Lindsey is sooooo serious (SN q&a clip)

[WildHearted]

Originally Posted by elle

i'm possibly reading way too much into it, but like Lindsfan, this jumped out at me as really annoying when i was listening to the interview. plus i think she repeated it couple of times (maybe during convo and then after movie q&a), as to drive home a point that LB contributed to her songs nothing more than just a chord here and there and producing them.

Landslide and Gypsy or Rhiannon are great examples - the guitar melodies and chords in these songs are so distinctive. did Stevie come up with any of those? start of Rhiannon? or Lindsey did change them, after all? LB never received any co-credit; that was just extra chord, arranging, or producing. he contributed nothing more. unlike Dave who has co-writing / music credit for most of the IYD songs.

that said, i do think Dave wrote much more music for her IYD songs than Lindsey did for her older songs. it seems she had no melody to start with for most of those IYD songs co-credited to Dave.

Well, with the songs that Lindsey works on, Stevie already has the chord progression and melody and the basic direction. The song is "written." He just (and I say "just" very lightly ) fleshes it out and kind of takes it to the places that her demos are heading but that she can't reach on her own. Stevie has, again, extensively praised Lindsey for all of the wonderful things he has done with her songs. However, I think in her mind, those songs are WRITTEN when she gives them to him. I think the 'adding a chord here and there' was meant in regards to the actual songwriting process, in terms of the structure itself (say.. adding a transitional chord in a place that there initially wasn't one). I do not think that statement was meant at all in relation to Lindsey constructing his guitar part, filling out the sound, or in his "production" work as I believe she referred to it.

With Dave, her melody is dependent on whatever chords he was playing. He essentially came up with the chord progressions (with reinforcement from Stevie) which guided her melodies. And THEN he did all of the stuff that Lindsey usually does, I'm assuming. So it's a different thing, obviously.

And then of course, you can't discount the other musicians - John, Mick, and Chris in FM and Stevie's own solo band. I believe they all pretty much come/came up with their own parts after listening to the demos and being told what the feel is and everything.

(On a somewhat random note, I've always wondered if it was Stevie who came up with the Rhiannon riff [a la her piano versions of it] or Lindsey when working out the song, and also wondered whether or not Stevie wrote the basics of the Landslide guitar part (she did say that Lindsey taught her how to pick the guitar that she wrote it on). Someone should ask her at one of these things )