After four or five hours, they’d forget I was even there, they’d be so wrapped up in little details. So most of the time I’d be looking at them through the window in the control room. You see, Lindsey, Chris, John, and Mick all play, and I don’t. The other 11 months I did nothing, and you start to lose it after a while if you’re inactive. “I was there in the studio every day-or almost every day-but I probably only worked for two months. “Tusk took us 13 months to make, which is ridiculous,” she said when promoting Bella Donna in 1981. While she believed Tusk to be “a spectacular record,” soon-to-be solo star Nicks resented the time its recording required of her. Songstress Stevie Nick was frustrated with the recording process: While it sold 8 million copies, it was trashed by critics and it has since disappeared from the pop culture consciousness. The Eagles followed up Hotel California in 1979 with The Long Run. Many 70s bands did not make the same inelegant but successful transition to the 80s. Even publications with younger readership like Pitchfork have placed Tusk above Rumours in their ratings. It is now considered something of a lost classic. Tusk was deemed a failure at the time after selling only 4 million copies. Many fans simply taped the album instead of paying the hefty price tag for the LP. Curiously WB decided to play the album in its entirety on FM radio. Tusk was the first album that cost more than 1 million dollars to make and took 13 months to record. Eager to dine on the popularity of Rumours, executives at WB priced the album at $15.98 or nearly $62 adjusted for inflation. Inspired by the New Wave, Punk and fear of becoming rock dinosaurs, the band's de facto producer Lindsey Buckingham stripped down the Rumours sound, stomped on it, ripped it apart and then pieced it back haphazardly. Clocking in at 74 minutes and 20 tracks, Tusk is either a disjointed mess fueled by cocaine induced megalomania or a deliberate, calculated masterpiece depending on who you ask. You make one of the the highest selling albums of all time.
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