Lindsey and Mick cut 8 new tracks, would like at least an EP

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

I don't understand the train of thought on singing over demos or so-called finished songs. Basically, that's all they ever do. Stevie brought in new "demos" to SYW, not necessarily new songs.

They don't just record over the demo though. They record new vocals of the song, new everything. They don't just swap in a couple of new tracks over what's already laid down there. It's fine if they have some old songs of Christine's that they want to produce. But taking some old recordings of Christine's and singing over them doesn't sound that good to me. It sounds like a travesty. If they want to lay something on some pre-existing tracks, why don't they dig Butter Cookie out of a vault and do it with that.

After reading Ken's book and the way a song evolves over many, many takes and they brain storm off of each other and come up with new ideas, I think even if Stevie and Lindsey were just adding harmonies, they need to add harmonies to a new Christine vocal. They might have ideas that might make her want to change the song in some way (i.e. Stevie throwing in her contribution to Oh Daddy) and make it better. Find a song of hers that they like and produce it from scratch, rather than Lindsey just saying, "Well, I'll take out Dan's guitar track and put in mine."

If she dies, then by all means record over her pre-existing tracks, to be an artificial trio once again. But as long as they're alive and can still play and sing, then play and sing.

Michele