Fleetwood Mac has announced a new tour kicking off in October, but the group’s former lead guitarist, Lindsey Buckingham, won’t be part of it.
The group, which made the announcement Wednesday morning about the tour that launches in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the fall, has sold more than 100 million records in its 50-year-plus existence.
Turmoil has always existed among its members, but things came to head in January, Mick Fleetwood told CBS News. Tensions stemmed from Buckingham’s refusal to sign off on a tour that had been a year-and-a-half in the making.
"It became just a huge impasse and hit a brick wall, where we decided that we had to part company," Fleetwood said.
Vocalist Stevie Nicks supported the decision.
"This team wanted to get out on the road. And one of the members did not want to get out on the road for a year," Nicks said. "We just couldn't agree. And you know, when you're in a band, it's a team. I mean I have a solo career, and I love my solo career, and I'm the boss. Absolutely. But I'm not the boss in this band."
New Fleetwood Mac members include lead guitarist Mike Campbell and vocalist Neil Finn.
"Both these gentlemen have a legacy of their own," drummer Fleetwood told CBS. “They don't need to have a calling card. They are who they are in their own right.”
Campbell is the former lead guitarist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Finn, the frontman for Crowded House.
The addition of the two new members represents a rebirth for the group.
"So it's effectively a new band?" CBS News correspondent Anthony Mason asked.
"This is absolutely a new band," Fleetwood responded. "This is the new lineup of Fleetwood Mac."
Both Campbell and Finn are taking this seriously and not thinking of this as a temporary situation.
"I'm making this my priority until whenever, you know. We'll see what happens," Campbell said.
Twitter users had mixed reactions to a Fleetwood Mac tour without Buckingham.
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