Get Tusked

The Inside Story of Fleetwood Mac's Most Anticipated Album

De: Hernan Rojas, Ken Caillat

Narrado por: Sheree Wichard

In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of Fleetwood Mac’s epic, platinum-selling double album, Tusk, producers and engineers Ken Caillat and Hernan Rojas tell their stories of spending a year with the band in their new million-dollar studio trying to follow up Rumours, the biggest rock album of the time.

Following their massive success, the band continued its infamous soap opera when its musical leader and guitarist, Lindsey Buckingham, threatened to quit if he didn’t get things his way, resulting in clashes not only with his band but especially Caillat, who had been essential to the band’s Grammy-winning sound.

Hernan Rojas’s story recounts a young man who leaves Chile after General Pinochet’s coup to seek his future in the music industry of Los Angeles, where he finds success at one of the hottest studios in town. When Fleetwood Mac arrives, Rojas falls in love with its star singer, Stevie Nicks, and the two of them become romantically involved.

Throughout the book, both Caillat and Rojas detail not only the trials and sacrifices they made to finish the album, but also triumphs of musical inspiration and technical innovation that have made Tusk the darling of music critics and indie rockers today.

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The person who read this was not good ,

The person who read this did not do a great job. There was no way to tell if it was Ken Caillat speaking or Ernon, too much information that had nothing to do with the making of Tusk.

Oddly narrated by a female.

The performance was good but I think a male should have narrated it. Stories were great, a bit too technical in spots about the recording process yet that was what the book was about so I listened knowing that someone understood and appreciated that. I also enjoyed Ken’s book about Rumors.

Ugh

Ken’s prior book on the Rumours LP dipped into indulgence from time to time, but this one was insufferable. Any respectable editor would’ve lopped off 50% of this material, including tons of self-satisfied personal anecdotes that have nothing to do with the band. This is all made worse by the kindergarten-librarian-style narration, complete with heavy affectations and numerous mispronounced words. The story fans want is in here, but you’ll have to dig for it.

Go Back To Narrator of Making Rumours

I really hope the narrator for Making Rumours comes back and narrates this book and then I hope that it is made clear who the narrator is speaking for when there is more than one account. The narrator must be a man especially when he talks about the women. This must fixed before this book can be enjoyed.

Needs more about the music, less about the drugs

I read a review in an industry magazine which said you really didn't have to be familiar with the album to appreciate the book. I'm not sure I agree, but if that's true, it's probably because what the book says about the album could have been summed up in the first paragraph: "Lindsay Buckingham decides he doesn't want to make "Rumors 2", instead makes everyone's life miserable. The end." The rest is mostly stories of drug induced excesses, coupled with (or caused by) a combination of typical musician insecurities and false bravado. What little "insider" information there is regarding the music outside of that (technical details or recording techniques) are really not revelatory to anyone who's worked or been in a studio in the last 30 years. Don't waste your time.

Horrific narrator

I really hate being negative but the narrator said singer with a hard g dozens of times, said stratOHcaster just as many and her ‘acting’ of conversations described atrocious. The engineer/producer of this audiobook found these flaws acceptable? I love Fleetwood Mac so struggled through it.

Wanted the Stories of the Songs…Narration Ruins It

I read this book a few years ago and wanted to dip in and listen to it on my daily walks again after listening to the Christine McVie biography and listening to making rumors. There’s no way to tell who is writing what part you’re listening to because there are two authors. Also, the narration is not the best for this work. Sometimes it feels like I’m in a library storytime listening to a book read for children. I don’t think I can go any farther and I may go back to reading my hardcopy.

Dreadful

I am trying my best to get through this, but the narration is truly the worst I have ever heard. The phrasing and cadence make it very difficult to understand what's going on in certain points. It almost sounds like AI sometimes.

As far as the book, I wouldn't recommend it either. The main author is a clearly disgruntled ex with a deep hatred of Lindsey and true resentment towards the others, despite him saying otherwise.

There is too much about his personal life that truly no one cares about. He's not the artist we bought this book to learn about.

I imagine Hernon was brought on to corroborate his stories and if they were more interesting, I guess it would work? There's just not a lot of substance here. Too much filler.

Overall, I skipped through a lot of the book when the authors started talking about their lives. It was difficult finding the bits about the band that I came for. I wish I could return this. Very disappointed.

Narrator issue

I enjoyed Making Rumours, but Get Tusked is terrible. I think it is because of the narrator. It’s a female with a male author. It just doesn’t seem right. The narrator for Making Rumours was great. I wish they would have stuck with him. This book is difficult to listen to. I actually didn’t finish it because I didn’t care for the narrator.

good story bad narration

oh my the narrator killed this for me and they are my all time favorite group so I tried to get thru but to date I have not finished it. it should have been a male narrator for sure. some of the parts were just strange for a woman to be reading.