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vivfox

10-19-2007, 02:01 PM

I'm gonna spend the next year taking you through the Tusk album and Tour. Hopefully you will join me in the memories. I'm only gonna discuss it day by day, according to the current calendar. For example I saw them in Nov.1979 but won't discuss that till the actual date happens, get it?

October 12,1979 Tusk the album was released to radio
October 15,1979 Tusk the album was released in the USA to the public
October 15,1979 I skipped school and went to Belmont Records(store no longer exists) as soon as the store opened in Spfld.,Ma. and bought Tusk(the album)
October 15,1979 P.M.-After enjoying the 45 single TUSK for three weeks and not enjoying the B-side NEVER MAKE ME CRY I couldn't wait to hear what else the band had to offer. I put the album on the turntable and played it over and over and over again. The first song I played tho was Sister's Of The Moon, cause the year before I had read in a concert review that "the only new song the band played was a tune called SOTM" and loved the title so much I couldn't wait to hear it. The concert reviewer also said that was the only song of Stevie's she didn't seem bored with singing that day.
On the Tusk album I loved every song by Stevie, every song by Chris except Never Make Me Cry, and most of Lindsey's songs had me dropping my jaw thinking WTF?
From the very first listen I loved The Ledge,Save Me A Place, That's All For Everyone, Walk A Thine Line,That's Enough For Me and of course Tusk but all the other Lindsey tracks took a long time for me to get into.

In an article in Rolling Stone Magazine that came out around this time the reporter was interviewing the members at a tour rehearsal and I remember Christine saying something like not having enough time to do all the things she needs to get done in the three weeks they have before the tour starts.

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/e92d.jpg

I'm also gonna post the individual Tusk Concerts I have for you when the date comes up. This way we get to relive the tour together. Hopefully you'll post your shows too on the proper date. Let's not get ahead of ourselves tho and post ahead of time. The Tour starts on October 26, 1979 in Pocatello, Idaho.

Chrislit18

10-19-2007, 02:17 PM

OFF TOPIC:

You're from MA?
thats so cool!!!
I live there too lol!

I would have hated to live in Springfield though, blech. I get creped out in all cities. :lol:

BACK ON:

I would have died to be able to get the record the day it came out, stuff like that is so special. :)

vivfox

10-19-2007, 03:28 PM

OFF TOPIC:

You're from MA?
thats so cool!!!
I live there too lol!

I would have hated to live in Springfield though
I enjoy living in Springfield.

Betsy

10-25-2007, 05:52 PM

Thanks Vivfox for the awesome photos. I remember that CAH (Storms book) said that Frederick's of Hollywood was nearby or something.

Got any photos of CAH? I have never seen what she looks like, except for the B/W ones in her book, which ain't so good.

chiliD

10-25-2007, 05:56 PM

Thanks Vivfox for the awesome photos. I remember that CAH (Storms book) said that Frederick's of Hollywood was nearby or something..

Their star is right out in front of Frederick's...as in, when you walk in or out of the door, you walk right over their star.

Chrislit18

10-25-2007, 06:00 PM

How many minutes drive to you live from Spfld.?
Like 45 mins to an hour maybe.
depends on traffic really.

I LOVE those photos you put up vivfox! AMAZING<3

vivfox

10-26-2007, 12:21 AM

First night of The TUSK TOUR:
October 26,1979
Pocatello, Idaho
Venue: Mini Dome

Anyone of you know someone who was there? Tell us their memories.

vivfox

10-26-2007, 11:06 PM

2nd night of the TUSK TOUR
October 27,1979
Ogden, Utah
Venue: Dee Events Center

kathy1

10-27-2007, 08:56 AM

that's good vivfox because i have never seen the tour i was way too little and i haven't heard of fleetwood mac then until the mirage album came out.

vivfox

10-27-2007, 11:25 PM

3rd night of the TUSK TOUR
October 28, 1979
Salt Lake City, Utah
Venue: The Salt Palace

kathy1

10-28-2007, 09:45 AM

vivfox how long have you been a fan of fleewood mac? i have been since the 80's.

vivfox

10-28-2007, 01:28 PM

vivfox how long have you been a fan of fleewood mac? i have been since the 80's.
Since 1975's the White Album I was listening to them on the radio but in the summer of 1978 I announced "officially" to my friends and family that Fleetwood Mac was my favorite group and Stevie Nicks my favorite singer.
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/48zpehc.gif

Mywyldhrt

10-29-2007, 12:27 PM

2nd night of the TUSK TOUR
October 27,1979
Ogden, Utah
Venue: Dee Events Center
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/thuZoo10.jpg

Hey Mark!!! This is great-i knew it would be-We never discussed this, But I skipped school that day as well-this is gettin' scarey!!!

Mywyldhrt

10-29-2007, 12:28 PM

Since 1975's the White Album I was listening to them on the radio but in the summer of 1978 I announced "officially" to my friends and family that Fleetwood Mac was my favorite group and Stevie Nicks my favorite singer.
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/48zpehc.gif

Need I say more???????????:shrug:

vivfox

10-30-2007, 11:47 PM

4th night of The TUSK TOUR
Roctober 31, 1979
Denver, Colorado
Venue: McNichol's Sports Arena

I wonder if they dressed up in costumes for this show?

Betsy

10-31-2007, 02:47 PM

Woo Hoo! No way! Denver was the 31st of October 1979?

Thanks for telling me...I'm gonna find some way to celebrate. How does powdered sugar in a Heinken (sp) bottle cap sound?? (heh, heh, heh)

Did they play Omaha?

vivfox

10-31-2007, 11:10 PM

vivfox

10-31-2007, 11:15 PM

5th night of The Tusk Tour
November 1,1979
2nd night in Denver, Colorado--You lucky Denverites!!!
Venue: McNichol's Sports Arena

vivfox

11-02-2007, 01:09 AM

6th night of The TUSK TOUR
November 2,1979
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Venue: Tingley Coliseum

THIS WAS TONIGHT'S CONCERT

Say You Love Me

The Chain

Dreams

Stevie goes into the tent to change clothes and sit out the next song.

Not That Funny

Stevie returns to the stage in her fairytale ware

Rhiannon

Stevie goes into the tent to remove her Rhiannon Scarves and casually returns to the stage during the middle of the next song.

Over & Over

Stevie goes into the tent to change clothes and sit out the next song. Lindsey says something like,"to the guy in the front row with the yellow shirt on-you wanted to hear something old? Well we got it for you."

Oh Well

Stevie returns to the stage all decked out in red.

Sara

Stevie goes into the tent to change clothes and sit out the next two songs.

What Makes You Think You're The One

Oh Daddy

Another microphone stand is set up onstage to the left of Stevie's Mic and Christine stands in front of it to sing and play acoustic guitar on the next track. Stevie returns to the stage.

Save Me A Place

Christine returns to her keyboards. Lindsey pulls out his acoustic guitar.

Landslide

Stevie goes into the tent to change clothes. Christine returns to her stand up mic area with an accordian in her hands and the tape with the Tusky background music is played. Mick starts pounding on his drums, marching band style.Stevie returns to the stage with a cowbell and drumstick in her hands.

Tusk

Angel

You Make Loving Fun

Stevie goes into the tent to change clothes and sit out the next song. It feels like an eternity till she returns 'cause she's offstage for approx. 10 minutes

I'm So Afraid

Christine returns to her standup mic with maraca's in her hands.

World Turning

Go Your Own Way

Unfortunately, like a lot of bootlegs, someone forgot to record the encores. So no Sister's Of The Moon or Songbird tonight kitties. Unless one of YOU can add it from your collection 'cause I don't have it and I want to hear SOTM!!!!

njova

11-02-2007, 09:15 AM

For some reason every link I click on it keeps saying requested file not found, link outdated.

vivfox

11-02-2007, 10:18 AM

For some reason every link I click on it keeps saying requested file not found, link outdated.

To download from speedyshare:

Left click on any link
Once inside then
Right click your mouse on the song link and a box opens up
Left click on SAVE TARGET AS
Then left click SAVE to whatever music folder you download music into

Please let us know if this works for you.

Betsy

11-02-2007, 10:55 AM

This is fun, re-living the Tusk Tour...in 1979 I was ...

"Twenty-six, single and a school teacher. And that's just about the bottom of the barrell."

Etta Place in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Sarah

11-02-2007, 11:12 AM

So uh, did Lindsey do anything during this show or... was it one of those Stevie Nicks with special guests Fleetwood Mac situations?

njova

11-02-2007, 11:51 AM

Thanks for the tip it works now.

Chrislit18

11-03-2007, 09:17 PM

Oh I LOVE Stevies shoes, and her dress.
I want the dress, so bad.

Too cute for summer!

njova

11-03-2007, 09:35 PM

I've always liked that picture of lindsey pretending to shoot stevie with an arrow.

vivfox

11-03-2007, 10:14 PM

I've always liked that picture of lindsey pretending to shoot stevie with an arrow.
What picture? What are you talking about?

Angel69

11-04-2007, 07:57 AM

6th night of The TUSK TOUR
November 2,1979
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Venue: Tingley Coliseum

Thanks for that. Great Show! They were so tight on the Tusk Tour.

njova

11-04-2007, 10:36 AM

I'm talking about the picture on the second page the one where they were making the tusk video I think you posted it, I think mick is in front and christine is in the back.

vivfox

11-05-2007, 01:52 AM

7th Night of The Tusk Tour
November 5,1979
St. Louis, Missouri
Venue: Checker Dome

Betsy

11-05-2007, 11:42 AM

^^^
Nice photo...I have never seen Stevie in red. Thnx!

(My younger brother was the FM fan back in the high school days and he owned all their records.)

vivfox

11-06-2007, 12:56 AM

8th Night of The Tusk Tour
November 6,1979
St. Louis, Missouri
Venue: Checker Dome
2nd of two nights

Landslide(At the end of this Stevie Says,"Alright. If I had a candle I would light it!"

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From BILLBOARD MAGAZINE
TOP BOXOFFICE
Headliners: Fleetwood Mac
Opening Act: Danny Douma
Produced by: Contemporary Productions
Produced by: Family Dog Productions
Checker Dome-St. Louis-Nov.5&6,1979
Two Shows-Two Sellouts
Total Ticket Sales: 25,200 (12,600 per show)
Ticket Price Scale: $10.50-$12.50
Gross Receipts: $303,353.00

Tee Dee

11-06-2007, 02:38 PM

^^^
Thanks for the music and the interesting facts.

Those gross receipt numbers boggle my mind....with a ticket price of $10 even.

vivfox

11-07-2007, 01:07 AM

November 7,1979
Cincinnati, Ohio
Venue: Riverfront Coliseum

stevierocks87

11-07-2007, 03:29 AM

Can I just say that the tusk tour setlist TOTALLY kicks ass.

vivfox

11-10-2007, 12:10 PM

10th night of The Tusk Tour
November 10,1979
New Haven, Connecticut
Venue: Veterans Memorial Coliseum

I was at this show. This was my first time seeing Fleetwood Mac and Stevie live. I was 17 years old, almost 18. There is an audio bootleg of this show available, but I don't have it. My memories of this show: Buying the ticket for this concert I had to skip a few classes in high school. Then I went to school with my ticket. I showed off the ticket to some of the "cool" kids and one of em asked if he could hold it. Then he didn't want to give it back, but obviously, he did.
I attended the show with two good friends and we had ****ty floor seats almost near the back. We had to stand on our seats most of the show to see anything at all. In those days there were no giant screens to watch in case you couldn't see the performers. My biggest memory of this night was straining to see, standing on my tippy toes. I sat down during most of Lindsey's songs cause that was the only time I could rest. During Rhiannon Stevie tried to hit the high notes but couldn't. Even then I was comparing her live vocals to those on the two bootlegs I had at the time which were 8-25-77 Live in Las Vegas and 1975's Albatross, But Not Around My Neck Please albums.
During Sara someone threw a giant red balloon up towards the stage and Stevie caught it. She held onto it for a while and then tossed it back into the crowd. Angel was a highlite for me and so was Sister's Of The Moon but honestly I can't remember anything about her performance of Sister's.
After the show we hoped we could meet the band and so we hung out for about an hour and then when we realized that wasn't going to happen we went to look for the car. In our excitement upon arrival none of us thought to look to see what section we were parked in in the parking garage so it took us another hour of walking around just to find the car. It was also a little drizzly that night so we were a bit wet also.

From Billboard Magazine
November 10,1979
Venue: Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Headliners: Fleetwood Mac
Opening Act: Danny Douma
Produced by: Cross Country Concerts
Ticket price scale: $10.00-$14.50
Total ticket sales: 9,635
Sellout
Gross Receipts: $135,647.00

David

11-10-2007, 12:36 PM

During Sara someone threw a giant red balloon up towards the stage and Stevie caught it. She held onto it for a while and then tossed it back into the crowd.Are those photos of Stevie with the big balloon from this show, then?

vivfox

11-10-2007, 10:55 PM

Are those photos of Stevie with the big balloon from this show, then?

They could be but you never know for sure, She could have caught balloons at other shows too.

vivfox

11-11-2007, 12:11 AM

The 11th show of The Tusk Tour
November 11,1979
Uniondale, New York
Venue: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

This photo was taken somewhere on the Tusk Tour.

joe

11-11-2007, 09:46 AM

They could be but you never know for sure, She could have caught balloons at other shows too. Here's a picture of Stevie holding a balloon and singing Sara, somewhere on the Tusk Tour.

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/scan10083wo5.jpg

i remember seeing the whole set of photos from this particular show online several years ago. there's a bunch of the balloon pics. weren't these on neal's site? i just checked but didn't see them.

David

11-11-2007, 11:18 AM

i remember seeing the whole set of photos from this particular show online several years ago. there's a bunch of the balloon pics. weren't these on neal's site? i just checked but didn't see them.No, they were for sale on the Penguin. They were shot by Joe Sia, who is dead now, & he was a photographer who lived back East. I think it likely they were from the show vivfox saw. I mean, how many shows would Stevie have fondled balloons for? She certainly didn't fondle, rub or otherwise caress any balloons at any show in California that December.

vivfox

11-12-2007, 12:40 AM

Night twelve of The Tusk Tour
2nd of two shows
November 12,1979
Uniondale(Long Island),New York
Venue: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

November 12, 1979 Fleetwood Mac performs the second of two nights tonight in Uniondale, New York(Long Island) at the Nassau Coliseum.
I remember an actual review of this show from all those years ago and the thing I most remember is the quote that there were "thousands upon thousands of empty seats." The reviewer was making two points. One: ticket prices were too expensive and two: the Tusk album was not well received.
I'm guessing that Stevie must have felt overwhelmed by the sheer amount of shows that Mick had scheduled for the Tusk Tour and was afraid of what it would do to her voice.
She mentioned some years later that at the beginning of the Tusk Tour she had many nightmares about "walking on stage, opening her mouth to sing and nothing came out, no sound at all. And that the band and the audience just stared at her."
"One of her friends took her to see a Specialist who prescribed shots for her that would de-swell her vocal chords." Stevie said she would get these shots before playing in big cities like New York or Los Angeles.

vivfox

11-15-2007, 12:30 AM

The 13th night of The Tusk Tour
November 15,1979
New York, N.Y.
Venue: Madison Square Garden

Stevie performs with her de-swelled vocal chords.

David

11-15-2007, 12:21 PM

For some reason, vivfox, I'm not seeing the photos you're embedding or linking to. The board may be experiencing turbulence from a passing tsunami or other gravity wave.

joe

11-15-2007, 08:53 PM

For some reason, vivfox, I'm not seeing the photos you're embedding or linking to. The board may be experiencing turbulence from a passing tsunami or other gravity wave.

yeah, me neither.

thanks...ok bye!

vivfox

11-16-2007, 12:18 AM

The 14th night of The Tusk Tour
November 16,1979
New York, New York
2nd of two nights in
Madison Square Garden. Stevie and her de-swelled vocal chords again tonight.

From a magazine-not Billboard
November 15 & 16,1979
Headliner: Fleetwood Mac
Opening act: Danny Douma
Madison Sq. Garden
Produced by Cedric Kushner Productions
Gross Receipts: $438,264.00 (two shows)

SortaSavageLike

11-16-2007, 12:29 AM

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/3d38d9295a7d3693bad802b6876299c7.jpg

"These cocktail weenies are delicious!"

Betsy

11-16-2007, 12:19 PM

Hey Viv --

I am feeling sad that I can't see your pics...and I know you are feeling frustrated...

Just a thought, and I know you have done very well in life without any suggestions from me...

But maybe for the time being, you can post the thumbnails...we could see the photos then....a smaller photo is more interesting than the white box with "x marks the spot" ... :laugh:

You've got a goldmine of TUSK stuff and I want to see the glitter....

vivfox

11-16-2007, 01:23 PM

Betsy

11-16-2007, 02:02 PM

In your reply to the thread...click on the paper clip (next to the smily face) on the tool bar.

Choose upload file from your computer...(presuming the photo is on your computer) - click the browse button to find it - then upload it.

(The forum does have a size limit, so you might have to convert the file to a .jpg or reduce it.)

When it's done loading you will see it as an attachment in the window below your reply text window.

Hope this helps.

vivfox

11-16-2007, 04:05 PM

6691

This was one of the photos I had posted earlier. Fleetwood Mac day in Hollywood 1979

vivfox

11-16-2007, 04:08 PM

Betsy

11-16-2007, 04:23 PM

Oh my God I am so excited! It worked! Thank you Betsy. From now on all the Tusk photos will be posted this way! I might even go back and repost all the ones we can no longer see-but that will take some time tho-so please be patient.

You're welcome...now let's see those other photos...!

vivfox

11-17-2007, 12:02 AM

Fleetwood Mac Day in Los Angeles. Hollywood Walk of Fame Star.

vivfox

11-17-2007, 12:07 AM

Fleetwood Mac Day in Los Angeles. Hollywood Walk of Fame Star.

vivfox

11-17-2007, 12:12 AM

Fleetwood Mac recording the Video for the song Tusk at Dodger Stadium.

vivfox

11-17-2007, 12:17 AM

Fleetwood Mac recording the Video for the song Tusk at Dodger Stadium.

vivfox

11-17-2007, 12:24 AM

Posing for Promo Pictures and Posters.

vivfox

11-17-2007, 12:27 AM

Posing for Promo Pictures and Posters.

vivfox

11-17-2007, 12:30 AM

Posing for Promo Pictures and Posters.

vivfox

11-17-2007, 12:34 AM

Chris performing World Turning
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vivfox

11-17-2007, 11:02 AM

The 15th show on The Tusk Tour
November 17,1979
Boston, Massachusetts
Venue: Boston Garden

This is one of the shows that if I had known about I wouldda been there. I had only known about the Nov. 10 New Haven concert because at that time I was a listener of WPLR in New Haven. I didn't listen to any Boston radio stations then, so I missed it. Major bummer.

From BILLBOARD Magazine
November17,1979 (magazine mis-dates it at Nov.19)
Boston, Massachusetts
Venue: The Garden
Headliner: Fleetwood Mac
No opening act
Produced by: Don Law Co.
Tickets: $12.50-$15.00
Sellout(12,491)
Gross Receipts: $183,333.00

vivfox

11-18-2007, 03:01 AM

I always thought this live shot of Stevie was taken in St. Louis, Missouri in Nov.1979
Another pic of Stevie at the Hollywood Star Ceremony

Mywyldhrt

11-19-2007, 03:42 PM

The 15th show on The Tusk Tour
November 17,1979
Boston, Massachusetts
Venue: Boston Garden

There's no sense in me posting this show when it's already posted in another thread. I have provided the link from that thread since it is still active. Many thanks to Michelle2677 for the link.

Boston, MA 11*17*79
http://www.mediafire.com/?1tsnxkl99t9

This is one of the shows that if I had known about I wouldda been there. I had only known about the Nov. 10 New Haven concert because at that time I was a listener of WPLR in New Haven. I didn't listen to any Boston radio stations then, so I missed it. Major bummer cause the Boston show was much better than the New Haven gig.

