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Originally Posted by WildHearted
Did ANYONE read the dang Life article?
From the tweet it sounds like they may have had some quotes from Ken in there, and he left out any mention of Richard & his hand in the production when asked questions about it and I guess it rubbed Richard the wrong way, as if Ken was taking all the credit and he was being erased from the history of it all. That's what I interpreted the tweet to mean....
But I haven't read it, so I don't know. I'm just speculating, as we all are.
Whatever the cause, I'm sad the blog is gone. I enjoyed it.
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You can get a more detailed breakdown of the problems in this very same forum, the one specifically about the Life article.
From my perspective, the pics are fantastic but the copy is crap. The author relies heavily on biased sources (Carol Ann Harris and Ken Caillat) that paint a pretty negative picture of the band. Ken calls Mick, Stevie, and Christine "crazy coke heads" and dismisses Tusk as a failure artistically and commercially. His opinions are, of course, valid, but they are opinions, not undisputed facts. The real trouble is with the author, who relied entirely on other sources, either wasn't able or was too lazy to get direct confirmation from the band on any piece of information. The author also has an unclear tone, alternating between awe and derision, at once holding these people up as rock gods and then knocking them down for being rock gods.
The only new perspectives I got from the article were from Ray Lindsey and Keith Olsen.