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Buckingham Nicks: The Album, Demos, LiveFleetwood Mac: Concerts [.mp3]Fleetwood Mac: Concerts [.mp4]Fleetwood Mac: Documentaries+ Behind the Music: Lindsey [x][x][x][x][x]+ Classic Albums (Rumours)+ Destiny Rules+ Fleetwood Mac: Don't Stop+ VH1 All Access [x][x][x]Stevie Nicks: Concerts [.mp4]Lindsey Buckingham: Concerts [.mp4] 1973 studio album by Buckingham Nicks (Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham)Buckingham NicksStudio album by Buckingham Nicks (Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham)ReleasedSeptember 5, 1973Recorded1973StudioSound City Studios, Los Angeles, CaliforniaGenreRockLength36:42LabelAnthem/PolydorQuality (Canada)ProducerKeith OlsenBuckingham Nicks (Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham) chronology Buckingham Nicks(1973) Fleetwood Mac(1975) Professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllmusic[1]Pitchfork8.4/10[2] Buckingham Nicks is the only studio album by the American rock duo Buckingham Nicks. Produced by Keith Olsen, the album was released in September 1973 by Polydor Records. The Buckingham Knicks are notable as an early commercial collaboration between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, both of whom later joined Fleetwood Mac. The album was a commercial failure on its initial release, and despite the duo's subsequent success, it has yet to be commercially remastered or re-released digitally. The background before the recording of the album Buckingham Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks performed together in the band The Fritz Rabyne Memorial Band. The pair met while the two were attending Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton, California, south of San Francisco. At the time, The Knicks were in high school, and Buckingham, a year younger than her, was a junior. According to The Knicks, they first met at a random Meeting of Young Life in 1966. Nix and Buckingham found themselves harmonizing with what some accounts claim was the Beach Boys song, although Nix herself claims they sang California Dreamin, the hit single The Mamas and Papas, in an interview she gave with a source in 1981. However, the Knicks and Buckingham did not cooperate for another two years. In 1968, Buckingham invited Nix to play Fritz, a band for which he played bass with his high school friends. Nix talks about joining Fritz in an interview with Us Magazine since 1988: I met Lindsay when I was a senior in high school and he was a junior, and we sang the song together at some after-school functions. Two years later, in 1968, he called me and asked if I wanted to be in a rock 'n' roll band. I played guitar and sang pretty much completely folk stuff. So I joined the band, and within a few weeks we were opening up for a really big show: Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin. All suddenly I was in rock 'n' roll. Although Nix and Buckingham never performed their own original music while in Fritz, the band provided them with an opportunity to gain experience on stage, performing in front of a crowd, opening up to wildly successful rock and roll artists. Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, Janice Joplin of Big Brother and Holding Company and Jimi Hendrix, for whom Fritz also opened, would all be influential on Nix and her evolving stage persona. The band's manager, David Forrester, worked hard to secure a recording contract for Fritz, though their sound was not quite appropriate with the tighter, psychedelic music of their more popular contemporaries. The pair continued to perform with Fritz for three years until the band finally disbanded in 1971. After developing a romantic relationship in addition to their working partnership, Nix and Buckingham decided shortly thereafter to move from San Francisco to Los Angeles to pursue their dreams of being signed. Recording and staging during a performance with Fritz, The Knicks studied at San Jose State University, studying speech communication. Buckingham joined her in college, also managing to balance school and music. In 1972, they continued to write songs, recording demo tapes at night in the Daily City on a blackened four-way Ampex Buckingham tape recorder, which was stored on a coffee roast belonging to his father. They decided to drop out of college and move to Los Angeles to make a record deal. Taking the Ampex tape recorder with them, they continued to record the songs. Nix worked several jobs as a hostess at Bob's Big Boy, as a waitress at Clementine's 16.17 and as a cleaner for her producer Keith Olsen to support herself and Buckingham financially; They decided that it was better for him not to work and instead focus on honing his guitar technique. Soon, Nix and Buckingham met with engineer