From BILLBOARD Magazine
November17,1979 (magazine mis-dates it at Nov.19)
Boston, Massachusetts
Venue: The Garden
Headliner: Fleetwood Mac
No opening act
Produced by: Don Law Co.
Tickets: $12.50-$15.00
Sellout(12,491)
Gross Receipts: $183,333.00

I have a couple of WPLR"S "Stoneman" Fleetwood Mac specials that I made when I was a teenager on my am/fm/cassette turntable thingy I cherished for years......if my memory serves me correctly didn't Stoneman introduce Danny Douma(and I believe I wanted him to finish and get the hell off the stage)and the band in New Haven??

vivfox

11-20-2007, 10:30 AM

The 16th night of The Tusk Tour
November 20,1979
Rochester, New York
Venue: War Memorial

vivfox

11-20-2007, 11:45 AM

I have a couple of WPLR"S "Stoneman" Fleetwood Mac specials that I made when I was a teenager on my am/fm/cassette turntable thingy I cherished for years......if my memory serves me correctly didn't Stoneman introduce Danny Douma(and I believe I wanted him to finish and get the hell off the stage)and the band in New Haven??

Hey lady lover! I have never remembered anyone who introduced any band I have ever seen in my whole life. I find it interesting that you do. Do you have any other memories of the New Haven show?

Mywyldhrt

11-20-2007, 12:26 PM

Hey lady lover! I have never remembered anyone who introduced any band I have ever seen in my whole life. I find it interesting that you do. Do you have any other memories of the New Haven show?

I only remember him because he was my favorite DJ-he played the trodnossel studios tape all the time-FM was his professed "favorite band". They would have nightly specials from 6:30 to 8 during the week. He always picked the best pre buck/nicks and post buck/nicks songs.

As for other memories, I remember that it was mellow-I mean I was only 15 at the time. I was only allowed to go to concerts when I turned 15 in September of '79. I had been to Jethro Tull that oct., and Black Sabbath/Blue Oyster Cult in Sept. I Started with heavy duty metal, went to "classical rock" and then totally fell in love for life with fleetwood mac-the band itself, it's whole "persona" and especially, hopelessly, unconditionally in love with Stevie Nicks-well, just because-I don't think I would have to justify that here.......

and I do remember the balloons..... Did I ever tell you about those photos I bought from some kid I went to H.S. with?? His brother went to the concert-took pictures, and printed them on giant 20x15 photo paper(in B & W).I got them for $5 bucks each like the last day of school in 1980.

vivfox

11-21-2007, 01:32 AM

David

11-21-2007, 11:24 AM

the 17th night of The Tusk Tour
November 21,1979
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Venue: The Spectrum

There is a boot of this show. It only has 8 tracks from the entire show. The boot is titled LIVE IVORY. Get it if you can. It has a good live Sister's of the Moon. I have this show on cassette, not cd unfortunately.That boot originally got released on 33 vinyl. I had a couple of copies of it through the years, hoping each successive one sounded a little better, but none ever did. Some fans have a lot of affection for that one because it was one of the worst-sounding live recordings from those days. It also has Save Me a Place.

I know I'm a little early for the November 25 Tusk show at the Capital Centre, but I won't be in town for that, so I want to post my thumbnails for that show here.

Nov. 25, 1979
Capital Centre
Landover MD

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David

11-21-2007, 11:28 AM

Nov. 25, 1979
Capital Centre
Landover MD
(cont)

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_112579Landover18.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/112579Landover18.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_112579Landover17.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/112579Landover17.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_112579Landover16.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/112579Landover16.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_112579Landover15.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/112579Landover15.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_112579Landover14.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/112579Landover14.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_112579Landover13.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/112579Landover13.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_112579Landover12.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/112579Landover12.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_112579Landover11.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/112579Landover11.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_112579Landover10.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/112579Landover10.jpg)

David

11-21-2007, 11:30 AM

Nov. 25, 1979
Capital Centre
Landover MD
(last batch)

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_112579Landover24.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/112579Landover24.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_112579Landover23.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/112579Landover23.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_112579Landover22.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/112579Landover22.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_112579Landover21.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/112579Landover21.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_112579Landover20.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/112579Landover20.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_112579Landover19.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/112579Landover19.jpg)

SuzeQuze

11-21-2007, 01:53 PM

David, these are stunning. I'm so jealous but I was 9 during that tour so I don't suppose I could've gone. Not with my parents anyway. Have you sold these?

Betsy

11-21-2007, 02:46 PM

Thanks David --- incredible photos and so many of them.

I particularly like the ones with John McVie... He is so quiet - or gives that appearance - on stage and in photographs.

1979 I was 26 - single and a school teacher - making $450 a month in a small town in Nebraska. Too far away and too little money. I am glad you others took the advantage, I let slip away.

Betsy

11-21-2007, 02:56 PM

That boot originally got released on 33 vinyl. I had a couple of copies of it through the years, hoping each successive one sounded a little better, but none ever did. Some fans have a lot of affection for that one because it was one of the worst-sounding live recordings from those days. It also has Save Me a Place.

Do you still have the vinyl copies? I used to have some of Cat Stevens....till my older brother swiped them... That tells you where I was in the 70's...

vivfox

11-22-2007, 12:23 AM

vivfox

11-22-2007, 12:45 AM

vivfox

11-22-2007, 12:52 AM

WelshWitchPMD

11-22-2007, 12:57 PM

The 18th show of the Tusk Tour
November 22,1979
Providence, Rhode Island
Venue: Civic Center

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/000dr10h.png

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/2l91w6s.jpg

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/0a19snso8.jpg

Ahh, 28 years ago to the day and it was also Thanksgiving. It was on a warm day in 1979 and it is a warm day today, too. Fond memories. Too bad that digital camera weren’t around yet.

David

11-24-2007, 12:06 PM

Do you still have the vinyl copies?No, everything's gone. I had vinyl copies of several of those shows, including Las Vegas 1977, Dallas 1978, Almanac, Live Ivory, & Albatross, But Not Around My Neck Please, which had that photo of Stevie Nicks posing against the Mercedes roadster. There was also a Sin City vinyl, but it was just a shortened copy of Las Vegas. But not to worry, because all these shows are all still available on tapes, CDs, whatever. But they all originally were sold on vinyl, which is why you can hear the vinyl crackle on your tape or CD of the Cotton Bowl or the Aladdin.

David

11-24-2007, 12:17 PM

Everyone, feel free to post any TUSK Tour photos you have.Here are a couple of private shots from the opening night at the Cow Palace.

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_TuskTour19.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/TuskTour19.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_TuskTour18.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/TuskTour18.jpg)

Here's a shot I took at the Forum in Los Angeles on the final night. My photography skills are equivalent to Stevie's piano skills. You guys probably have the tape of one of those concerts. The Trojan marching band played on Tusk the whole week, with their director, Bartner, conducting.

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_TuskTour28.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/TuskTour28.jpg)

This one is professional but I've always loved it. Looks as if it's from the first leg. The one to the right of it is great, too.

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_TuskTour23.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/TuskTour23.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_TuskBackdrop1979.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/TuskBackdrop1979.jpg)

There are two great concerts on film from that era, both shot in Landover at the Capital Centre. I used to wish the Bootleg Genie would leak those in better quality.

vivfox

11-24-2007, 01:36 PM

No, everything's gone. I had vinyl copies of several of those shows, including Las Vegas 1977, Dallas 1978, Almanac, Live Ivory, & Albatross, But Not Around My Neck Please, which had that photo of Stevie Nicks posing against the Mercedes roadster. There was also a Sin City vinyl, but it was just a shortened copy of Las Vegas. But not to worry, because all these shows are all still available on tapes, CDs, whatever. But they all originally were sold on vinyl, which is why you can hear the vinyl crackle on your tape or CD of the Cotton Bowl or the Aladdin.

My vinyl copy of Sin City is the entire show. Again David thank you a million times over for these new extremely rare shots from the Tusk Tour!!!

vivfox

11-25-2007, 12:35 AM

the 19th show on the Tusk Tour
November 25,1979
Largo, Maryland
Venue: Capitol Centre
Largo is a suburb of Washington D.C.

I have a bad quality video of this show. During the best part of Rhiannon the quality improves. David posted some cool photos from this show a few threads back. Check em out, they're nice.

Betsy

11-25-2007, 12:41 AM

^^^

Is that Carol Harris with Lindsey?

vivfox

11-25-2007, 01:43 AM

^^^

Is that Carol Harris with Lindsey?

I originally thought that but after I posted it and then enlarged it I wondered to myself if the photo is from the Tusk era or not. Oh he was still dating her during this time wasn't he?

vivfox

11-25-2007, 01:53 AM

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/steviebday.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/stevie81.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/sn612.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/sn538.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/sn510.jpg

dougl

11-25-2007, 09:44 AM

Better late than never. My first Mac concert, and a great one it was!

http://www.speedyshare.com/807252784.html

dougl

11-25-2007, 10:21 AM

http://www.speedyshare.com/232295830.html

http://www.speedyshare.com/334796469.html

http://www.speedyshare.com/532504579.html

Betsy

11-25-2007, 11:50 AM

Thanks dougl !!

(P.S. Who said you were late??? LOL You were right on time!) :thumbsup:

michelle2677

11-25-2007, 12:48 PM

^^worked fine for me

thanks doug, for posting :xoxo:

michelle2677

11-25-2007, 12:59 PM

6th night of The TUSK TOUR
November 2,1979
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Venue: Tingley Coliseum

THIS WAS TONIGHT'S CONCERT

Say You Love Me
http://www.speedyshare.com/126264316.html

The Chain
http://www.speedyshare.com/660676246.html

Dreams
http://www.speedyshare.com/305825929.html

Not That Funny
http://www.speedyshare.com/568310645.html

Over & Over
http://www.speedyshare.com/522388954.html

Oh Well
http://www.speedyshare.com/565936398.html

Sara
http://www.speedyshare.com/315147479.html

Oh Daddy
http://www.speedyshare.com/190957113.html

Save Me A Place
http://www.speedyshare.com/533899451.html

Tusk
http://www.speedyshare.com/591550419.html

Angel
http://www.speedyshare.com/896500889.html

You Make Loving Fun
http://www.speedyshare.com/454676294.html

World Turning
http://www.speedyshare.com/800312616.html

Go Your Own Way
http://www.speedyshare.com/266595260.html

all of these says the file has been deleted :( anyone care to repost? Please.

michelle2677

11-25-2007, 01:08 PM

So uh, did Lindsey do anything during this show or... was it one of those Stevie Nicks with special guests Fleetwood Mac situations?

aren't they all?? :shrug:

J/K :laugh: :p

michelej1

11-25-2007, 02:12 PM

I originally thought that but after I posted it and then enlarged it I wondered to myself if the photo is from the Tusk era or not. Oh he was still dating her during this time wasn't he?

I don't think it's a Tusk era photo. Looks like it was after Tango, maybe OOTC.

Michele

David

11-25-2007, 02:19 PM

aren't they all?? :shrug:
Stevie is the only thing worth watching at a Fleetwood Mac show. There are rockers & rollers & there are beauty queens, but there is only one rockin' & rollin' beauty queen!
:thumbsup:

Stevie is the be-all & end-all of the band, we should realize.

http://www.chictribute.com/gallery/live/mont06/700x540sn06montluc.jpg

http://www.fleetwoodmacforsale.com/sn054.jpg

http://www.fleetwoodmacforsale.com/sn025.jpg

michelle2677

11-25-2007, 02:23 PM

I don't think it's a Tusk era photo. Looks like it was after Tango, maybe OOTC.

Michele
I was thinking OOTC as well.
Stevie is the only thing worth watching at a Fleetwood Mac show. There are rockers & rollers & there are beauty queens, but there is only one rockin' & rollin' beauty queen!
:thumbsup:

Stevie is the be-all & end-all of the band, we should realize.

oh, well i'm assuming you're being sarcastic :laugh:

at any rate, i wouldn't go thaaaaatt far :cool:

Betsy

11-25-2007, 02:29 PM

Re: The downloads --

Hmmmm....they worked for me and are still working. The first one took 36 minutes (the zipped one.)

I am downloading the last link right now.

Let me know if anyone needs them.

WelshWitchPMD

11-25-2007, 08:29 PM

^^^

Is that Carol Harris with Lindsey?

No, it's Cheri Caspari. WireImage has that photo listed as being from the West Coast Premiere of Exit To Eden - October 4, 1994
They also have captioned the photo as being "Lindsey and his wife" :lol:

vivfox

11-26-2007, 12:27 AM

the 20th show on the Tusk Tour
November 26,1979
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Venue: Civic Arena

These photos were taken sometime in 1979-1980
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/e92d.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/22f7.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/52d7.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/Steviebarrevideo.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/goodday.jpg

buckymcnix

11-26-2007, 01:21 AM

vivfox

11-26-2007, 11:11 AM

my first concert ever.

I would love to hear a bootleg of it but i have yet to really do a search for it.
i remember being floored by how much of a guitar monster lindsey was and how much more ROCK_N_ROLL they were live. oh - and stevie waved at me. :angel:

Do you mean Pittsburgh or first show was somewhere on the Tusk Tour?

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/8-18-2007113140PM.jpg

buckymcnix

11-26-2007, 12:46 PM

^^^
Fleetwood mac in Pittsburgh Pa was my first concert ever. :D

You don't happen to know of a bootleg of this show do you?

vivfox

11-26-2007, 01:26 PM

^^^
Fleetwood mac in Pittsburgh Pa was my first concert ever. :D

You don't happen to know of a bootleg of this show do you?

I don't know if one exists.

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/STEVIESBROTHERCHRIS.jpg

vivfox

11-29-2007, 01:53 AM

the 21st show of the Tusk Tour
November 29,1979
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Venue: Crisler Arena

Did you know that Ann Arbor is a College town? Do you care?
From an interview that Stevie did with Jim Ladd in December 1979 I remember her talking about a girl she met in Ann Arbor. Stevie said she was in a Health Food store for items she needed when this girl approached her and said, "you're Stevie Nicks, aren't you?" Stevie said the girl was "real plain looking but real pretty." Stevie answered,"yeah."
The girl said something like, "I just want you to know that I am an artist. I draw, and you sing. To me you are a very good songwriter."
Stevie was so touched by this statement because " all I ever wanted was to be a great songwriter" she claimed. And she told the girl, "if you ever see me in a crowd(in the future) I want you to come up to me and remind me of what you said to me here today. Remind me that you said you are an artist and that you draw and I sing" and that's kinda all I remember about that moment right now.
I'm sure in about a month or two Stevie forgot all about this girl but you never know...

from BILLBOARD MAGAZINE Boxscore
November 29,1979
University of Michigan
Headliners: Fleetwood Mac
Opening Act:Danny Douma
Produced by: Brass Ring Productions
Tickets: $10.00-$12.50
Sellout:10,212 tickets sold
Gross Receipts: $123,843.00

Mywyldhrt

11-29-2007, 09:43 AM

Mywyldhrt

11-29-2007, 09:43 AM

Mywyldhrt

11-29-2007, 09:45 AM

michelej1

11-29-2007, 01:39 PM

I went to the University of Michigan as an undergraduate and graduate student for 6 years, but I guess I got there too late to run into Stevie at a drug store.:distress:

vivfox

11-30-2007, 12:26 AM

the 22nd show of the Tusk Tour
November 30,1979
Champaign, Illionis
Venue: Assembly Hall

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/111.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/pn0132692ye.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/sn560.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/tusk4.jpg

belladonnadream

11-30-2007, 09:16 AM

Wow! thanks for that New Mex show! I've loved Stevie for a long time but like 82-'83 time~ I wish I could have seen her in the 70's! I was only like 5 when Tusk was going on! Thanks again~ I love hearing songs from this tour~

vivfox

12-01-2007, 12:36 AM

the 23rd show on the Tusk Tour
December 1,1979
Cedar Falls, Iowa
Venue: Uni-Dome

This might have been their largest indoor audience on the Tusk Tour.

from BILLBOARD MAGAZINE
Headliner: Fleetwood mac
Opening Act: Danny Douma
Produced by: Opensea Productions
Dec. 1,1979
Cedar Falls, Iowa
Uni-Dome
Tickets Sold: 25,556(Sellout)
Ticket Price: $10.00
Gross Receipts: $255,560.00

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/24obqbl.jpg

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/04580LindseyChristine.jpg

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/435gp4z.jpg

vivfox

12-02-2007, 12:46 AM

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/sn556.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/scraggly25eq.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/scraggly1jh.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/SaraPurple.jpg

michelle2677

12-02-2007, 01:04 AM

right.
so i gotta represent.

http://buckinghamnicks.net/lb/images/LBuckTV05.jpg

http://buckinghamnicks.net/lb/images/LBuck25YFM10.jpg

michelle2677

12-02-2007, 01:34 AM

one of my favorite fm photos

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a395/Michelle2677/Stevie%20nicks%20and%20fleetwood%20mac/band%20photos/black%20and%20white/tuskqn5.jpg

DavidMn

12-02-2007, 01:47 AM

bucklind17

12-02-2007, 11:58 AM

Jeez, the idea of seeing the Tusk era Mac for $10 makes my heart weep a little. I know, inflation, whatever. I spend $10 on lunch, I can be jealous!

vivfox

12-03-2007, 12:12 AM

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/4455.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/0444.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/090am.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/086gg.jpg

vivfox

12-04-2007, 12:36 AM

the 24th show on the Tusk Tour
December 4,1979
Los Angeles, California
Venue: The Forum

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/030um.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/49.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/018tx.jpg

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Mywyldhrt

12-04-2007, 08:46 AM

the 24th show on the Tusk Tour
December 4,1979
Los Angeles, California
Venue: The Forum

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/75.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/030um.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/49.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/018tx.jpg

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Yea, well-I could be inaccurate, but I believe the "Tusk" tour was for the most part-the favorite of FM's die-hard fan base. :nod:

vivfox

12-05-2007, 01:31 AM

the 25th show on the tusk Tour
December 5,1979
the 2nd of 5 nights in Los Angeles
Venue: The Forum

Stevie plays her cowbell during the song Tusk
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/0sn028.jpg

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vivfox

12-05-2007, 02:34 AM

I FOUND THIS INTERESTING BLOG ON THE WEB

How can a group follow up on one of the biggest selling albums of all time? Simple: Build a million dollar studio, give near/complete control of production to one of your members, and record a double album.

This is indeed what Fleetwood Mac did in 1979. Rumours was the most successful album of 1977. By the time Tusk was released, Rumours had already sold 13 million copies. Even if Fleetwood Mac had come out with another Sgt. Pepper's, the new album could never live up to expectations. It is unfortunate that was the case, as Tusk is a near brilliant album, pushing the boundaries of what "pop" music was in the early 1980's.

Fleetwood Mac has been driven by three major forces within the band since 1975, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie. Buckingham is the "experimente.r. McVie can always be turned to for a good pop song. Nicks lies somewhere in the middle. On Tusk, the balance is decidedly in Buckingham's favor, but the other two are not excluded, not by a long shot.

McVie and Nicks both turn in great performances, but it is Buckingham that I want to talk about. His songs are the most interesting, lyrically and musically. It is also important to note Buckingham was a producer on the album. His vision is fully realized. Buckingham goes with a Pet Sounds approach in regard to how his songs sound. There are African rhythms, shoebox guitars, a plethora of unique sounds and solos that make his songs more than just a regular "pop" song.

The best example of such is "Tusk." The vocals are sung more intensely than perhaps any Mac single to date. The aforementioned African Beats are thrown in; the USC Marching band provides a stirring brass performance, all the while with various shouts and comments from the band being blared from your speakers. The result is one of the strangest yet most engaging pop singles of the last three decades.

