Tusk - 2015 Deluxe & Expanded!!

[MoonSister75]

Maybe someone will scan the liner notes and post them at some point, for anyone not buying the physical format. I don't have a scanner. The Tusk Track by Track section is great, Lindsey has the most to say obviously. I'm not sure if it's all new interview material, or some is taken from old interviews.

Here's a few sections that I liked in particular:

Over and Over - Lindsey
By the time we got to this we knew we had an album that was not by the book. When it came to sequencing we felt this song had a certain familiarity to it, something that people were going to latch onto on one level and yet set them up for some of the other more traditional things. Where this got untraditional was leaving it in a fairly raw state, not too glossy in the production.


Sara - Mick
I recall it being just me and Stevie going into the night on this one. Everyone apart from Keith and Richard had left. Chris was going to reply the piano and Stevie re-sing the song, but we listened back to this guide and she sang it so beautifully whilst she was playing piano, which was leaking into her vocal mic. And the timing of it was so individual - there was no way Chris could get in there. The vocal and piano were just not able to be separated. But the guys were saying, "The timing is all over the place" so I said "Just let me weasel around and make it ok. If I'm playing brushes there's no absolutes, no hits, it can just grease around". So I spent about 24 hours - a long, long time - dropping in phrases, schmoozing my way around her timing, and that's the track that survived, with Stevie playing piano.


That's All For Everyone - Lindsey
This was influenced by Brian Wilson. What I love about him is not just his music but his choices. He gave me the courage to flout success, showed me that what you need to do as an artist is take risks and find new avenues.
It's a wisp of a meaning at best, more of an atmospheric piece. I had the idea of being at a function with these people and having to go home, but on a less literal level I think it may also have been about deprogramming from the formulas you need to follow to buy what the corporate world is trying to sell you.