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Originally Posted by michelej1
I'm not comparing the album to Rumours. I'm borrowing the industry assessment of Tusk as a failure, which has now become a matter of folk lore.
People tell their grandchildren that Tusk's failure is why there was pressure never to do anything like Tusk again, which resulted in Mirage. In retrospect, decades later, most people consider Tusk a success now, but that was not the case when the album debuted. It wasn't thought of as a success, in the band, at Warner Bros. or among the public in general, which is why it didn't make financial sense to release a solo album that would be even less commercially accessible than Tusk was, since Tusk had just bombed. But I don't think Lindsey was thinking about what made financial sense.
Then came the more commercial Mirage, with a tour that was also cut short because Lindsey didn't want to be involved, so that money-making opportunity was curtailed too.
Michele
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You are missing the point. Exclude the money (though clearly he made millions off of each and Tusk was a financial success by any rational standard despite the lore) -- He simultaneously gained huge exposure on both records and tours. That exposure or momentum if you will helped his solo records released soon thereafter sell. To me, that is a no brainer. So, I am at a loss to see why you do not see that.
But, onto another topic, if L&O was released on 10/81 at roughly the same time as BD (7/81) - why was La Nicks villified for releasing a solo recored and to my knowledge, LB was not? In other words, La Nicks and Mick have said it was a big deal, the band never discussed it, if she failed it could hurt FM, etc. I do not recall any talk like that about LB. Clearly, they worked on solo material at the same time. She was a larger star, but his failure could have hurt the band as well. Maybe because she had done the very successful "Whenever I Call You Friend" in 1978 - could that be a factor?