As I said earlier, Nicks and McVie both perform admirably. Stevie Nicks has always had one of the most unique voices in rock, and that isn't any different on Tusk. Her strong, at times almost husky, vocal deliveries make up for deficiencies in the lyrical material. She gets by on feeling, rather than technique. McVie's straight-out pop numbers anchor the album.

Rumours struck a chord with the populace, in part because of the nature of the lyrics -- it's the ultimate break-up album. Tusk does not repeat the same subject material. By this point, the band's old wounds had somewhat healed. Lyrically, just like the style, the album is all over the map. Some are love songs, some venture into more abstract territory. The latter is Buckingham's influence certainly.

However, there is one important factor that takes away from Tusk. It is a double album. The double album is usually indicative of the success of a band, coming at the height of their popularity. However, it is near impossible to pull off a double LP without it containing some filler material. This is true from The White Album to Physical Graffiti. Tusk is guilty of this crime as well. The second half of Tusk, while sounding just as good as earlier songs, just doesn't hold up as well. It runs out of steam, though it gains momentum back with "Tusk and "Never Forget." Tusk could have been a brilliant single album, but it was not meant to be.

http://www.dailyvault.com/toc.php5?review=2502

vivfox

12-06-2007, 10:46 AM

the 26th show of the Tusk Tour
December 6,1979
the 3rd of five shows in Los Angeles
Venue: The Forum

Stevie singing the song SARA
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/sarared.jpg

from BILLBOARD MAGAZINE
Headliners: Fleetwood Mac
Opening Act: Danny Douma
December4-6,1979
Venue: The Forum
Produced by: Avalon Attractions
Ticket Prices: $10.35-$14.35
Total Ticket Sales: 42,359
Gross Receipts: $560,560.00
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David

12-06-2007, 12:12 PM

(snip from blog)McVie can always be turned to for a good pop song.

(snip from blog)McVie's straight-out pop numbers anchor the album.One of these days, I'm going to write a reappraisal of Chris McVie & prove she was more than a churner-outer of "good pop songs" or "straight-out pop numbers." I hear that all the time & it really reduces her particular, effective & yes even sometimes slightly weird talent. "Pop" is used with a slight air of condescension when applied to Chris.

Here's an audio clip of a bunch of Los Angeles TV news bites of Fleetwood's five nights at the Forum. They ran on KTLA & KTTV, the local TV stations.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/1vyfbz

vivfox

12-06-2007, 01:15 PM

One of these days, I'm going to write a reappraisal of Chris McVie & prove she was more than a churner-outer of "good pop songs" or "straight-out pop numbers." I hear that all the time & it really reduces her particular, effective & yes even sometimes slightly weird talent. "Pop" is used with a slight air of condescension when applied to Chris.

Here's an audio clip of a bunch of Los Angeles TV news bites of Fleetwood's five nights at the Forum. They ran on KTLA & KTTV, the local TV stations.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/1vyfbz

I'm very excited to hear these! I'm so thrilled that you saved them for all these years. Thank you for posting!!!

Gailh

12-06-2007, 02:01 PM

vivfox

12-09-2007, 12:22 AM

the 27th show of the Tusk Tour
December 9,1979
San Diego, California
Venue: Sports Arena

One night in San Diego in between the first 3 and the last 2 shows in LA.

Stevie singing Sara live somewhere on the Tusk Tour
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Stevie in the Village Recorder studios sometime in early 1979
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from BILLBOARD MAGAZINE
December 9,1979
San Diego, California
Venue: Sports Arena
Headliners: Fleetwood Mac
Opening Act: Danny Douma
Produced By: Larry Vallon Presents
Ticket Prices: $11.50-$12.50
Tickets Sold: 11,748 (sellout)
Gross Receipts: $143,278.00

BombaySapphire3

12-09-2007, 03:20 AM

the 27th show of the Tusk Tour
December 9,1979
San Diego, California
Venue: Sports Arena

One night in San Diego in between the first 3 and the last 2 shows in LA.

and this then was the first time I ever saw Fleetwood Mac live ..The moments I remember best where the entire performance of SOTM and the Charleston dance that Nicks did at the end of Angel and Nicks leaping off of the ground into the arms of a large man ,presumably a roadie when she left the stage and Christine's Songbird..I was in high school and this was the 4th major concert I had ever been to and the last one of the 1970s ..really the end of an era .It may sound cheesy but when I think of a time when the innocence ended it was not long after this ..Reagan ..AIDS .unbridled greed and so much more were just around the corner .When the 1970s ended that last gasp of what the counterculture meant to me .. .of free love and actually believing that we could change the world and that there would be peace on earth kind of ended for me as well ..this show will always be burned in my memory ..seeing that era of the band at their creative peak in that place and time is very bittersweet and for that reason I will always love them .

vivfox

12-10-2007, 12:05 AM

and this then was the first time I ever saw Fleetwood Mac live ..The moments I remember best where the entire performance of SOTM and the Charleston dance that Nicks did at the end of Angel and Nicks leaping off of the ground into the arms of a large man ,presumably a roadie when she left the stage and Christine's Songbird.

Thank you for sharing this wonderful memory with all of us. I love stories like this. I can, through you, envision concerts I'd never been to. I can totally picure Stevie jumping into Bubba's arms the way you described it.

vivfox

12-10-2007, 12:12 AM

the 28th show on the Tusk Tour
December 10,1979
Los Angeles, California
Venue: The Forum
this was the 4th of 5 nights in LA

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vivfox

12-11-2007, 01:37 AM

the 29th show on the Tusk Tour
December 11,1979
Los Angeles, California
Venue: The Forum
this was the last of a 5 night stand in LA

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After this show Stevie took Jim Ladd back to her home and gave one of the best interviews ever. Get a copy of this if you can. It's called INNERVIEW. Even though it was a great interview, looking back I'm suprised it was all
about Stevie and not about the rest of Fleetwood Mac. However this allowed
Stevie, amongst other subjects as well, plenty of time to discuss the meanings of her songs on the Tusk Album.

from BILLBOARD MAGAZINE
Headliners: Fleetwood Mac
Opening Act: Danny Douma
December 10 & 11,1979
LA, Calif.
Produced by: Avalon Attractions
Ticket Prices: $10.35--$14.35
Tickets Sold: 26,658
Gross Receipts: $356,108.00

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David

12-11-2007, 11:30 AM

After this show Stevie took Jim Ladd back to her home and gave one of the best interviews ever. Get a copy of this if you can. It's called INNERVIEW. Even though it was a great interview, looking back I'm suprised it was all about Stevie and not about the rest of Fleetwood Mac.It was a two-part radio show: one segment with Stevie Nicks & one segment with Mick & Lindsey together.

chiliD

12-11-2007, 11:52 AM

It may sound cheesy but when I think of a time when the innocence ended it was not long after this ..Reagan ..AIDS .unbridled greed and so much more were just around the corner .When the 1970s ended that last gasp of what the counterculture meant to me .. .of free love and actually believing that we could change the world and that there would be peace on earth kind of ended for me as well .

It all ended December 8, 1980. Rest In Peace, John, we STILL miss you.

vivfox

12-12-2007, 12:31 AM

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DavidMn

12-12-2007, 03:16 AM

I believe the San Francisco Cow Palace shows are coming up in the next couple days if memory serves me right. I know I heard a hilarious story where the band put a bunch of chickens in John Courage's room and then they shoved them all into and elevator afterwards and sent them to first sloor. I cant imagine the looks on the faces of whoever tried to get on that elevator when it opened on First floor!:lol::lol:

vivfox

12-13-2007, 03:04 AM

Stevie onstage at The Forum in December, 1979
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vivfox

12-14-2007, 01:27 AM

the 30th show on the Tusk Tour
December 14,1979
San Francisco, California
Venue: The Cow Palace
this is the 1st of 3 SF shows
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PenguinHead

12-14-2007, 12:57 PM

I have the December 11,1979 Forum show on cassette. Here is my review from that show: During DON'T STOP Lindsey seems more into it than Christine. I rated SARA as the best performed live song of the first 15 songs they performed. The USC Trojan Marching Band plays on the song TUSK with FM. In YOU MAKE LOVING FUN the ending vocals are very pretty and the ending guitar parts are very pretty too. In the 2nd half of the show the best songs to listen to are WORLD TURNING, SISTERS OF THE MOON and 2nd HAND NEWS.
SETLIST: Say You Love Me, The Chain, Don't Stop, Dreams, Oh Well, Rhiannon,Oh Daddy, What Makes You Think You're The One, Sara, Not that Funny, Save Me A Place, Landslide, Tusk, Angel, You Make Loving Fun,I'm So Afraid, World Turning, Blue Letter, Go Your Own Way---ENCORE---Sister's Of The Moon, Second Hand News, and my tape has just the beginning only of Songbird.

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It's curious to note that none of Christine's new Tusk songs are included in the initial tour set. At what point did they start performing Over and Over and Think About Me? (Even more surprising is that Brown Eyes turned up in the Mirage tour set. ) Never Forget could have been a nice song done live.

danax6

12-14-2007, 03:25 PM

At what point did they start performing Over and Over and Think About Me?If I remember correctly, not until the very last leg of the tour.

edit: Yes, David's right, Over and Over was done the first few shows also.

David

12-14-2007, 03:25 PM

It's curious to note that none of Christine's new Tusk songs are included in the initial tour set. At what point did they start performing Over and Over and Think About Me? (Even more surprising is that Brown Eyes turned up in the Mirage tour set. ) Never Forget could have been a nice song done live.Wasn't Over & Over part of the recording at the Checker Dome & on the Live Ivory set? I think the band tried it at the beginning of the tour & perhaps found that more recognizable numbers were required to keep the crowd from snoozing or heading out (although Oh Daddy seems a funny replacement). I remember in one of those old print interviews that Lindsey was saying that sometimes pacing or response lagged on the early Tusk shows because the band was trying to get some newer stuff into the set -- hence you had Save Me a Place as LB's acoustic piece rather than the older, more established Never Going Back Again.

But Over & Over is a weird case because it looks as if it was in for a short time, then out for a long time (Oh Daddy added) & then back in again toward the end, when the band played its finest shows ever in August. Think About Me came in for that month, too, & Oh Daddy was dropped.

For some weird reason, That's Enough for Me was given to the Europeans & not to the Americans -- & the Europeans didn't even deserve it that year, having pretty much ignored Tusk & Fleetwood Mac.

Are there any other Tusk songs played on tour I don't know about? The Ledge? That's All for Everyone? Brown Eyes? I don't mean rehearsals but actual shows.

michelej1

12-14-2007, 03:59 PM

Are there any other Tusk songs played on tour I don't know about? The Ledge? That's All for Everyone? Brown Eyes? I don't mean rehearsals but actual shows.

Yeah, they played The Ledge on tour sometimes.

Michele

bucklind17

12-14-2007, 08:51 PM

When was "Think About Me" released as a single? That's surprising, that it wasn't added into the setlist until late in the tour. I've always considered it to more mainstream than Christine's other songs on the album and it's catchy, probably why they released it as a single, but I never really noticed it wasn't in many setlists. Maybe it was added when it started getting more radio play?

vivfox

12-15-2007, 12:16 AM

Yeah, they played The Ledge on tour sometimes.

Michele
Wow I didn't know this. Which cities did they perform it in?

David

12-15-2007, 12:20 AM

Wow I didn't know this. Which cities did they perform it in?I'll answer for Michele since she went out for a iced mocha grande.

Edmunton
Butler
Lancaster
Palmdale
Crescent City
& Prescott

vivfox

12-15-2007, 12:22 AM

vivfox

12-15-2007, 12:38 AM

the 31st show on the Tusk Tour
December 15,1979
San Francisco, California
Venue: The Cow Palace
2nd of three shows in SF
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I wish I had more pictures of the rest of Fleetwood Mac
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12-16-2007, 10:22 AM

the 32nd show on the Tusk Tour
December 16,1979
San Francisco, California
Venue: The Cow Palace
the last of 3 nights in SF
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from BILLBOARD MAGAZINE
Headliners: Fleetwood Mac
Opening Act: Danny Douma
Produced By: Colonel Sanders
Dec. 14-16,1979
Cow Palace
San Francisco
Ticket Prices: $9.00-$12.50
Tickets Sold: 33,858
3 Sellouts
Gross Receipts: $384,779.00

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stevierocks87

12-16-2007, 01:22 PM

Ticket Prices: $9.00-$12.50

WOW. I know inflation has made prices go up-but just wow. Hard to imagine a time when rock concerts where a viable entertainment option for most people. So, this is the band that now charges $130/ticket. wow.

edit: from the inflation calculator http://www.westegg.com/inflation/

What cost $12.50 in 1980 would cost $33.47 in 2006.
Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2006 and 1980,
they would cost you $12.50 and $4.67 respectively.

michelej1

12-16-2007, 01:37 PM

Wow I didn't know this. Which cities did they perform it in?

Yeah! I knew you were going to ask that! I went looking in my clippings, because I thought I had seen reviews which had it in the setlist, but I can't find any. I went over to The Legacy and looked at the notes from a lot of the individual shows and it doesn't come up in any of them. Aside from the rehearsals, it is not in any of the boots. Guess I just imagined it.

Michele

vivfox

12-17-2007, 02:15 AM

December 16,1979 the third show at The Cow Palace in San Francisco. This is the last show on the first leg of the Tusk Tour. The band then takes a much needed rest for the Christmas holidays and more rest in January 1980. In February they head for the Orient.

One of my favorite ever magazine quotes came out of this time period. They showed a picture of Stevie on stage in Creem Magazine and the caption below the photo read, "light brown hair streaked with green doesn't qualify as blond."

They were just trying to be funny. In those days Creem ranked on all the famous rock stars with humorous quotes.

The single "Sara" was released in December, 1979

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vivfox

12-18-2007, 12:23 AM

Los Angeles Times (10/14/79), 'Tusk' Shows Fleetwood Mac's Artistry is More than a 'Rumour'

Los Angeles Times
Sunday, October 14, 1979

‘Tusk’ Shows Fleetwood Mac’s Artistry is More than a ‘Rumour’
by Robert Hilburn

A rock superstar once scolded me for comparing the quality and sales potential of his new album to the work of another recordmaker. “We are artists, not race horses,” he puffed.

But if I don’t compare Fleetwood Mac’s just released “Tusk” to the Eagles’ “The Long Run,” I’ll probably be the only person in America who listens to both albums and doesn’t pass judgment.

The albums--both of which were at least two years in the making and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in studio time--are probably the most awaited LPs of 1979.

“The Long Run” (discussed at length Sept. 30 in Calendar) has the early commercial edge because the Eagles’ new “Heartache Tonight” single is showing more initial strength than Fleetwood Mac’s title track, which has been released as a single.

The Eagles also have an edge in that “The Long Run” is a single album, while “Tusk” is a two-record set with a whopping $15.98 list price--$3 more than “Saturday Night Fever.” Still, it is word of mouth that will determine which album sells the most, and that’s where Fleetwood Mac should have an advantage.

The more substantial work, clearly, is “Tusk.”

Show me a double album that wouldn’t have been more satisfying as a single LP and I’ll show you a rarity in pop music. “Tusk” isn’t that rarity, but it comes close. All things considered, the follow-up to “Rumours” is quite an achievement.

Mention 1977 to record retailers and they’ll smile in much the same way wine connoisseurs bubble over product of a vintage year.

After all, 1977 was the year the Eagles’ “Hotel California,” Paul McCartney’s “Wings Over America,” Barbra Streisand’s “A Star Is Born,” Barry Manilow’s “Live” and Linda Rondstadt’s “Simple Dreams” all went to No. 1.

More importantly, it was the year Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” went to No. 1.

On its way to 12 million sales, “Rumours” spent 31 weeks at the top of the national charts, more than all five other albums combined.

You have to go back 17 years to “West Side Story” to find an LP that spent more weeks at No. 1 -- and the album market wasn’t nearly as competitive then. Before the Beatles arrive in 1964, rock fans concentrated on singles, not albums.

“Saturday Night Fever” and “Grease” eventually outsold “Rumours,” but not even those sound tracks dominated the charts the way Fleetwood Mac did in 1977.

The temptation in following up an album as successful as “Rumours” is to duplicate the sound. Record makers always speak of artistic growth and of not being intimidated by success, but the music normally betrays their words.

Fleetwood Mac hasn’t abandoned the smooth, seductive sound of “Rumours,” but neither has the group been a slave to it. In most cases, the familiar elements have been strengthened and the new ingredients--mostly supplied by Lindsey Buckingham--have given the band a harder, more intriguing feel.

Before discussing “Tusk” further, it’s important to put “Rumours” into perspective. It was a pleasant, but far from great work. The best thing about it was that everyone seemed to like it. The album mixed folk, rock and blues fibers in a way that was hugely accessible. Still, it seemed like a nutritionist’s nightmare at times: 16 zillion calories and very little substance.

The songs frequently dealt with romantic disappointment, but the presentation was so polished that even the heartbreak numbers came across as sweet. In that year, Randy Newman’s “Short People,” the Sex Pistols’ “Never Mind the Bollocks” and Elvis Costello’s “My Aim Is True” were far more provocative and--in the last two cases--more influential collections.

“Tusk” isn’t as relentlessly pleasant as “Rumours.” That’s good. The album’s refusal to court everyone’s favor gives it a sturdier, more distinguished tone. It’s too simplistic to say Fleetwood Mac didn’t take chances in “Rumours.” But the risks are more noticeable this time.

The first time I heard the “Tusk” single on the car radio, I instinctively reached for the fine tuner. I mistook the single’s strident, eccentric rhythm pattern for static noise.

But the biggest surprise wasn’t when I found out that the radio was tuned properly. The surprise was when the disc jockey announced that “Tusk” was by Fleetwood Mac and not some experimental new wave rock band.

While nothing else on the album is as extreme rhythmically, most of Buckingham’s compositions do mix soft and harsh textures in a way that push and pull the listener like a washing machine agitator.

“Tusk” is a mature step for Fleetwood Mac; an album that not only tested the group’s artistic fiber, but now tests the huge Fleetwood Mac audience’s ability to respond to more challenging music.

The adventurousness of “Tusk” should please early Fleetwood Mac fans who became disenchanted with the softer tones associated with albums like “Fleetwood Mac” and “Rumours.”

The band, now based in Los Angeles, started off as a blues group in London 12 years ago. It was named after drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie. After recording an album in 1969 with Chicago blues figures like Otis Spann and Willie Dixon, the group moved toward a more mainstream rock style.

Christine McVie joined Fleetwood Mac in 1971. She had been voted England’s top female singer in 1969 and 1970 in the prestigious Melody Maker reader’s poll.

“Future Games”--her first full album with the band--was a step toward the mellower, folk-rock style that eventually brought the group such popularity. McVie’s “Morning Rain” was in the disarming romantic style of such later hits as “Say You Love Me” and “Over My Head.”

The problem was that the non-McVie songs on that and subsequent LPs lacked the consistency and accessibility of her compositions. That changed when singer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks joined the group in 1975. The pair had previously been in a San Francisco rock group (Fritz) and had recorded a duo LP for Polydor.

The combination clicked. The singing and songwriting of Buckingham and Nicks complemented McVie nicely. The quintet’s first album together, “Fleetwood Mac,” went into the Top 10 in 1975, setting the stage for “Rumours.”

The new Fleetwood lineup worked even better live. While retaining the charm of the records, the music in concert was more dynamic. Buckingham’s guitar work and Fleetwood’s drumming were especially forceful. “Tusk” moves toward that rawer sound.

The added intensity, however, doesn’t make the album’s key songs any less inviting. McVie’s tunes are simple, but convincing statements of romance. It’s her singing that gives them such an engaging quality. McVie’s selections -- especially “Over and Over”, “Never Make Me Cry” and “Never Forget” -- also benefit this time from more tailored arrangements.

More than in “Rumours,” you feel the disappointment and optimism in her songs. The result is some of the most evocative tracks by a female artist since Emmylou Harris’ early albums.

