Watching the day after the world lost Christine McVie. Hopefully she knew how much she meant to Mac fans all over the world. RIP, classy lady, and thanks for the music!
Not resting in heaven, she had a brief 7 day visit, standing before God, then off to hell, as she died in unrighteousness. Have to be holy and sin-free to be in heaven (or die as a martyr), virtually no one meets the criteria these days.
These USC band members are all 18 yrs older now and no doubt telling their kids about the time they played with Fleetwood Mac. Had to be a major moment for them. "Band" kids used to get teased in school. Most of their non-band classmates will have nothing this cool to look back on. Very much good went on here, This became a moment in a lot of people's lives.
+Mods PR Indeed. The quintessential "Mad-Eye" Mick, overlooking his little group of dysfunctional musical geniuses... and they got to provide his backup. A truly epic scene. :-)
@@Grievous- It was a freakin' class act is what it was! A marching band. They had o done this for the whole tour. Amazing. I bet no other band ever thought of it. They were a fantastically talented band.
@@JustmeT-go8mz Agree 100%. I love the live "STH" from the Kennedy Center Awards. I read somewhere that way back when the Wilson Sisters did some background vocals for Led Zepplin.
I saw Fleetwood Mac in Fargo, ND back when there hits were don't stop, Rhiannon, the chain, and landslide. It was outdoors They were so great! Jeff Beck and Henry gross frontlined the concert
+Mason Laseter idk, I could argue that the class that performed on the original track is SLIGHTLY cooler, but they also didn't perform Don't Stop with them like these guys did.
Having been in a marching band this just sends chills up my spine. Just imagine growing up knowing this song and then attending USC and being in the marching band knowing that almost 20 years earlier members of the same band appeared in the video to this song. Then, all of a sudden, you hear that Fleetwood Mac wants you to perform the song with them! YOU get to do it! That's a dream come true! It doesn't get much better. And its something they will tell their grandchildren about one day. I can just imagine how those kids feel up on that stage!
"Tusk' came out before my last year of college (ohio state). we drove cross country to the RoseBowl for the game. The USC band had adapted a little minute long snip and played repeatedly (the section where the horns start in mostly). And my team lost the game at the very end. But an amazing experience at 21.
Apparently it was his idea to use a Student marching band in the original recording, which is strange as the UK has no tradition of marching college bands, am sure he's proud that those students were as good as the originals...or maybe Drugs lol
Oh, Christine, you have gone your own way . . . to Heaven. You were a great part of what, for me, will go down in history as one of the greatest rock/pop bands of all time! RIP🙏🙏🙏!!
Not to heaven, she had a brief 7 day visit, standing before God, then off to hell, as she died in unrighteousness. Have to be holy and sin-free to be in heaven (or die as a martyr), virtually no one meets the criteria these days.
My ex college girlfriend was a band geek at Michigan. Her dad had also been the drum major for the U of M marching band back in the day. I was watching this on TV and called her up to make sure she was watching this when I saw the Trojan band come out. She was watching as she was also a huge Mac fan. When we were in college I would always go tailgating to the U of M games with her family before the game and then sit with my gaggle of friends in the student section. They had a better system back in those days as the seats weren't random. You got better seats as your class standing rose. Freshman seats were in the end zone. By the time you were a senior you were on the 35 yd line near the band. Those were nice seats.
If there was a Grammy for concert encores, this would be the standard. Perfectly planned, exquisitely executed, and brought the show to the highest level at the last song.
absolutely. To be there in person to see Fleetwood Mac AND to have the USC marching band appear as part of the encore had to be an incredible feeling for those there!
Turns out that we don't live forever like it seemed in those glorious days. I cry a tear of remembrance for Christine and a generation of promise as slowly we exit the stage.
With the production and sound engineering to allow you to hear it. Superb! I've been to so many concerts recently where the sound was sh*t! For some reason they are not able to differentiate the sound characteristics of the venues they play at and use a one-size-fits-all setup that DOESN'T F'N WORK. I'm sick of paying exorbitant money for lousy sound. No more concerts for me I guess...
I don't know how to say this. . My mom, who was/ is my biggest role model and the biggest FLEETWOOD MAC FAN i know!!!! This was the last concert we got to see, where my mom Judi cried in joy at this song, and then my mom passed!!!I LOVE YA'ALL Fleetwood Mac!!!! . RIP Christine McVie!!!! See you songbird!!!!
