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Originally Posted by Nico
Then again, YOU have way more LB creds in terms of all the public appearances he made around that latter year (if any). I don't really have much to go by outside of The Dance and that awful photo. Maybe you saw him live and observed differently.  |
I did see a lot of Dance shows, but not as many as I would have seen if I thought Christine was leaving the group forever. She broke my heart.
But if I'd been online talking about FM back then in 1997, I don't think I would have had many complaints about Lindsey's looks. I was so thrilled to have the 5 of them. I was delirious. I thought he was too puffy, but it is not something that preoccupied me at all. I wouldn't have cared what any of them looked like at the time. I was that happy.
Also, I should say that if Lindsey looked like that and
stayed that way, it would have been one thing. I would have just accepted that as his middle-aged appearance and it wouldn't have been a big deal. He was no ogre. But he didn't stay that way. Even during the tour I saw him losing weight before my eyes, so it is mostly in retrospect that I say he was bloated in the beginning, because it didn't last. If it had, instead of calling it bloated, it would have been the new "norm," the way men nearing 50 look.
Also, I've said this before, but Lindsey was wearing a shirt under his jacket for the whole tour and the shirt never seemed to fit right. It was sideways, like it was buttoned wrong or something. I know this must have been part of his "look," but I could always see it straining out of position under his jacket. It just made him look a tiny bit like a slob. So . . . I was always thinking, "Man, what is your problem?" But I was thinking that with love
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Michele