It's 'our unofficial fight song,' trumpet section leader Emily Moneymaker told the L.A. (Fun fact: 'Tusk' would go on to become a USC anthem. Bartner also conducted the Trojans from the stage. Bartner arranged the band instrumentals for the song alongside his staff. Times, longtime USC band director Arthur C. I really enjoyed it.'Īccording to the L.A. It was out-of-your-mind stuff and I can take quite a lot of the responsibility for that part of it. 'It happened in my mind in a very lunatic way. 'We had so much creativity working with them,' he told The Australian in 2015.

Everyone followed the brass band around the town, and I thought, ‘What a good idea!'” 'As the day went on, they got drunker and drunker. “I was in a room in the town square with a horrific hangover, and I was woken by the sound of the local brass band that relentlessly went round and round the square,' Fleetwood would tell British GQ years later. Much of the song's greatness (and strangeness) stems from what Mick Fleetwood would later dub 'my lunacy' with the USC Marching Band, whose presence was inspired by a brass band Fleetwood had heard playing past his hotel room in a French fishing village.

It was savaged by critics-Mojo called it “one of the greatest career sabotage albums of all time”-but Tusk hit the number four slot in the U.S., and its title song was a top ten hit. Club describes as 'a work of strange savagery, overlaid with jungle sounds and a thudding, endlessly repetitive drum riff that drives everything that happens in the song,' was a single from the 1979 double LP of the same name, which followed the chart-topping Rumours. The wonderfully weird song, which the A.V.

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