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Originally Posted by elle
see the thing is - why would we be so sure in that? all other collaborators don't seem to think that. almost everyone he produced or worked with over the years, from the early days on, have only good things to say about him. i was reading Walter Egan q&a here the other day, and when someone asked him whether LB was a "douche" or hard to work with he said something like, no he was really easy - unless Stevie was also in the studio.
yeah, you can say that as a LB fan i'm prone to seeing LB in a good light, but i'm just not sure whether this "Lindsey is a douche" is really true or if it really mostly comes from a single source - his ex (and maybe another source - KC - who frequently seems to have an axe to grind with most of the band).
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I do think he *was* a douche to work with for many years... not just Stevie has said so but also Mick and Chris. Mick and his cowriter used the word "martinet" in his first book which is just a fancier way of saying dictatorial douche. Chris said on BBC with Johnnie Walker that Lindsey could be very cold and hard to work with in the early days. He could be very caustic and condescending in how he interacted with people.. you see a faint reminiscent glimpse of it in the SYW doc when he does the "listener of listeners?" thing with Mick and that whole convo.
I think (in addition to at times really wanting to give Stevie payback) really he was just so focused and intense that his attention to social niceties and concern for others in the studio could get lost. In later years John Stewart made some comments about Lindsey being pretty scarily intense in the studio. I think he was just as hard on himself as he was on others, but maybe that was hidden from view or harder for others to see.
I think with Stevie he was sometimes just nasty... because he just had all that anger that festered and the "lack of closure" he always talks about nowadays.
Did Stevie add to it as well? Certainly. Codependence, baby.