Buckingham is also a straight forward songwriter. he places more emphasis on song texture in “Tusk” than on lyrics. but, like McVie, the arrangements accent the message more fully than in the past. The jarring rhythms on “Tusk” and other tunes underscore the uncertainties of romance. He also varies the rhythms stylishly to make you feel the sarcasm of “What Makes You Think You’re The One?” and the desire of “Save Me A Place.”

Nicks is amore ambitious songwriter than McVie or Buckingham. Her best tunes are more complex lyrically and more distinctive melodically. In “Sara,” she speaks of romantic upheaval with the sensitivity of the Eagles’ best love songs:

Wait a minute baby
Stay with me awhile
Said you’d give me light
But you never told me about the fire.

“Storms,” however, is an even more affecting look at romantic discomfort:

So I try to say
Goodbye my friend
I’d like to leave you with something warm
But never have I been a calm blue sea
I have always been a storm.

One of the weaknesses of “Tusk” is that Nicks’ contributions don’t keep pace with those two songs. The other three tunes suffer from various ailments. Nicks’ whiney vocals; too much of the coy, near-narcissism of her “Rumours” and “Fleetwood Mac” songs and an ultimate overdose of melodrama.

But there’s another problem with “Tusk.” One of Fleetwood Mac’s strengths -- having three independent writers--is also one of its handicaps. Most important rock bands rely on the vision supplied by a single songwriter (the Band’s Robbie Robertson, the Who’s Peter Townshend) or a duo of songwriters (the Rolling Stones’ Jagger-Richard, the Eagles’ Henley-Frey). Without that single vision, a band’s focus often becomes blurred.

Indeed, “Tusk” often seems too much like a random collection of tunes. Despite the individual high points, the LP never transcends the songs to forge the dramatic or unified focus of an album like the Eagles’ “Hotel California” or Bob Dylan’s “Slow Train Coming.”

Yet it is undeniably a step forward for Fleetwood Mac. The band has shown there is more to life than mellowness. The fact the group took that step despite such massive acceptance for its old style elevates it from a band that everyone likes, to a band that everyone can admire.

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vivfox

12-19-2007, 01:14 AM

Defending TUSK

Los Angeles Times
Sunday, November 4, 1979

Popline: FM Puzzles Over ‘Tusk’
by Patrick Goldstein

“It sounds weird to me,” one radio programmer said. Another griped, “It’s just not what’s being played on the radio.” And one station chief confessed, “I don’t have any idea what the album is all about. There simply ain’t no rock here--it all sounds the same.”

You’d think these FM radio tastemakers were complaining about a bombastic new Clash album. But they’re talking about “Tusk,” Fleetwood Mac’s new double album that’s already headed for the pole position on the pop charts (this week’s Record World has it No. 3 with a bullet).

Culled from the FM Friday Morning Quarterback, an influential radio tip sheet, the above quotes point out the essentially conservative programming philosophy of today’s FM radio. Despite Fleetwood Mac’s astounding sales record, many radio execs appear perplexed by “Tusk’s” adventurous, thought often eccentric musical textures.

Brian St. James, music director at WRKI in Bridgeport, Conn., captured the mood of many programmers: “The material on ‘Tusk’ is obviously not in the direction that most album stations are going.”

Other radio chiefs were more blunt.

WLUP/Chicago music director Sky Daniels snapped, “What can you buy with a million dollars? You could take all your friends to Hawaii. Or you could make ‘Tusk.’” Red Beard of WZXR in Memphis added, “Why do we tolerate mediocrity based on prior commercial success?”

Despite the potshots, all these stations are bombarding their listeners with the entire album. Most local FM radio people are more open about “Tusk.” “It’s a good radio album,” said KRTH’s Bob Hamilton. “It just sounds different. We had a negative reaction on our call-outs at first, but I think the listeners are growing more accustomed to it now.”

Other L.A. programmers gave the record mixed reviews. “To be honest, I’m less than enthusiastic,” admitted KMET’s Sam Bellamy. “But I don’t always love what we play on the air. We’re still looking for more listener reaction and local sales feedback.”

Preparing to embark on a lengthy U.S. tour, Fleetwood Mac members stoutly defended their latest work. While admitting that many radio people viewed the “Tusk” single as “an assault on their intelligence,” Lindsey Buckingham added, “I think it’s great. It’s funny, it’s tribal, it’s got a lot of soul to it.”

Offering a more pragmatic defense, Mick Fleetwood said, “I can see why it’s hard to play the ‘Tusk’ single in the middle of a radio set.” As for “Tusk’s” steep price tag ($15.98 list), he countered, “That’s what records cost these days. No one’s forced to buy it. To me albums are like shoes--I buy good ones because I like them and because maybe they’ll last a little longer.”

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12-20-2007, 10:05 AM

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12-20-2007, 11:39 AM

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vivfox

12-22-2007, 12:45 AM

New Music Express (12/01/1979), Fleetwood Mac in New York

NME, December 1, 1979
Fleetwood Mac in New York
by Richard Grabel

You enter the stream of bodies pouring through the portholes of Madison Square Garden. You get caught up in the tide. Into the awesome space - the impersonality of the place is scary.

Why am I here? Their blockbuster records each contain a few songs I admire for the ingenuity of their construction. Fleetwood Mac are a phenomenon as much as they are a group; perhaps more an economic phenomenon than a musical one though.

So I wanted to know: how do these hit-makers face up to the crucial point when performer meets audience? Not that there is likely to be much of a confrontation here. When a group reach Mac's status, their audience isn't sifting out there waiting to judge. They come to adore, to receive the blessings of a magic presence.

The physical scale of the event reinforces the impression of a ritual removed from the constraints of communication. That stage is so big, so distant, the human figures are so small they could be toys, puppets on strings. But the space gives them certain grandeur as well, since they command it with amplification and volume.

We can hardly see them, but we know they are there. They must be Gods.

To their credit, Fleetwood Mac don't play up to this arena-deification syndrome. There is a minimum of pretension in their stagecraft: no light shows or flashy sets, and they don't come on haughty or imperious. At times, there is genuine warmth and grace in their show (particularly when Christine McVie is singing); and at other times there's a real urgency and power straining to come through.

But they are trapped up there as surely as we in our seats are trapped down here. That's a pity.

But they sound good, confident players kicking into their material with conviction. Often, they sounded like a rock and roll band (surprise) as opposed to a pop machine, the harder edges driven in by Buckingham's rhythm-guitar and Mick Fleetwood's powerful, propulsive drumming.

The mixture of styles they present smacks heavily of an attempt to provide something for everyone. But this is probably the natural result of the three different personalities alternating as band leaders, and, much more so than on record, Fleetwood Mac in concert seem like three different bands.

Behind Stevie Nicks, they are mellow, temperate, cruising on automatic.Rumours that Nicks is losing her voice seem partly true. In comparison to her earlier recordings she has lost some of her high range. That little girl sweetness is no longer there.

I also expected more kinetic energy from Nicks. She should fly, or at least move a bit when singing lines from "Rhiannon" about being "taken by the sky." But everything about her delivery is strictly pedestrian.

Christine McVie's voice is delicious. Live, it sounds better than on record, richer, charged with commitment and more soul.

As a performer, she is sedate, hiding behind her keyboards as if playing a supporting role, even when singing lead. But she has an air of sincerity about her that makes her odes to love, won and lost, at least seem hearfelt and genuine. Her "Say You Love Me" is a perfect opener for the concert, breezy, rocking, a good opportunity for the band to display a full, confident sound.

It was down to Lindsey Buckingham to move the band into anything approaching strenuous action.

His first song of the set is "Not That Funny" which seems off-hand and lightweight on Tusk but here is a brash and forceful romp. On "What Makes You Think You're The One" Buckingham really comes out. He emphasises the quirky, stop-start rhythms of the song, and moves like a cross between Elvis Costello and David Byrne; not a trace of El Lay laid-backness in sight.

With his well-tanned and innocent face, Buckingham looks odd carrying on like a wired-up new waver, but never mind. He's funny, a treat to watch, and he makes the band earn its supper keeping up with him.

"Go Your Own Way" is a heady mix of perfect harmonies and if Fleetwood Mac were always this good, I'd listen to them all night. But the best moment was "Tusk".

Tapes simulated the special effects of the record, while Mick Fleetwood churns out a powerhouse beat, rock and roll jungle drums. The song is an off-beat setting within which Buckingham can go nuts, spewing chord clusters and random vocal shrieks like freak time at the zoo.

I'd never thought Buckingham would be a guitarist to watch, but he is. He's accomplished but not too flash, and knows how to cut loose. Only on "I'm So Afraid" does he fall into a plodding, heavy metal-type mush.

What purpose is served depends on what purpose brings you here. If you are a fan, you'll probably be pleased. Recreations of the songs you know and love are delivered with skill and fidelity, with an occasional extra push of energy derived from the live setting. The show's not a cheat.

But there is little intimacy or contact. Aside from Buckingham's surprising commitment to rocking out, there are cracks in the established images these people have painted of themselves in the media providing no new insights into who they are or why they do what they do.

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12-23-2007, 01:13 AM

The Aquarian (11/14/1979), For Fleetwood Mac, "Tusk" Is A Sign Of The Times
Fleetwood Mac Never Let Pressure Affect Its Task

By Everyhight Charley Crespo

When the economy of the music business nose-dived earlier this year, industry heads looked to a handful of albums with fall release dates for salvation. Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, the long-awaited follow-up to 1977's 12-million-selling Rumours, was thought to be among those records whose sales power could determine whether the market would rise or crash before the new decade.

In a press conference held at the St. Regis Hotel's Maisonette Room on Nov. 9, Fleetwood Mac told a gathering of press and broadcasters that the group never let the pressures affect its task.

"(Executives at Warner Bros. Records) didn't call us every day, and there was no pressure from the corporate side of the music industry," said Mick Fleetwood, drummer and co-founding member of the band. "The only things we were concerned with were completing the record and satisfying ourselves, although we were certainly aware of everyone panicking in the record industry. I don't think we were preoccupied with such things really."

Fleetwood Mac's origins date back to the mid-1960's, but its revamped lineup in 1976 (Mick Fleetwood, co-founder John McVie on bass, Christine McVie on vocals and keyboards, and new members Lindsey Buckingham on guitars and Stevie Nicks on vocals) turned the long frustrated Mac into a supergroup. This same lineup, without Christine McVie, who was in town but incapacitated by the flu, faced the media in the group's first press conference since the release of Tusk.

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Explained the tall and lanky Fleetwood: "Peter Beard, one of the three photographers who did some of the pictures on the inside (album sleeves), the artwork, happens to be someone who spent a lot of time in Africa. he came down to the studio and was there for probably about a week, taking pictures of the band. It turned out most of his work was of animals and people's feet.

"He then left and during that time got very involved in the conservation of elephants and wildlife. He left and we were just thinking of an album title. We had no idea that his artwork, when it came back probably three, three and a half months later, would have elephant tusks all over it with odd pictures of us stuck in it, so it was just a coincidence. Then it was chosen as a word that we thought sounded good as a word. It wasn't really supposed to be elephantitis (sic).

The title cut was released as a single prior to the album's release. "Tusk" is an adventurous number, propelled by a strident jungle-sounding drum beat, with mysterious bits of lyric coming from behind. Halfway through the song, one hears the University of Southern California's Trojan Marching Band adding a few ticks. The song sounds nothing like anything this band has ever done before.

"That's the point really," said Buckingham, now clean-shaven and sporting short locks rather than the long curly hair and beard he'd worn since he first joined the group. "I don't know if we would have picked it ourselves, but we enjoyed it very much...I think when you hear it in the context of the rest of the album it's a little bit more understandable in terms of reasons for releasing it...The point is that the album is different, too, and it's gotten a lot of people's curiosity up. Warner Bros. felt very strongly about releasing "Tusk," and in a way it's good because it's gotten a lot of talk going about the fact that it is so different. There are a lot of different things on the album as well, so people are wondering what the hell we're up to."

Like its predecessor, Fleetwood Mac, Rumours stayed on the national sales charts for well over a year, spending 31 weeks in the top slot. The group did extensive touring to promote the album, thus delaying work on Tusk. The group postponed the recording about two months in order to inaugurate the new state-of-the-art Village Recorder studio with Tusk.

Though Tusk was released nearly three years after the release of Rumours, the group denies charges that it took an excessive amount of time to turn in the finished product.

"I think what was construed as delays were in other people's minds, you know," said Fleetwood. "In actual fact, Rumours took a continuous year to pull together. This album really went very smoothly considering we were probably active in the studio for eight months." "And we did double as many songs." interjected Nicks. "And we did 20 songs," echoed Fleetwood. "And also a few others," Nicks added.

The Los Angeles-based quintet has already embarked on a world tour that will keep it on the road through the summer of 1980, with area dates at Madison Square Garden Nov. 15 and 16 and at the Spectrum Nov. 21. Nicks expressed confidence that her voice will be up to par.

"It's wonderful to read that your voice is disintegrating," she said, sarcastically referring to the bad press she received at one point on the last tour when her voice sounded strained. "If you care to take the time to collect the reviews from the last shows that we've done, you might notice that I am, as my mother said to me, 'singing like a little bird,'" Nicks noted in a comical tone. "I'm taking real good care of myself. My voice is not disintegrating. When I die, "disintegration' will be one of the words that pass in front of me. I think it's very cruel for people to say disintegration. It's like, well God, I might as well just give up. Does anybody have faith in me at all? My voice is fine."

When queried about a "mystical awe" she supposedly radiates from the stage Nicks remarked, "Everyone will notice that I'm not wearing black anymore. I like black. Don't you like black? I mean, ladies like to wear black; it's wonderful and elegant and I'm not wearing it anymore because I'm so sick of this witch stuff.

"I take ballet. I love to dance. I love all this stuff. It has nothing to do with all this. You know, I don't have candles (and) incense going in my room. It's everybody else's interpretation. I like chant-songs, but that's just my own personal preference of music. That has nothing to do with witchery. That's everybody else's trip, not mine. If they want to believe that the only thing I can say is drop by my house someday and notice there's no witching going on."

Fleetwood Mac will tour the U.S. through mid-December and start the new year with concert appearances in the Far East and Europe before returning to North America. At the tour's conclusion, if Fleetwood Mac has no immediate commitments as a group, its members will be free to pursue individual projects.

Though plans were not revealed at the press conference, this reporter pointed out that Nicks has a record deal with a new record company, Modern Records, and that her solo lp is scheduled to be the label's first product. The record will reportedly be a soundtrack to a film adaption of "Rhiannon." a song she wrote and sang on the Fleetwood Mac lp.

"The people that I have signed this with happen to be very, very, very close friends of mine and they will not push me to do anything that I cannot do," she said. "They are totally aware that I am first and foremost a member of Fleetwood Mac, and when I have the time to go in and be crazy and do my own crazy music, (I will do it). But they understand and I understand that the only reason I was able to sign anything with anyone else was because I trusted them and they trust me enough to know that when I get around to it, I'll do it."

When this reporter asked what she meant by "crazy music," Nicks said, "It's my 'Rhiannon' music and my...what can I say?" "Incense, candles," offered Buckingham, to a roomful of chuckles.

While the record industry awaited the double-record Tusk, many parties were apprehensive of its unprecedented $15.98 list price, $3 more than Saturday Night Fever. Tusk has been in the Top 10 since its release a few weeks ago, but it hasn't been able to oust the Eagles' The Long Run and Led Zeppelin's In Through The Out Door from the top slots. While there is no accurate way to tell if Tusk's comparatively high price has scared off a significant number of sales. Fleetwood Mac defended the list price by pointing to it as a sign of the times.

"As a band, maybe we're slightly pinned down because of the apparentness of the band," said Fleetwood, "but...if you take a look at what the record basically sells for, (and) I've seen it sell for $9.50--$10 for 20 songs in what I think is certainly a really nice package--and then compare it to a double Donna Summer album or a Bob Dylan At Budokan, it's only a matter of pennies difference. That's what records cost and that's about all I can say."

"Also the escalation of price is a constant thing," said Buckingham. "This is one of the first double albums that's been in the limelight or whatever, and so it's going to be one of the first ones people are going to jump on as far as there being that high a list price."

"It's not a price thing as far as the industry in general." added Fleetwood. "It's not just us."

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12-24-2007, 01:08 AM

The Washington Post (11/14/1979),
Fleetwood Mac Delivers But Eagles Don't Fly

By Al Aronowitz

Long and eagerly awaited, Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" comes as the most spectacular event in records since Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life." Less of an event is the release of "The Long Run" by the Eagles, who have delivered a workmanlike disc full of neither disappointments nor supprises. "Tusk" stretches the limits of the recording medium. "The Long Run" stays safely within them.

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours," released almost three years ago, sold 14 million copies, and the record industry's anticipation of "tusk" has been somewhat more intense than waiting for ketchup out of a bottle. One of the maxims of the industry is that a big hit brings people into the stores. Except for its double-disc price of $15.98, "Tusk" ought to leave "Rumours" in the dust, conferring a new regality on Fleetwood Mac.

"Tusk" ought to do for Fleetwood Mac what "Sgt. Pepper" did for the Beatles, which was to wrench recognition from the adult establishment, not just for commercial success for esthetics but because the thrust of the music finally bridged the generation gap. But "Tusk" is not as tight as "Sgt. Pepper." It's more reminiscent of the Beatles' double-disc "White" album because it has more room to express the sharp musical differences between the three songwriters of the group, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks.
Certainly "Tusk" ought to skyrocket Fleetwood Mac out of the strictly teeny-bopper category that last year made the Capital Centre think it could present the group so appallingly, with general-admission tickets and no seats on the floor so that you had to stand in the crush as if you were watching the correct from a cattle car.

The surprises on "Tusk" are provided mainly by Buckingham, who sheds his pretty-boy image with this album to emerge as an intense John Lennon-like genius, with a studio in his house where he experiments with sounds and syncopation, and lyrics so cutting they don't even leave scars.

Buckingham would record tapes at home and bring them into the studio for the other in the group to hear. They began to understand what he was trying to do and got behind it, contributing fills, rhythms and harmonies, sometimes in nonsensical whispers, that track enigmatically through both discs.

The most mysterious song is the title cut, "Tusk," for which drummer manager Mike Fleetwood provided the drum track and then rented Dodger Stadium for overduds by the horns of the University of Southern California Trojan Marching Band. Released as a single with a background of unintelligible crowd noises, and acid lyrics, "Tusk" will probably be the first hit off the album.

The album emerges as a personal triumph for Buckingham, with the credit on the sleeve reading, "Produced by Fleetwood Mac (Special Thanks To Lindsey Buckingham)." But there are other surprises. When Stevie Nicks sings "Sara," a tune that could easily be criticized as a construction of '50ish schlock with the same melody as Love Unlimited's "Love's There," she sings her fragile lyrics so beautifully you just might find tears running down your cheeks.

"Tusk" leaves you at a loss to compare Fleetwood Mac with any other group except the Beatles, largely because of the depth on its songwriting bench. If Buckingham is Lennon, then Stevie Nicks is Paul McCartney. She knows enough about what delights the ear to end up the big moneymaker.
Still there is a difference, and that difference is women. As others have already pointed out, Fleetwood Mac is the first group of the Beatles' caliber to integrate women so successfully.

But the magic is in the interaction of the group, in the performances and in the feel, and especially in the psychic communication that goes on among them. Fleetwood Mac pumps you full of energy, romantic and mellow, without dulling the edge you need to cut your way through reality.

The only anxiety you get from "Tusk" is wondering how much longer this cartel of talent, featuring two pairs of ex-lovers, can keep their egos, tempers and band intact.

As for the Eagles, "The Long Run" is far from a disaster. It's just another Eagles album. There is experimentation throughout the disc and even at their worst, the Eagles are nothing short of great, but there are no cuts on "The Long Run" that achieve the brilliance of "Lyin' Eyes" or "Hotel California" or even "Life in the Fast Lane."

