Imagine an entire season of the reality tv series Survivor if it had been filmed in a locked down recording studio instead of a remote island, and with guitars instead of spears, and you have the story of Fleetwood Mac's 1979 double opus Tusk. Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks bare their souls dealing with the phenomenon of superstardom following the record-setting Rumours, all the while lifting the curtain on the songs "Think About Me", "Storms", "The Ledge", "That's All for Everyone", Stevie's magnum opus "Sara", and the filial fantasy "Sisters of the Moon".

Tusk has some of the most frank, illuminating revelations about love, ambition, artistic integrity vs. the pressures of commerce, youth, regret, and yes, music that you will ever hear this side of a therapist's couch. Lindsey Buckingham shares with InTheStudio host Redbeard the collective fear that threatened the creative process for Fleetwood Mac.

"There was a danger of all of us slipping into the caricature of ourselves at that point...What you don't want it to do is let celebrity affect your thinking about how you see yourself, and more importantly, how you think about making music and the reasons you're making music." - Lindsey Buckingham