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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew
If Lindsey dragged his feet to the point where she had no choice, what else is she going to do? As we've seen many times with this band, passive-aggressively is certainly one way to force your will on someone.
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But no one said that Lindsey's delay in signing the contract had anything to do with the engineer not having time. That connection was not made in the documentary. No one said, "if you'd gotten to me 2 days earlier," I could have done it. It sounded like the guy's schedule was booked.
And Stevie could certainly have found another engineer if she really disliked Needham's work. Lord-Alge was not the only one on the planet.
And just because Karen and Stevie's camp said that Lindsey was dragging his feet, that's not proof that that's actually what he was doing. That's just their perception. He and Dimitriades had another opinion of what the hold up was.
Stevie ended up using Lindsey's engineer but there is no evidence that it was Lindsey's fault that she had to.
As for sequencing, one of the Beatles' big complaints was that Capitol was messing up the sequencing on their albums or "butchering" them, as they said. I guess they had it their way on the British releases, but then when the album was done in the U.S. the sequencing was what the record company wanted and not what the band wanted. Lennon has given interviews about this.
Being in the place where the music equipment is and hearing the various track selections in different orders during the decision making process naturally gives the person on location more influence than the people in "Hawaii" get.
Michele