Solo Lindsey Live: yay/nay/meh?

[Lindsfan]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

1. I hate that he always sticks to the same songs.
2. I hate that he always overdoses sheen in the studio.
3. I hate that he overreacts on stage the same way everytime.
4. I hate that he never really opens up on how he writes or composes in interviews. ( always the same metaphors).

Still, he is my favorite artist ever, because he never fails to amaze me with his recordings and with his stageperformance.
He always makes choices that attack my expectations, so I really have to go into it to fully enjoy.
In his own, controlled artistic world he always searches for his own challenge. ( not always the challenge I want him to search).

In all his overproduced, idiosyncratic, almost comicbooklike recordings, he always finds a way to go straight to your Heart, and finds emotion. It's pretty Unique in the musicworld. He's polished bubblegumpop, RAW punk, cheesy country, experimental folk and pure rock and roll at the same time.

He's the master.

Nice post. You nailed it.

The part about searching for his own challenge is especially astute. When I hear people complain about the way he produces, or the way he speaks, or the why does he play this, and not that, they wanted an acoustic album, or they wanted a more rockin' album, etc., this is what I think, but could never put into words. SWS tour he played All My Sorrows, and some were like, of all the OOTC songs, why that one?? And like everyone else, I would have chosen any number of other songs instead, from that album, but I could totally see why he would choose it, and wasn't concerned with what the fan choice might be. Elle and I debate a lot about requesting songs, and I always say, it's not that I don't have songs that I'd love to hear, it's just that I trust him to choose, and to put together a set that is wonderful. It may not be anything close to the set I imagined him playing, but he seems to know what he's doing, so I'm fine just trusting him, and sure enough, he's yet to let me down with his choices, even when they were the furthest thing from my own choices.