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Originally Posted by trackaghost
The sales thing has always baffled me too, as I've said many times in the past, why it bothers anyone outside of the record company I have no clue. As long as Lindsey is still producing good music, the chart position doesn't concern me. I think maybe Lindsey was going for something more commercial with OOTC, but because the time was completely wrong for that album (grunge, alternative and indie music took over in the early 90s) it didn't do as well as say, Stevie's OSOTM. If he had released OOTC on the back of Tango, I'm pretty certain it would have been a bigger, breakthrough hit for him.
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OOTC is a good example, because I think it was his most commercially accessible album and certainly got the best reviews. Lindsey was on tour for that when Clinton was elected, but Stevie still had to beg him to perform with FM. Was he just playing hard to get? Did he want to serenade the president with FM as much as Stevie did? I don't think so, because Stevie would have been open to a reunion after the inaugural performance, but it was Lindsey who was not. He could have rejoined the band then just to get his solo album more attention, but he didn't. I think he felt that things were just as bad in 1993 as they had been when he left and it was too painful to think about going back emotionally, whether it could have helped his solo career to do so or not.
And I don't say this to suggest Lindsey is selfless. He's selfish, but the things that give him selfish satisfaction are not what motivate other people.
At work, I was hiring an associate and the personnel agency sent me a bunch of Myers-Briggs profile results for different applicants. I don't think those kind of personality tests really help hire employees, but they do show how different people tick a different way. Extroverts are stimulated by things outside of themselves, social interaction and action. Introverts like ideas and concepts more; they're stirred up from inside. An extrovert's goals will be different from an introvert's. So, when Jason said that he has testicles and he thinks that Lindsey probably feels like he does, I really think that was a leap. Stevie and Chris both have breasts, but they didn't want the same things.
Chris says she felt self-conscious performing
Songbird all alone in the spotlight, but Lindsey, Mick and John encouraged her to do it. The spotlight doesn't make Stevie feel self-conscious. I can't say what will make Chris happy by looking at Stevie or by looking at what would make
me happy. As there are different people, I think there are different yardsticks to measure success.
Michele