1992 Plight of Going Solo

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Quit changing the subject I agree Tusk was a success in an artistic regard to LB. I am not and we were not talking about that. I am talking about the exposure selling four million records world wide and a successful tour got him. If you don't think he got significant exposure from all of that which helped him release his solo record to a wider audience and success a year later - so be it.

How am I changing the subject when I respond directly to the statements you make? You were talking about exactly that, which is why you said about 50 times that Tusk was a huge success and then belatedly added "by a rational standard."

I don't think Tusk helped him release a solo record. I don't think Tusk added to his public cache more than Rumours did. Rumours is what gave him entree into everything else and Law and Order was more like the less successful Tusk than it was Rumours. Since he never released a solo album as close to an FM venture after Tusk, I don't see him having repeated a pattern at all.

Your point was that Lindsey uses FM to launch his solo albums, when most of the time that he's been in FM he hasn't even had a solo album ready to launch. If you're saying that he's only been in FM so that he can get the publicity needed so the record buyers will be ready for him 2 - 5 years later when he does have a solo album to launch -- well . . . ok. That's what I'd call premature launching and I think he ought to see a doctor about it.

Anyway, for the first time, he does have a solo album now (at least he says he does), while he simultaneously has the possibility of working with FM before him as well. If he uses the FM/Sheryl Crow machine to promote that solo album while he's in FM, I'll be happy. I don't think he's ever done that before, while you think he's always been doing it. Thus, your point!

Michele