Lindsey Buckingham Rates ABBA, Alf, and Cocaine

[drumming]

Mickey Mouse is not overrated at all.

I don't know, I have a warm spot in my heart

for Mickey Mouse.

I think probably one of the reasons

I started to play guitar was because I used to watch

The Mickey Mouse Club when I was about five.

Jimmy, who was one of the adults on The Mickey Mouse Club

show, which was on five days a week in the afternoon,

played a guitar, he played a Mickey Mouse guitar.

And that was one of the things

that got me interested in guitar, and I actually got

a toy Mickey Mouse guitar and started to learn cords

on that, so maybe, indirectly,

Mickey Mouse is responsible for my becoming a guitarist.

[drum roll]

Alf, I didn't watch Alf.

[drum roll]

Cocaine, well you've got to remember I grew up,

I came up in a subculture in the 70s,

in which everyone was doing what they thought

they had to do to be creative,

and that turned out to be a complete myth.

And a lot of people got in trouble

for not knowing when to stop, a lot of people I know.

[drum roll]

The decade of the 80s, that's a tough one.

I'll tell you what, I think that the 80s were kind of

the decade in which the subculture

I was referring to earlier, hit the wall in the 80s,

where everyone was having to come to terms

with the fact that they were at a point where

they couldn't go on with that.

I don't know, I think it was just a time

for making a right turn.

[drum roll]

Oh ABBA, they're brilliant.

ABBA also has a perhaps an analogy going to Fleetwood Mac,

in the sense that there were two guys and two girls.

We had three guys and two girls, but it's the idea of

people who perhaps have been couples

somehow managing to function in a professional environment,

and making that work.

Sometimes it's a little bit to your detriment to do that,

it can be a kind of an exercise in compartmentalizing,

but, you know, I think the results can be transcendent,

as they were most of the time with Fleetwood Mac,

and as they certainly are with ABBA.

[drum roll]

I think it's a question of quantity,

you know, one drum solo per thousand musical gestures,

perhaps is okay, I think it's a question of

keeping it in check, a little bit goes a long way.

[drum roll]

String cheese.

Alf.

Does Alf eat string cheese, do you think?

I'll bet he does.

Does Alf do cocaine?

Maybe.

[drumming]