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Originally Posted by fleetwoodtrick
David, would you mind telling me the story behind the Tusk cover? You can PM me if you want, I'm dying to know! (He's everywhere in the LP insert too!)
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I don't have a story on the cover. I think it's Richard Dashut's dog biting John McVie's sneaker-clad foot. My dog Tammy used to bite my feet in play. She loved sinking her collie teeth into my Van's. Sometimes, when her teeth went too deep, I flinched visibly. What great times we had.
Think of the dog as a metaphor for the band, sinking its fangs into the complaisant & boring music industry in 1978.
The rest of the art -- all those calligraphy-like scribblings -- was journal pages by the photographer Peter Beard. From the looks of all the scribblings, Beard must have spent a good deal of time not only in Africa but in Los Angeles with the band during the recording process. Bummer he hasn't ever talked about that year in detail.