“They just sounded right to me, better than anything else I had heard. “I tried several brands - all the usual suspects - then at one of the NAMM shows I stopped by the QSC booth, and I was really impressed,” Tuggle continues. We don’t want to color it, or if we do, we use the onboard effects in our instruments for that. We keyboard players want to hear our stuff back pretty real.
“Synths can produce a big bottom, and I wanted the midrange to be clear and the treble to have some sparkle,” he adds. “I really wanted to find the right speaker to reproduce all the frequencies keyboards are capable of. “I first became aware of QSC quite a few years back, when the powered speaker craze was beginning to get big,” Tuggle recalls. For an upcoming tour with guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, both he and Buckingham go with K10.2 powered loudspeakers from QSC.
Since the early ’90s, Tuggle has also held down the keyboard chair with Fleetwood Mac as well as its members’ many solo projects. The Los Angeles-based keyboardist and guitarist toured with Rick Springfield and David Lee Roth in the 1980s, co-writing Roth’s 1988 hit “Just Like Paradise.” He has also played with Jimmy Page, Steve Lukather of Toto, and David Coverdale of Whitesnake.
For my money, he’s the guy who made it all work.Brett Tuggle has been a student of the piano since age six. If Stevie Nicks was the airy, wispy enchantress, and Christine McVie the more grounded and world-wise songbird (and I’m a huge fan of both!), Lindsey was the barely controllable whirlwind at the center who held everything together while simultaneously striving to blow our expectations apart.
But what they cannot replicate is his deep soulfulness and his quirky, compelling, just-this-side-of-insane spirit. Now, I understand that there are valid (commercial) reasons why the group would take this step, and I have absolutely no doubt that the talented replacements who have been brought in to fill his shoes for the group’s upcoming tour-Neil Finn of Crowded House and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers-will be able to cover Buckingham’s vocal and instrumental parts. Buckingham wrote many of the band’s biggest hits, was the main musical arranger for the group, an excellent lead and harmony singer, a studio wizard who helped define their modern aesthetic, and also one of the more skilled and imaginative (and underrated) guitarists in rock. A few months ago, the group fired Lindsey Buckingham, who has been the creative driving force behind the group for more than 40 years.
This article is free to read, but it isn't free to produce! Make a pledge to support the site (and get special perks in return.)įleetwood Mac has survived more personnel changes and traumas through the years than almost any major band you can think of, but the latest may be the most devastating cut at all.