Oh, I didn't mean it in the way of the actual production...well, I did, but I didn't;-)
What I meant, and what I think Keith might have meant is that Lindsey gets so involved with absolutely the most minute details, that everything might come to a grinding halt until he feels it's "perfect" and then...he might change his mind again. And, I don't think Richard "lays down the law," and tells him "enough is enough," which is probably what Keith was referring to (I think he's the perfect support for the actual music, though). It's not that the music, or the completed cd suffers at all...because it probably doesn't. I mean, OOTC took a long time, too and, to me, it is one of my most favorite cd's EVER. But, it's just...if he was happy with it 3 years ago (which he mentioned in almost every interview he did during the Dance)...and it was 90% done...it's taken another 3 years to do 10%? I doubt it. So...it's really the timing I was questioning and the fact that he kind of shoots himself in his own foot when it comes to things like this. His devoted fans will always find his work, that's true...but, he closes himself off to a potential audience who will never know how good he is if he doesn't get his work out there...and, as an artist, I can't imagine it's all that stimulating to be working on the same material for nearly a decade. Get the stuff out there and begin something new and exciting for him--and, ultimately, for us.
The marketing will, probably, always stink...but, it would have been better coming right off the Dance, and--while the delay could very well be his record company now, I don't think it was back then. Because, from a business sense, I would imagine that they would have loved to capitalize on the success of the Dance with new Lindsey material at that point.
But, that leads to another frustrating thing (I've been thinking about this whole thing a lot this week!)...we don't KNOW anything about Lindsey's career, or the delay in anything. If you go to the Nicks Fix...you get updates once in awhile about where Stevie is with her new cd...but, we don't have a place to find out anything about Lindsey's stuff, and his management is good for nothing, IMO. But, it is a frustrating, interesting topic and I just wish the cd would be out so we could focus on the music instead of the business.
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