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Originally Posted by michelej1
If it had sold well by industry standards, he wouldn't have been told he couldn't do Tusk again by his record company and band mates. Of course, if he had not felt that creative restriction from FM and Warner Bros., Law and Order probably would have ended up sounding a lot differently, but as it is, I think he used it to act out and to make the kind of music that he felt was forbidden.
Michele
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So four million double records world wide is a flop. Are you actually arguing that? Put it this way Mirage and The Dance sold around that figure and they are considered successful single records.
He likely was told not to do it again because they wanted another 15 + million record a la Rumours. That they did not get that does not negate the fact that Tusk sold well by a rational standard and the resulting tour (
) sold very well and played to hundreds of thousands of people.
As to the second point, I often wonder about L&O sounding differently. He did not have much time, esp. for him, after Tusk to get it ready, which makes me think he recorded much of it during Tusk (record and tour) and likely before. So, who knows the effect the comparative failure of Tusk (the record) had on him and L&O.