Lindsey Buckingham is Back in the Studio with Mick Fleetwood
Lindsey Buckingham was back in the studio with Mick Fleetwood in February.
This interesting development came via producer Carl Falk on Threads. Falk shared a photo of himself sitting with Buckingham and Fleetwood in a studio space. He captioned the photo, “Slightly unreal moment to sit with Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood to play Lindsey the album we have been working on. And to see his genuine happiness for Mick to finally do his own album and offering to play guitar and to sing on it. Can’t wait to finish this one.”
Falk didn’t offer any specific details about Buckingham’s contribution, but on March 16, he shared another photo. This time, it was Buckingham sitting in an office chair with a guitar. He captioned the photo, Mick and Lindsey together again, what a flawless guitar player.”
The Whole Lindsey Buckingham Situation Within Fleetwood Mac
Buckingham was famously ousted from Fleetwood Mac in 2018. He told Rolling Stone in October 2018 he was fired from Fleetwood Mac after Nicks allegedly gave the band a “him or me” ultimatum following the band being honored at the MusiCares Person of the Year gala in January 2018 where she was not pleased with some of Buckingham’s behavior. There was also an issue within the band regarding the start of Fleetwood Mac’s current tour. The band wanted to start in August, while Buckingham wanted to start in November to give him time to promote and tour in support of a solo album.
Nicks first spoke publicly about Buckingham’s firing from Fleetwood Mac in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. Nicks said of Buckingham’s firing, “I never planned for that to happen. Any time we re-formed to do a tour or a record, I always walked in with hope in my heart. And I just was so disappointed. I felt like all the wind had gone out of my sails.” (The Los Angeles Times noted, “Nicks is reluctant to discuss the details of that night, though she admits it was the ‘straw that broke the camel’s back.'”)
Meanwhile, Buckingham and Fleetwood have been on friendly terms in recent years. The two were spotted together at Steven Tyler’s Grammy Award viewing party in February. At that party, Fleetwood told US Magazine, “I always have a fantasy that [Stevie] and Lindsay would pal up a bit more and just say everything’s OK for them both.”
However, it seems as though Fleetwood just wants his friends to be friends again, because even he thinks that Fleetwood Mac is over following the death of Christine McVie in 2022. He also told US Magazine that he agrees with Nicks’ previous statements that without McVie, Fleetwood Mac “just couldn’t work.”
