Wow, I didn't look at this thread for a couple of days, and look what I missed! I see my friend Carole Ann is back and Chili rode the coach back into town.
OK, a few thoughts:
Lest I forget, Down on Rodeo hardly qualifies as an acoustic song. If I had to guess, Lindsey is playing a Strat for the main guitar parts on that one. I can't wait to hear it on the new album. Mick should add some cool percussion to it. If you think about it, the song is actually quite similar to Bleed to Love Her.
Secondly, Chili and gang, I understand your dislike of Lindsey's Here Comes the Sun. I had the same kind of violent reaction to most of the stuff in the Rumours tribute. The "how dare he" indignation is well understood. However, Lindsey is hardly botching the song; he is merely giving it a very Lindsey interpretation, and I am pretty sure that George would have appreciated it. Furthermore, Richie Havens did a version of it that was just as urgent-sounding, if not more, the main difference being that Richie Havens strums and Lindsey picks. Do you hate the Havens version as much a you hate Lindsey's? For whatever reason, this shimmering song dripping with optimism strikes a chord of urgency and anguish in some interpreters. So what if they play it differently from George?
Lastly, Lindsey's interpretations of the Stones songs, though not quite as wild as Here Comes the Sun, are hardly faithful renditions, going back to Law and Order days. I don't believe he has done a faifthful rendition yet. Take Satisfied Mind and All My Sorrows. He actually changed chords and gave them considerably different arrangements from what the orginals were.
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