Buckingham Bails, Blames Sound System

As a member of Fleetwood Mac during its 70s and 80s heyday, Lindsey Buckingham enjoyed the star status that attaches to selling millions of albums and filling large concert venues throughout the world.

As a solo artist promoting his latest solo album in 2007, Buckingham is playing venues like the Rococo Theater in Lincoln, Nebraska. Oh, but wait. It seems that after throwing a hissy fit over the Rococo's sound system, Buckingham stormed out of the Rococo an hour before ticket holders arrived.

Presumably, the ensuing verbal battle between the Buckingham camp and the Rococo camp holds some clue as to what actually happened.

Buckingham's Web site: "The venue has its own in-house sound system but today, when Lindsey’s sound engineers assessed the quality of this system, they determined it to not be adequate for Lindsey’s show to be properly presented."

Rococo Director of Events Pam Gregorios: "Rococo staff and management were put off by his diva-like behavior in declaring our beautiful facility a "****ing ****hole" and wondered if he always felt it necessary to be so rude to people who are simply trying to put on a good show."

Oh, well. You know what they say. Divas will be divas. The 600 ticket holders got refunds.

^{Lindsey Buckingham (third from left) during Fleetwood Mac's 2003 reunion tour. Photo by Neal Preston, courtesy Warner Brothers Records}