October: Tusk 30th Anniversary!

FMlex · #1 10-07-2009, 08:00 PM

(Okay, so this might sound dumb, but what was the actual date of the release of this album?
On here, it says October 12th. On Wiki, it says October 19th.
That would be our first item of business to clear up.)

The 30th anniversary of Tusk is this month!!
We should do something... what, I don't know haha -- listening party, perhaps? Or is that lame?

I'm sure we could all use an excuse to listen to Tusk for hours on end!

macpai · #2 10-07-2009, 08:02 PM

Right on!
Happy anniversary, Tusk!

daniellaaarisen · #3 10-07-2009, 08:39 PM

What a glorious day the 12th (or 19th) will be. I'm going to not shut up about it all day. People will start to hate me.

YAYYYY TUSK!

SortaSavageLike · #4 10-07-2009, 09:13 PM

We're all gonna get Tusked.

FMlex · #5 10-07-2009, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by SortaSavageLike

We're all gonna get Tusked.

Lolol it was only a matter of time before that was said!!

holidayroad · #6 10-07-2009, 09:47 PM

I just read on a couple of sites that said it was relesed Oct 12,1979.

SortaSavageLike · #7 10-07-2009, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by holidayroad

I just read on a couple of sites that said it was relesed Oct 12,1979.

Which unfortunately was Senior Discount Day at the Record Plant and it took a whole week just to get the first batch of albums on the shelves.

vivfox · #8 10-07-2009, 10:02 PM

It was released to radio on the 12th of Roctober and on the 15th to the public.

macpai · #9 10-07-2009, 10:13 PM

When was it broadcast on radio so that everyone taped it before not buying it?

belladonnadream · #10 10-08-2009, 06:22 AM

Happy Anniversary Tusk!!!!!

holidayroad · #11 10-08-2009, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by macpai

When was it broadcast on radio so that everyone taped it before not buying it?

Really! I will never know to this day what anyone at WB was thinking to have thought that was some great idea!

michelej1 · #12 10-08-2009, 11:39 AM

This week in rock history:
http://birminghamseagle.com/news/ech1008.html

1979
Warner Bros. Records rush releases Fleetwood Mac's Tusk album weeks ahead of schedule when tracks begin mysteriously popping up on radio stations.

FMlex · #13 10-08-2009, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by vivfox

It was released to radio on the 12th of Roctober and on the 15th to the public.

Oh yeah, I remember hearing about how everyone recorded it from the radio and had it before it was released on vinyl.

So the official date for vinyl was the 15th, then?!
I gots to know when to celebrate. I guess I could the 12th, 15th and 19th just for grins.

starshine · #14 10-08-2009, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by michelej1

This week in rock history:
http://birminghamseagle.com/news/ech1008.html

1979
Warner Bros. Records rush releases Fleetwood Mac's Tusk album weeks ahead of schedule when tracks begin mysteriously popping up on radio stations.

Yeah, it shows how dumb there marketing skills were back than too......with this re-release of Rumours again thats all of a sudden disappeared......they make no sense to me at all nor do Stevie's solo camp either....stupid .......IMO........they really could 'DO' so much......esp with the Web now.....besides us losing as fans....well they lose too......oh well.....

michelej1 · #15 10-10-2009, 02:17 PM

Rolling Stone, 10-9-09:

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdail...30/#more-14260
We just glanced over at the calendar and realized in just over a week Fleetwood Mac’s masterpiece Tusk will celebrate its 30th anniversary. Sure, Tusk wasn’t (and still isn’t) as successful or acclaimed as its predecessor Rumours, but this perfectly flawed double vinyl has a special place in our hearts, and to celebrate, this week’s Flashback features Stevie Nicks’ “Angel” as it appeared onstage in the 1979 Tusk documentary. As Stephen Holden wrote in his Rolling Stone review of Tusk, “In its fits and starts and restless changes of pace, Tusk inevitably recalls the Beatles’ White Album, the quirky rock jigsaw puzzle that showed the Fab Four at their artiest and most indecisive.”