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this nonsense of him never working while they were together has gone on long enough.

first, he was working on arranging and producing their music -- including HER songs. If left to her they would never have gotten beyond playing two notes on a piano in a dumpster apartment. Arranging her songs and working out all the instrumental parts WAS working. Who sat and fell asleep in the coffee plant while someone else was doing all the instrument playing, engineering, harmonizing, mic set ups, etc??

Who was sitting in the studio all night doodling in notebooks and painting her nails or whatever while OTHER PEOPLE (Lindsey, Keith, Richard etc) did all of the above?

Further, Lindsey DID have an outside job (at least for a while) doing telemarketing. I've got (or had) a tape of him in an interview describing how he'd be selling ad space in some sort of yellow pages type directory and would have to start at like 4 or 5 am to start calling businesses on the east coast (where it would be 7 or 8 am) to try and get them to buy ads. It was in his words a scam and he quit after like maybe a week or two....but then, how long was Miss Thang a dental assistant? She quit after a day. Suffice to say neither of them is particularly cut out for work as anything other than artists.

I will say at least Chris would carry and set up her own gear even after she had roadies. Stevie, by her own admission, has NEVER carried an amp or a mic stand or ANY sort of equipment. Who began having an entourage of assistants as soon as she could afford one? It was only on Chris's first tour back with the 5 that she talked about finally agreeing to get a second/adjoining hotel room for setting up her stage clothes etc. Chris has also talked about in the time before Stevie joined she (Chris) usually carried her own suitcases etc. Not our Queen.

As for your transcript, Stevie wouldn't have been as aggressive with him in those days-- she would have done the passive/aggressive girly thing of pouring on the tears, and saying things like "You've broken my heart", embroidering sad faces on his jeans, and then taking over Richard's room/bed forcing Richard to find somewhere else to sleep.