Eagles fans will be well satisfied with this album, which is already No. 1 on the pop charts. "Heartache Tonight," the first single off the album, is also a hit. "I Can't Tell You Why," sung by the group's new bass player, Timothy Schmit, formerly with Poco, promises to be another. "In the City," featuring Joe Walsh, could be still one more. But whether any of these cuts will grow on us the way previous Eagles hits did is still questionable. These are all more solid than inspired.

To experience the Eagles' sound is always a job. The Eagles are also storytellers, and their stories are superlatively told. In "The Long Run," the Eagles maintain their quality, but they don't reach any further.

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12-24-2007, 01:34 AM

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12-25-2007, 12:12 AM

People Magazine, November 26, 1979

The Rumors About All Those Fleetwood Mac Splits Were True; And Now Their Comment is Tusk, Tusk.
by Jim Jerome

It's not because saving the elephant is one of their causes or that they identify with the magnificent if extinct mammoth that Fleetwood Mac called their current double LP Tusk. Explains the group's drummer/manager, Mick Fleetwood: "The title itself has no bearing on anything. We just liked the sound of the word in the abstract."

But financially, Mick and Co. might as well have titled it Risk. Along with Led Zeppelin and the Eagles, Mac was the fall's Great Vinyl Hope to resurrect the lagging music industry. Yet Tusk defiantly lists at $15.98 when, as Mick admits, "records sales are taking a complete dump." Further, the group invested more than $1 million to create a jarring, audacious new sound. So why depart from the hit-cranking pop-rock formula responsible for some 20 million sales of their last two LPs? As lead guitarist Lindsey Buckingham points out invidiously, the Eagles' new work "is just more of the same of the last five years. I mean, why bother?" "Our ideas and lives progressed, moved on," seconds keyboardist Christine McVie. "Tusk is years more mature. If you're complacent, you stagnate."

Complacency has never been a vice of Fleetwood Mac since the group settled into its present composition in 1974 with Mick and two other Britons, bassist John McVie and his then wife Christine, plus two Californians, Buckingham and his then lover, singer Stevie Nicks. In the two years since their provocatively autobiographical last LP, Rumours, three of them have changed partners. John has found a new wife. Christine is riding the perfect wave with Beach Boy Dennis Wilson. Fleetwood, after remarrying his divorced wife, split again and now lives a model. Nicks is now unattached since busting up with a record executive. Buckingham is still with his model.

Under those circumstances, much of Tusk was put together piecemeal on what Christine says was a "non-communal rotation system;" the five members were often not in the studio together. The involvement this time was less emotional than aesthetic and to hear Lindsey, not even commercial. "If Tusk becomes an influential work over the next decade," says Buckingham (who dominates the LP with nine of the 20 tunes), "then that's the measure of success. Whether it sells three million or five million," he adds ever-so-blithely, "is neither here nor there." "People may not have expected Tusk," says Mick, "and noses may be slightly out of joint. But we did this for us. It was a healthy challenge to pull it off."

Now, obviously, they have. The Tusk LP and single are both Top Ten, and as Mick reports from the road, where they are on the 22-city first leg of a nine-month worldwide tour, "the energy is really poppin'."

For Fleetwood, 31, it hasn't been easy. His second split from his wife of 12 years, Jenny Boyd, now "seems permanent. But, luckily," he adds, "we get on well." She has custody of their two children and has taken them back to England. Mick, like the rest of the group lives in the L.A. area and sees the kids during vacations. "I quite miss the fact that I can't be a father," he admits. "I happen to be one of those men who adores that thing of 'alright, kids, let's go.'"

Then, if his marital breakup weren't trouble enough, last year while working on Tusk Mick discovered that he was suffering from diabetes. "I had been feeling burned-out," he recalls.

"My eyes were going wild, I started drinking like a fish, I'd hyperventilate while talking." One doctor suggested he see a shrink. "My ego couldn't accept the fact that I was going around the twist. Manic-depressive one minute, eating a bowl of ice cream, quite happy, the next. I thought it was a brain tumor. I was afraid I was going to die. It was 18 months of hell." But once the ailment was diagnosed (it's a mild case), Mick adjusted his habits. "Bless her," he says of Sara Recor, his companion of the past year. "She was there to hold my hand and look after me." Though he concedes, "I have overworked and overplayed," Mick says he now "feels like I did 10 years ago."

Perhaps the least changed Mac member of all, says Fleetwood, is his co-founder John McVie, 34. McVie and second wife Julie Rubens live both in Beverly Hills and on his 63-foot sloop. The casual "rotation" recording system allowed McVie to leave his bass tracks behind and sail out to Maui while the group did the last month of polishing Tusk. And no less an expert than his first wife, Christine, finds John has "mellowed since marrying Julie. He's become a gentle person."

The Mac member who has changed the most, according to Fleetwood, is Buckingham, 30. "He was volatile and intense in the beginning," says Mick, "and afraid he was trapped into doing things a certain way." But with almost half of Tusk under his name, he's been freed. "My contribution was not that visible before," says Lindsey. "Things that had been swimming around in my head for years finally got exorcised on Tusk."

Doing some of his own cuts on his 24-track in Hancock Park, Buckingham bravely usurped some drumming parts from Mick. "We've broken down barriers that existed for five years," says Lindsey.

The liberated Lindsey has even forsaken the furry curls, scraggy beard and skintight satins of his old lead guitar sex-idol image. He now displays a clean look and casually modish Gentlemen's Quarterly couture. His retreat from classic rock macho has come home too. His girlfriend of three years, Carol Harris, will be along for only half the tour dates. "I want to give Carol the chance to express herself in her modeling without tearing too much from our relationship." Meanwhile, Lindsey reports that without her on the road, "Getting crazy on a few drinks at the bar means nothing to me. I'm happier having time to myself in my room, doing my tunes, than looking for action."

But if Lindsey ever needs some post-concert commiserating, he can probably call on Christine McVie. Her squeeze, Beach Boy enfant terrible Dennis Wilson, 34, will not be steady during the tour either. "It doesn't suit Dennis' personality," says Christine, "to be a guest, to have to say, 'Oh, I'm with the piano player.'" On her own, Christine is clearly less shy and more self-assured since they met a year ago. "He is a multifaceted jewel," she exults. "Dennis has awakened things in me I'd have been scared to experience and made me feel the extremes of every emotion." Specifically, says Christine, he has turned her onto speedboating and water-skiing. "Dennis has thrown me into the deep end, literally and figuratively."

They commute between Dennis' 68-foot ketch in Marina del Rey and her "very English" home on Coldwater Canyon. They "definitely" plan to marry in February, but Christine has ruled out kids. "I'm 36," she says, "and my life-style is pretty much settled as far as sacrificing and accommodating myself to children."

"She used to call me the Mad Songwriter," says Stevie Nicks, 31, noting that in Tusk Christine composed six tracks to her five. "Chris sits up all night and writes, she's so inspired," says Nicks. Stevie is prolific herself, in love or out, but for two years she has been mostly out. One problem: Male rockers, she finds, are "pretty chauvinistic. I strive to be taken seriously as a writer, and be as good as they are. So they resent my success. I see it in their eyes: 'How did this dingbat manage to get everything she wants?'"

Another problem is her immersion in Mac's work ethic. "How many men, even the nicest, most patient, can understand that for months you will come home at 7am, dead tired and in a bad mood?" For now, she says resignedly, "the band is all there is room for in my life." Just as well. On the road, she says, security is so tight that "no man can get within 10 feet. I hardly ever meet any new men."

Nicks' large Tudor home above Sunset Boulevard is now on the market because it attracted hangers-on who overstayed their welcome. "Any man I ever went out with called the place Fantasyland. I'm 31, I won't always be in a rock band, and I don't want to come out of this absolutely helpless." So she is moving into a modest beachfront condo. "Some people thrive on being a rock star. I hate it. I don't like being waited on all the time, people following me around saying, 'Let me do this, let me do that.'"

Stevie has signed on with former boyfriend Paul Fishkin's Modern Records to act in and do the solo sound track LP of Rhiannon, an upcoming movie based on her 1976 Mac hit. She has also written a children's story and hopes to turn it into an animated film. "It's a love story about a goldfish and a ladybug. A friend told me it would be the Doctor Zhivago of children's cartoons."

Though she is still the band's sexily whirling, wailing focus onstage, Stevie claims, "The last thing the world needs is another sex symbol." And what does Stevie need? "I don't need doctors, nurses and babysitters. I need love."

But even Nicks, who seems bent on going her own way, know that this "is still the best rock band in the world."

And one of the most durable. "The band's been breaking up for five years," says Fleetwood, sardonically, of all the reports. The group has two more years left on its record contract and the road stretches ahead until August. "If the members really felt suffocated," Mick says, "then there'd be an obvious danger. Things do get a little crazy at all times. But this doesn't feel like a band that's breaking up."

Headshot of Mick: If Tusk had stiffed, says Fleetwood, "it'd've been awful."

Headshot of John: Last year John McVie married Californian Julie Rubens. They met when she worked for the band's ex-business manager.

Headshot of Christine: "It's never been so vibrant, so gratifying," says Christine, referring to her Tusk love ballads as well as to Dennis Wilson.

Headshot of Stevie: Fed up with "letting the aura of a big rock band run my life," Nicks says she's "going back to the gypsy I was."

Headshot of Lindsey: Buckingham admits, "It's not normal to tour with an ex-girlfriend. I don't really socialize with her but things are fine."

Shot of Stevie getting a massage during rehearsal: "I'm not me when I'm rushed," says Stevie. To slow things down, Masayoshi Sasaki was hired for rubdowns on the road.

Shot of Christine and Dennis Wilson in a tight and cozy embrace: Beach Boy Dennis, says Chris, is "delightfully eccentric, and people's Mother Earth image of me is wrong. I get crazy too."

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12-26-2007, 12:17 AM

The Philadelphia Daily News (11/18/1979), Album Reviews
Michele Jackson

THE RECORD INDUSTRY, lately in something of a slump, is firing its big guns.

Within the past few weeks, we've seen a new album from the Eagles (now No. 1 on the charts) and another by Fleetwood Mac (No. 4 and gaining despite a walloping $15.98 cover price). And, oddly enough, both have solid merit to go with their commercial punch.

That's especially true of Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" (Warner Bros.), a two-record set that had a gestation roughly paralleling that of an overdue baby elephant. The long delay between the last Fleetwood Mac effort and the new one was necessary because it looked like "Rumours" would sell forever. So far, some 14 million copies have been sold, give or take a couple of late-reporting Korvette branches in American Samoa.

The fact is that "Tusk" is the record that will overcome the basic critic presumption that records that sell a ton are automatically less worthy than those that don't sell at all. Not since the Beatles have we had a group to so successfully combine outrageous success at the cash register with quality music. It will also do severe damage to that other cherished critical belief that all two-record sets should have been one excellent record instead of two less excellent ones. This one's solid all the way through.

ONCE YOU GROPE your way through all the cardboard (sleeves within sleeves within sleeves), there's a lot to listen to.

Lindsey Buckingham's new songs here provide a graceful kind of intensity that the band hadn't had before.

The title track is perhaps the best example, with its 60ish acidic feel, its compelling drum track played against the horns of the U.S.C. marching band and some completely irrational crowd noises. It all works, as does his marvelously biting "What Makes You Think You're the One." If he hadn't captured the feel of John Lennon at his best so well, it might be tempting to say that Buckingham has shed the whole pretty rock star image as convincingly as Paul McCartney. Let's say it anyway.

One of the things that has always distinguished this incarnation of Fleetwood Mac is its effective integration of women, unlike virtually every other rock band. That's a lot more likely to stay in your mind than the band's distinctive "sound," which can on occasion get monotonous. Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks provide the rest of the songs here.

NICKS HAS A GIFT for the kind of song you end up humming without thinking about it. She also sings the hell out of them. Those two factors combine to make hits, of course.

And despite all the gossip about her voice in the "People"-type press, she sounds just fine - better than ever. "Sara" may not be a terribly heavyweight song, but she sings it about as well as anybody could.

The Eagles' "The Long Run" (Asylum) is another matter altogether. The group has generated a lot of good music since 1971 and it's really not their fault that the imitators they spawned have generally been stupefying.

The new album doesn't have a "Take It Easy" or a "James Dean" or a "Lyin' Eyes" on it, at least not to my ears, but it does have a solid collection of well-constructed and played songs. It's a fine album that I probably won't listen to a lot.

My problem with the Eagles here is the same one I've got with the genre of "Life on the Road Sure is Miserable Even if You're a Big Star." The Eagles have this attitude. And the new album follows "Life in the Fast Lane" to something of a conclusion.

Hollywood is decadent. It is full of scary things. Life is tough.

So what? Popular music has to have a link to people - actual people, not just those who have shared a few grams with a superstar. Unrelieved bleakness is also a little hard to handle. While Fleetwood Mac used to sound seamless and was criticized for it, it's clear that nothing but seams isn't it either.

All that aside, they do it all well. "The Disco Strangler" is wonderfully compelling depravity. The next track, "King of Hollywood," is probably the best ever in the limited area of songs about casting couches.

Nice album, a hit even. It's just not likely to wear well.

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12-26-2007, 07:57 PM

Crap! Having been occupied with moving, I missed the opportunity to download this show and it has expired. Of all the tours, Tusk is my favorite! And ironically, I have only a handful of those shows. Could I appeal to you or anyone else who now has it to repost it? Thanks forward!;)

6th night of The TUSK TOUR
November 2,1979
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Venue: Tingley Coliseum

THIS WAS TONIGHT'S CONCERT

Introduction
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Say You Love Me
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The Chain
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Dreams
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Stevie goes into the tent to change clothes and sit out the next song.

Not That Funny
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Stevie returns to the stage in her fairytale ware

Rhiannon
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Stevie goes into the tent to remove her Rhiannon Scarves and casually returns to the stage during the middle of the next song.

Over & Over
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Stevie goes into the tent to change clothes and sit out the next song. Lindsey says something like,"to the guy in the front row with the yellow shirt on-you wanted to hear something old? Well we got it for you."

Oh Well
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Stevie returns to the stage all decked out in red.

Sara
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Stevie goes into the tent to change clothes and sit out the next two songs.

What Makes You Think You're The One
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Oh Daddy
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Another microphone stand is set up onstage to the left of Stevie's Mic and Christine stands in front of it to sing and play acoustic guitar on the next track. Stevie returns to the stage.

Save Me A Place
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Christine returns to her keyboards. Lindsey pulls out his acoustic guitar.

Landslide
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Stevie goes into the tent to change clothes. Christine returns to her stand up mic area with an accordian in her hands and the tape with the Tusky background music is played. Mick starts pounding on his drums, marching band style.Stevie returns to the stage with a cowbell and drumstick in her hands.

Tusk
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Angel
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You Make Loving Fun
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Stevie goes into the tent to change clothes and sit out the next song. It feels like an eternity till she returns 'cause she's offstage for approx. 10 minutes

I'm So Afraid
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Christine returns to her standup mic with maraca's in her hands.

World Turning
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Go Your Own Way
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Unfortunately, like a lot of bootlegs, someone forgot to record the encores. So no Sister's Of The Moon or Songbird tonight kitties. Unless one of YOU can add it from your collection 'cause I don't have it and I want to hear SOTM!!!!

vivfox

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vivfox

12-27-2007, 12:11 AM

Rolling Stone (12/1979), Tusk Review

At a cost of two years and well over a million dollars, Fleetwood Mac's _Tusk_ represents both the last word in lavish California studio pop and a brave but tentative lurch forward by the one Seventies group that can claim a musical chemistry as mysteriously right -- though not as potent -- as the Beatles'. In its fits and starts and restless changes of pace, _Tusk_ inevitably recalls the Beatles' "White Album" (1968), the quirky rock jigsaw puzzle that showed the Fab Four at their artiest and most indecisive.

Like "The White Album", _Tusk_ is less a collection of finished songs than a mosaic of pop-rock fragments by individual performers. _Tusk's_ twenty tunes -- nine by Lindsey Buckingham, six by Christine McVie, five by Stevie Nicks -- constitute a two-record "trip" that covers a lot of ground, from rock & roll basics to a shivery psychedelia reminiscent of the band's earlier _Bare Trees_ and _Future Games_ to the opulent extremes of folk-rock arcana given the full Hollywood treatment. "The White Album" was also a trip, but one that reflected the furious social banging around at the end of the Sixties. _Tusk_ is much vaguer. Semiprogrammatic and nonliterary, it ushers out the Seventies with a long, melancholy high.

On a song-by-song basis, _Tusk's_ material lacks the structural concision of the finest cuts on _Fleetwood Mac_ and _Rumours_. Though there are no compositions with the streamlined homogeneity of "Dreams", "You Make Loving Fun" or "Go Your Own Way", there are many fragments as striking as the best moments in any of these numbers.

If Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks were the most memorable voices on _Fleetwood Mac_ and _Rumours_, Lindsey Buckingham is _Tusk's_ artistic linchpin. The special thanks to him on the back of the LP indicates that he was more involved with _Tusk's_ production than any other group member. Buckingham's audacious addition of a gleeful and allusive slapstick rock & roll style -- practically the antithesis of Fleetwood Mack's Top Forty image -- holds this mosaic together, because it provides the crucial changes of pace without which _Tusk_ would sound bland.

The basic style of _Tusk's_ "produced" cuts is a luxuriant choral folk-rock -- as spacious as it is subltle -- whose misty swirls are organized around incredibly precise yet delicate rhythm tracks. Instead of using the standard pop embellishments (strings, synthesizers, horns, etc.), the bulk of the sweetening consists of hovering instrumentation and background vocals massively layered to approximate strings. This gorgeous, hushed, etheral sound was introduced to pop with 10cc's "I'm Not in Love", and Fleetwood Mac first used in _Rumours'_ "You Make Loving Fun". On _Tusk_, it's the band's signature. Buckingham's most commercial efforts -- the chiming folk ballads, "That's All for Everyone" and "Walk a Thine Line" -- deploy a choir in great dreamy waves. In McVie's "Brown Eyes", the blending of voices, guitars and keyboards into a plaintive "sha-la-la" bridge builds a mere scrap of a song into a magnificent castle in the air. "Brown Eyes" sounds as if it were invented for the production, rather than vice versa.

About the only quality that Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie share is a die-hard romanticism. On _Tusk_, Nicks sounds more than ever like a West Coast Patti Smith. Her singing is noticeably hoarser than on _Rumours_, though she makes up some of what she's lost in control with a newfound histrionic urgency: "Angel" is an especially risky flirtation with hard rock. Nicks' finest compositions here are two lovely ballads, "Beautiful Child" and "Storms". Her other contributions, "Sara" and "Sisters of the Moon", weave personal symbolism and offbeat mythology into a near-impenetrable murk. There's a fine line between the exotic and the bizarre, and this would-be hippie sorceress skirts it perilously. McVie is as dour and terse as Nicks is excitable and verbose. Her two best songs -- "Never Forget", a folk-style march, and "Never Make Me Cry", a mournful lullaby -- are lovely little gems of pure romantic ambiance. With a pure, dusky alto that's reminiscent of Sandy Denny, this woeful woman-child who's in perpetual pursuit of "daddy" evokes a timeless sadness.

_Tusk_ finds Fleetwood Mac slightly tipsy from jet lag and fine wine, teetering about in the late-afternoon sun and making equisite small talk. Surely, they must all be aware of the evanescence of the golden moment that this album has captured so majestically.

-- Stephen Holden, Rolling Stone, 12-13-79.

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12-28-2007, 11:02 AM

Los Angeles Times
Thursday, December 6, 1979

Fleetwood Mac Puts Some Teeth in “Tusk”
by Dennis Hunt

Can “Tusk” captivate a tough audience?

Before Fleetwood Mac’s Tuesday night Inglewood Forum show many didn’t think so. “Tusk” is the pop-rock quintet’s latest album. Its critical reception has been mixed and music fans haven’t been buying this two-record set in record numbers either. “Tusk” has sold just over 2 million but the band’s previous and best album, “Rumours,” has sold 12 million.

