It is a way to connect the two different generations. Most students do not listen to Fleetwood Mac, but they do listen to this song.
To me, this song is a way to bring the alumni and students together. There are so many different traditions that are going on during game days, it seems as if USC is its own city. USC has become its own culture, and each football game has a festival like feeling. This is a tradition that has been around for about 30 years now, and it does not look like it will be ending anytime soon. :rad Looking at some of the other videos on You Tube, this concert with the USC marching band was performed in. She loves being able to see the new students keeping some of the old traditions the same as she remembers. Another number with the USC marching band.
When she goes to a USC football game nowadays, she is brought back to a time when she was watching the game with her sorority sisters as a student. What makes this song so special to my mom is the fact that it was done by a band she absolutely loved at the time, and she loves that it is still being done today. What makes it so popular is the part in the middle where the students get to yell, “UCLA SUCKS!” With UCLA being the main rival of USC, it gives the team a lot of school spirit as they cheer for their team. It has become such a big part of the campus life that there is almost no sporting event where the band does not play it. The marching band has been playing it ever since. The idea for bringing a marching band onto the song was the brainchild of Mick Fleetwood, who was inspired by a brass band he’d heard outside a hotel room in Barfleur, a fishing village in northern France. The students who were there were able to see Fleetwood Mac perform this song during one of the many football games the university has. 40 years ago today, Fleetwood Mac teamed up with the USC Marching Band and recorded the bit for the title track of their 1979 album TUSK that everyone remembers. Conceived as a kind of anti-Rumours the album is chaotic and disjointed, finding its band members working in the familiar territory of chaotic heartbreak but without the need for success. What made this song so important for the university was that it was played with the Trojan marching band. Fleetwood Mac’s 1979 double LP Tusk was called ambitious, ragged, gleeful and elusive, fragmented, sprawling, over-egged pudding, and worse. When my mom was a junior at the University of Southern California, the band Fleetwood Mac came out with the song Tusk. She now lives in Huntington Beach with her family. She grew up in Palos Verdes, California where her father was a dentist known throughout her entire community. My mom works in admissions for a university.
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