new Dashut blog - Truth & Consequences (My Times with FM)

[elle]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

Me personally, I just take the perspective that if you want your story told, don't wait on others to tell it, YOU tell it, if you feel that strongly about it.

see, i understand what you are saying, but it's sometimes frustrating that you not only do great work but if you want that work to be acknowledged then you also have to be the one to toot your own horn and boast how much you did. sometimes you'd like others to acknowledge and thank you for what you did without having to remind them.


kinda like LB seemingly thinking that the band should have seen how much producing work he did from early albums on and not him having to ask for producer's credit in order to actually get it. (of course now when he's talking about how much he did people are complaining about him boasting about it - one can never win! ) -

"I mean, if you were to ask Richard (Dashut) or any of those guys, “Who produced Rumours?” they’d all say, “Lindsey was the guy with the vision.” I didn’t ask for a production credit on Rumours and I didn’t get it. Richard feels bad about that. There were band politics involved in that. Even on Tusk, you may notice, it says like “special thanks for....” Come on! I don’t think I had any less of a hand in what you could call production on Rumours than I did on Tango.
Guitar World, September 1997"
(taken from http://www.buckinghamnicks.info/madness-experiences#80s, where many great LB quotes originally from Madness-Fades LB site are currently preserved, so thanks for that Nicole! )