[michelej1]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

I'd have to dig out my copy of his first book (and it's too late and I'm too tired!) but he did also say somewhere in there that in the studio Lindsey could be a martinet. Merriam Webster defines martinet as "a person who is very strict and demands obedience from others". I remember it because I thought it was a much cleverer way of saying yeah he could be a real a-hole. I don't recall now if he was talking about the making of one particular album or just generally speaking. I was always curious whether that was Mick's word or the result of his cowriter thumbing through a thesaurus.

Ok, I found the part you were talking about.

Stevie finally showed up in January 1987; we'd been working six months, and it was the only time the whole band was in the studio together.
We had been sending copies of our working tapes to Stevie's home in Arizona. On her part, she was dreading that Lindsey, in his producing
capacity, would be sarcastic toward her, but he made an effort not to be as much of a martinet as he was with the rest of us. He was under
some strain with this project, and lost his patience occasionally, but with Stevie we wanted him to be more objective and professional. He
tried to make her feel great in the studio, and they got on well. (The love-hate saga between those two will never end.)

Michele