Fleetwood Mac's Tusk

by Rob Trucks

Overview

After Rumours became the best-selling single album of all-time, Fleetwood Mac asked Warner Brothers Records to buy them a studio (the label refused, costing both Warner Brothers and the band significant cash in the long run) and then handed the reins to their guitarist and resident perfectionist Lindsey Buckingham. “You know,” Buckingham said, “we had this ridiculous success with Rumours. We were poised to do another album, and I guess because the axiom 'If it works, run it into the ground' was prevalent then, we were probably poised to do Rumours II. I don't know how you do that, but somehow my light bulb that went off was, 'Let's just not do that. Let's very pointedly not do that.'”

Here, Rob Trucks talks to Lindsey Buckingham, as well as members of Animal Collective, Camper Van Beethoven, the New Pornographers, Wolf Parade, and the USC Trojan marching band in order to chart both the story and the impact of an album born of personal obsession and a stubborn unwillingness to compromise.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826429025
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/16/2010
Series:	33 1/3 Series , #77
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	1,100,940
Product dimensions:	4.70(w) x 6.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Rob Trucks lives and obsesses in Long Island City, New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Intro: The Warning Shot
Chapter One
What We Talk About When We Talk About Tusk Jonathan Segel of Camper Van Beethoven
Chapter Three
What We Talk About When We Talk About Tusk Walter Egan
Chapter Five
What We Talk About When We Talk About Tusk Kaki King
Chapter Seven
What We Talk About When We Talk About Tusk A.C. Newman of the New Pornographers
Chapter Nine
What We Talk About When We Talk About Tusk Gretchen Heffler of the USC Spirit of Troy marching band
Chapter Eleven
What We Talk About When We Talk About Tusk Dan Boeckner and Hadji Bakara of Wolf Parade
Chapter Thirteen
What We Talk About When We Talk About Tusk Dave Portner, a/k/a Avey Tare, of Animal Collective
Chapter Fifteen
What We Talk About When We Talk About Tusk Michael G of Tusk, a Fleetwood Mac tribute band
Chapter Seventeen

Editorial Reviews

[The] jourbanalistic revelations and general insight add yet more layers to the double album's controversial standing.” —The Austin Chronicle

“Trucks doesn't spend much time analyzing songs; the book is a tribute to the auteur spirit ... Readers may skim Trucks' long digressions into his own autobiography, which is too bad because they contain some interesting anecdotes, especially regarding the popularity of the Buckingham Nicks album in the author's native Alabama. The real draw of the book, however, are interpolated testimonials from indie rockers such as Camper Van Beethoven's Jonathan Segel and Dave Portner of Animal Collective.” —Kirk Curbanutt, Paste Magazine

From the Publisher

Trucks doesn't spend much time analyzing songs; the book is a tribute to the auteur spirit ... Readers may skim Trucks' long digressions into his own autobiography, which is too bad because they contain some interesting anecdotes, especially regarding the popularity of the Buckingham Nicks album in the author's native Alabama. The real draw of the book, however, are interpolated testimonials from indie rockers such as Camper Van Beethoven's Jonathan Segel and Dave Portner of Animal Collective.

Paste Magazine - Kirk Curnutt

[The] journalistic revelations and general insight add yet more layers to the double album's controversial standing.

The Austin Chronicle