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Originally Posted by shackin'up
totally agreed with above post. Except that imo the outcome will be musically unattractive. Dave slicks. Those samples from his solo-album are totally aweful. And slickness usually makes forgettable music.
Fleetwood Mac needs a producer that sets things sharp. Like Rick Rubin. Or Jack White, or Mitchell Froom maybe.
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Oh, because
Tango in the Night wasn't slick at all. Oh, not in the least.
Again, I don't think you can just listen to snippets of his new album and declare that everything he will ever do will be in that vein. He's impossible to pigeonhole. Once he inhabits the persona of the project, he goes for it 110%. This time he just happened to take the guise of a Nashville country artist. Just for the hell of it. It doesn't change the fact that he produced terrific soul tracks with the likes of Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder. Or the fact that he wrote/produced one of the biggest hits for Tom Petty. As a producer I don't think he is in the business of putting his personal stamp on everything. As a recording artist himself, he is sympathetic to the artist he is working with and will try to push yet respect boundaries. I don't think he is going to take an FM album and make it sound like the Eurythmics. Besides, Lindsey already did that with
Tango!
Yes, I went there.