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Originally Posted by Sarah
. . . And why, exactly, would that coworker get the freeze when that coworker is the one that sculpted your song into a hit that generated extra radio airplay and, subsequently, a bigger check every month? That's shooting yourself in the foot. If I was Lindsey and dedicated so much more time in the studio.. spent time making something good out of a a scrap pile of vocals that Stevie just zipped in to unload quickly before heading out again.. I'd talk about the work I did as well. There's a lot of "oh, Lindsey isn't working as a baaaaand" talk. I don't see why it's so easy to forget that Stevie has been nonexistant on other album sessions in the past. He's doing the biggest portion of the work and she gets to stamp her name on it and enjoy the majority of the recognition from the casual fans. I can understand problems with personality and stuff like that, but really when it comes to being involved, she has no room to talk.
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Interestingly, had La Nicks not been touring so much, FM's popularity could have waned. I have often wondered what would have happened if she had not gone solo. I do not think FM would have out records out any quicker than they did. Moreover, IMO really TITN was the record she was mostly absent on. She was present for everything before then and she was present for a long time for SYW, though she missed the first half of it. And, according to most, LB prefers to work on her stuff alone anyway
They exist within a band. He could not sell his stuff without her and, in larger part on the radio, CM. They were the hit makers and the hits came from him, though FM contributed as well. I mean LB did not write John's slamming bass lines on Dreams, Don't Stop, The Chain, etc. - ditto for CM's piano. Then, after a somewhat slow start, La Nicks' stage presence sold FM live. Yes, FM is and was a great band with or without La Nicks. But, having a hottie center stage belting out mysterious songs and dancing a blue streak in sexy attire sold the music live and on a level that CM and LB just could not take FM. And, that is nothing againt LB and CM - I love their work and think they are musically more talented than La Nicks, esp. CM. They are just to the vast majority of the people comparatively boring live. I think LB gets and got jealous of that and I think when people hear that they think it is a slam on LB and CM. To me, it is not. To me, it is just looking at things as they are. He needs her, esp. in FM (as a duo outsideof FM I am unsure they would be commercially viable) to sell his records on any large level and he obviously likes that level of fame and her and the path her stardom allows him to walk or he would not keep coming back to her and FM
Ditto for her.