“You do hear some players who just tend to play on top of a song and not inside it,” he says. Though he has the chops, Buckingham is much more interested in serving the song than showing off.
Close to hand were his trusty ’62 Fender Stratocaster, DI’d straight into the reel-to-reel, and a Martin D-18.
In a similar fashion, Buckingham’s new self-titled solo album, his first for a decade, was recorded in his modest home studio on a Sony 48-track tape recorder. It’s about limitations? Well, that’s what I try to tell myself!” “I guess I’m getting all this stuff done in my own way. “It’s not what you got, it’s what you do with what you got,” he explains. Yet the guitarist’s ambivalence to these in-storage treasures isn’t the jaded response of a man who can afford anything – rather, Buckingham’s always been a guitarist happy with a sparse set of tools, who makes magic with technique more than gear. It turns out that Buckingham’s stash also includes a rare Alembic 12-string, a 60s Gibson J-200 and an Epiphone Airscreamer, built to resemble an Airstream trailer, according to his long-time tech Stanley Lamendola. I haven’t even seen it for years, but I know it’s there!” I think probably the most valuable guitar I have there is a ’59 Les Paul. I don’t have a collection for the sake of a collection – it’s just something that I ended up with for some reason. “Oh, good question,” he says, on the phone from his home in California.
READ MORE: “Where else are you going to wear a 50-foot cape except when opening for Prince?”: Andy McKee on playing with the Purple One.There’s little point asking Buckingham himself what’s in there, though. Somewhere in Los Angeles, there’s a warehouse – probably climate-controlled, certainly high-security – that houses some of Lindsey Buckingham’s rarer guitars.
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