Christine McVie later said of the band’s expenditures: Recording Tusk was quite absurd, The studio contract rider for refreshments was like a telephone directory. With an ever-inflating budget, the band paid for a 112-piece marching band, food, champagne, and enough cocaine to cover the North Pole.
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Once the deal was made, that was the last time anyone from Fleetwood Mac spoke to a label representative for a year.
However, the label did pay to refit Studio D at The Village Recorder to the band’s specifications in exchange for the “Tusk” master tapes. that they front the band the money to buy their own studio that didn’t happen. Enter: Mick Fleetwood, famous gadabout, de facto band manager, and the one person who shouldn’t be in charge of a band’s finances.įleetwood suggested to Warner Bros. Some time near the conclusion of the band’s never-ending tour in support of “Rumours” Lindsay Buckingham had an idea for the album follow up, his grand artistic statement, but he needed a big budget to match the sounds in his head and the band’s hedonistic appetite. The fractured and often confounding Tusk has aged better than records by the band’s contemporaries who played it safe (throw a dart at the ‘70s to find one of these bands), but even 40 years later it’s not a record that makes for an easy first listen. There was no thought of recreating the success of Rumours, the 1977 diamond selling album that bonds generations, but why go into the studio if you’re not going to create something meaningful? At the helm of the album guitarist, producer, and head agitator Lindsay Buckingham led the band to stretch themselves musically, sometimes for the best, but often in ways that only serve as experiments for sake of going to the lab. Conceived as a kind of “anti- Rumours” the album is chaotic and disjointed, finding its band members working in the familiar territory of chaotic heartbreak but without the need for success. Fleetwood Mac’s 1979 double LP Tusk was called ambitious, ragged, “gleeful and elusive,” fragmented, sprawling, “over-egged pudding,” and worse.
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