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Originally Posted by nailatixela
We were talking about the Rumours tour in another thread about a week ago. I thought it would be cool if people could share their stories from the Tusk Tour. I know we have people here who were lucky enough to see them.
If you went, let us know all you can remember from 30 years ago!  When/where did you see them? Did you like the setlist, new songs, was Stevie boring? Was Lindsey's haircut a shock? Did John McVie go crazy?
Seriously - please share whatever special moments you can remember. They are all special and it is fun to read them. |
I'm an old timer here so the first time I saw them was in 78 in Atlanta at The Omni. Now....for those of you who don't remember.....back in the day, before MTV and the INTERNET and VCR's, the only thing you had was Rolling Stone, Crawdaddy and Creem to give you photos and news on your favorite bands. You would not believe what a big deal it was to get that new issue of Rolling Stone. I'll never forget going out to the mailbox and finding the Tusk issue with Stevie and Mick on the cover. Oh man, I was in heaven. Plus Stevie was showing a bit of cleavage on that cover so heaven was about to kick me out for the images that was going thru my perverted little mind ( hey, I was 19, give me a break.....come to think of it, I'm 49 and still have those thoughts......never mind). Anyway, when a band came to town, it was a major deal. I mean, you knew a couple of months before tickets went on sale. A concert was the only time you could see these people move and hear them talk. It was a major deal. So, my buddy John and I have seats waaaaaaay in the back of the Omni. Not nosebleed but we are back there, but, it doesn't matter because 1) we are there about to see Fleetwood Mac in concert and 2) we are in the same building with Stevie Nicks (if only she knew we were alive...damn). We both had binoculars that were pretty poor....mine kept going out of focus.....and I did pretty much keep my line of sight on Stevie but I did keep looking over at the guy onstage with her. Was that Lindsey?.....naw, couldn't be.....Lindsey has curly hair and a beard and this guy is clean shaven with short hair.....but he sounds like Lindsey......might be Lindsey.....but he don't look like what I was expecting him to look like. That is the thing that I remember the most when I think back to seeing Fleetwood Mac for the first time on the "not quite Rumours/almost Tusk tour". Oh, I also remember Lindsey saying they wanted to do a new song from their new album and it turned out to be, "Sisters Of The Moon". That was cool. And then when Stevie pulled her top down and started dancing.......wait.......oh sorry,, that was another one of those images that got me kicked out of heaven.....well, it was worth it....it was a good image.