Fleetwood Macs Tusk, Rob Trucks
Fleetwood Macs Tusk, Rob Trucks
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Fleetwood Mac's Tusk

Author: Rob Trucks

Series: 33 1/3

Narrator: Pete Cross

Unabridged: 3 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/13/2025


Synopsis

After Rumours became the best-selling single album of all-time, Fleetwood Mac asked Warner Brothers Records to buy them a studio (the label refused, costing both Warner Brothers and the band significant cash in the long run) and then handed the reins to their guitarist and resident perfectionist Lindsey Buckingham. “You know,” Buckingham said, “we had this ridiculous success with Rumours. We were poised to do another album, and I guess because the axiom ‘If it works, run it into the ground’ was prevalent then, we were probably poised to do Rumours II. I don’t know how you do that, but somehow my light bulb that went off was, ‘Let’s just not do that. Let’s very pointedly not do that.’ ”
Here, Rob Trucks talks to Lindsey Buckingham, as well as members of Animal Collective, Camper Van Beethoven, the New Pornographers, Wolf Parade, and the USC Trojan marching band in order to chart both the story and the impact of an album born of personal obsession and a stubborn unwillingness to compromise.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Avri on April 28, 2024

Reading non-fiction continues to be confounding. I found this title far more engaging than many of the other dozen-plus I've explored in this series, despite the fact that Tusk is an album I know and love far less than those others. A fun, eclectic read with a unique voice that had me laughing out lou......more

Goodreads review by John on September 03, 2011

I read this as research for a piece I’m writing on Fleetwood Mac, but I want to talk a little bit here about how the book is formally arranged. Like a few other 33 1/3 entries – the one on Guided by Voices’ Bee Thousand comes immediately to mind – Trucks takes an album that’s accepted as formally “d......more

Goodreads review by Len or Len on July 13, 2014

One of my favorite albums, but this book focuses mainly on Lindsey Buckingham.......more

Goodreads review by Drew on November 27, 2011

A perverse exercise in taking the long way round to get to the point, the book is, like the album, a difficult and ultimately worthy folly.......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on February 02, 2023

This is perhaps the perfect response or perspective on Fleetwood Mac’s 1979 double LP album ‘Tusk’, in that as per that release Rob Truck has produced a work that is part inspiration, part annoyance. A rather idiosyncratic take on its source this book doesn’t follow any standard critical appraisal n......more