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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
You mean that same logic you used in the other thread when you said "I don't think he needs the FM money at all to live, but I think he does use it to keep fueling his non-profitable solo work, which is why he could go on that extensive UTS tour, flying around on private jets. SYW gave him the ability to tour so long on UTS."  |
There's a difference between using the money you've made in FM to finance a solo career and going back to FM just to help that solo career. The time line doesn't suggest that he's ever gone back to do that, except at the end when
GOS was shelved, when he told everyone that that is what he was doing.
Before that, from
Law and Order to
OOTC, he did not capitalize on any of the many opportunities he had to use his FM exposure to promote his solo career. He didn't time his solo records to capitalize on FM (explained away illogically by you, because he did not know how). He didn't tour on his solo records at the height of his FM fame. He didn't use FM to make money when the band wanted him to record and tour more after
Mirage. And he left FM before he could have made the big money on
Tango.
The evidence suggests that he wouldn't even have returned after
Mirage, except they were contractually obligated to give Warners another album.
Did he have ulterior motives for being in FM? Yes, he wanted to get his experimental music out. When he couldn't he became alienated from the band, because it wasn't giving him what he needed anymore. But there's no evidence to suggest that before 1997 he ever used FM to milk his solo career, because whenever he was in FM, his solo career was on hold.
But for you, if he doesn't put out solo albums in conjunction with FM
that proves your point. If he leaves FM just before he can make the big
Tango money, that proves your point. And obviously, if the facts were reversed and he'd launched a solo album during an FM tour that would prove your point. If he'd changed the past and left FM directly
after a successful
Tango tour, that would prove your point too.
That's the beauty of your point. Michele