A solid test of the new album’s concert appeal is having it work on Los Angeles audiences, which are known throughout the industry for being supercritical and somewhat jaded. Well, the “Tusk” material does work in concert. With a show centered around those songs, Fleetwood Mac not only satisfied the Forum crowd but it had it panting for more at the end of the two-hour set.

To get the audience in a receptive mood for the less familiar “Tusk” material, the band opened with a string of oldies, including “Don’t Stop” and “Dreams.” The strategy worked. Had Fleetwood Mac begun with the new material the reaction might have been less positive.

Most of the songs on “Tusk” sound strained. The band labored over the album and it shows. The fluidity and craftsmanship of “Rumours” just isn’t here this time. “Tusk” isn’t a bad album. It just isn’t as good as “Rumours,” which is no crime considering “Rumours” comes as close to pop-rock perfection as any ‘70s album.

The “Tusk” material, though, did sound much better live. The punchier concert accompaniment added a dimension to the songs that is missing on the recorded versions. On the album the songs are softer. In concert they were extended and embellished and turned into powerhouse rock’n’roll pieces.

Fleetwood Mac, a 12-year-old band that has been through numerous personnel and stylistic changes, now consists of drummer Mick Fleetwood, bassist John McVie, singer Stevie Nicks, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and keyboards player Christine McVie. Nicks, Buckingham and Christine McVie write and sing the songs. Democracy governs Fleetwood Mac. No one performer dominates. However, since Nicks and Christine McVie sing more songs than Buckingham, the group does tend to have a feminine tone.

Rock’s premier showmen are under no threat from anyone in this band. They perform with exuberance and considerable skill but without flash and flamboyance. Pretty, long-haired Nicks is by far the most intriguing of the three lead singers. Attired in flowing, layered dresses, she looked ethereal, which was in sharp contrast to her rather coarse sound. Though her unusual style, on gloomily romantic songs like “Sara” and “Rhiannon,” had its grating moments, it was quite appealing most of the time.

The liveliest number in the show was “Tusk,” a noisy nonsense piece that always seemed to be one step away from chaos. The USC marching band, which played on the single, also backed the band on the concert version, which had the feel of halftime at a football game. The song has no lyrical substance but that didn’t matter. Its essence is a festive, rowdy spirit that came across vividly.

Instrumentally, the show was exceptional. Through the mainstream rock accompaniment was neither complicated nor challenging, the four musicians played it superbly. While not in a league with rock’s greats, Buckingham is an underrated guitarist whose dexterous playing can be dramatically effective.

The major difference in Fleetwood Mac’s albums and its shows is the dominance of Fleetwood’s drumming. On the records his playing is somewhat subdued and definitely subservient to all the other elements. In concert, however, Fleetwood takes charge. Because of his free reign, there was rhythmic thunder on almost every song. His powerful percussive support radically enhanced the impact of the material.

Fleetwood Mac’s last local appearance, a three-day Forum engagement in 1977, sold out but this five-night series hasn’t. On Tuesday night, however, most of the 17,000 seats were filled. Tickets are still available for the shows tonight, Monday and Tuesday. Given that the “Tusk” album hasn’t been a sales blockbuster, a five-night engagement was apparently too ambitious. The opening act is Danny Douma and Night Eyes.

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12-29-2007, 07:11 AM

Creem, August, 1979, The Best Seat in Town

LOS ANGELES - Anybody with a living hormone or two can tell you what Stevie Nicks' true appeal is, but if you say so in public, you might get sued.

A local punk outfit, The Rotters, released a single called "Sit On My Face, Stevie Nicks," which tore up the charts at KROQ and had sold over 2000 copies when who but Mick Fleetwood himself called up the station, gave them a severe "tongue lashing" (it says so right here, honest) and demanded that they stop playing it. Further verbal lickin's from F. Mac legal busybodies convinced the station to drop the tasty tune from their playlist.

C'mon now, Mick. Was it REALLY that offensive to you, or is this just another case of SOUR GRAPES?

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12-30-2007, 12:55 AM

Excerpts from:
Omaha Rainbow, Issue 22
Autumn 1979

The "Bombs Away" Interview
John Stewart interviewed by Peter O’Brien
September 21, 1979
Montcalm Hotel, London, England

****
Speaking about meeting Lindsey and getting him involved in the album -

"You know the story about Lindsey learning to play guitar off the Trio
albums and me learning to play electric guitar off Lindsey Buckingham
albums. So I met Walter Egan at the Union and asked him what it was like
working with Lindsey, and he said, ‘you gotta meet him because . . .’
blah, blah, blah. So then I went over and met Lindsey when he was mixing
‘Hot Summer Nights’ and said, ‘Lindsey, I’d really like you to produce
this album.’ He said, ‘I’d like to but I’m doing Fleetwood Mac.’ He
came out to the house a few times and we worked on tunes and he said, ‘I
really want to do this.’"

****
Speaking about working with Lindsey on the album -

"On my birthday last year he (Lindsey Buckingham) and Joey Carbone and
Russ Kunkel came down and played for free on ‘Midnight Wind’ . . . It was
the best birthday I ever had, yeah, it was great. Got drunk out of our
brains. Then I started doing the rest of them - ‘Somewhere Down the
Line" and Lindsey came in and did that live; ‘Spinnin’ of the World’
live; and then just overdubbed the crap out of that. . . . Lindsey would
come in for 14 hours at a time and then I wouldn’t see him again for a
month. . . . As far as Lindsey went, it was just the way he would point
the way to things, show me the direction in which to go, make me a mix
that was just mindblowing, and play some guitars or do some vocals."

****
Speaking about Lindsey’s willingness to help during John’s desperate
times -

"Oh the pressure that Al Coury (RSO record company president) was putting
me under at that time was really inhuman. I mean, to make anyone go
through that and to have the likes of Lindsey Buckingham in the studio,
and not say, ‘Hey, go ahead, this is going to be great,’ and to bring in
songs like ‘Gold’ and ‘Midnight Wind’ and him saying they’re not hits
when you know goddam well they are - or at least as close to a hit as I’m
gonna come - and to have no support or encouragement from the record
company, I was absolutely against the wall. It got worse . . . . At one
point as I went in, I called up Lindsey. I was so off the wall I could
hardly talk to him. I said, ‘Lindsey, please, you’ve got to come in and
play.’ I just sounded like a madman. I was."

****
Chris Whelan, bassist for John Stewart, speaking about the financial
difficulties John encountered while making "Bombs Away Dream Babies," and
how Lindsey helped -

"It got to the point right before ‘Bombs Away’ was finished, he was way
over budget, he had no more money, and the album was not finished...like,
on 'Living in the Heart of a Dream,' there was still a lot of things he
wanted to do with that tune, but there was no more money....he actually
had let the band go right before ‘Bombs Away’ was finished. Lindsey put
in about 20 grand of his own money to finish the album."

****
Speaking about working with Stevie on "Gold" -

"Mary Torrey is a friend of Stevie Nicks and when Stevie came down to do
‘Midnight Wind,’ we were going to mix ‘Midnight Wind’ and I really wanted
her to sing on ‘Gold.’ Because when she did ‘Midnight Wind,’ she heard
‘Gold’ and said, ‘Oh, I really want to sing on that.’ And I didn’t have
the money at that time to put her on. I said, ‘I can’t do it without
seeing that amount of money.’ We’d all had a few drinks at that point
and what you say at four in the morning half in the bag is not what you
might say in the cold light of a sober day.

So when she came down to do ‘Midnight Wind’ I had ‘Gold’ out prepared - I
had it up ready to go and pretended I was mixing it or whatever. I could
tell when she walked in by the look on her face that she was not gonna
sing that night. She just had that ‘I ain’t singing’ look on her face.
So I said, ‘Stevie, I’m gonna go out do the tag on this song - let’s you
and Mary and I go out and sing the end.’ Well, Mary began to cry and I
went, ‘Oh, my God, what did I say?’ Stevie said, ‘John, this is Mary’s
dream to sing on a record.’ I said, ‘We’ve got to go out and do it.’ So
we went out and did the tag and Mary was singing and crying.

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I had the lyrics to ‘Gold’ written out on enormous cue cards because
Stevie really can’t see too well. Mary went back in the booth and I
grabbed Stevie and said, ‘Stevie, come on, let’s just do the verses on
this song. It’s not gonna take long.’ I said, ‘Turn the tape on,’ so
they turned the tape on and held the cue cards out and I put my hand over
Stevie’s mouth when she wasn’t supposed to sing and hit her in the back
when she was and she did it in one take and I got her on the song."

****
Speaking about working with Mary Kay Place and Lindsey on "Over the Hill"
-

"She was doing an album at Village and I’ve always been a big fan of Mary
Kay’s. I think she’s a great singer . . . great attitude. I went down
and I said, ‘Mary Kay, I’m gonna do this song. Would you come by and
sing background?’ She said, ‘Sure.’ She got to the studio that night
and was absolutely petrified with fear. Said, ‘I’ve never sung
background before.’ I said, ‘Mary Kay, there’s nothing different with
singing background. You’re just singing lead with another melody.’
Lindsey was there and she was absolutely intimidated by Lindsey, because
Lindsey’s so confident in the studio that you want to hit him. She
started screaming at him, ‘You’re so confident, you’re so damn
professional, I can’t do this!’ So Lindsey and I sat her down, said,
‘Mary Kay, don’t be ridiculous. Come on.’ Gave her a couple of drinks
and she got it great."

****
Speaking about his inspiration for the song "Comin’ Out of Nowhere" -

"It was the only time I ever wrote a song about another song. That song
is written about a song of Lindsey’s on the ‘Tusk’ album called, ‘That’s
Enough For Me.’ When I heard it, it was absolutely devastating, and I
wanted to write a song letting people know there was something coming
that would knock their ears off their heads."

****
Speaking about having to lie to his record company to be able to keep his
own material on the album -

"You want to know about that song? ‘Hard Time Town’ was a song that
Buffy wrote and I doctored it up a bit to make it more commercial. Went
in and told Al Coury that Lindsey wrote it and that if we didn’t do it,
he’d give it to Walter Egan, and that this was the hit we were looking
for. That’s how desperate I got."

****
Speaking about having heard the album "Tusk" which was about to be
released and the single "Tusk" which had been released to radio -

"I don’t think they need any plugs, but I’ll just say it’s a terrific
album and not at all like ‘Rumours.’ ‘Tusk’ is great. It’s really a
good laxative for the radio constipation of the world. It’s really back
to what rock’n’roll started as . . . fun. Where music should be. It is
not like anything else on the album. The album sounds nothing like
‘Tusk,’ and that’s the reason they put it out - just let people have no
idea what the album is like. They took a real chance with the album and
I’m gonna have to hand it to them, they were very courageous. It would
have been very easy to go in and do another ‘Rumours’ with the same
format and have guaranteed sales.

They’re the hardest working people I’ve met in my life and Stevie Nicks
is one of our finest songwriters who is never given any credit for the
amount of incredible songs she’s written. I think she puts most of the
singer/songwriters in the toilet. She’s got a song called ‘Angel’ which
is the best one she’s ever written. She’s got a song called ‘Sisters of
the Moon’ which is a killer - absolute killer. Lindsey has some really
bizarre good songs and Christine came through with some good things. A
much different album. I can’t even tell you what it’s like, but it’s
nothing like ‘Rumours’ and it’s definitely Fleetwood Mac."

**************************************************************************
Excerpts from:
Omaha Rainbow, Issue 22
Autumn 1979

Capitol Radio Interview
John Stewart interviewed by Roger Scott
September 21, 1979
London, England

****
Speaking about the pressure from his record company to make a top-ten
album and meeting Lindsey Buckingham -

"Al (Coury) called me and said, ‘John, let me lay it to you straight. If
you don’t get a top ten record you’re off the label. I said, ‘Oh, okay.’
He said, ‘I know it’s tough but I do it every day.’ I’ll never forget
that. ‘I know it’s hard but I do it every day.’ He said, ‘You’ve got to
tell me what you’re gonna do. You’ve got to bring me demos in.’ I said,
‘Al, I’ve got three songs and . . . at this point, to really make a long
story short, I’d met Lindsey Buckingham.

I said, ‘There’s no-one in the world I want to produce my album except
Lindsey Buckingham. He’s the only one who has any idea of how to make
records that I really like. I think he’s got the secret.’ I’d learned
to play electric guitar listening to Lindsey Buckingham records and found
out that Lindsey learnt to play electric guitar listening to Kingston
Trio records, so we’d been talking to each other for eight years before
we even met.

I said, ‘Lindsey, you’ve got to produce this album. He said, ‘Okay, I’d
like to do it, but Fleetwood Mac is recording now and it’s gonna be
tough, but I’ll go in and do some songs with you.’ We went in and did
‘Gold,’ ‘Midnight Wind’ and ‘Runaway Fool of Love.’ I brought them in to
Al and he said, ‘Nope, not hits.’ At this point Lindsey and I were
pounding our heads against the wall saying, ‘What does he want?’ Went in
and did three more songs - not right. I said, ‘Oh, Al, please.’ He
said, ‘Alright, go in and finish the album.’

Well, at this point, Lindsey said, ‘I can’t continue. I’m just so into
the Fleetwood Mac album that I’ve got to do that, but I’ll come in and
play guitar whenever I can.’ So I was left alone with the control board
for the first time in my life. I’d no idea what to do absolutely no clue
on what it was all about - I just started learning. I started fooling
with it. Lindsey would come in and make these mindboggling mixes and I’d
say, ‘Lindsey, you’ve got to tell me what you’re doing with those knobs,’
because it’s so involved with EQ, with peaking and shelving, low end and
DDLs and all that. ‘Lindsey, sometime teach me what you’re doing.’ He
said, ‘I’m turning the knobs till it sounds good,’ and that really got me
through the album. I went, ‘Right!’ So I just started turning the knobs
until it sounded good. I had one engineer walk out on the album. Said,
‘I can’t take any more.’ . . . ."

"Then Stevie came in and I said, ‘Stevie, this song is really your kind
of song,’ so she heard the track and said, ‘Yeah, I’d like to sing on
that.’ She came in and we spent twelve hours one night doing ‘Midnight
Wind.’ She said, ‘John, this is a classic. It’s the best record I’ve
sung on since ‘Rhiannon’.’ That’s when I started going, ‘Oh yeah? Maybe
I’ve got something there.’ She said, ‘John’ - she’s got a great wisdom,
she’s got a great clarity - she said, ‘John, let’s make hits. We’ve all
made the other kind of record. Let’s make hits. They’re more fun to
make.’ I said, ‘Right, let’s make some hits!’ She came in a couple of
times and we did ‘Gold’."

****
Speaking about the inspiration to the line -"people out there turning
music into gold" - from the single "Gold" -

" . . . going to Lindsey’s mansion in Hollywood! I said, ‘Lindsey, what
does it feel like living in a place like this?’ He said, ‘Well, when I
first moved in, I waited for my parents to show up and to take care of
it.’ It’s just a song away. I’ve always maintained it’s just a song
away. Lindsey was starving before Fleetwood Mac. Just four years
earlier he and Stevie were living in a one room apartment, so I said, ‘My
God, there’s people out there turning music into gold,’ and I just
started playing that riff and built the song on that."

*************************************************************
Excerpts from:
Omaha Rainbow, Issue 20
Spring 1979

O’Bsessions with John Stewart
Interview with Tom De Lisle (John Stewart’s friend and associate)
by Peter O'Brien

****
Speaking about the first time John met Stevie -

"Well, Stevie had been raised on The Kingston Trio. In fact, she told
John, ‘If you knew how many hundreds of hours Lindsey made me sit and
listen to your albums!’"

****
Speaking about Lindsey’s involvement with "Bombs Away Dream Babies" and
recording next door to Fleetwood Mac -

"Yes, without knowing it, John and Lindsey had been mutually admiring
each other’s work, although they had never met. I found that Lindsey
was, like many of us, an absolute Kingston Trio freak and a tremendous
Stewart fan. He can tell you what guitar John played on a given song.
Much of the Fleetwood Mac sound is based on the Trio. They heavy rhythm
guitar up front with the lead guitar being played through the melody like
a banjo. In fact, Lindsey plays lead guitar the same way you play a
banjo, and he based it on John’s Trio playing. And I remember back in
1976, John was listening to Mac’s huge album and telling me he could hear
banjo licks being played on a guitar all through the album. He’d say,
‘Listen to that, it’s like the Trio.’" . . . .

"Oh yeah. In a sense, he (Lindsey) kind of co-produced it with John. He
plays guitar on a lot of the songs and you’ll hear him singing quite a
bit. Oh, I must point out that for a while Fleetwood Mac was recording
next door to where John was. And one night, we went in to hear part of
their new album. They put up a song of Lindsey’s called ‘Down the Road’
or something like that. Anyway, it was absolutely devastating. The
first song of the ‘80s. It was like nothing John or I had ever heard.
Just an ass-kicker. I felt like I did the first time I heard
‘Satisfaction’ in ’65. Just a tremendous song, something you have to
hear."

(note: John Stewart’s version of the same story reveals the song Tom
misremembers here is actually Lindsey’s "That’s Enough For Me" off the
‘Tusk’ album).

Thanks to Lesley Thode for sending this to us.

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12-31-2007, 11:59 AM

Circus Weekly, April 10, 1979

"Back Pages" Column
by Lou O'Neill, Jr.
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SHOCKER FROM THE COAST: It's all true what they're saying about Beach Boy Dennis Wilson and Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac. Almost overnight, the couple has become inseparable. Friends say Christine has never been happier. Our snoop tells us Dennis and Christine are living together for stretches of three and four days at a time. Basically, dashing Denny has been hanging out at Christine's plush apartment in west L.A.
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Close friends of the pair got a big laugh recently when Chris and Dennis were assigned separate seats for the American Music Awards. Yet after the show ended, Chris and Dennis managed to find each other very, very quickly at the private soiree following the show.

Meantime, Fleetwood Mac continues to work on their double-LP. Mick took a break from the sessions to produce an album for his protege, Denny Douma. Warner's will ship Douma's effort on May 4. The new Bob Welch record has a definite Fleetwood Mac feel to it and every indication points to a runaway hit.
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We figure the next Fleetwood Mac album will go one of two ways: Either it will sell an incredible amount of units (15 to 25 million) or else it will sell a very "modest" amount (perhaps 3 or 4 million copies.) With fleetwood Mac, there's just no in-between.

By the way, that WAS Christine McVie backstage at Gotham's Radio City Music Hall last month when the Beach Boys came to town for four nights. Christine flew all the way in from the Coast to be with Dennis for one day. Then back to El Lay. She also receives a "special thanks" credit on the new Beach Boys album. Ah, how sweet love it!
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01-01-2008, 12:05 AM

Rolling Stone, February 22, 1979

Guitars of the Stars

Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac's lead guitarist, owns about twenty guitars, including Fender Telecasters and Stratocasters, Gibson Les Pauls, a Gretsch Country Gentleman and Gretsch Tennessean, plus an acoustic Martin D-28.

Onstage, Buckingham favors a 1974 Gibson Les Paul he found in a West L.A. music store. "Before I joined Fleetwood Mac, I used a Fender Telecaster because it suited by finger-picking style," he said. "I wanted to use a Fender onstage when we first started playing live, but it didn't fit into the texture of the piano sounds Christine [McVie] was getting, so I switched to a Gibson Les Paul. While a Telecaster sounds great from three feet away, the Les Paul sounds beefier to anyone sitting in the back of the hall."

