The song was also performed with the Trojan Band during Fleetwood Mac's 1997 concert for the recording of the live album The Dance. During a game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on October 4, 1980, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, and Mick Fleetwood presented the Trojan Band with a platinum disc for their contributions on "Tusk". At the time, the marching band had 112 members. The Trojan Marching Band's contributions 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 it into 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 record the marching band.
A 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.Īt the request of Mick Fleetwood, the band recruited the University of Southern California's Trojan Marching Band to play on the single. 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. 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. " Tusk" is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac from the 1979 double LP of the same name.
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