Not offended at all, PenguinHead, and your point is well taken. I appreciate your choice of words. But I can't resist pointing out that there are a lot of brain-numbing exercises of futility on these boards (I am so guilty of this
) and speculation and fantasy like it's going out of style
.
Personally, I love to hear about (and subsequently imagine) other fans visions of songs, especially you musicians who recognize Lindsey's musical genius. To me it's fascinating to hear people pick up on the subtle and not so subtle differences in Mac and solo versions of songs and why they love and hate the changes...most recently Peacekeeper has generated a whole enourmous range of feedback.
I think it's safe to say we are all thrilled that Lindsey is very much creatively in charge of this album. Obviously, we trust
his decisions. But we can do that and still question them.
We have speculated (
) that there probably won't be major changes between GOS versions and SYW versions, and so far we haven't heard anything to suggest otherwise. I don't think keeping fingers crossed for minimal change on particular songs (or for lots of Stevie contribution to others) is creating any wild expectations.
Also, you may think I'm living in fantasy-land, but I subscribe to the theory discussed a while back that Lindsey secretly wanted his biggest fans to hear those GOS songs (which after all are not that raw and demo-ish, really they are quite polished) because we were Going Insane waiting...The theory, that he either allowed or did not stop the songs from being leaked (or at the very least, didn't mind that they were) because he knew it would make a lot of his big fans extremely happy without having a negative impact on record sales of the material (if anything having positive one cuz the songs are so darn good!). Then again, like I said, you may think I'm nuts.
-Sonia