Lindsey Buckingham

Photon,

Agree that the acoutic stuff shows off his right hand. I'd add that the electric stuff reveals an active left side as well! Absolutely love both, so far this cd continues to amaze me.

Drubin,

The first track may scare you - his voice is, well, ...you know. But try to ignore it and listen to that gitar playin' behind him! I suspect that LB doesn't really like the sound of his own voice - maybe he still misses having Stevie do the singing. To my ear, the instrumental tracks sound much better than the vocals. As I noted in my first post, at least he brings his guitars forward in the mix on this one which was - for me - an issue on the otherwise excellent and underappreciated last release form Fleetwood Mac "Say You Will".

Marty

Floyd,

I'm a bit surprised by the "no bass" cmment. I just listened again - loud - and that didn't really strike me as an issue. Some of the multi tracked guitars (starting with track one) are dramatically recorded. The vocal tracks vary all over, from unremarkable to pretty awful. LB's preferred sound can be a bit "splashy" and forward through the presence region and this one is no exception. I've also had some tracking issues. In all, the sound quality of this realease strikes me as "up and down", but I wouldn't argue with anyone who says more "down" than "up".

OTOH, the music and playing is IMHO spectacular and I'm starting to believe that this cd ranks with the very best (of the 3,000 or so) pop records that I own.

Marty

Arkio,

IMHO "Cradle" was more typical of Buckingham - some great songs, some that don't work. As always, his playing is compelling. I agree that "Cradle" has some great sounding passages, too. OTOH, "Screws" is - again just IMHO - brilliant from the first note through the 8th song. The last 2 tracks are also very good, just not up to the first 8. No shot at "Cradle", but I feel that "Screws" is about the best new R&R record I've heard this millenium. The again, it hasn't been a great millenium for RnR.

Marty

Ulf,

I don't play music DVDs by habit, but I'm in the midst of this Lindsey Buckingham infatuation so I took your advice and bought the Bass Hall dvd. Gadzooks! The performance is almost unbelievable - is there anything left of that guy's right hand after a show? - and the sound/picture quality produced the kind of "impact" that really approaches a live show.

I have my listening room and my wife has her movie room. I usurped her territory last night and was really surprised by how good it sounded. I bought her decent stuff, but didn't overdo it because I knew she didn't care about nuance. So good speakers (Vienna) and mid fi electronics (Sony) it was.

I've seen many dvds in there before, but I kind of disconnect my critical listening when I walk in. Very nice to learn that I didn't have to.

I don't have a ton of context, because (as I noted), music dvds aren't my thing, but this one blew me away.

Marty