between them. As he said in an interview, there were times when "I did...not...want...to HELP her." It does sound excruciating; here they were, with all the love/hate feelings between them, and they had to spend lot sof time together in the studio making records and go onstage together and sing their songs about about each other. No wonder Lindsay snapped onstage. I don't blame him one bit.

R54 You type mentally disturbed, and "I don't blame him one bit" for HITTING her? That certainly confirms your severe mental issues.

“Holiday Road” is the worst song of the 20th century

A lot of his solo work sounds like children’s music. HAF in the 70s, though.

[quote] You type mentally disturbed, and "I don't blame him one bit" for HITTING her? That certainly confirms your severe mental issues.

You type like a hysterial Mary. Like I said, you poor, pitiful hysterical thing, is that he SNAPPED. And considering the pressures he was under, no wonder. I CAN'T blame someone for losing control when they've had to take so much shit for so long. It was unfortunate what happened, but I'm surprised he and Nicks didn't try to kill each other, considering the bad blood between them.

My obligatory post on every Buckingham thread: he's a bitch faced whiner who gives off Trustafundian vibes.

I found a doc on youtube and there is a moment when LB is gently trying to persuade SN that her lyrics don’t make sense - she switches tenses which he feels weakens the song.

She argues that he wouldn’t say that to Bob Dylan and LB gently argues back that Dylan writes in an abstract way and her song is literal and simple and ought to make sense. She looks about to have a tantrum but ends it saying That’s the poet I am! And LB’s gentle eye-roll…

Check it out. Max cringe: especially from the 36:04 to 37:20 mark.

Really - "max cringe?" R60

[quote] She argues that he wouldn’t say that to Bob Dylan and LB gently argues back that Dylan writes in an abstract way and her song is literal and simple and ought to make sense. She looks about to have a tantrum but ends it saying That’s the poet I am! And LB’s gentle eye-roll…

She really compared herself to Dylan and called herself "a poet?" Poor Lindsay. Having to work with someone that egotistical must have been a tough burden to bear.

R62 You tried

[quote]Having to work with someone that egotistical must have been a tough burden to bear.

Buckingham has also been reputed to be insufferable to work with (and live with), so I'd say they deserved each other.

I think Lindsey loved Stevie more than she loved him. Nasty business, that.

Yeah, Stevie’s argument that she’s a poet was lame, but I can imagine years of Lindsey being a condescending prick have taken their toll. And he knew he was being filmed for the documentary, so he was likely being more diplomatic than usual.

I like the song they were arguing about - “Thrown Down”. One of Stevie’s better songs.

Nicks and Buckingham are voth pieces of work. But the fact is that she never would have had a career without him. Sucking his dick got her into Fleetwood Mac.

Fleetwood MASK 😂

Christine always had such a chilled out vibe. In retrospect it's kind of amazing that she managed to be in a band with all these drama queens for so long.

Was his wife the only lady he dated he didn't "snap" on and hit or choke, then? What a charmer.

Why dump on poor Lindsey? Why not move on to Don Henley or John Waite?

It's his thread, R71.

He was at his hottest in the Hold Me video. His archaeologist outfit was so sexy to me.

I think his melodies made Stevie's songs sound so good. She once had an interesting voice but without him we woudn't have known her.

R65, well Stevie did say that Lindsey blamed FM for the loss of her and if it wasn’t for fleetwood mac he believed they would have have been married and had kids.

and in this interview she added that Lindsey still believes it to this day .

Any sizemeat verificatia? cut or uncut?

Sad and creepy shit in those interviews at R75 and R76.

R66 I love that song

Is Stevie delusional about LB’s undying love or obsession with her? Or is that the case?

My impression: she envies/resents his musical abilities and arranging skills while he envies (or used to) her charisma and popularity.

But is his love for her undying??????

Considering how often he still brings her up to bitch about her, she may be right, r80.

Wow, lots of Lindsey haters here. I don't think Stevie is any sort of angel but I do think they both will always love each other, he got left and had to work with her, still- not fun. He got to watch her self destruct later. Pretty toxic stuff.

[quote] nd in this interview she added that Lindsey still believes it to this day .

She cannot stop reiterating that is was SHE who broke off the relationship and that he always resented FM for "taking her away" from him. In other words, she claims he never go over their breakup and never stopped pining for her. What an ego! As for Lindsay, he said in an interview that Stevie never liked the fact that he found someone, married, and had children and she never had that. They continually snipe at each other and blame each other.

I that Oprah Master Class interview Nicks says she made a decision long ago never to marry or have children becaause that would prevent her from being "the artist" she knew herself to be. But that's horseshit. IN an early article about FM in The Rolling Stone Nicks was quoted as saying she wanted "one or rwo children." As for marriage, she up and married her best friend's widower, which was totally crazy but they both thought it was a good idea at the time. Nicks is so full of shit.

Our recollections may vary...

R83 You seem obsessed

R80 here’s his take:

“I met the love of my life late and that gave me a whole other take on the world. Stevie did not have children,” he continued. “She went down a different route and has placed more importance on her professional life. How that played out in the last three, four, five years… It’s hard for me to know what her mentality is towards me, but I know what mine is to her because I’ve been married for 21 years and I have three children and it’s the best thing that ever happened to me.”

I love that Linds has a Joan Crawford poster proudly on display!

[quote] You seem obsessed

Just stating some facts. Does that cause you distress?

I’m mildly obsessed myself. The blend of albums of fantastic music, the collaborative relationships in the band, the rivalries……the way I feel when I look at pictures of young LB….the way I identify with kooky krazy Stevie…

If the door leading to the basement (IS there such a door? Or just a regular stairway?) was locked from the upstairs side, that would be an important clue.

Would suggest (2) a HIGH degree of familiarity with the house, (2) knowledge that basement girls lived there and were home, and (3) no intention of killing basement girls.

Wrong thread

R91 Highly likely