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View Poll Results: what next for LB? | |||
More US solo tour dates before the end of the year | 8 | 19.51% | |
Some UK/EU solo dates (either this year or interspersed with FM tour next year) | 4 | 9.76% | |
New solo album or EP | 5 | 12.20% | |
FM EP before starting the tour next year | 6 | 14.63% | |
BN reissue and a short tour somewhere before or after FM tour | 2 | 4.88% | |
All of the above | 11 | 26.83% | |
None of the above | 5 | 12.20% | |
Voters: 41. You may not vote on this poll |
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I'm really sorry, CAD. That was definitley not my intent, to wound a friend. I love FM and I like BN too. You know that. But I prefer solo Lindsey (live or album) over everything else, no question about it. Stevie's voice hasn't been good in years. And as has been mentioned, songs such as Peacekeeper and SYHA are what I was thinking of (among others) when I said I didn't want her voice on his songs. I like the way he did them on his own. Lindsey harmonizing with Lindsey is a thing of beauty But I could have said it nicer. Which isn't to say I don't still like earlier work between them. I also think the original GOS is a masterpiece and I don't want to take the 8 songs Lindsey supposedly has written and break them up into 4 or 5 and maybe never even hear the others. I want all eight together - not 4 here, 2 there, and 2 more not at all. If he did in fact write them with FM in mind though, then it will be easier to accept. In a perfect world I'd get a new solo album AND a new FM album. But our band is not getting any younger, so I want as much Lindsey solo first and foremost.
And since we already know FM is touring, I do hope very much that they include BN songs...and not just one or two of them. That would be sweet. I get the impression Lindsey would like that too, so I'm guessing it'll be up to Stevie What I don't want is a BN tour following a FM tour, since it will simply take too much time.
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I mean, I have been of the opinion for eons that what that song was missing was a quacking, nasal voice doing harmony.... Quote:
No, I think it's an exaggeration used for press purposes. Look, they have to create a little drama otherwise it's just a big snoozefest. So, when he says it was "hi-jacked" by Fleetwood Mac what he means is he was working on a solo project (because is just always working on stuff) and they were planning on doing the record and he looked up one day (because he was still working on the solo project) and it was time for FM to "reconvene" and damn he still wasn't finished with his solo project (because he's always working on one) and then he thought "hey, we'll just use this stuff I've already been conveniently working on and see if we like how Stevie and the guys sound on 'em" and the label said "we'd like the FM project first" and then Destiny Rules business stuff, blah, blah, blah...and you're gonna fall asleep here so -- Fleetwood Mac HIJACKED his stuff! Quote:
But, they have both said time and time again they do not specifically write songs and put them in a "solo" bucket or a "FM" bucket. They just write and then they get together and see what works. Stevie has said only after they try things together or after she does a demo does she think it might work better as a solo song or a Fleetwood Mac song. I think Lindsey is the same way -- it's just stuff you're working on, ya know? I want a BN tour. If it was presented in the right way - meaning not rolled into a FM show or a FM greatest hits - it would be something Stevie & Lindsey fans have never experienced before. If they worked the set list right and had other players involved. Eh. I dream, I know. And, Stevie's voice isn't what it once when she was younger - neither is Lindsey's. But, her voice is still good and she can still sing awesome harmony. Two is better than one!
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so i'm with all who said two is not always better than one. yeah Lindsey would like BN tour, and that's one of the reasons i checked "all of the above" which includes that one, however much i personally may not care about it. but i've noticed BN tour/reissues received no votes so far as a preference even though if you go to some of the m&gs after LB's shows you'd think that's what so many people want. reading through message string in this thread, sure - tastes are really really different (nothing new there!): while people who prefer LB solo seem to all strongly prefer current extremely dark solo version of ISA, people who are more FM fans seem to prefer one or the other FM version... and there are some very different versions of ISA live, as we all well know, all great, but some just stir something deeper in you... the current one-man version just sent shivers down my spine every single time i heard it.
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Sure, I don't think the songs were hijacked. In the end, he wanted them on an FM album as his best bet of getting them to the listener of listeners, but I think when they were created they had another purpose and he was really hoping for a solo album, which hope didn't end up panning out. Some of these songs I think he not only did not write for FM, but he would have been upset by the way FM would have made him compromise them. Of course, when Christine left, he didn't have to compromise as much. But sometimes he has it in his head that keyboards soften his message and I think, before the Dance, he wrote some of those songs definitely NOT wanting them to have that smooth FM sound. Unless he was girding for another Tusk battle, I just can't imagine him writing those songs without contemplating a definite solo purpose for them. His voice, his playing, only. Obviously, he did want that sound, and those keyboards, for other songs, Steal Your Heart Away, for example. I don't agree with the oft-cited argument that SYW sounds like two solo albums slapped together. But I do think some of those songs were geared solo on LB's part. Of course, the stuff he's written since then is an entirely different matter. All of UTS . . . definitely I see your argument there: that he just wrote and the songs didn't have a label, no FM versus LB. They were just songs that could have gone either way. Michele |
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^ and if you listen to GOS 2001 version, that album just holds together so nicely... one of the most perfect albums i've ever heard.
(i know i always say all this, but it bears repeating and keeping in mind - and i also know i'm definitely not the only person who feels this way!) SYW is not even close to the perfection GOS1 was. whoever's fault it is, and in my opinion it was mostly someone's in WB, every time i listen to that GOS1 from the beginning to the end, i just can't help but thinking they didn't allow us to have one of the best albums ever to see the light of the day. LB is much bigger person that i would ever be since he was apparently able to get over any resentment, chop those songs apart and disperse them over different albums.
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Because the guitar solo on ISA just totally overshadows the rest of it, I can't say I have super strong feelings about the vocal, but this tour I did like the way he interpreted it. His vocal sounded fresh and inspired to me. When they can find new feeling in the way they sing such old songs (the way there are just always little new nuances in GDW, for example) I am always very impressed and reinvigorated as a fan.
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if only Lindsey would realize it too and stop trying to make it sound thin like his young voice was on his studio recordings.
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"kind of weird: a tribute to the dearly departed from a band that can treat its living like trash" Last edited by elle; 09-13-2012 at 10:30 PM.. |
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This needs no comment on its utter superiority.
*edit* I do have a comment now that I've thought it over a bit, ISA is all about the guitar solo really, no Stevie necessary. Exhibit A-Z is posted above. Last edited by redtulip; 09-13-2012 at 10:50 PM.. |
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quacking nasal voice! Best and most accurate description ever! And funny as hell! |
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I hope that there are extended dates for the solo tour before the big FM tour in 2013. I did enjoy seeing both of them in '09, though I have to say Lindsey's voice has matured nicely, while Stevie's has gotten a bit too nasally for my taste and it can take away from some of the harmonies. Just my opinion, of course |
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jetta07, I love you! You were at Council Bluffs or Des Moines? I was at both shows so we missed each other. Wish we would have met because I love everything you just posted!
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