Tortments behind Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Tusk’ revealed 46 years later

Stevie Nicks, now 77, has said about the idea behind the record: “It is Tusk the Elephantn-Die entire African drum, Tusk-in-the-Air, Happy, Religialist, ritualistic thing, with (drummer) mick (fleetwood) as the African chef. In the studio we had two in the studio.

“If something went wrong, it was:” Tusk is downstairs. ” Those 13 months were our journey on the holy mountain to the Holy African Percussionplaats, where all the gods of music lived. “

At the beginning of 1978, Mac’s songwriter, guitarist, and Nick’s former loved one, Lindsay Buckingham, had declared that he could not tolerate it to make Rumors II.

Influenced by the raw energy from Punk, he started following songs at home, using delayed band machines, vocals in the bathroom floor and even Kleenex boxes for percussion.

He brought the demos to village recorders, newly reclaimed for $ 1.4 million – a space -inkings converted into a perfumed, draped cave of mysticism.