Happy Birthday Tusk!

[Nixxxed]

Originally Posted by WelshWitchPMD

I spent the whole fall and winter with the LP both listening and looking at it.

I still enjoy looking at my LPs -- there's so much to see!!! Every time I look at those awesome collages, I notice something new even today. It's also interesting to view them from a distance, especially the one with the huge airplane shadow.

I'm glad they included the complete artwork in the remasters (not to mention all the outtakes of the upside-down room). But seeing them that small was just ... well ... tragic. Maybe on the 50th anniversary they'll re-release the full-size packaging as a special collector's item, including whatever playback format we have at that time.

Although, on the 50th anniversary I'll be 60 years old. Maybe by then we'll have true virtual reality, and we'll be able to boot up the artwork and actually walk into it and explore. Imagine being able to put your arm around the dog-headed naked chick!!!

[takenbythesky]

Fantastic "Tusk" stories. Visually, the album is an absolute dream. Could stare at it for days and still find something new. I bought an extra copy on vinyl just so I could put some of the sleeves on my wall!

[shackin'up]

Originally Posted by takenbythesky

Fantastic "Tusk" stories. Visually, the album is an absolute dream. Could stare at it for days and still find something new. I bought an extra copy on vinyl just so I could put some of the sleeves on my wall!

For the same reason I got 5 extra copies through the years. Still thinking about what to do with them.

[ThePenguin]

All these Tusk stories are pretty neat!

Mine is fairly boring: I didn't hear it until 1982, when I discovered 'FM' and ran to the library and got every FM record album they had there (mostly the old bluesy ones-- Tusk was the most recent one they had.) I was about 11 or 12. I vividly remember when The Ledge came on, w/ all it's energy and intensity, I was like 'This song is SO friggin weird...." And I basically said the same thing for all of LB's songs. My favorite one that i played a million times was 'Think About Me.' I made a tape of the album which I played to death, but almost every month I would go back to the library to borrow the vinyl copy again, I liked the sound better than what was on my tape.

All the artwork etc on the sleeves fascinated me too; instead of studying in my room (as i was supposed to do every day) I sat there trying to decipher all the stuff that was written , and just looking at all the little details in the photos. I made awful quality black and white copies of the pics of the band and started a 'photo scrapbook' LOL.


On my stereo you could mess w/ the sound levels to just get bass, or just vocals etc, so I spent lots of time listening to 'parts' of all the songs. I also recall the album had this great library 'smell' to it, funny what sticks in your mind...

Anyway I loved Tusk, it was crazy but it was brilliant. It impressed me greatly.

-Lis