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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
I also think he did not want to do Mirage, but saw it as free publicity if you will.
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Free publicity for what?? His album was already out. He had nothing to publicize. You can't use the band as a "springboard" for anything when the board is a mile away from the water. Lindsey didn't have anything of his own to springboard into after
Mirage. For that publicity logic to hold,
Go Insane would have to have come out closer to
Mirage.
I'm sure he didn't want to do
Mirage, but that was probably because it was stressful to be in the band and he was being told that
Mirage could not have experimental music. Plus, he felt hurt (and still does) that the band had turned against him after
Tusk. It's not like he didn't want to do
Mirage because he was plotting solo projects.
In exchange for a longer tour, FM probably would have let him sing
Trouble twice during every set (in addition to his 16 minute
NTF). If he wanted free publicity, it was there for the taking.
Instead, they wrapped up the
Mirage tour very quickly and he went back home to continue tinkering in his studio, well outside of the limelight and didn't even tour for his album when it did come out. Back then, FM was hotter. Lindsey was younger and I think touring would have been a lot more marketable for Lindsey than it proved to be for
OOTC. Yet he didn't tour.
Michele