best of Get Tusked

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We should really do a book review like a book club on this book..... I caved and got a copy. Ken and Hernan alternate telling their versions of what was going on over the timeline of making the album. It's printed in an annoyingly too small font with Ken's sections in normal really tiny font and Hernan's sections in italics really tiny font which makes it super annoying for their geriatric fan base to fecking read.

Of course the making of the record and all the technical details blah blah blah (only sort of kidding).....I wanted the dirt. Especially on the Hernan/Stevie fling.

Part 1:

It appears she had her eye on him for some time. He had helped her work on demos, especially Sara, which he really liked and put a lot of effort into. At one point as he's helping put it together he tells her it MUST be on the album and he's going to fight for it. She gives him a sultry, enticing smile and says, "Go for it!" (fight for me my knight in shining armor). This is all like late '78.

Few months later, it's April Fool's Day, 1979. She concocts this "joke" wherein she will fawn over Hernan in the studio when his then-girlfriend is going to show up. Richard and Ken appear to be in on it too. Stevie works out this whole thing with Hernan (who only later thinks, gee, this might not be so nice to my GF) where Stevie and Hernan are cozied up at the piano and Stevie sings Angel, especially the lines like "I still look up/when you walk/in the room" while making seductive eyes at him, and saying things like "I wrote that after watching you come in the studio one day" etc etc. The GF hears this and is not pleased, and then Stevie and Hernan go into the control room and they all do the "Surprise! April Fool's!!" to her, and the GF is not pleased but feels like she has to pretend to be a good sport and says "Oh, ha ha, you really got me going there"

Not much later, one night like end April/early May, Stevie has told her gal pals that she is going to make her move on Hernan that night in the studio. Apparently she told Richard too, because R. felt compelled to pull H. aside and give him a heads-up that she is "going to try and seduce you". Stevie had sent all her entourage home, and as the day's session ends, everyone else starts leaving. She says "Gee Hernan I'd really like to hear that mix of Angel again...." Guys are winking at him and sliding out the studio door. He says "Sure" and puts up the track...she cranks it up, sings along and starts doing a private dancer thing around him, and then rubbing his neck, and then standing behind him at the console, wrapping her arms around his chest and dancing... He caves and says they end up making out on the console and almost doing the deed....

She decides they should go to her house, and since she doesn't drive, he takes her in his car. She cooks him her "famous Mexican omelette" which she says she's great at. It's like 5 am, they eat to cure their munchies from all the pot and cognac in the studio, and they ponder the consequences. They go up to her bedroom and, as he puts it, before they make love, she stops and says to him dramatically, "I love everything that's happening, but you must seriously consider the consequences. If this happens it will totally change your life. I want you to be sure it's what you want". He says it is. They roll around in her Chinese canopy 4-poster bed for a few hours, til he realizes he needs to go home and see his GF before she goes to work.

Next day in the studio Richard and Ken are like wink, wink, nudge nudge. Ken says, Just be careful with this.... And so begins everyone being afraid of Lindsey finding out.....

Shall I do Part 2??