![]() Apr 9, 2018 - Lindsey Buckingham, guitarist and songwriter extraordinaire, has left the. Buckingham has been a key member of Fleetwood Mac, playing with the. News of the exit was first shared by guitarist Billy Burnette, who tweeted. The Chain - Fleetwood Mac. When the Saints Go Marching In. Iggy Pop - The Passenger. The Beatles - Let It Be. Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon. This video shows you how to play The Chain by Fleetwood Mac. A classic song in its own right, it is also used as the Formula 1 Theme Tune on UK TV! Tony Sauro Record Staff Writer @TSauroRecord During its 50-year history, the Fleetwood Mac lineup has included 12 guitar players. Lindsey Buckingham no longer is one of them. The guy who helped elevate the group to mega-success 43 years ago was “fired” prior to the band’s current tour. So, Mike Campbell, who played with the late Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers, and Neil Finn, co-founder of Australia’s Crowded House, are Buckingham’s successors as Fleetwood Mac performs Friday at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento and Sunday at Oracle Arena in Oakland. Coincidentally, Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac recently released impressive three-CD career retrospectives. Change and melodrama long have been Fleetwood Mac norms. “I don’t think there was just cause to be fired,” Buckingham, who’s suing the band over his dismissal, said in Rolling Stone magazine. “All of us have worn on each other’s psyches. That’s the history of the group.” Drummer Mick Fleetwood — along with bassist John McVie a co-founding member and group namesake — acknowledges the band’s change-is-good history in the liner notes of “50 Years: Don’t Stop,” released on Nov. 16: “The through line can get a little confusing to people who love Fleetwood Mac. Sometimes it even can get a little confusing for the people in Fleetwood Mac.” The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band — which has sold 100 million albums since 1968 — formed in 1967 as a basic British blues-rock group, evolving into a pop-rock colossus by 1977. Fleetwood, 71, and McVie, 72, have provided the rhythmic pulse all the way. The guitar alma mater includes co-founder Peter Green, one of blues-rock’s guitar-playing giants who left in 1970; Jeremy Spencer; Danny Kirwan; Bob Welch; Dave Mason; and Billy Burnette, among others. Christine Perfect-McVie, 75, who sings, plays keyboards and writes songs, joined in 1970 and has been the nucleus with Fleetwood and McVie, her ex-husband. That band’s legacy and artistic adaptability are documented by the three hours of music on the 50-track “Don’t Stop,” the group’s first career-spanning collection. One disc is devoted to the Fleetwood Mac that existed, in various incarnations, prior to Buckingham and Stevie Nicks’ arrival in 1974. Contrasting with the group’s eventual pop-rock power, its genesis as a basic British blues-rock band is evident during a gritty version of Elmore James’ “Shake Your Moneymaker” (1968), the slinking “Rattlesnake Shake” (1969) and strutting “Station Man” (1971). Prior to the addition of Buckingham, a singer, songwriter, arranger and producer who’s now 69, and singer-songwriter Nicks, also 69, Fleetwood Mac’s music — from hard blues to springy pop-rock — never made it to the American top 40. Carlos Santana helped, though, by turning Green’s “Black Magic Woman” — recorded by Fleetwood Mac in 1968 — into a No. Green’s hard-driving “Oh, Well, Pt. ![]() 1” (1969) and Kirwan’s Buddy Holly-inspired “Tell Me All the Things You Do” (1970) remain especially memorable. “Sentimental Lady,” which became a No. 8 single for Welch in 1977, is included in its equally catchy, no-hit, Fleetwood Mac version (1972). Infamously, it was during Welch’s tenure that Stockton police tear-gassed the crowd while Fleetwood Mac played at an April 29, 1973, concert in Billy Hebert Field. The resulting riot led to 50 arrests, 108 injuries and a decades-long ban on big-name outdoor rock shows in Stockton. The bulk of “50 years” is devoted to the Buckingham-Nicks ascent and in-and-out alignments that ensued in the 1980s: Five slightly-altered single versions are included, among them McVie’s “Over My Head” and “Say You Love Me” (both from 1975) and Nicks’ “Rhiannon” (1976), the only No.
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