The Same Old Dream

Lindsey Buckingham @ Town Hall 9/27/2011

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Lindsey Buckingham “In Our Own Time”

You can read my full review of this show over at Rolling Stone. Here are a few additional notes:

1) There is nothing at all ironic about my love of Lindsey Buckingham’s music, but I found that the overwhelming earnestness of the performance and the Boomers in the audience made me enjoy the show in a much more bemused way that I would have expected. It’s cute to watch awkward middle aged white folks dancing to songs from Rumours! I mean that sincerely.

2) You have never seen a band look more like a bunch of “cool” uncles than Lindsey Buckingham and his trio of sidemen.

3) At one point, Buckingham said that his drummer Walfredo Reyes Jr was one of his two favorite drummers, implying that the other is Mick Fleetwood. I am wondering if Buckingham considers “making the most ridiculous faces possible at all times” is a key part of being a great drummer. Because oh man…

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I wrote an entire week of Fluxblog entries about Lindsey Buckingham’s body of work earlier this year. Here are links to all of those posts in case you missed it:

• “The Ledge” / “It Was I”

• “Monday Morning” / “Hold Me”

• “What Makes You Think You’re the One?” / “Walk a Thin Line”

• “I Want You” / “Crying in the Night”

• “Second Hand News” / “Time Precious Time”