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Originally Posted by michelej1
I really don't get his praise for Mick. I've always thought that he loved Mick, but not in this fawning way. More in a tolerant way because he knows that Mick has gone out on a limb for him against the other bandmates in the past and Mick has some good traits, even though he's a very trying, flawed, greedy fellow. Now, he's being delusional about Mick almost, which means Lindsey is senile or ... he wants something.
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I’ve always wondered what’s at the root of that love affair. It dates from the late ’70s. I think it’s been primarily a mutual musical admiration society. Lindsey digs Mick’s eclecticism. When Mick isn’t wallowing in crass commercialism, he’s really quite an inventive, risk-taking fellow with his music. Look at the breadth of his solo projects; he’s all over the map with great stuff. Plus, onstage Mick has a voracious, Iggy Pop-like appetite for theater and power, walloping his kit and willing to go off the rails, and Lindsey gets a huge kick out of that. In olden times, Lindsey and Mick were the two members who most heavily fed off each other’s energy. You could see it in both their faces. I think Lindsey sees Mick as a primal musical force (with a few mass-audience flaws in his thinking) and as a work in progress. And Mick may see Lindsey that way, too. They both have always seemed to want to improve each other—to perfect each other. But maybe there’s an even more personal side of their relationship, too. Sometimes, Lindsey seems to revel in Mick’s aura as if Mick were an older brother.