The song was also performed live during Fleetwood Mac's concert in 1997 in conjunction with the USC Band. During a game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood presented the Trojan band on Octoa platinum disc for their contributions on "Tusk", this time in front of a huge crowd. The Trojan marching band's part set a record for the highest number of musicians performing on a single.
John McVie was in Tahiti during the Dodger Stadium recording, but he is represented in the video by a cardboard cutout carried around by Mick Fleetwood and later positioned in the stands with the other band members. Some recorded footage of the session made the song's music video. The recording session took place on June 4, 1979. A mobile studio was installed in Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium to capture the marching band. I got a big leg of lamb in there somewhere – I'm hitting it with a spatula.Īt the request of Mick Fleetwood, the band teamed up with University of Southern California's Trojan Marching Band to play on the single. It's a whole hodgepodge of Kleenex boxes, drums, weird stuff, slapping of lamb chops and things. I'm playing floor toms, and I overdubbed a lot of American Indian wood tribal drums. Fleetwood and Buckingham played lamb chops and a Kleenex box on the track respectively. In addition to normal drums, Fleetwood Mac also experimented with different found sounds on the song. Producers Richard Dashut and Ken Caillat hence created a drum-driven production. Looking for a title track for the as yet unnamed album, Mick Fleetwood suggested that they take the rehearsal riff that Lindsey Buckingham used for sound-checks.
The single was released with two different picture sleeves in many territories: The first featured the black and white picture of producer/engineer Ken Caillat's dog Scooter snapping at a trouser leg, the same as that used for the album cover, whilst the second featured a plain cover with the same font as the album cover but without the dog picture.Ī limited promotional 12-inch version, featuring mono and stereo versions, was also released to US radio stations.Ī slightly different mix of the track appeared on the retrospective four-disc compilation 25 Years – The Chain in 1992. It was one of the first songs to be released using a digital mixdown from an original analog source. The song peaked at number eight in the United States for three weeks, reached number six in the United Kingdom (where it was certified Silver for sales of over 250,000 copies), number five in Canada and number three in Australia. Stevie Nicks initially threatened to leave Fleetwood Mac if Fleetwood made Tusk the album's title song but stayed in the group all the same." Tusk" is a song by Fleetwood Mac from the 1979 double LP of the same name. In live Fleetwood Mac performances, Christine McVie would come to the front of the stage and play the accordion. The song became a staple of subsequent tours featuring Buckingham as well as his solo tours.
The USC Marching Band were present but bassist John McVie was in Tahiti and represented by a cardboard cut-out photographic image of himself.
The percussion effects included Buckingham hitting boxes of tissues and drummer Mick Fleetwood hitting a leg of lamb with a spatula.Ī video for the song was filmed at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The song was based on a riff that Buckingham used to play when soundchecking for live shows. It marked the band's return to the top ten in their country of origin for the first time since The Green Manalishi in 1970 (a 1973 reissue of Albatross notwithstanding). It peaked at #8 in the United States and #6 in the United Kingdom. The song was released as the first single from the album. Tusk is a song written by Lindsey Buckingham that served as the title-track from Fleetwood Mac's 1979 double album.
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