Yet "Big Love," Buckingham says, is "the springboard for the whole psychology that led to the kind of thinking that was going on when I was making Under the Skin. It's weird. This whole line that goes all the way back to leaving the band and the very long-term effect, I guess."
"There's something there that needs to get out," he says of Skin. "There's something unfinished. Whether that's abnormal for someone my age, I don't know. It would be a lot easier to define myself as something simpler as a father, as a husband and to not make the time sacrifices that I'm making to do this. But you know, it's just something that's been a long time coming."
For now, Lindsey Buckingham sits in a chair in the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton in New York. Behind him is a much-celebrated legacy of recorded music. In front of him are several weeks of playing to crowds smaller than Fleetwood Mac's most intimate gatherings. But Lindsey Buckingham seems happy, if not quite content. Which for, you know, an artist may be as good as it gets.
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