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Originally Posted by Betsy
I just watched the Not Too Late documentary.
With regards to the rejection phone calls, when I read Ledgie reviews, I thought Mr. B. was talking about the new album...(2008 product)
After seeing the rejections (phone calls etc.), I think he was showing us how freaking hard it was to get 2006's UTS accepted and out on the shelves. The bottom line is money and music execs are more conservative with backing.
I count myself damn lucky to have the CD and to have been to the concerts. Getting to that point, must have been a struggle for the man & the artist.
Did anyone else interpret the documentary this way?
Didn't Mr. B. mention something along the same lines in the Charlie Rose interview? FM sold more units than he did, therefore, his solo album became SYW.
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Hi everyone, I haven't posted in quite some time, but have been a posting member since...wow, 1997!!! The Dance tour, how time flies! I was finishing up college back then and spent spare time chatting with Ledgies.
Anyway, I was reading everyone's comments about the doc and was wondering when it was filmed. There is a moment of film that shows Lindsey walking around his house (former house?) and there is a still shot on the UTS cover of this segment of film. This might lead me to believe that the calls to record company execs were to secure a company for UTS. However, UTS was released by Reprise, which I believe had been his company for a few years...? In the doc and in a recently posted interview, we hear that he is a "free agent". So, I don't think he would have considered himself a "free agent" prior to releasing UTS. Maybe I am just getting confused though...???
And, his comment to his final phone caller, something to the effect of seeing the writing on the wall. Do y'all think this means releasing material via Fleetwood Mac, rather than solo? If it was meant to show him shopping for a record company for the new solo album, I'm curious if that material will now fill a new FM album...?
Then again, maybe it was as someone else recently posted, an illustration of the music business industry bottom line mentality of today.
I'm thinking it was shot over a very long period of time with clips from pre UTS release to clips from post UTS release.