I think I find it really hard to compare songs on a good, better, best scale from era to era. It's hard for me to smack
Tango up against
SYW. They seem like completely different genres.
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Originally Posted by shackin'up
yeah, and that quote says it all. He was not amused with lindsey's vision on not only the arrangements, But also the soundengineering. Hè was a terriffic MOR technician, so he had hard times under Lindsey's dominance. But it was the only way for LB to get what he wanted. And in hindsight, it's a masterpiece. When Cailliat talks bad about LB, some was probably outside of normal behaviour, But a lot of criticism is fed by the fact that he did not understand him at the time, and not felt acknowledged. That's when you feel held hostage.
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Let me jump on one word you used: technician. Stevie said she felt like a hostage during the
Tusk recording and Lindsey was the Ayatollah Khomeini and, you know, if members of the BAND felt that Lindsey was taking them in a creative direction that they didn't favor, they had a right to resist and complain. They were the artists.
Ken Caillat wasn't a band member. He was a technician, an engineer, a producer, but ultimately an
employee and so I don't really understand the "hostage" allusion coming from him. It wasn't Lindsey's job to mold his work into a Middle of the Road shape that Ken would not find too "grungy."
Michele