Nope, not the television show. It’s Lindsey Buckingham doing his own composition, and he sure can make a lot of noise with just a microphone and an acoustic guitar. I like this version far better than the one by Fleetwood Mac on Tango in the Night. I’ve always thought that Buckingham was underrated as a guitar player.
Big Love
August 13, 2011 • 11:59 am
That looks (and sounds) more like a classic guitar than an acoustic.
It is! Nylon string classical with electronic bridge pickup.
It’s a nylon string acoustic.
Well, technically, if it’s the Chet Atkins hybrid model, we would all be right.
That’s harder than it looks.
Just more proof that I’ve never done a post, however short, without an error. Thanks for the correction; I always thoguht classical guitars counted as acoustic guitars.
It’s a speciation thing.
+1!
I do like the Fleetwood Mac version though. It is a very good pop song and outshone the rest of the album, or so I thought. And yeah, Lindsey is one of the most underrated guitarists in pop music.
Actually, if you read the description, the guy took the audio from a live performance Lindsey did and made it the backing track, so technically, you aren’t watching him play it.
I totally concur. He’s an amazing guitar player and I’ve seen him do this live once solo and with Fleetwood Mac. He did it on SNL too in a sketch with Paul Simon. He missed a note and you can see Simon’s expression change which was classic.
Sort of rock/spanish guitar.
Superb. I must repost.
Classical guitars are acoustic guitars. I never did like the sound of pickups on nylon stringed guitars. They sound too “plucky”.
I concur. The tone is just too bouncy and like you said, plucky. I had a Breedlove nylon string for a time but sold it once I realized the significant difference between a classical/flamenco guitar and an acoustic that just happens to have nylon strings.
Oh! Someone agrees with me on that for once. That calls for booze!
Here’s another one…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpDblDia5TE
I don’t like that “plucky” sound.
Mr Buckingham has always been on my list of the greatest guitar players*. I freely admit that has a lot to do with the fact that he plays music I like.
His playing on Bleed to Love Her and Landslide from the same album is also superb. Not as a technical as this piece but still good.
Mike.
* Top of MY list is Mark Knopfler.
Both are finger-pickers!
Classical guitars are in fact a type of acoustic guitar. There’s a tendency to call steel-string acoustic guitars “acoustic” and called nylon-string acoustics “classical,” but it is technically correct to say that a classical guitar is a type of acoustic guitar.
Not a style we often hear from Buckingham. My respect has greatly increased.
The guitar playing is fantastic. One thing not mentioned is his voice. After so many years of performing it’s still strong and vibrant.
I so agree that he’s underrated. Saw him live in ’86 & he blew my mind; I’ve never seen a guitarist work so hard. The sweat was pouring off him in buckets.
Here’s another one. Oh Lord, save us from the “plucky” tinny sound that is (apparently) taking over everything. It’s ruining all the good songs.
I love how his technique is so obviously self-taught. He gets so much sound and expression out of so little. His recording of Go Insane from the same session is amazing.
I’ve always been riveted by Buckingham’s art. This brings back great memories of when I saw him with Fleetwood Mac in the 80s.
Love this song. As with many great songs. this is really a duet between human and instrument(s) (guitar in this case) in that it has its own melody and voice in the song and the true magic of the song is the interplay between them. Some of my favorites over the years include: Still Got The Blues (Gary Moore), Fantasy (EWF), To Love You More (Celine Dion), and many, many more.
Lindsay Buckingham is a guitar god, period. I’m a huge fan, have all the records (dating myself).
Nylon-string cutaway “classical” syle guitar. LB plays a wide variety of guitars. His main electric axe is a Rick Turner prototype. Rick (an independent (famous) luthier in CA). He eventually (many years later) starting producing a line of the guitar:
http://www.renaissanceguitars.com/model-1-guitar-mahogany.php
I love this performance! I like the studio version as well but I agree with Jerry – I prefer this one more. Lindsey is totally an underrated guitar player. If I had a top 20 I’d pop him in there somewhere. He has a fantastic picking style – I always wondered if he started on banjo. If memory serves, he also makes/made some of his guitars…
the guy has some seriously questionable musical output but, the first two records he released as solo efforts are worth the ear candy alone. a truly bizarre musician, in my opinion, even accounting for his more adult contemporary stuff (Out of the Cradle).
i saw him on his last tour. super interesting that the drummer played electric drums. i’m assuming for convenience’s sake but, still an odd choice that not most would do with rock music.
“great day” from his last record is so quirky. “the right place to fade” is another anthemic tune that’s every bit as brilliant as anything he did with Fleetwood Mac. however, TUSK is one of the most underrated albums ever released.
jerry’s passed the error buck to me.
edit:
“worth it for the ear candy alone.”
“that most would not do with rock music.”