TWISTED INSANE TOUR DATES MAC
“Fleetwood Mac is this big machine, and my solo endeavors are this smaller machine,” Buckingham said. Those lessons have carried him forward since returning to solo work. What happens is that you begin to understand that, and accept it as a gift.”
There was a synergy there, where the whole became more than the sum of its parts. But yet that was the very thing that made us so effective. “When you find yourself in that kind of position,” Buckingham added, “you’re poised to make a choice: You’re either going to follow through with the expectations that are now being imposed on you from the external world, or you try to undermine that and try to remember who you are as a musician, as an artist, and a writer – and why you got into this in the first first place.”īuckingham says that after leaving Fleetwood Mac, he realized that “we were the kind of group who didn’t – on paper – belong in the same group together. Rumours was such a huge success commercially that it became more about the subtext, our personal lives, rather than the music. “I think searching for change is engrained in me,” he said, “but … I think the idea of taking chances, trying to seek things outside your comfort zone, and the aspiration to keep being an artist, came from the time of Rumours and Tusk.