Originally Posted by Macfan4life (Post 1217016)

Roy is brilliant and his playing on Enchanted, If Anyone Falls, and Beauty and the Beast is amazing. I hate to sound so critical because I am not a brilliant musician but her playing at least sounds very amateur. Even at age 13 and first hearing this song I was like "who is playing the piano?" I looked it up in the credits and was like.....oh its her friend, that explains it. I think a first year piano player could play those parts on Wild Heart. I can only imagine the life Roy could have pumped into those songs with his brilliant playing. Its the difference of a good song vs a great song. I think its a fair criticism but did expect to be flamed :eek: There is a reason that ALL the live versions of Nightbird are better than the studio version. No Sandy Stewart on piano or keyboards!!!!!!
I think Sandy should stick to writing or singing. I think "Maybe love will change your mind" is her best written song.

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires (Post 1253065)

Roy's and Benmont's playing salvaged many of her songs. Benmont gave a recent interview where he said Jimmy asked him to go and work with Stevie before production began on BD. He told Benmont to sit with her and listen to her play her demos and then to figure out how to get them in better shape to play for the top-caliber musicians who were going to have to record them. Her demos are too sparse and two-finger plonking to give anybody any idea what to do with them. Even Christine has said she has no idea what Stevie's trying to do on a lot of her songs and relies on Lindsey to translate. (Even Tom talked about trying to figure out what to do with some of her songs and being at a loss and then Lindsey would take it and turn it into something and Tom would be like wow of course that's how it should be done). A lot of people have carried a lot of Stevie's weight throughout her career

Originally Posted by Macfan4life (Post 1216995)

I don't think song writing has anything to do with Stevie or the Mac not having Top 10 pop hits. That train left the station decades ago. You could say the same thing about John Mellencamp, Don Henley, or any other 70's or 80's artist. The music industry has changed. Mick Jagger is out with a new album. Do you really think any of the songs are going to be a hit? That should not be the motivating factor to making new music. Some of you guys pick your favorite songs by the charts only which is strange to me :eek:

Originally Posted by Dragon (Post 1253067)

Whoever charted the radio in the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's is not having new music played on mainstream radio stations. The best outlets are satellite radio, streaming, or classic rock stations that play new releases in addition to hits from years ago.

Originally Posted by michelej1 (Post 1253083)

And it really has nothing to do with the quality or hipness of the music. If it comes from an oldster a song that would have been embraced if a young artist had performed it will be ignored, as a matter of course.

Originally Posted by elle (Post 1253101)

unless they load up their songs with all kinds of currently popular young musicians from different musical genre plus some additional legends for a good measure.

Originally Posted by Macfan4life (Post 1216995)

and that dreaded sad keyboard intro to Nightbird :eek:

Originally Posted by petep9000 (Post 1253110)

This. I'm not a fan of "Nightbird" at all, or really most of TWH album, but I agree that buzzy intro is awful.

I agree that "Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind" was a good song, I wish it did better- the time was still right for adult contemporary hitmakers.

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie (Post 1217007)

I remember that article. Something about her count being off rhythm. Because it was!

Originally Posted by pattyfan (Post 1253186)

My memory is that they said it was syncopated, but I could definitely be wrong. ;)

Originally Posted by David (Post 1253196)

I think the Blue Letter Archives has it stored (I can't access the BLA anymore.)