Buckingham Nicks - remember them?

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I’ve just been listening to their first (self-titled) solo album, on brand new vinyl. Wow what a blast from the past! For those who don’t remember Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, this was the album that got them the gig as members of Fleetwood Mac, who they helped to propel to the upper reaches of the album charts where that band has remained ever since.

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I had a copy (on vinyl of course) back in the 80s - to my shame and regret it went to Oxfam along with all my other albums when I left for Turks & Caicos in 2003.

So it’s probably almost 25 years since I’ve listened to it. The album was out of print for many years, but was re-released by Rhino Records just last Friday - I got an email about it from Juno Records and pounced. :slight_smile:

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Fantastic sound in all its analog glory - OK it’s been through a digital remaster before going back on to vinyl, but it still sounds terrific - and back in the Olden Days they had to sing on pitch and play in time - no fixing vocal wobbles with Autotune or tempo correction in a DAW. It was originally released in 1973 which is an astonishing fifty-two years ago…

I like a lot of modern electronic music (Yello, William Orbit, Kebu, Chicane) but there’s something about real people playing real instruments while wearing bell-bottom jeans and excessively fuzzy haircuts that tweaks my nostalgia bone. :smiley:

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Where it all started …

They were just a record store and had Wild Man Fischer record this just as a promo for the store. It was their first record release.

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Interesting - thank you! :smiley:

A touch of Autotune might not go amiss for that gentleman though… :smiley: What a character.

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He had schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and manic depression. What a combination. It truly made him the person he was.

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I’ve just been listening to this one:

We might well listen to the album tonight (streamed, of course).

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ah yes, there you go… Last track on side 2 on the round vinylly thing.

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Available on Apple Music (and presumably Spotify) and played through my 1950s antique radio converted to Bluetooth. Thanks for reminding us of its existence.

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Bit before my time when they started out. I’m afraid my early 70’s were a mix of school and the likes of Gary Glitter, Bay City Rollers until I discovered Black Sabbath and heavy metal and my OH.

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Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac (inc Christine Perfect) should have been renamed after Peter’s leaving. (imho of course),

Stevie’s major contribution as a chiffon scarf waver helped the new look FM achieve financial success but ruined the original concept.

But I agree that SN and LB provided the money to put a lot of powder up the collective noses.

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Perhaps for purist fans of the OG more blues-based Fleetwood Mac that is so, but as a more mainstream hit-making machine you can’t deny their success.

All bands evolve. For example Pink Floyd, whose later meanderings are a million miles away from their early Syd-era psychedelic stuff.

It’s not always a bad thing, just different.

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The original concept has been ruined for all not just the “purist”. The advent of B and N completely changed Peter Green’s band.

Sadly or otherwise I am one of those who believes that original cannot be redrawn.

Hope your weather is better than here in the N Lot

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Heavens! That’s a bit harsh. I love their later development, so please count me out from the “all”.

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I have always thought that the general view was that the direction of the band changed with the release and chart success of Albatross.

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Sorry, not meant to be. All I mean is that the original concept has gone notwithstanding the fact that some may like later versions.

RIP Peter Greenbaum
Christine Perfect

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Albatross was their first number one (written by Peter Green) in 1968 only a year after they started. It came before other iconic Peter Green tracks such as Oh Well and Green Manalishi. Many people do assume it was much later.

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