Today Show 3/27/14

[MikeVielhaber]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

well, but let's face it, she probably knows full well they would't actually record without her so not sure how effective that kind of bluff would be with her.

It doesn't sound like Christine's material is anywhere near ready for proper recording; it sounds like she and Lindsey are still sorting through her tapes of rough demos and bits and pieces figuring out which he thinks can be turned into something….and then figuring out what that something is. I can't see the need for really any of the other 3 to be hanging around for that. Personally I have a hard time imagining John hanging around for hours while that stuff is worked out. He hates that part during the healthiest of times.

I wouldn't be surprised if Stevie waits to see/hear what the more realistic set of possible Chris tunes turns out to be and what Lindsey has on the docket from his own stuff so she can decide what she thinks she wants to do. It's still early days, especially for this group that takes forever to do anything under the best of conditions.

I don't think it's just Lindsey and Christine listening to demos and everyone else just lounging around. It sounds like they're working out stuff which I'm sure involves at least Mick since we don't know how involved John is yet. And all of Lindsey's songs were recorded without Stevie. So they do do that.

[jbrownsjr]

I sure hope they are filming the making of this new music.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by MikeVielhaber

I don't think it's just Lindsey and Christine listening to demos and everyone else just lounging around. It sounds like they're working out stuff which I'm sure involves at least Mick since we don't know how involved John is yet. And all of Lindsey's songs were recorded without Stevie. So they do do that.

I'm not debating anyone, I guess I was just making the point that it sounds like there's a lot of Christine/Lindsey one-on-one time going on to sort things out (from her own description she has a lot of pieces that aren't at all complete songs that they would working together writing more music/words to make into full songs.) That may or may not *require* a lot from the others just yet. I agree Mick is likely around for a lot of that because a)he's Mick and he likes the social interaction and b) as you say, his musical input may be useful.

But with this band, we'll never really know.

[elle]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

I'm not debating anyone, I guess I was just making the point that it sounds like there's a lot of Christine/Lindsey one-on-one time going on to sort things out (from her own description she has a lot of pieces that aren't at all complete songs that they would working together writing more music/words to make into full songs.) That may or may not *require* a lot from the others just yet. I agree Mick is likely around for a lot of that because a)he's Mick and he likes the social interaction and b) as you say, his musical input may be useful.

But with this band, we'll never really know.

Yeah but few months ago Christine said she wrote like 7 new songs and about 3 of those are fully fleshed demos others more rough. So they probably don't have to work on her extra songs but since they booked studio time... I'm just speculating.

[SteveMacD]

The over analysis is killing me because of how hilarious it is.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by MikeVielhaber

I don't think it's just Lindsey and Christine listening to demos and everyone else just lounging around. It sounds like they're working out stuff which I'm sure involves at least Mick since we don't know how involved John is yet. And all of Lindsey's songs were recorded without Stevie. So they do do that.

Yes, they said John came in and put down some bass lines already.

While Christine has described in the past how Stevie would hang around being a pest because she wanted to sing and they weren't ready to sing and they had to say "not yet" to her, I think her being there helps with the song arrangements. It's like SYLM which they mentioned on the Today show. Christine (gooseflesh) has always described how she walked in with that song and Stevie and Lindsey just began singing harmonies automatically. It was instantaneous. And that kind of magic happening is what they want Stevie for. It's like taking a balloon and blowing it up so it is full and buoyant, creating something out of nothing. Hearing all 3 of them working on something, sounding it out, probably helps form a song and then once the structure is there, then she can disappear, while they work on the music.

Michele