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Originally posted by strandinthewind
Les - I agree with what your saying in that the art is what counts, etc. But, my point is the art (music) really did not change from his original stuff. He just wanted more songs on the record. I think he should have given FM what they wanted and released his original GOS stuff on the net.
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Well, and I guess I'm saying is- why? SYW probably wouldn't have contained anything like the material it finally did contain if he had just "given FM what they wanted" (though it may have pleased some Ledgies
). Ultimately, he did get more than just the 12 safest songs on there. That's not wrong. I don't think Lindsey feels disconnected from the band in such a way that he doesn't want for it, as an entity, to be everything he also personally aspires to. That is also, necessarily, self-serving. He's invested in it. When he didn't feel that way, he left it.
In most cases, I think arguments about musical direction and content are a basic and essential quality of any viable band.