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Originally Posted by louielouie2000
So I thought I'd start a thread on this song for a couple of reasons. Mainly, it's wholly unlike anything we've ever heard from Lindsey... or from Fleetwood Mac for that matter. A piano ballad?! This is a shocking departure for the our band!  |
I figured the piano player was Lindsey or Mitchell Froom. I had hoped it would be Christine, but I will say that I predict (let me put on my turban here) that
Miss Fantasy will be added in Europe and that Christine will play on it and that the ending will be even more extended when she plays on it. I feel that they must have shared this song with her when she was in Los Angeles.
Lindsey is always, "Ah piano. Gotta make room. Losing 30%. Help me. I'm dying here. No testosterone left." And suddenly there's a very prominent piano on half the tracks on a 4-track EP. There's got to be a reason for that. Either he has been in touch with a pianist or he wants to touch one.
As for the song, I think it's plodding and I don't think it would be good live. I think it would hurt a live set, BUT I love its message so much that I can't help but be moved and it is growing on me. I hear it as the end of the conversation he started in
Show You How. When the lights go out what's it all about?
It's like he's saying, "I've been a crazy man in a crazy band for 30 years and even when we weren't performing together, I was holed up in my studio with Richard. I haven't had a 'normal' life in decades. I've never had a family since I left my parents' home. I want what you want, but I need time to adjust and to let go of the drama and pain I thought was natural for so long. I thought it made me creative and I clung to it. Now, I have to find a way to be fulfilled without that. It took me 30 years to get here. It's going to take a little while to get away.
If you want to save me, it's going to take time.
And it's so gentle and needy and heartbreaking that it pulls me in, even if I wish it had more melody.
Then, you cap it off with
Miss Fantasy which kind of saddens me in a different way and I think this EP packs a lot of emotional punch for just 15 minutes of sound.
Michele