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*digression* So he gets the money from the tours and gets to put out an album of material almost the way he wants it to be. He knows it's the nostalgic audience who come to the shows anyway and most of them don't care a damn about the music of SYW. Whereas Stevie seems to be almost too concerned with sales and target groups right now. *digression* Quote:
What I'm speaking about here is the absence of group spirit, of the real band feel in those tracks. It could have been more present if Lindsey had taken Stevie into account when he was first forming those tunes but he didn't because they were solo material. On "GYOW" it's not just Lindsey's personality that's expressed, it's of the entire group and Stevie, as Marcello Carlin pointed out, is out-singing LB in there. He hasn't been interested in real group work for a long time and that is because he wanted to shake off the Rumours package. And I think that the point when Stevie can significantly influence Lindsey's songs will come only when Lindsey takes her into account before starting to work on the arrangement.
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I pretty much agree with everything you said with the sole exception of "Whereas Stevie seems to be almost too concerned with sales and target groups right now." Clearly LB is interested in sales ane the money and fame that comes with it. If he was not, he would have released his record on the net and sold whatever it sold He did not do that. Instead, he went back to FM. Why? Because FM can sell more than he can on his own and he likes the high life (no pun intended ).
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What I tried to say is that he knows he can get a lot of money but he also knows he gets it from touring. SYW’s overall release didn’t matter that much; FM could still have gone on tour and advertised that even though they wouldn’t have had anything genuinely new to play. I don’t think he tried to aim for grand commerciality with any of his SYW songs and he didn’t need to compromise in that part. He compromised on the double album issue but even that was most likely because of band’s internal politics, not because he was afraid of the lack of sales. It doesn’t matter to him whether it would be 300,000 or 900,000 copies sold. I think FM allows for him to have this tortured artistic schtick and also earn some significant money at the same time. And while the whole “two bedroom” deal was inadequately stated, I think he did raise a valid point there. FM are in a position in which it doesn’t hugely matter what the content of their next studio album is; they get their money from the tours. So they had nothing to prove with SYW and I don’t think they truly needed to cave in on its content. Stevie seemed very worried about it but I think her worries, while understandable, were also a bit off-base.
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(I wish for the true return of that chemistry too, to some extent at least.)
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I do not place all of that on Stevie - after all in that same doc. she stated that unlike the other three, she had no family and did not need to worry that much about it. I think she is just in the market more to know what to do to get a record out She has been at this rodeo about three times more than LB and is successful at it. They are all worried about the sales of the record because the record companies advance millions of $$$$ in anticipation of it.
I think LB wants to be the creative genius who puts out something very inconventional and then have that be a huge hit. That way his is vindicated for want of a better word. |
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I think Stevie was under the illusion that they were going to sell millions of SYW copies, whereas Lindsey seemed to be more grounded on the idea that the money would come from the tour. In that sense, he was more of a realist.
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Yeah, he's a shipper all right. He's been a shipper since the Dance. Out of here for today, at last.
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Personally, I like LB's solo stuff and would have loved to have another solo album. This is one of the first album's I have prefered more SN tunes than LB. And yes, I thought SN did a lot more harmonies on this album than any other. Christine will soon find out if she can sell. And we will find out if she can still compose good songs. I would like to think both! |
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