The first day, I set the studio up as usual.

Producer Ken Caillat commented on Buckingham's obsessive nature in the studio: 'He was a maniac. Despite this, three tracks were recorded solely by Buckingham: 'The Ledge', 'Save Me a Place', and 'That's Enough For Me'. Fleetwood overdubbed his drums over Buckingham's snare-drum track, which he sometimes played on a Kleenex box. Most of Buckingham's demos were augmented with contributions from other members. Fleetwood acquiesced, but told Buckingham that the other members needed to be integrated at some point. There's no denying what it cost, but I think it's been taken out of context.' Īfter the studio was built, Buckingham queried Fleetwood about recording some songs at his home studio. It didn't cost so much because we were in a cheaper studio. Regarding the album's production costs, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham stated: 'During the making of Tusk, we were in the studio for about 10 months and we got 20 songs out of it. Production costs rose beyond a million dollars, far more than Rumours. Įven with the custom studio, Warner Brothers still charged the band for the recording sessions. After their label turned down Fleetwood's request to buy a new studio to make the record, the band used some of their royalties to construct their own Studio D. would have liked us to follow.' Mick Fleetwood decided early on that Tusk was to be a double album.

Going into Tusk, Lindsey Buckingham was adamant about creating an album that sounded nothing like Rumours: 'For me, being sort of the culprit behind that particular album, it was done in a way to undermine just sort of following the formula of doing Rumours 2 and Rumours 3, which is kind of the business model Warner Bros. In 2000 it was voted number 853 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2013, NME ranked Tusk at number 445 in their list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Ĭompared to 1977's Rumours, which sold 10 million copies by February 1978, Tusk was regarded as a commercial failure by the label, selling four million copies.

On this world tour, the band recorded music for the Fleetwood Mac Live album released in 1980. In Germany, they shared the bill with Bob Marley. They travelled extensively across the world, including the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Japan, France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK. The band embarked on a nine-month tour to promote Tusk. The production costs were estimated to be over $1 million (equivalent to $3.73 million in 2021), making it the most expensive rock album recorded to that date. It is considered more experimental than their previous albums: partly a consequence of Lindsey Buckingham's sparser songwriting arrangements and the influence of post-punk. Tusk is the twelfth studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released as a double album on 12 October 1979.

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