Mick is just brilliant and his face! I think that there are only a couple of bands who could pull something like this off. Fleetwood Mac and Queen. Absolute legends!
I am just astounded by how good this encore is. Love the whole band they’re all so talented each one. AND Tusk happens to be my absolute favorite song on this album. And of course, RIP Christine goes without saying.
I will never tire of reviewing this masterpiece. Interaction on the show is visible at 2:05 min as soon as John's bass kicks in. Lindsay's expression translates everything ... I love it !!! Long live Fleetwood Mac.
I’m 19 and mostly listen to shitty rap music such as yeat, gunna, youngboy, etc however I think this song is a banger. Just goes to show how generational this music is.
This performance gave this song its due. When they did it originally, this is what they as a group had in mind. It took almost 30 years, but what a track.
I wonder if anyone in the USC band, in this video, happened to be the child of a former USC band member that was on the original recording. Now THAT would have been beyond epic !
My dad was in USC Trojan marching band 1983-1987. If anyone happens to know what year this was filmed, and if it's in those years..he's for sure in this! He was a quad drummer
When you added Fleetwood Mac with the USC Marching Band, it was like in my world when I put my first Coke in my Bacardi 151 LOL Shazam. Still have all of their albums. Rumors tusk the list goes on, got them all on myself right now in front of me.
Holy High School Batman !! I haven`t heard this song in ages. AND my son just installed a new sound system for me. I was perusing RU-vid and stumbled on TUSK which I knew had good bass. However Lindsey Buckingham did such a soulful job singing, and Mick Fleetwoods crazy eyes were great. The marching band gave me goosebumps. Adding this to "my favs" right now. 📍✔
Listen to the teenagers on RU-vid. The talent out there is incredible. Andrei Cerbu from Romania is the best guitarist in the world and he's only 15! And he can play anything from rock, to power, to jazz, to ballads, to the Blues, his homage to Gary Moore's Parisienne Walkways is magnificent. This is the best time for music ever, it's just that the old business model has broken down. It's not just five labels run out of LA and controlled from NYC. You have hunt for it on RU-vid but the search is worth it. Because when you find it it's yours.
Fleetwood Mac was the soundtrack to the first few years my spouse and I were married in the 1970s. Time marches remorselessly on. Christine McVie, who passed away last month on November 30, 2022 at the age of 79 was 54-years-old in this video and I thought from my 39-year-old perspective (based on my memories from when I was 19) that they were all showing a bit of age when I first saw this in 1997 and yet they continued to perform off-and-on for another 25 years. The kids in the USC Band were children when "Tusk" was first released and by now are all almost as old as Ms. McVie was when they performed with her.
Not sure who arranged the score we had, but it definitely was written for pep bands- especially if you had a crazy good brass section. One of our favorites. Talking 40 years ago.
When me and my older sister were little, our dad put this performance on the tv and we were obsessed, asking him to play it over and over again. Still gives me chills! And of course he still plays it for us.
Like most of the truly great bands, Fleetwood Mac had multiple master songwriters and dynamic front singers. But like all great bands, they also possessed an amazing rhythm section that propelled those songs. This performance showcases both of those truths for FM very well.
When this came out they were one of the absolute top bands of the time. Tusk was like, WTF!! is this? A bit of a shock, the loud horns and marching band was outrageous. But once over that initial confusion the brilliance of it all set in and Tusk is one song that (among many of their others) is timeless. You just want to crank it loud and yell at people, "just tell me that you love me!" Great riff.
In the fall of '79 I was driving home late at night after spending a week working in our store in Webb City (just North of Joplin, MO) on my way home to St. Joe (50 miles North of KC). Driving my '69 Camaro North on 71 in the very black dark, listening to the FM radio. A groovy song was on and then I started hearing these stadium sounds, etc. Was my first hearing of "Tusk" and after a thousand or so repetitions definitely, Not my Last!
There was a time - when Stevie was really hot. Now ... she'd put on so much weight - and Chritine has stayed so slim that - at least as of this recording - things have changed around. Of course ... all of these people are really old now. .
Christine McVie aka Perfect in every sense of the word. I personally had the pleasure and privilege of seeing Fleetwood Mac 3 times in three different decades in my life. Her unique voice and the way she performed was sheer poetry in motion. She is and was the quintessential musician . Once in a lifetime. "if there 's a rock-n-roll heaven, well you know they've got a hell of a band" make room Christine she has arrived with her Hohner Piant N II electric piano.
