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:	9781441183637
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/16/2010
Series:	33 1/3 Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	2 MB

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] journalistic 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 Curnutt, 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