Thanks for posting this. According to Mick in his first book Stevie was well aware of the meaning of Tusk and threatened to leave the band over it. Stevie put up a fight about this when they wanted to call the album Tusk. Mick goes into detail about the dog and how the album was dedicated to Lindsey's father. I find that credible because how are you a member of a band and not know the meaning of your album. But then again who knows. It was 1979 and they were not in the clearest state of mind
