"After all the tantrums and breakdowns and crying fits, the album ends with Stevie Nicks asking you point blank: 'Is it over now? Do you know how to pick up the pieces and go home?' If the answers are 'no' and 'no,' you flip the record and play it again. Why don't you ask him if he's going to stay Why don't you ask him if he's going away Why don't you tell me what's going on Why don't you tell me who's on the phone Why don't you ask him what's going wrong Why don't you ask him the latest on his throne Don't say that you love me Just tell me that you want me Tusk Just say that you want me Don't tell me. "Rumours remains so powerful because it’s so ruthlessly clear-eyed about the crisis, instead of smoothing it over," Christine explained to Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone placed it at number 26 on their list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, describing the band as turning “private turmoil into gleaming, melodic public art.” Considered by many fans and critics as the band’s best release, Rumours was selected in 2018 for preservation in the National Recording Registry. The core five members of Fleetwood Mac would go on to produce further studio albums and tour and would disband and then reunite over the decades. There was a gap between what I felt was important internally – what I had accomplished musically – and the popular acclaim.” The Dance, recorded May 23, 1997, features 22 songs performed live by Fleetwood Mac in their finest incarnation - Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie and Stevie Nicks. “At some point, all the stuff surrounding it started to become the main focus. “When Rumors went crazy, I just couldn’t bring myself to feel strongly about the album,” he said to Rolling Stone in 1984. Though Rumours would go on to become a massive international hit and musical anchor to the latter part of the '70s, Buckingham remembers having mixed feelings about creating such a bittersweet ode to love lost and found. And a powerful version of Tusk reunited the group with a new generation of the USC Trojans marching band, who played on the original studio version. I am doing dinner beforehand at Rangoon Burmese (posted separately if you are interested.'Rumours' became one of the band's most successful albums Please see images for where we will be sitting if you want to try to get tickets in the same area. We are seated in Orchestra left, row C, seats 109, 111, and 113, 115 if someone wants to get closer to that we can try to be at least in the same vicinity. As I am typing this I know of 4 people who are going and have purchased tickets. Please message and arrange between fellow attendees and make friends to coordinate tickets. I understand we may not be able to sit together if we attend the concert. Tusk covers all the great hits of Fleetwood Mac. No fancy tricks, no gimmicks, just five musicians recreating the music of Fleetwood Mac to perfection with note for note renditions that no other Fleetwood Mac tribute on the touring scene today can come close to duplicating. Tusk is the number one Tribute to Fleetwood Mac in the world, bar none.
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