Stevie on Tusk, April 1980
 

We had been talking about Stevie's NTF comments. Here is what she said about other songs in that same interview.


"If Lindsey had his way we'd be back to the garage anyway with nothing but garbage cans and worse yet full of garbage and four track recorders so he's very in to that [the Clash sound]. I personally, myself, don't want to go back and use garbage cans. I personally like the new recording technique cause I like to sound good and I like to sit and listen to it so I'm not really into it. But I like some of ths stuff that some of those new bands are doing and long as it sounds like funky old rock and roll, I like it. As soon as it starts to sound like Mars I don't like it."


"A lot of the new music I don't understand, because I write country songs and love songs and miserable ballads and I don't understand sci-fi music and I don't want to understand it. Because if I want to have somebody over and I want to put some wonderful music on, I am not going to put on Devo. Because it is not my kind of evening. Velvet is out and yellow plastic suits are in and I don't have any."


The Ledge: "I can't even explain it to you. He recorded it in his kitchen. A lot of his stuff was recorded in the kitchen. But he wanted to do his thing and he did it. But its very interesting and its good. I love it. It took me awhile to understand it and I know him well, but now I understand it and its real different."


What Makes You Think You're the One: "It was so raucous that the first time I listened to it, I just sat there in the studio going 'I wasn't on it, I wasn't there, I didn't sing on it, I don't know the song, I don't understand the words, I don't understand the music, and yet its going to be on my album'. It was very strange."

Tusk's Reception: "This time people are going to say a lot of great things and a lot of ****ty things. He wanted to be alone. He wanted to do his vocals alone. He didn't want any of us gawking through the window at him or me dancing in the background or twirling my baton. He just put a big note on the door saying 'Out' and he would call you if he needed your services."

That's Enough for Me: "It has been that's enough for me all through the album. I like it now, its raucous too. Christine hates it. She will very laughingly look Lindsey straight in the eyes and say, 'I hate that song' and we all just die laughing because Christine can say it. She's the one person that can walk in and say 'You look so bad today, you should go home' and you won't feel bad, you'll just go home and change and come back. But she can do it. She is the one person that go up to any of us and tell us that she thinks that we are doing is totally out of base. Christine has accepted it. She says she will have nothing to do with it on stage. We'll all go have a drink."

"We decided one time we were going to pick a billboard out and put 'we Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie have nothing to do with the following songs on Tusk.' And then also in parenthesis, 'We also do not like the name Tusk in the album.' We thought it was very much like hardcore!"

Thanks! Love her comments on how she and Chris wanted nothing to do with Tusk. :laugh: Could imagine Lindsey calling them for "room service".

Do you happen to have a link to the entire thing>

These are fantastic!!! :laugh:

Thanks Michele!

i always loved this quote. considering how clear and literal those lyrics are, either she was completely out-of-it high, or she was playing dumb. but that tells you how believable SN's explanations of LB's song lyrics are. :laugh:

This cool Tusk photo just appeared on facebook yesterday:

If I were Lindsey and knew that to be true,
I'd make sure that song was in the setlist
when Christine attends one of the upcoming
shows.

I hope he does! I rarely have a good excuse for a bathroom break at their gigs...

you don't like That's Enough For Me?

Most of Lindsey's Tusk songs are beyond me, I'm afraid.

I pulled your quote from the previous thread Michele about the line in "Not that Funny" that says " Your hear cause I say so"

Stevie said that about NTF in April 1980, for the Australian interview. Regarding, you're here cause I say so.

Quote:
"The girls don't like that line. That's not a big line with the women here in America, but its ok because that's how he feels. To whom he is speaking to, it is true. I think that in this song that Lindsey is being very honest that he's angry and he's talking about some real kind of air relationships. I like to hear him talk about things because he's not a talker and he doesn't like to expound. He just figures either you understand or you're stupid."


I think Stevie is talking about herself (not CAH) and is being honest and acknowledging (though not specifically naming herself) that the line (and song) is about her and that Lindsey brought her into Fleetwood Mac.


Here's what Lindsey said in The Sydney Morning Herald, February 18, 2004

"You know, he (Mick) asked me to join the group first," says Buckingham. "He didn't ask Stevie. But I said, 'We're kind of a package deal.' I like to remind Stevie of that now and then."

I'd be curious to know if he really said that line.

Thank you. Interesting quotes. Loved the Christine part.

I love the little Strega Nona from the Tusk doc, and framed pics in the background.

Yes, Stevie is well aware that she wasn't supposed to be in the band. They've talked about that for years and made it the showcase of the current tour, but I don't think Stevie is talking about herself in that quote. I think she calls it an air relationship because she is criticizing the authenticity and depth of Lindsey and CAH's feelings and commitment.

Michele

wtf is an "air relationship". That sentence doesn't even make sense. Not even if you're Bob Dylan.

And Lindsey very much liked to remind Stevie that she was only in FM because he had insisted that he would only join if they took her too. It's part of why when she eventually became more famous (infamous) than he, it burned his butt big time. He admits this now.