Look for new interview with Stevie and Lindsey about TUSK Album
 

Nov.2,2009

“In The Studio” Radio Interview with Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham

This month has marked the 30th anniversary of the release of “Tusk”. “Tusk” was the third album released by the “classic” lineup of the band (Mick, John, Christine, Stevie and Lindsey). The 20 track double album was released on October 15th, 1979, and was the follow-up to Fleetwood Mac’s landmark album, “Rumours”, released in 1977. Stevie and Lindsey will discuss the significance of the album, and will talk about how important the album has become to the history of rock, and to the history of the band.

The members of Fleetwood Mac are always doing promotion and interviews, and are always very open. So, this interview should be no different. The band is usually willing to answer any question, but a lot of the interviewers they come across seem to stick to the same topics (the making of “Rumours”, feuds between the band members in the 70’s, their drug addictions, etc…), but this interview sounds like it will give us a new perspective on an album that many fans consider to be overlooked and underrated.

The interview will air sometime this week. Go to the “In The Studio” website for a preview.

http://www.inthestudio.net/

http://fmed77.wordpress.com/2009/11/...ey-buckingham/

How can any interview that starts with Think About Me be anything but excellent?

Stevie's fans could go crazy thinking of those 4 verses of Sara that were cut. But she amuses me saying she thought it was more important to get the song on the album, edited or not. Because that reminds me of the SS dilemma.

Michele

Awwww, I'm soo excited for hearing the whole interview!! And to hear them talk about Tusk, it'll be intresting :)

Tusk is getting some love in England! Michele

Yeah, Don't know if Tusk was that famous in Sweden (weird if it wasn't, in my opinion as a fan) but I know Tango was :) But they haven't talked much about Tusk in interviews, what I've heard, so yeah, it'll be very funny :) :thumbsup:

Awesome, thanks for the heads up.

Quote of the week for me, I adore that song. It's like a bridge between Rumours and Tusk, a bit of the heartache of Rumours but more of the optimism and renewed diligence in the music/songwriting found in the Tusk album.

For some reason whenever Lindsey and Christine collaborate, or at least share vocal duties, the song is timeless (Think About Me, Don't Stop, Hold Me, more I'm forgetting).

- Spike

World Turning...

lol...the fact that there are are four missing verses missing does make me crazy! Still, even she couldn't have really expected that all 16 minutes of the song would go on the album...definitely not with two other writers contributing as well. You do have me wondering, though, if the reason she allowed it to be edited so much was because of SS. It does make sense.

Thanks for the heads up!! Oh Stevie will go round and round and talk about everything but what Sara is really about...she's always vague...or speaks of the mechanics of the song...though it would be nice to hear the other 4 verses...I'm sure they're beautiful...but I'm also sure they're as elusive as the first few...and we still wouldn't be able to figure it out on our own! Don't get me wrong...I love Sara....in fact its been my favorite of her's for over 20 years.

:wavey::wavey::wavey:

Listened to this just now. It is separate interviews with Stevie and Lindsey and their recollections/reflections of select songs from Tusk and they play a handful of songs -- Sara, Sisters of the Moon, Storms, Tusk, The Ledge, maybe one or two more. While it contained a lot of the same usual Rumours history in the beginning, I heard them, specifically Lindsey, comment on things i've never heard commentary on before. Some highlights or noted moments for me were:

Lindsey talking about Storms and about Stevie's delivery of the song and how she must be going back a few years and alludes to the sadness and pain in the song. He then says it is one of his favorite songs on the album. That was something I've never heard him speak of anywhere, so that was new to me.

Didn't really learn anything I didn't already know about Sara or Tusk. Stevie says she'll play all of Sara someday. I hope she means it!

A lot of long Lindsey segments. You know how he is. All circular and not necessarily answering the question. But still, i love his dialogue.

Then of course there is the Stevie monologue of Lindsey and her and their tattered love and how it can never be again. Same general tone of what we've been hearing elsewhere lately, but I was really hearing regret here.

Then there is some discussion of why Lindsey left the band after making Tango and then he talk somewhat about what that departure meant to the friendships he had with the members of the band and how that resonates today. I thought there was some definite "the band=Stevie" moments in that. And I thought he was almost fessing up to the fact that he has made it difficult for "them" (again he says band, i think he means Stevie) to really have a stronger friendship because he's not allowed himself to engage in it. Again, my total take and paraphrasing of it, but that's what I thought he possibly was saying.

I also got the impression that this was taped awhile back. Possibly even last year. There was no reference to the Unleashed tour, other than Lindsey saying "we plan to tour again next year" all the while referencing SYW as the most recent tour. So, that leads me to think this could have possibly been sitting on a shelf for sometime. I don't know. Maybe someone else got a different impresion.

