i have a question about tusk........

[CarneVaca]

Tusk is absolutely my favorite Fleetwood Mac topic, more so than the whole Stevie-Lindsey soap opera.

Once I took my CD, popped into the player and recorded all the Lindsey songs to one side of a 45-minute tape. And wouldn't you know it? Those songs stand up by themselves as a fairly complete album; mind you, not a commercial album by any stretch of the imagination. But the album that is Tusk of course also has some great contributions from the other songwriters. I always dug the folksy approach Lindsey took to a couple of Christine's songs. You've got to wonder if she absolutely hated the idea when he first did it, only to get used to it. Of whether she still hates those songs now.

And the cool thing about Tusk the song is that it became a hit, then a classic, in spite of itself. I would put it up there with other unlikely hit/classics as Sympathy for the Devil and ... well I can't think of any others right now. But do you know what I mean?