I've been keeping my eye out for any interviews by the Camper guys to see if they might comment on their Tusk album. But I hadn't seen anything much yet. Thanks for posting this.
Peter Buck said something similar in the early 80s when REM started covering "Tusk" occasionally in their live show. People were appalled that THEY would do a Mac song. There was a huge stigma about being an "alternative" band and admitting that you liked the Mac, since the Mac had come to represent something way beyond what the members themselves had any control over -- "the machinery" -- as Lindsey always sums it up. Rumours made them mainstream huge and a lot of people wanted to hate them for that. It's great and quite a testament though that the music - that Tusk - was something that could draw even the openly hostile listener in and make them fans too. Lindsey'd be pretty happy to hear that some of his hopes for Tusk in 1979 did come true.
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