and producer Keith Olsen, as well as casual entrepreneurs Ted Fagan and Lee LaZeff. Buckingham and the Knicks played their music for them, and they were all impressed with what they heard. Shortly thereafter, LaSeffe managed to secure a distribution deal with Polydor. Nix discusses this series of events in an interview with The Island Ear in 1994: We had some great demos. We went shopping around. For a certain time we made a deal with Polydor and made our first album, Buckingham Nicks. We had a taste of the big time. We had great musicians in a big, big studio. We were happening. Everything was our way. But up until that point I was thinking of quitting it all and going back to school because I was sick of being miserable and I hate being poor. Waddi Wachtel was one of the musicians hired to help record the album. He discusses his with producer Keith Olsen, and his relationship with the Knicks and Buckingham on his website: So Kate and I started working together. It was in '68, '69, probably. And that -- since then -- that's when things started to happen. That's where Keith (Olsen) one day came in and said, I'm bringing this couple from Northern California, named Stevie and Lindsey. And I want you to play on their record. I played on the Buckingham Nix tape. We in the three of us became very close, close friends. We've always been together. In 1973, the Knicks spent $111 ($639 in 2019) on a white blouse, but photographer Jimmy Wachtel and Buckingham forced the Knicks to take off the top while shooting the cover. I cried when we took this picture. And Lindsay was mad at me. He said, you know, you're just a kid. It's art, and I say: It's not art. I'm the one taking a nude photo with me, and I'm not digging it. I thought, Who are you? Don't you know me? I couldn't breathe. But I did it because I felt like a rat trapped. Despite their efforts, the Buckingham Knicks were virtually ignored by Polydor Records' advertising staff. However, thanks to the play of several disc jockeys in Birmingham, Alabama, the album received a well-received exposure during the progressive rock evening WJLN-FM, and the duo managed to cultivate a relatively small and concentrated fan base in this market. But, in other parts of the country, the album was not commercially successful and was soon removed from the label's catalog. They were run by Martin Picinson, but frustrated, The Knicks and Buckingham spent much of the rest of 1973, continuing to work outside the music industry to pay rent. Picinson released them from the management contract. However, as the story proved, soon their music fell on their right ears: Mick Fleetwood, appreciating the recording studio, heard how Frozen Love played through the studio monitors in Keith Olsen's Sound City, and later, at El Carmen, a Mexican restaurant, Buckingham met with Fleetwood and Christine and John McVie, with Nix joining after her Clementine waitress. Tour Nicks and Buckingham toured the same year to promote Buckingham Nicks in the American South. On the Internet there were recordings from two concerts in Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alabama. These tours featured early performances of Rhiannon, The Sorcerer and Monday Morning, as well as Lola (My Love), Frozen Love and Don't Let Me Down Again. The band's tour consisted of bassist Tom Moncrieff, who later played bass on Nix's first solo album Bella Donna, and drummer Gary Hodges, who played drums on the album. Waddi Wachtel also toured with the band. Moncrieff and Hodges later formed the Sinai 48 band with a new singer and songwriter duo in 2006, marking the first reunion of any Buckingham members of Nicks besides the ongoing buckingham and Nicks collaboration. Prospects to re-borrow Despite the international success that the Knicks and Buckingham later achieved, the Buckingham Knicks were never officially released on CD. Since then it has been a widely bootleg, including one bootleg copy called Buckingham Nix: Deluxe Edition from Korea. This version adds 12 additional tracks that were recorded by Buckingham Nicks around the same period as the Buckingham Nicks album, but were not included in the album, possibly due to time constraints on vinyl. A copy of this album purportedly taken from the main tapes (as opposed to a copy taken from vinyl) also surfaced on the Internet. Two of the album's ten songs were released on CD. Long Distance Winner was released as part of Nicks' Enchanted box set, and Stephanie appeared on a promotional release only on a CD from Buckingham called Words and Music (Retrospective), although it was from a vinyl show. Another song from the album, Crystal, was recorded by fleetwood Mac for the band's breakthrough 1975 album Fleetwood Mac, and was recorded by Nix herself for the soundtrack to the 1998 film Practical Magic.