Never Going Back Again by Fleetwood Mac

And this is a perfect example. He sure has a way with the Travis-style picking.

tell them to try playing it! i can't.

ROCKISTS, all o' ya.

"Second Hand News" wasn't a single? I'll be damned. Anyway, that and "Never Going Back" are completely flawless in design and execution.

I rented it because I thought that there would be more archival footage from '75. Instead, it consisted mostly of the members of Fleetwood Mac sitting around a soundboard, hitting the solo button to bring up certain things in the mix. That was pretty cool, I guess, but I wanted to see more Stevie.

Speaking of which, my heart just breaks for her now. I've seen enough rock and roll stars on television talking about how bad drugs are (please shut the fuck up now, Mr. Steven Tyler), but when Nicks starts talking about how drugs can destroy your life, she has this very sad look in her eye that tells you that she really means it. I also wasn't aware that she had never married or had children. That doesn't mean that her life has been for naught, but you could tell that just maybe she would've done things a little differently.

Speaking of those solo buttons, there's a scene with Lindsey Buckingham dissecting "Gold Dust Button", isolating certain tracks one by one. Here's a little percussion from Mick. There's a low organ from Christine. Buckingham brings up a couple of his accoustic guitars one by one. And then he hits one background track where it's just Stevie, mixed way down low, shivering and making this wrenching, cold and desparate moan.

Buckingham blows it off and says, "There's Stevie with a little angst there," and moves on to the next track.

And yes, "Second Hand News" is on the short list for the prize of "Great Pop Song Ever Written." They did both that and "Never Goin' Back Again" on their last tour and both were surprisingly incredible on stage, even with the truncated n bored line-up.

No, Buckingham isn't underrated as a guitarist. As an overall writing/producing/palying/arranging genius, yes (just imagine "Dreams" arranged by Stevie herself--yuck) but not as a guitarist.

Stumbled onto Lindsay doing SOUNDSTAGE on PBS last night.

oh wow oh wow. His guitar playing was amazing. Stevie came out for three songs or so. They did "Never Going Back Again" and it was fucking magical.

Lindsey always seems to have dismissive contempt for Stevie in all the interviews I've seen

dude, you should have seen the way they looked at each other last night, it was incredible.