Tusk Tour Starts - Roilling Stone 01/11/79

Fleetwood Mac’s world tour begins on October 26th

Rolling Stone
November 1, 1979
(issue 303/ pg. 10)

Fleetwood Mac’s first world tour in two years will begin in Pocatello, Idaho, on October 26th ¾ about a week after the release of their new album, Tusk. The group will play thirty-one concerts in twenty-three cities before heading to Japan, Australia and New Zealand; the band will return to the U.S. next year for more dates.

Most of the two-hour sets will be in arena-sized halls. Danny Douma, whose debut solo album features appearances by all the members of Fleetwood Mac, will open the majority of the shows.

Their U.S. itinerary is as follows: October 27th, Ogden, UT; October 28th, Salt Lake City, UT; October 31st, November 1st, Denver, CO; November 2nd, Albuquerque, NM; November 5th, 6th, St. Louis, MO; November 7th, Cincinnati, OH; November 10th, New Haven, CT; November 11th, 12th, Hempstead, NY; November 15th, 16th, NYC; November 17th, Boston, MA; November 20th, Rochester, NY; November 21st, Philadelphia, PA; November 22nd, Providence, RI; November 25th, Washington DC; November 26th, Pittsburgh, PA; November 29th, Ann Arbor, MI; November 30th, Champaign, IL; December 1st, Cedar Falls, IA; December 4th-6th, Los Angeles, CA; December 9th, San Diego, CA; December 10th, 11th, Los Angeles, CA; December 14th-16th, San Francisco, CA.

(With thanks to Dark Angel who sent me this article)