I'm sure most of you will go and listen to this. I'm anxious to hear what others got out of it.

I linked to a radio station (see link to page with stations below) and listened to it this morning. There seems to still be a handful of broadcasts later on today and it looks like the main site will host the recording.

http://www.inthestudio.net/on-the-radio/index.asp

I love, love , love the way he describes and talks about Stevie's vocal on Storms.

"Naming no people, but telling no lies."

Atta girl, Stevie!

P.S. Love the birds in the background of Stevie's interview. Ha.

I know right it was so sexy.

Me too, that was definitely my favourite part. There was way more Lindsey than Stevie in this interview but it was great to hear him talk about particular songs. I thought it was interesting that he said that he wasn't as much into drugs. I wonder if that's really true.

In comparison to the other members of the band, namely Stevie and Mick, he probably wasn't. BUT I do think that he was undoubtedly involved more than he likes to make it sound.

Absolutely! I've always had the feeling that he tries to downplay his involvement with all the drugs that weren't floating around. I don't know why...everyone else has acknowledged their drug/alcohol use. It seems that it was just part of the rock & roll culture at the time. It was so long ago, it hardly matters now. I've no doubt, though, that in comparison with Stevie and Mick, his drug use was less serious.

Can you elaborate on this? Pretty please....not sure when I will be able to listen to the interview.

When were the Stevie portions recorded (no mention of Tusk in her pre-recorded intros). Her voice sounds, to me, like pre-Dance Stevie.

ITA. Sounds like early eighties Stevie...

She references the TITN fight, so it has to be late 80s/early 90s. To me, she sounds like she's on Klonopin.

Yeah, i'm with you all. I thought the same thing about her voice being more husky and not how she currently sounds. I questioned the timing of this in my post this morning. Would be nice to know when the excerpts were from so it could be put some of her commentary into context. Not that it really needs to be because she's not saying anything we haven't heard from her in one way, shape or form before.

Ah. Haven't gotten that far yet. However, a "new" revelation to me - Mick came to their apartment and spent "hours" trying to talk SnL into joining?!? I have never heard/read that....

His kids are old enough to read.

I should transcribe it but it won't come off the same. He references the "every night that goes between, I feel a little less" lyric and says it's pretty "suggestive." I think that was the word he used. He says she was probably thinking back a few years prior. Then he talks about her voice on the track and then he does a near perfect imitation of it, as only Lindsey can do and says she's practically whispering like she's talking to someone in great confidence. He says the song would have been sort of country but they decided to pull back from that. The dj says that it's the most vulnerable he's ever heard Stevie on a microphone and Lindsey agrees. And now that I think about that statement I think he's probably right. He also says Stevie was at the height of her visibility during the Tusk era. I think that and his glowing comments about John's style of playing bass are the most interesting things in the interview from Lindsey.

Stevie talks about her diaries being like published and we can read them... ?

No, it's from an old interview when she kept saying she was going to write a book and use her journals... do not hold your breath.

"Storms" is sheer perfection. He was spot-on in his comments. He also mentions Chris' piano on the track as "superb" playing.

haha thanks.
im still hopin one day it happens though...

Thanks for sharing. And now I'll return to watching/listening to every version of Storms I can find...ha ha...no really...

That's an interesting take on the Storms vocal. I've always thought it sounded like Stevie recorded it after she finished crying. Either way, her voice sounds totally vulnerable. With out a doubt, this is her neatest, most innovative vocal... it's just so emotive.

Stevie's part was recorded sometime in the 80's. You can hear the birds chirping in the background, those same birds can be heard on other interviews with her from the 80's including the other "In The Studio" shows about "Fleetwood Mac" and "Rumours".

I thought the same thing too... And her speaking voice sounded more crisper... if that make sense... ;-)


Donnie Wayne ~

Sometimes I haven't got a clue what Lindsey is talking about!

Do all Californians talk like this?

He's right. It is.

Hehe. :lol: Lindsey is so wordy at times that I'm suurprised he's not the "mad songwriter" in Fleetwood Mac. Not all Californians talk this way. It's almost like Lindsey likes to paint with his words sometimes.

I love Lindsey, but that man can be so pretentious at times. :laugh:

So what were these awful things that Stevie and Lindsey said to each other at the TITN-tour fight at Chris' house?!?!?!

Stevie said that it was the kind of things you hold back, just in case you just might eventually get back together. So, she refrained from saying them for years, but then it all came out. Using that comment as a guideline, I'm sure they told each other that they were horrible in bed, for starters.

Michele

Yeah, and then they got unfriendly. Didn't he say: "Get that crazy stupid bitch off me"?

Think Mick said it was "schizophrenic b___". Michele