Other than a six-string Alembic guitar, Buckingham has not had any of his axes custom designed. "It's all in the player really," he said. "Look at somebody like Hendrix. It didn't matter what guitar he had or even if it was in tune. The thing is, if you can connect, you can get anything you want out of an instrument. There's no dream instrument that could give you everything. You just have to use your imagination."

http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.php?page=index_v2&id=34&c=9

vivfox

01-02-2008, 12:12 AM

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vivfox

01-03-2008, 01:40 AM

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vivfox

01-04-2008, 12:23 AM

People Magazine, July 16, 1979

Where Have All The Kingston's Gone?
John Stewart went from 'cold as a mackerel' to hot as Fleetwood Mac
by Rich Wiseman

A star rock guitarist like Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham is forever being told by worshipful players that they learned everything by listening to him. John Stewart said just that -- and was astonished, he beams, when "Lindsey told me he had learned to play guitar off my records."

The works in question include quiet classics like Reverend Mr. Black, Greenback Dollar and Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, which Stewart sand with the Fleetwood of folk, the Kingston Trio. "It was," says the 39-year-old Stewart, "as if Lindsey and I had been talking to each other for years without knowing it."

The communication across the generation gap was more direct - and mutually reverential - when Lindsey, 29, spent 50 hours helping John produce his current "last ditch" album. Since the Trio died in 1967, John had released eight solo LPs but was "cold as a mackerel" and suffering from deep depression. Three records labels had dropped him, and a fourth was threatening to if this new one failed. Stewart whimsically titled it Bombs Away Dream Babies.

No way will it be a bomb. Its big single, Gold, bears not only Lindsey's ringing guitar but also the ever-sexy backup voice of his Fleetwood colleague Stevie Nicks. Unsurprisingly, Gold is already a Top-20 smash on its way to gold and possibly platinum. Bombs Away is ticking in the same direction.

"Great relief has swept over my body" sighs Stewart. "This is a new breath of life. Lindsey's a genius and there's no price tag to put on that kind of support," he says graciously, adding: "I find it hard to deal with the fact that what I've worked so hard for the last 11 years has finally happened."

Stewart, a horse trainer's son, began to impersonating Elvis as a high schooler back in Pomona, Calif., did local gigs with the Furies, then embraced the late-'50s folk boom with the Cumberland Trio. When Dave Guard quit the Kingston Trio in 1961, Stewart stepped in at 21. He got a $500 weekly salary and was hardly wealthy when the Trio split six years later. But he recalls, "I lived a good life. I bought an Austin-Healey, married my high school sweetheart, had three kids and wasn't into drugs." Yet Stewart still had not chased his self-doubts. "I felt I had dropped into a good thing."

Even rags-to-rhinestones cowboy - ex-Trio accompanist - Glen Campbell coldly concurred. Stewart says Glen once snapped at him: "You won't get any help from me - you haven't paid your dues." Indeed, John was soon paying something more painful: alimony and child support. (Ex-wife Julie and three teenage kids live in Northern California). To add to his mid-'70s problems, he had developed severe jaw misalignment that cause the grinding down of his teeth. They had to be periodically recapped and left him in constant pain. Along the way Stewart passed up a chance to team with "a kid from Texas who used to hang out backstage with the Trio, telling everybody what a big star he'd be someday - John Denver." Stewart had only one commercial success as a songwriter (the single Daydream Believer for the Monkees) and one critically admired LP. California Bloodlines, that wouldn't sell. "I was low," admits Stewart. "Suicide is too strong a word - I didn't have the pills at bedside - but I didn't know what to do."

The turnaround came in 1977 after Stewart, rather shrewdly, asked his cult fans at an L.A. club to write in requesting that RSO Records President Al Coury sign him. His first record died, and John had to go $9,000 in personal hock to put out Bombs.

Now John and second wife, a singer Buffy Ford, live modestly in a two-bedroom Malibu cottage shared with a dog and two cats. (Of the Kingston boys, the Stewarts see predecessor Dave Guard, now a San Francisco songwriter, who sang backup on one cut of Bombs. They also are in touch with Nick Reynolds, and Oregon rancher. Bob Shane is again touring with a new Kingston Trio group). A teetotaller at home, John keeps his 6'2" frame lean on yogurt, juices, light foods and jogging. John met Buffy when she was singing at a Bay Area club. They cut a duet LP in 1968 and married in 1976. "We don't put a great deal of stock in tomorrows," he says. "We live for the todays . . . but not in a hedonistic way."

To say the least. After learning the necessary dental skills, Stewart meticulously - and painfully - recapped his own ground-down teeth monthly for the past year to avoid costly dental bills. But Gold royalties last month allowed him corrective oral surgery. Through he plans to buy "a car that works" to replace a '72 junker, the Malibu tennis scene is still out. "It's too expensive around here," says Stewart, who has a different personal measure for success. "It's the Rocky syndrome," he says. "I want to prove that I can go the distance."

Article cover photo has John leaning against his car wearing a shirt that says, "Personal Friend of Richard Dashut."

Picture of John next to Lindsey who is playing and singing. Caption: John and pal Lindsey Buckingham may form a group called Codpiece "to have fun and cut an album with no pressure."

http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.php?page=index_v2&id=35&c=9

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trackaghost

01-04-2008, 05:34 PM

Can someone explain this thread to me?
Why are we reposting old articles that can already be found on this site then boasting about how many views this thread is getting?

vivfox

01-05-2008, 11:13 AM

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michelej1

01-05-2008, 02:13 PM

I found the Tusk packaging the most annoying on earth. Once opened, it could never fit neatly back together. I tore the inner sleeves. It was maddening.

Michele

vivfox

01-06-2008, 02:50 AM

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At this point in time the song SARA was a single and getting lots of radio airplay.

goldie

01-06-2008, 12:54 PM

I am loving all the pictures here ... and I just looked at the ones on this last page of the thread only.

vivfox

01-07-2008, 01:34 AM

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01-07-2008, 01:54 AM

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LB loves to be in bare feet!!! lolol i love it

vivfox

01-08-2008, 12:21 AM

While Fleetwood Mac is on the holiday break from The Tusk Tour I will be posting some live shots from their past tours for Rumours and the White Album.

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Betsy

01-08-2008, 11:56 PM

LB loves to be in bare feet!!! lolol i love it

Isn't that a cultural aspect of being a California-native? (barefeet)

Maybe you California Ledgies can enlighten me....

vivfox

01-09-2008, 12:17 AM

1st two photos are from the Grammy's, January 1978
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Sarah

01-09-2008, 12:51 PM

Gailh

01-09-2008, 02:01 PM

Why is virtually every picture of Stevie Nicks?

are there no other members of the band??? :mad:

Gail

Mywyldhrt

01-09-2008, 02:39 PM

why the hell are we getting updates on how many page views this thread is getting? anyone who wants to know can look on the main page, just like for every other thread.

at this point, i really don't get the point of this thread at all.

From what I gathered, Mark generously taking us on the Tusk Tour-day to day and dowloading pics and boots if he has them...I think it's great-I happen to bew one of the "veiwers"....

Sarah

01-09-2008, 02:51 PM

...but we aren't talking about the tour. :confused: it's just random pictures and articles that are already in the BLA. a day-by-day, stop-by-stop breakdown of the tour is the idea, but this looks like it's just turned into one more opportunity to spam the fleetwood mac board with stevie pictures, "break" or not.

where's the discussion? where're mick, john, chris, and lindsey? i'm sorry, i'm really not trying to be rude, but this just looks like attention whoring with the post view count and what not. if nothing was going on with the tour worth talking about, why all the uselessness? why not just skip ahead to the next thing? i guess i just don't understand the need to follow it in real time. for all the shows that didn't have articles or bootlegs, what's the point in waiting for that day to pop up just to read what venue it was? :confused:

Betsy

01-09-2008, 03:07 PM

LB loves to be in bare feet!!! lolol i love it

I like how creative people get with their footwear.

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I can't tell what John's wearing....

And check out how close that cigarette is to Lindsey's Head/Hair. It reminds me of the Michael Jackson Pepsi accident.

Gailh

01-09-2008, 04:36 PM

Blimey there are other members of Fleetwood Mac and not just Stevie!

Gail

David

01-09-2008, 04:54 PM

...but we aren't talking about the tour. :confused:I'm trying to think of something to say about the tusk tour that I haven't said already at some point. I need some inspiration.

I took Baton Rouge 1978 MP3s with me to the gym the other day. The playing (the attack, the licks, the riffs, the vamps, the tramps & the champs), the mixing & the generally dry signals on all the mics (maybe that's just because of the soundboard) all remind me of the first leg of the tusk tour -- shows like St. Louis, Rochester, Providence, the Garden.

Makes sense, because only a smidgin over one year separated these tour legs. In fact, in many ways specific to sonics & performance, the 1978 tour is closer to the tusk tour than to the rumours tour proper (1977). Even Stevie's & Lindsey's voices are indistinguishable from August 1978 to October 1979. The big difference is -- as you all know by now -- that Christine's chunky, legato-free Hohner was replaced by the sustain-heavy Yamaha CP, which brought an entirely different ambience to songs like Rhiannon & Dreams. In fact, this is one of the rare examples where the keyboardist's actual riffs are dictated by the type of instrument: Chris played Dreams verses with a different riff in 1978 (on the Hohner) & in 1979 (on the Yamaha).

I also believe that Christine's personality changed around this time. She grew harsher, more anxiety-ridden, more prone to sudden fits of violence & disquietude.

Sarah

01-09-2008, 04:59 PM

In fact, this is one of the rare examples where the keyboardist's actual riffs are dictated by the type of instrument: Chris played Dreams verses with a different riff in 1978 (on the Hohner) & in 1979 (on the Yamaha).

Hmm. That's interesting. I have the Baton Rouge mp3s... which other version of Dreams should I listen to when trying to hear the best example of the change?

dnightshade

01-09-2008, 05:28 PM

I think this is a great thread! Brings back wonderful memories. True, I have most all of these articles in their orig. form tucked away in a trunk someplace, but I love rereading them here. I wish ppl would post more pics from the Tusk era - imo the best of the Mac eras. If ppl don't like or appreicate this thread, don't read it.

Sarah

01-09-2008, 05:49 PM

If ppl don't like or appreicate this thread, don't read it.

It's not too much to ask that a thread titled "Tusk Tour 1979 - 1980" be about - oh my freakin god, imagine it - the Tusk tour in 1979 and 1980! It's not called the "here's some pictures of Stevie during the Rumours and FM album tours" thread or "check out these articles that are already posted on this site" thread. :rolleyes:

Somajoseph

01-09-2008, 07:05 PM

It's not too much to ask that a thread titled "Tusk Tour 1979 - 1980" be about - oh my freakin god, imagine it - the Tusk tour in 1979 and 1980! It's not called the "here's some pictures of Stevie during the Rumours and FM album tours" thread or "check out these articles that are already posted on this site" thread. :rolleyes:

I myself have enjoyed the thread, and it has wandered off track, but even when it has, it's a way of keeping interest in it.
Fleetwood Mac wasnt onstage in Jan 1980, so there's nothing specific to post right now.
After all, many a thread has gone page after page when a few people decided to hijack it by bickering.
So if someone feels like the other band members are being ignored, why not start threads on those who are left out.
I dont mind Stevie being the focus of attention, and as someone pointed out- there she was center stage and pretty much the visual focus of the band since 1975. IMO.

dnightshade

01-09-2008, 07:28 PM

Sarah

01-09-2008, 08:04 PM

Chill out. Where are these articles on this site other than this thread? I can't find them.

I'm not unchill, so save yourself some trouble. I'm just making a point. There is a Stevie forum for Stevie based stuff. This is the group forum. It'd be nice to see some pictures of the group if a picture thread is what this is going to become. Again, not irrational.

Pretty much any article you could ever want to read about FM or any of its "components" can be found in the ridiculously extensive Blue Letter Archives. http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/

David

01-09-2008, 10:37 PM

Hmm. That's interesting. I have the Baton Rouge mp3s... which other version of Dreams should I listen to when trying to hear the best example of the change?Check out Providence or Rochester -- any of them, really. The degree of the weighted action as well as the actual sound (& the absence or presence of the damper) are what account for the differences.

Do you agree with me that the style of playing in the band was most similar from the 1978 tour to the 1979 tour?

vivfox

01-10-2008, 03:35 AM

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dnightshade

01-10-2008, 12:06 PM

I'm not unchill, so save yourself some trouble. I'm just making a point. There is a Stevie forum for Stevie based stuff. This is the group forum. It'd be nice to see some pictures of the group if a picture thread is what this is going to become. Again, not irrational.

Pretty much any article you could ever want to read about FM or any of its "components" can be found in the ridiculously extensive Blue Letter Archives. http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/

But isn't Tusk the whole group? BTW, thanks for the link. I had no idea.

Sarah

01-10-2008, 01:15 PM

But isn't Tusk the whole group? BTW, thanks for the link. I had no idea.

No problem. As much information as is available on the Ledge, there are some exceptionally valuable resources throughout the rest of the Penguin. It really is the best.

And yes, Tusk is the whole group. That's my point. If you'll look above, you'll notice that we're just getting Stevie pictures and info. I probably do have a reputation for being at least slightly anti-Stevie. It's not so much that I'm anti-Stevie... I do like her. I'm anti-Stevie-getting-all-the-attention. It rubs me the wrong way a little harder when it comes to Tusk, too, because that is really Lindsey's brainchild. That's not to say that the whole group isn't magnificent on it, because they are and it wouldn't be what it is without all of them. But if Stevie's going to get all the attention on one album-era, it sure as heck doesn't need to be Tusk.

Tusk is sacred to me. <3

danax6

01-10-2008, 01:20 PM

Tusk is sacred to me. <3Sorry, Tusk and I aren't planning on divorcing any time soon, so get your own album. :mad:

Sarah

01-10-2008, 01:29 PM

Sorry, Tusk and I aren't planning on divorcing any time soon, so get your own album. :mad:

Hey, you can keep your government-recognized piece of paper. If Tusk loved you so much, it wouldn't be cheating on you with me. Ho.

:xoxo:

danax6

01-10-2008, 01:51 PM

Hey, you can keep your government-recognized piece of paper. If Tusk loved you so much, it wouldn't be cheating on you with me. Ho.

:xoxo:That's okay, I don't mind sharing him a little. Pass me that doob, will ya. :wavey:

michelej1

01-10-2008, 02:36 PM

Here are a couple of Tusk article comments that aren't already on the site:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E2D9173BF93AA35752C0A967948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print

Following the ups and downs of Fleetwood Mac through the years has been a little like following a particularly convoluted soap opera. The band's original lead guitarist left to take religious vows, and at one point a manager with whom the group was quarreling sent an ersatz Fleetwood Mac out on the road. Musicians have come and gone. When the band's latest configuration prospered, with platinum albums and successful world tours, the musicians' personal relationships began to suffer. John and Christine McVie dissolved their marriage, and the romance between Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac's most recent recruits, turned sour. But along with Mick Fleetwood, the band's drummer and manager, they managed to keep Fleetwood Mac together.

A happy ending? Not quite. After working in recording studios for two years, Fleetwood Mac released ''Tusk,'' an ambitious, eccentric double album. Fans and critics who had admired the group for its lush pop-rock found the new record puzzling, and the tour that followed it was uneven. There were several problems, the most serious of which was that Stevie Nicks seemed to be losing her voice.

Will Fleetwood Mac retain its immense popularity, and if so, will its five members continue to put aside their personal differences and function as a unit? Will Stevie Nicks overcome her vocal problems? The soap opera continues. The latest episode, a double album called ''Fleetwood Mac Live,'' (Warner Brothers) which was recorded on the ''Tusk'' tour, isn't very revealing.

On ''Tusk,'' Lindsey Buckingham emerged as Fleetwood Mac's unofficial musical director, and his inventive guitar work and quirky vocals are responsible for the new album's liveliest and most interesting moments. Miss McVie is a fine songwriter and an appealing, atmospheric vocalist, but her live performances tend to be sober and professional, and Miss Nicks, who's normally more outgoing, sounds distant and restrained here. Too much of the music sounds like five individuals contributing letter-perfect parts to someone else's project. Obviously, ''Fleetwood Mac Live'' is a holding action. What trials and tribulations await the band around the next curve in the road? Stay tuned.

michelej1

01-10-2008, 02:40 PM

[Hey Linds, if so many people had not recorded Tusk off the radio, then maybe the album would have sold even more and then the whole WB bonus checks flying out the window story would be quite ironic]

Boston Globe (MA), April 3, 1980

Section: CALENDAR

TO PLAY OR NOT TO PLAY THAT IS THE QUESTION RECORD COMPANIES AND RADIO STATIONS FACE

Jim Sullivan

The relationship between record companies and album-oriented rock FM radio stations is no longer the perfect friendship although they still need each other. For the record company, radio airplay gives artists valuable exposure, leading to greater record sales; for the radio station, record companies supply them with new music - its lifeblood - arrange interviews with artists, develop promotional giveaways, set up concert broadcasts and, of course, buy advertising.

But a monkey wrench has been thrown into the system. It has prompted verbal warfare in radio and record industry trade magazines and strained the relations between record and radio personnel. The issue is radio stations playing new albums in their entirety without commercial interruption, which many record company executives view as an invitation to listeners to tape albums off the air instead of buying them in a store. (Although older albums are played at times, it's the playing of new releases that has strained the friendship.)

Album features are nothing new; many stations have been doing this, with encouragement from record companies, for years. However, last year was the year when the recession caught up with the record industry. As the squeeze on entertainment dollars tightened, people bought fewer albums forcing record companies to trim their budgets and their staffs; an A&M Records executive estimates that 2000 record industry employees were laid off in the last year.

While no one believes home taping single-handedly put that many people out of work, record industry executives believe that it had substantially contributed to the decrease in sales. Blank recording tape sales have risen dramatically over the past six years. Merchandising magazine editor Ron Schneiderman said 1979 sales of blank cassette tapes exceeded 240 million units - up from 149 million sold in 1974 and 9 percent higher than 1978's total.

It seemed painfully ironic to record companies that their radio "partners" were making things so easy for listeners to tape their favorite albums by paying only for blank tapes. (A 90-minute cassette generally costs about $4.50 and would allow the taping of two albums. The average list price on an album is $7.98, though most stores discount albums to $5.99.)

The controversy began to steamroll late last fall when Electra/Asylum president, Joe Smith, published a full page "open letter to broadcasters" in Billboard magazine in which he called the promotion of hometaping "the most dangerous threat, thus far, to our well-being.

"When a radio broadcaster announces that he will be playing an important new album without interruption," Smith continued, "and suggests that his listeners get their tape machines set up; when manufacturers of blank tape sponsor clean hours' of music and recommend that the contents be recorded; when advertisers make their pitch for tape machine sales around the same theme; then all of us - artists, writers, publishers, and record companies - are being drastically whipsawed."

Two weeks later, the chief executives of all major record companies jointly issued a similar statement (also printed in Billboard) through the Recording Institute of America Assn. (RIAA) to radio executives condemning the practice. While the brouhaha has subsided in the first quarter of this year, RIAA president Stan Gortikov, says "I still regard it as a major problem. The heat has diminished but that doesn't mean the problem is any less now than what it was."

The controversy puts the record company promotion personnel in the strange and ironic position of requesting stations not to air their records.

"It's like being caught between a rock and a hard place," says Mike Bone, Arista Records vice president of promotion."It's like you want it, but you want it your way. It's a very difficult position to be put in. We want exposure but we want it spread out over a period of time."

Ed Hynes, Columbia Records vice president of promotion, says he directed his 47 local representatives to ask radio stations not to feature Pink Floyd's double album "The Wall." "I've had incidents where our people around the country have threatened to pull ads off radio if they tracked the album," says Hynes. "But you can't threaten that way, and you can't cajole; you've got to ask radio to please not do it. You've got to discuss it and have a little respect for them when you're asking."

The situation in Boston is not nearly so charged as it is in other major markets - such as Philadelphia, where the three FM rockers go head to head nightly with album features. Of Boston's top commercial album rock stations, WBCN doesn't have an album feature and WCOZ does it only on Monday nights. (WCOZ did break its format in January when it played the "Top 50 Albums of the Decade" - one album in its entirety every night.)

