Stevie on Tusk, April 1980

[michelej1]

We had been talking about Stevie's NTF comments. Here is what she said about other songs in that same interview.


"If Lindsey had his way we'd be back to the garage anyway with nothing but garbage cans and worse yet full of garbage and four track recorders so he's very in to that [the Clash sound]. I personally, myself, don't want to go back and use garbage cans. I personally like the new recording technique cause I like to sound good and I like to sit and listen to it so I'm not really into it. But I like some of ths stuff that some of those new bands are doing and long as it sounds like funky old rock and roll, I like it. As soon as it starts to sound like Mars I don't like it."


"A lot of the new music I don't understand, because I write country songs and love songs and miserable ballads and I don't understand sci-fi music and I don't want to understand it. Because if I want to have somebody over and I want to put some wonderful music on, I am not going to put on Devo. Because it is not my kind of evening. Velvet is out and yellow plastic suits are in and I don't have any."


The Ledge: "I can't even explain it to you. He recorded it in his kitchen. A lot of his stuff was recorded in the kitchen. But he wanted to do his thing and he did it. But its very interesting and its good. I love it. It took me awhile to understand it and I know him well, but now I understand it and its real different."


What Makes You Think You're the One: "It was so raucous that the first time I listened to it, I just sat there in the studio going 'I wasn't on it, I wasn't there, I didn't sing on it, I don't know the song, I don't understand the words, I don't understand the music, and yet its going to be on my album'. It was very strange."

Tusk's Reception: "This time people are going to say a lot of great things and a lot of ****ty things. He wanted to be alone. He wanted to do his vocals alone. He didn't want any of us gawking through the window at him or me dancing in the background or twirling my baton. He just put a big note on the door saying 'Out' and he would call you if he needed your services."

That's Enough for Me: "It has been that's enough for me all through the album. I like it now, its raucous too. Christine hates it. She will very laughingly look Lindsey straight in the eyes and say, 'I hate that song' and we all just die laughing because Christine can say it. She's the one person that can walk in and say 'You look so bad today, you should go home' and you won't feel bad, you'll just go home and change and come back. But she can do it. She is the one person that go up to any of us and tell us that she thinks that we are doing is totally out of base. Christine has accepted it. She says she will have nothing to do with it on stage. We'll all go have a drink."

"We decided one time we were going to pick a billboard out and put 'we Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie have nothing to do with the following songs on Tusk.' And then also in parenthesis, 'We also do not like the name Tusk in the album.' We thought it was very much like hardcore!"