Title: Tusk /
Authors: Trucks, Rob, 1961-
Publisher: Continuum,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Fleetwood Mac (Musical group).
Abstract: 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, a fusion of factors that led Tusk to become the first record in history to cross the million dollar threshold in production costs. "You know," Buckingham told me, "we had this ridiculous success with Rumours. And at some point, at least in my perception, the success of that detached from the music, and it was more about the phenomenon. We were poised to do another album, and I guess because the axiom Ìf 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.'"
Contents: 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, aka 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.