"Some of the record companies aren't exactly sure how to handle it - at least in our case," says WCOZ's music director, Bob Slavin. "It's a difficult thing for them to ask us not play their records all the way through, although one label (A&M) has asked us not to do it. The two industries are very close to each other. If we announce: Don't forget tomorrow night we are going to play the new Led Zepplin album and be sure to get your tape recorders ready' and make a big deal of it, it makes record companies more sensitive - it's like poking them in the eye with a sharp stick."

WBCN's program director Tony Berardini says, "We don't play whole albums because we feel it's poor programming. Unless you're dealing with a super- super-superstar like a Rolling Stone or a Fleetwood Mac who is going to appeal to the broadest possible demographic, you are likely to have a good portion of your audience tune you out."

However, two album rock stations outside Boston with signals clearly reaching the city - WCGY in Lawrence and WAAF in Worcester - make album features a key part of their programming.

Ed Coleman, WCGY program director, says his station has had weeknight album features at midnight for more than two years and has gotten a good response from listeners. "I tend to agree a little bit with both sides - the record companies have a valid point. But - I don't think this is being naive - I think people want to get an overview of an album. Sometimes you hear something on the radio by a band and say that's pretty good' and somebody on the air will hype the album and you end up buying it and it's awful. We set this up to avoid that. I understand the problem now with taping, but I don't know if it's that prevalent."

WAAF program director Dave Lee Austin says that the album features (one each night, six nights a week at midnight and six in a row on Saturday) are his station's most popular feature, and he has no plans to alter it. "We strive to have a special identity from our competitors in Boston," he says, "and one of them is by playing albums. It's a very strong tool that has researched well. This doesn't mean people are taping them; this means people are listening to them. Very often we feel they'll use them as an audition."

Austin says that there have been discussions with various record company people about the policy, but no pressure to put an end to it. "They've tried to make us aware of the weakened economic position they feel album plays put them in," he says. "We listen carefully . . . and we make a decision based on maintaining WAAF's strength in the marketplace. What's important is to keep my station superior and give the features the audience wants.

"And," he adds, "it's not that the record companies haven't been living off the fat of some good years, the Saturday Night Fever' years, the Peter Frampton years."

J. D Brenner, A&M East Coast album promotion director, says that that may have been the case in the past. "But five years ago we were driving Chryslers that got 8 miles a gallon. Now, it's a question of 2000 record companies employees put out of work."

Brenner admits the issue is not a simple one to decide. "There are pros and cons but radio lives off our new artists. A lot of them divorce themselves and say they're not in the business to sell records - which is true, they're in the business to sell new acts the record companies have signed, that they want for live broadcasts.

But when a radio station is doing a live broadcast of a new group but promoting the playing of a new album at midnight, he says, "They are helping us in one way and they are hurting us in another."

A sampling of Boston area retailers shows little concern with the album play issue. When asked whether the uninterrupted airplay of an album has an adverse effect in album sales, Strawberries buyer Jerry Warren says, "oh, definitely" although his explanation is based more on gut feeling than substantiation. "For example, with the Fleetwood Mac album ( Tusk'), I know a couple of radio stations that played it in its entirety so a lot of people put it on tape. If they've got it on tape, why are they going to buy the album? All they've got to do is pay the price of an empty cassette."

The Harvard Coop's popular records manager, Jay Kaminski, says he's against the uninterrupted airplay but says, "I don't think it's hurt because sales are up. While I don't particularly care for it, it's had no retail effect."

"I'm kind of stuck in the middle on this," admits Steven Pofcher, manager of the Kenmore Square New England Music City, "because I'm not totally business . . . it's not real good for the record companies but it's great for the consumer - especially when record prices keep going up."

How widespread is taping off the air? Two recent surveys suggest it may be substantial. A survey conducted by the Burkhart/Abrams Radio Consulting Firm (which consults 120 album-oriented rock stations in programming) showed that 18 percent of the 3000 radio listeners polled had taped entire albums from the airwaves within the past three months. The people surveyed were between the ages of 18 and 34 drawn from 13 states (including Massachusetts). Another survey conducted by the Washington firm of William R. Hamilton and staff for the Copywright Royalty Tribunal revealed that 70 percent of the 1500 people they surveyed who taped albums would have bought the album if they hadn't been able to tape it.

The record industry has no easy solution to the situation - though the suggestions put forth have ranged from the ludicrous and reactionary to the more rational.

Ben Bartel, a major stockholder in two West Coast retail chains, takes the prize in the former category. He suggested in a letter published in Billboard, " . . . an immediate approach to Congress to foster legislation prohibiting media from playing more than five minutes of any recorded work in any given two-hour period." Aside from the extreme unlikelihood of Congress imposing that kind of restriction on radio, Bartel's suggestion would not only eliminate album plays - it would effectively ban songs like "Hey Jude," "Stairway to Heaven" and "Free Bird" from the air.

A more moderate approach (though still sure to rest uneasily with some program directors) is a compromise, according to Arista's Bone, suggested by the Burkhart/Abrams firm - to substitute "artist's features" for album features. With these the station would still play tracks from a new album but would intersperse them with older songs and commercials so a listener couldn't simply turn on his tape recorder and have a copy of the album.

The real long term problem, Bone says, may be that as sales dim, record companies would be less able and willing to invest and work with new talent - thus depriving radio and public of new music. "If the record companies continue to do badly," he says, "they're not going to be able to continue to sign and develop new artists like the Dwight Twilleys, the Sports and the Graham Parkers."

"Then," Bone continues, "radio stations that used to play records will go all news and talk and everybody will end up watching television."

He laughs, and adds, "that's being sort of flip, but it's a possibility, I guess."*

danax6

01-10-2008, 02:55 PM

If they've got it on tape, why are they going to buy the album? All they've got to do is pay the price of an empty cassette."
And they thought they had problems then.

trackaghost

01-10-2008, 03:51 PM

A sampling of Boston area retailers shows little concern with the album play issue. When asked whether the uninterrupted airplay of an album has an adverse effect in album sales, Strawberries buyer Jerry Warren says, "oh, definitely" although his explanation is based more on gut feeling than substantiation. "For example, with the Fleetwood Mac album ( Tusk'), I know a couple of radio stations that played it in its entirety so a lot of people put it on tape. If they've got it on tape, why are they going to buy the album? All they've got to do is pay the price of an empty cassette."

Interesting article, thanks for posting!
Remember when that DJ played the whole of The White Stripes' Icky Thump last year and immediately it was all over the internet? Stuff like that still happens.
But really if playing Tusk in its entirety had an adverse effect on sales, I wonder if it had more to do with the fact that fans expecting Rumours didn't like what they heard rather than home taping.

Betsy

01-10-2008, 05:51 PM

Mea culpa....I posted two photos from the Rumours Era... :o

I knew better.... I just liked the photos ....

(Damn, I hate when I try to do something cool, and I screw up!)

Sarah

01-10-2008, 06:05 PM

trackaghost

01-10-2008, 06:27 PM

Mea culpa....I posted two photos from the Rumours Era... :o

I knew better.... I just liked the photos ....

(Damn, I hate when I try to do something cool, and I screw up!)

Sorry I didn't mean to have a go! I'm curious too, where are those pics from?

michelej1

01-10-2008, 08:41 PM

People will always find a way to get illegitimate copies. Unfortunate truth. But there will always be people like me who.. even with downloads of the legal and illegal varieties.. will still buy the hard copy of the album to have the booklet and pictures and another piece to add to the collection.

Oh yes. If you're a fan you're always going to want to have the album or cd, especially with Tusk because it was chock full of collectible stuff (although it was annoying stuff that never fit neatly back into the sleeve and bulged and tore frustratingly).

Aside from being a fan, if you really like a song, you aren't going to feel satisfied with a recording you made off of the radio. Even today, if I like a song, I'd rather have the hard copy than an MP3, for the sound quality.

By the way, the packaging for the Enchanced SYW is very annoying too, with no place to put the card with the track listings. Hard to tell how an album or cd sounds, if you're always having to throw it against the wall in exasperation.

Michele

danax6

01-10-2008, 08:53 PM

By the way, the packaging for the Enchanced SYW is very annoying too, with no place to put the card with the track listings. Hard to tell how an album or cd sounds, if you're always having to throw it against the wall in exasperation.That's how I feel about TPath's last set. I mean, it's great, but I can't ever get it properly back into the sleeve.

Betsy

01-10-2008, 11:07 PM

Sorry I didn't mean to have a go! I'm curious too, where are those pics from?

As Homer Simpson would say ... "No problemo!"

I just wanted folks to know that I knew the photos were from Rumours, but I liked the shoes ~~~ so I posted the photos.

I bought an old magazine off of Ebay from 1978, I think, and those two photos were in it. I will have to look.... Maybe it was called Circus?

The first Circus magazine that I bought was from 1976 and had all photos of Christine, with her on the cover even! The article was very flattering too.

vivfox

01-11-2008, 12:24 AM

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/young.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/SteviePeople1977copy.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/Stevie_Rhiannon/Stevie/rumours38.jpg

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/4da4deea249a02ccecf75b61555b7c12.jpg

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/0mf10.jpg

332 people have viewed this post in the last 24 hours! The most views ever, for this thread.

Mywyldhrt

01-11-2008, 10:38 AM

Chill out. Where are these articles on this site other than this thread? I can't find them.
Thank you!! Why is there hostility here???? Can't we all be a bunch of peace loving chiffonheads??? I don't want to seem harsh but, god, there are other threads if this one bothers some of you so much. I love to pop in and out of this one..it brings back so many memories. My apologies to those that hate this thread so much. Those that love it... let's rock!!

Sarah

01-11-2008, 12:52 PM

If you think I'm being hostile about this thread, you really haven't been on the Ledge long enough to know what hostility around here is.

Seems pretty logical that Stevie only stuff would go in the Stevie only forum. Lindsey only in the Lindsey only forum. Tango in the Night, Mirage, and Bella Donna pictures not in the Tusk tour thread. Besides. When the substance of the thread is kept within its subject matter (chit chat excluded, obviously), it makes searches more productive later on after the thread is no longer showing up on the first page. Simple netiquette.. est. 1996.

Gailh

01-11-2008, 02:18 PM

Thank you!! Why is there hostility here???? Can't we all be a bunch of peace loving chiffonheads??? I don't want to seem harsh but, god, there are other threads if this one bothers some of you so much. I love to pop in and out of this one..it brings back so many memories. My apologies to those that hate this thread so much. Those that love it... let's rock!!

there is no problem with the thread itself it's just that the pictures all seem to be of Stevie. It looks like there are no other members of the band and using the term chiffonheads confirms this.

Gail

Mywyldhrt

01-11-2008, 03:41 PM

Mywyldhrt

01-11-2008, 03:49 PM

there is no problem with the thread itself it's just that the pictures all seem to be of Stevie. It looks like there are no other members of the band and using the term chiffonheads confirms this.

Gail

I seem to have seen pictures of the whole band and the words Fleetwood Mac..........I am not strictly a "chiffonhead"... I have followed the band as a band since I first saw them in 79-I have purchased just about all pre buckingham/nicks FM albums-solo efforts but each current member in the past 30 plus year-so pluleez don't even suggest that that I am strictly a Stevie fan. Actually, think what you want, its not that important. I will still be a fan regardless of what you say.

Sanne2

01-11-2008, 04:00 PM

I agree there are too many Stevie pics in this thread so here's some Tusk Lindsey:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/032-1.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Lin-120.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/012-3.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/026.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Lin-022.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/027-1.jpg

Sanne2

01-11-2008, 04:02 PM

Tusk Christine:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/016JPG-2.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/020.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/0028.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/039.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/035-1.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/chris-35.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/08-2.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/09-3.jpg
I looooove those green boots!

Mywyldhrt

01-11-2008, 04:25 PM

Sarah

01-11-2008, 05:53 PM

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/032-1.jpg

zomg. i haven't seen this one before. :laugh: i wonder what book that is?!

i LOVE the christine photos, sanne2. we never get to see her enough.. especially live shots.

and Mywyldhrt, you're getting too defensive. no one cares enough about anyone else's fandom to such an extent that there's a need to justify who you like most or whether you like them equally. it's dandy that you enjoy the material in any thread it's presented, but some of us DO care because there are categorized forums and thread topics/titles for that reason. (not to mention the sanctity of Tusk as Lindsey's brainchild and an overall best-of-the-best group effort.) i fail to see what is so difficult about this concept, and you are the one who barfed up the word "chiffonhead". again i say that i'm not being "hostile", i'm just pointing out the fact of the matter directly. there's really no reason for you to pretend like you know that i'm being hostile, and quite frankly, your insistance that i am is beginning to irk me a little.

bucklind17

01-11-2008, 08:59 PM

Mmmm, I just stared at Lindsey In Aviators for so long my screensaver came on.

Thanks for the extra pics!

Betsy

01-11-2008, 10:07 PM

WOW! SANNE2 ! WOW ! WOW ! WOW !!!

Come back, come back and bring more photos!!!

(No, you don't have to bring anything....just stick around on the Ledge.... We love you!)

vivfox

01-11-2008, 10:55 PM

I agree there are too many Stevie pics in this thread so here's some Tusk Lindsey:

Most of these were completely new to me. Thank you very much for all these new gems.

vivfox

01-11-2008, 11:00 PM

Tusk Christine:

Never seen this b4 LOVE it!
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/020.jpg

Never seen this b4 LOVE it!
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/08-2.jpg

there were other beautiful ones I had never seen b4 as well, but these 2 really stood out to me.

vivfox

01-11-2008, 11:13 PM

My computer is dying so you may not hear from me for a week. 287 people have viewed this thread in the last 23 hours! I'm saving my Tusk photos for the tour dates and posting earlier photos for now.

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/371.jpg

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/0lb10.jpg

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/25-1.jpg

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/2d13f928b34b0f0014e3c69257226ead.jpg

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/8b2a1c373d5ef5f640219619863fcdeb.jpg

David

01-11-2008, 11:47 PM

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/371.jpg
Now that's an interesting photo because in Christine's rig you have, from the bottom, the Hammond B3, the Hohner pianet, & the ARP String Ensemble. Do you guys all see that?

Here's a better shot of an ARP:
http://www.gepr.net/arpstringensemble.gif

The pianet is not yet the Combo model but a case-modified N (folding lid removed). This band shot is 1975. They're probably playing either "Station Man," "Rhiannon" or "Don't Let Me Down Again."

vivfox

01-13-2008, 12:40 AM

THESE ARE ALL NICE PHOTOS FROM 1975 AND 1976
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/712f1414e2e7df060b62d9e6a46a0a65.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/687ecf9a745e5a52444899ce3f82ea6a-1.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/298f2454321fff13c4075eb46c515361.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/christuskwater.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/dancesig.jpg

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Sanne2

01-13-2008, 08:32 AM

Since most people seems to appreciate these, more Lindsey Tusk pics:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Liddy%20Buck/Lin-47.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Liddy%20Buck/022.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Liddy%20Buck/Lin-038.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Liddy%20Buck/Lin-029.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Liddy%20Buck/Lin-59.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Liddy%20Buck/04-1.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Liddy%20Buck/03-1.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Liddy%20Buck/09-1.jpg

Sanne2

01-13-2008, 08:37 AM

Christine Tusk:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Christine/018.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Christine/04-1.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Christine/010.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Christine/030.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Christine/Chris-27.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Christine/Chris-29.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Christine/517.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Christine/533.jpg

Betsy

01-13-2008, 01:02 PM

^^^

Wow! This kid's got a million of them! Keep posting, Sanne 2!

Betsy

01-13-2008, 01:05 PM

Also, thanks for your band shots, Vivfox.

Christine was in hot pants! :shocked:

Someone should use those shots of her and John in short shorts and photoshop something....maybe all the band in short shorts... :laugh:

vivfox

01-14-2008, 12:24 AM

Pictures from 1975-1977

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/b03d669145b922954e15bbd312968ca4.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/5e1cecb54a4a4649d0743295ca512240.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/fc963jpgkr2.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/3-1.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/1abackstagestevieo.jpg

I'm saving my Tusk photos for when the tour resumes.
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Betsy

01-14-2008, 11:23 AM

^^^

Whoa~!

Mark's got a bzillion in his library! ¡Muchas Gracias!

It's amazing to see a photo in b/w all these years and not know that a color ones exists!

(I must say that I find those ebay people with their stars and water marks....

as Daffy Duck would say ----

despicable !! ) :D

Mywyldhrt

01-14-2008, 11:58 AM

These are great!!! Thanks to eveyone!!!!:nod::nod:

Sarah

01-14-2008, 01:42 PM

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/b03d669145b922954e15bbd312968ca4.jpg

i think the shots from this session are quite possibly my all-time favorites.

danax6

01-14-2008, 01:46 PM

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/5e1cecb54a4a4649d0743295ca512240.jpgLOL @ that caption. :cool:

michelej1

01-14-2008, 01:51 PM

Does Mick have the nail on his pinky finger painted?

Michele

Betsy

01-14-2008, 01:58 PM

I want to know what the caption says...
(Stevie's got a brother named Dan???) :laugh:

Sanne2

01-14-2008, 02:18 PM

LOL @ that caption. :cool:

Haha yes, but only funny when you speak Dutch!
I believe this is my scan, the pic is from a 2003 article about FM in Aloha magazine.

danax6

01-14-2008, 02:20 PM

I want to know what the caption says...
(Stevie's got a brother named Dan???) :laugh:The caption itself is not that funny, at least not in English, but the use of words is. 'Nicks' in Dutch means 'nothing'. Well, spelled without the 'c' (niks), but you pronounce it the same way. "Zeg dan ni(c)ks"... what it comes down to is 'if you don't have anything interesting to say, just say nothing'. "Say nothing - say Nicks". It's cute.

Betsy

01-14-2008, 04:52 PM

^^^

I like that Dutch caption!

There is a picture over in the Tusk photo thread that is dying for a caption...read Trackaghost's post.

(Too bad, I am NOT clever enough to come up with a caption... )

vivfox

01-14-2008, 11:38 PM

These pictures were taken at places on the Rumours Tour.

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/05.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/70c.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/68gg.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/50a.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/24e87edf1ebeabdbdb5271b87ad856f3.jpg

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vivfox

01-14-2008, 11:56 PM

A few more photos from 1976-1978.

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/088.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/75me3.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/77-banner.jpg

Notice how Bob Welch is in the photo?
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/335497a8601bb0ea89e97b0d2e4f00e7.jpg
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/f4740bdf7c6337db98c6df9872af67e3.jpg

trackaghost

01-15-2008, 08:39 AM

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/24e87edf1ebeabdbdb5271b87ad856f3.jpg

It's everyone's favourite author, Carol Ann!

danax6

01-15-2008, 08:45 AM

It's everyone's favourite author, Carol Ann!My idol. Sigh.

Sarah

01-15-2008, 12:08 PM

It's everyone's favourite author, Carol Ann!

It drives me nuts when my hair touches my lipstick like that. I just want to rip that piece of hair right out of her head.. it's making me crazy.

I have to look away.

Betsy

01-15-2008, 12:26 PM

I love this thread....especially the pictures.

I had only seen CAH in b/w and on the Rumours Tour Outtakes DVD...

BTW...she had that same look on her face...

Interesting to see how it looks in color...

Betsy

01-15-2008, 12:28 PM

Hey Viv.... (or any kind person reading this...)

Help me out here. Where is Stevie in the Bob Welch group shot?

Sanne2

01-15-2008, 01:18 PM

Hey Viv.... (or any kind person reading this...)

Help me out here. Where is Stevie in the Bob Welch group shot?

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Stevie/23-1.jpg

and a variation of that pic:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/Sanne2/Stevie/St-TO42.jpg

Betsy

01-15-2008, 03:19 PM

^^^
Ooooh.... Thank you

Was it "Bring-Your-Dog-to-Work-Day" ?

David

01-15-2008, 03:42 PM

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/cielosharon/24e87edf1ebeabdbdb5271b87ad856f3.jpgShe is incredibly beautiful.

Stevie who?