Lindsey Buckingham slams Neil Finn and the current state of Fleetwood Mac in an interview

A "cover band" is what Lindsey Buckingham has labelled the current Fleetwood Mac that is touring the world.

Earlier this year Lindsey Buckingham left the band after a falling out and was quickly replaced with our very own Neil Finn along with Mike Campbell from The Heartbreakers.

Lindsey has made it quite obvious what he thinks of the current band in a recent interview with Stereogum, where he explains how he had no idea that they were going on tour.

"It's a cover band kind of deal, and Stevie may be enjoying that, and that's fine. If she is happy doing that, there is no one outcome that I think is going to be okay."

Since the split, Buckingham has been able to come to a settlement with the band over the current tour.

"I'm not particularly disappointed not to be out on the road doing another Fleetwood Mac tour doing all those hits. What I am disappointed in is that we built this beautiful legacy that was about rising above all this kind of stuff. I feel that that legacy, in what the band is doing now, is being somewhat dishonoured, and that does bother me."

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Despite his distaste for what the band is currently doing, Buckingham revealed that re-joining the band may still be an option in the near future.

"Look, it's Fleetwood Mac. Anything's possible," he said. "Maybe they'll get it out of their system. If they ask me to come back, would I? Sure, because to me, I think the lack of a proper farewell tour, if that's what we're doing, that doesn't undercut, like I say, the legacy that we have so carefully built as the five of us, which they're not doing right now.

"The way I look at it, is it's giving me an opportunity to do some things in a more rapid-fire way with some new people who actually care about what I'm doing and not just about getting the money from Fleetwood Mac. Look, I mean it does make me question who these people are, but again, to look at it compassionately, I think it's all coming from a lack of perspective and to some degree a certain weakness on their parts. I can't stop loving them because of that."