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Mick Fleetwood Goes His Own Way: Quotes from Thoreau | Sunday Express

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Sunday Express (UK)
By: Mick Fleetwood
Sun, March 30, 2014

“If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away.” – Henry David Thoreau

The production for Tusk was Fleetwood Mac's chance to divert from the expected[GETTY]
The production for Tusk was Fleetwood Mac’s chance to divert from the expected[GETTY]
Thoreau’s quote so brings to mind the experience of making the album Tusk. Much like when the Beatles made their White Album, Tusk, for us, was our walking away from predictability.

Kudos to Lindsey Buckingham, who was determined to break the mould of what we had done with Rumours and get away from the possibility of what can so often happen when success impedes artistic expression.I think Tusk was the most important album we ever made. It’s also my personal favourite and now I can appreciate how it was a crucial platform for us all, especially Lindsey. It satiated his drive to try new things.

It was also a time when we each learned to find our own voice. Coming out of the emotional rollercoaster of Rumours, the drama remained. A real shift had occurred, resulting in each of us pinpointing our singular creative method of survival. Continue reading Mick Fleetwood Goes His Own Way: Quotes from Thoreau | Sunday Express →

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Stevie Nicks Steals the Show – Atlanta Journal Review, 1980

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Atlanta Journal
August 11, 1980
By Andrew Slater

Standing in a backstage room at the Omni, Stevie Nicks stared longingly at a bowl of Cheetos cheese balls. “I love these things,” she said as a small group of anxious post-concert party guests waited their turn to talk with Fleetwood Mac’s lead singer. “These are great to eat when you’re not on a diet.”

“However,” she added with a sardonic whine, “I am on one, so keep me away from them.”

That was not a difficult task for Ted Cohen, the Warner Bros. Press liaison who is travelling with the group and who acted as ringmaster for Fleetwood Mac’s Friday night gathering. At this reception, following the band’s first Atlanta performance in almost two years, Miss Nicks was the centre of attention, after strolling into the room fashionably later than the other band members.

Manager/drummer Mick Fleetwood, bassist John McVie, and vocalist/keyboardist Christine McVie had been milling about the room, talking with members of local radio stations and Atlanta representatives from Warner Bros. Records. The trio has served as the muscular rhythm section and spinal chord for three incarnations of Fleetwood Mac: the first during the late ’60s, when the group was a British blues band with guitarist Peter Green; the second as early ’70s melody makers with California guitarist Bob Welch; and now with their most successful aggregation, featuring third-generation Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and Miss Nicks.

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Fleetwood Mac – Can’t Go Home Again | Trouser Press

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April 1980
By Chris Salewicz

Of course, Fleetwood Mac is the American Dream. The band’s success story is the stuff of which the mytho-logy of modern day America is made: Mick Fleetwood, John and Christine McVie, down on their luck in the Oulde Country, make the decision to move to the Promised Land. Traveling as far west as possible, these humble immigrants settle on the most advanced technological frontier in the world, Los Angeles.

Operating within rock ‘n’ roll’s picaresque tradition, a surprise encounter teams up the three Britishers with two down-and-out American natives, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. Within a year, following closely the WASP work ethic, their fortunes change for the better.

Within three years of moving to America they have become part of the aristocracy to which you are granted entry in the United States by virtue of your material rather than your blood. In Washington Fleetwood Mac is invited to the White House for social chit-chat with President Jimmy Carter.

By now they are so rich that Mick Fleetwood tells a friend he knows he need never work again in his life. It’s like a good made-for-TV movie!

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Tusk Tour Starts | Rolling Stone

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Fleetwood Mac’s world tour begins on October 26th

Rolling Stone (issue 303)
November 1, 1979

Fleetwood Mac’s first world tour in two years will begin in Pocatello, Idaho, on October 26th, about a week after the release of their new album, Tusk. The group will play thirty-one concerts in twenty-three cities before heading to Japan, Australia and New Zealand; the band will return to the U.S. next year for more dates.

Most of the two-hour sets will be in arena-sized halls. Danny Douma, whose debut solo album features appearances by all the members of Fleetwood Mac, will open the majority of the shows.

Their U.S. itinerary is as follows:

October 27th, Ogden,UT;
October 28th, Salt Lake City, UT;
October 31st, November 1st, Denver, CO;
November 2nd, Albuquerque, NM;
November 5th, 6th, St. Louis, MO;
November 7th, Cincinnati, OH;
November 10th, New Haven, CT;
November 11th, 12th, Hempstead, NY;
November 15th, 16th, NYC;
November 17th, Boston, MA;
November 20th, Rochester, NY;
November 21st, Philadelphia, PA;
November 22nd, Providence, RI;
November 25th, Washington DC;
November 26th, Pittsburgh, PA;
November 29th, Ann Arbor, MI;
November 30th, Champaign, IL;
December 1st, Cedar Falls, IA;
December 4th-6th, Los Angeles, CA;
December 9th, San Diego, CA;
December 10th, 11th, LosAngeles, CA;
December 14th-16th, San Francisco, CA.

With thanks to Dark Angel who sent me this article

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Tusk – Warner’s Largest Campaign Ever | Rolling Stone

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Warners’ largest campaign ever
Fleetwood Mac’s ‘TUSK’ LP gets big push

Rolling Stone (issue 303)
November 1, 1979
by Steve Pond and James Henke

Warner Bros. Records is unveiling its largest promotional campaign ever to accompany the release of Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk on October 17th. The record company originally hired a New York advertising agency ‘Lord, Geller, Federico and Einstein ‘ to develop a marketing strategy, but after reviewing the plan, Warners and Fleetwood Mac decided against using it. This was the first time in its history that the company went to an outside firm for an ad campaign.

“We felt we owed it to the band to exhaust every conceivable outlet,” said Shelly Cooper, director of advertising for Warners. “We thought we might get a more creative campaign by going to an agency that has experience selling more than just records.”

But Cooper said that the band, which has been heavily involved in planning the campaign, “felt it was being oversold, so the entire campaign is now being done in-house. It’s more understated.”

Added a source close to Fleetwood Mac: “When the group saw the agency’s plan, they thought it was outrageous. They felt that they were being sold like a product ‘ like chewing gum.”

The advertising agency, which specialises in paperback books, hadn’t done any work for the record industry for about a dozen years, according to its executive vice-president, Ed Yaconetti. “We developed a campaign and now it’s in the hands of our client,” he said. “We don’t know whether they’ll use it or not.”

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