Peter Green's departure from Fleetwood Mac in 1970 left the band in a state of creative disarray. Preparing to record Fleetwood Mac's tenth album, Mick Fleetwood visited Sound City Studios in Los Angeles and was indirectly introduced to the talented Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. To showcase the studio's acoustics for Fleetwood, producer Keith Olsen gave Fleetwood a copy of Buckingham and Nick's self-titled debut album recorded at the Sound City Studios in the previous year. After listening to the album, Mick Fleetwood decided to not only record at the studio, but also to add Buckingham and Nicks to Fleetwood Mac's line-up. The addition of Lindsey Buckingham could arguably have been called an odd decision. Preferring folk music and finger-style picking, Buckingham played without a guitar pick. In order to compensate for his lack of "pick attack", Buckingham built a simple, yet effective, guitar rig that enabled him to produce the over-driven tones on "Rhiannon" from
Fleetwood Mac (1975) and "Go Your Own Way" from
Rumours (1977) and lead Fleetwood Mac to multi-platinum success in the ensuing years. If you enjoy Buckingham's tone as much as we do, here's the gear you're going to need:
- Effects Pedals:
- a Boss SD-1 Super OverDrive pedal;
- two Boss DD-5 Digital Delay pedals - the first DD-5 pedal for Buckingham's electric guitar pedalboard and used to generate a slap-back echo effect. The second DD-5 for his acoustic pedalboard;
- a custom A/B switch for actuating the electric and acoustic pedalboards; and
- two Voodoo Lab Pedal Power units for supplying power to each of the electric and acoustic pedalboards.
- Amplifiers:
- a Mesa/Boogie Three Channel Dual Rectifier with matching 4X12 Mesa/Boogie cabinet;
- a SWR California Blonde II acoustic amplifier; and
- a Trace Elliot TA40R Acoustic Amplifier.
- Electric Guitars:
- a Rick Turner Model 1 electric guitar;
- a Rick Turner Renaissance acoustic/electric guitar - heard on "Sweet Girl" from Fleetwood Mac's The Dance album;
- a 1963 Fender Stratocaster - tuned to open-D for "Over My Head" from Fleetwood Mac album; and
- a Martin D-18 acoustic guitar - used on the 1977 recording of "Landslide" from Fleetwood Mac.
Comments and corrections welcome.
7 comments:
I believe Lindsey now uses a Taylor 6 string amplified acoustic on Landslide and a variety of Turner RS and RN-6's on his acoustic numbers. He also uses a Deering Black Diamond 5 string long neck banjo on 'The Dance' version of "Say You Love Me."
If you look around you'll find many pictures of him using an Arctic white Les Paul custom back in 1977. Apparently he stated he used that a lot on stage and a strat in the studio for some songs.
Yeah, his Les Paul was a '68 Custom, with the pickup covers removed. Once he got the Turner in '79, however, he dumped using Les Pauls like a bad habit. He wasn't thrilled with them in the first place (he preferred Fender Telecasters at the time), pretty much being demanded to play one by Mick & John, as the Les Paul was considered by them to be "the Fleetwood Mac guitar". I'd say Lindsey's Turner Model 1 has now become the new "Fleetwood Mac guitar".
On recent solo tours, Lindsey's also used a Carruthers acoustic/electric on a few numbers
Does he use a Recto or a Road King. I saw a concert on PBS a couple of months ago and i could have sworn it was a Road King. I may be wrong tho.
I always imagined his pedal board would be much more complicated for some reason. Especially after seeing / hearing the dance. Fantastic guitar player regardless.
Lyndsey actually used a Mesa Tremoverb amps. 2 channels and much more organic sounding than a regular Recto.
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