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Originally posted by Johnny Stew
(And for the record, in the case of Mick's statements to the press that 'Say You Will' would "definitely" be a double-album... those comments were made by Mick at that point in time, because the band had finally all agreed to releasing it as such. It was Lindsey who later changed his mind, therefore invalidating the promise Mick had already made to the fans... and therefore leaving us disappointed once again.)
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While I agree with your assessments of LB's overall flakiness and the fact that he's prone to very typical artistic behaviour, I think that LB might have been persuaded to get rid of the double album idea in the end. Maybe the band stood behind it at one point but the managers talked them out of it.
If he was persuaded to not go with the double album then it might have been that someone in the band was playing the hardball with Lindsey. Not too different from Lindsey wanting to take the 3/4 of his material away from the project. Maybe Stevie actually threatened to pull out after 40 dates if the album was a double; it wasn't just her health issues.
All I'm saying is: I don't buy into all that "drop-dead honesty" that Stevie and Karen Johnston are supposed to have, and neither do I buy into it with Lindsey's case. But I do think that LB seems to think these things from the emotional artistic viewpoint at first, and then later on starts to reconsider some facts. His idealism may be occasionally misguided but I daresay that the band needs someone with that attitude.
