No more waiting for the real Lindsey..

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by PenguinHead

. . . Also, how can you confirm that his Out Of The Cradle tour was a financial blunder? I attended several shows from that tour. It's not like he was playing to a sparse crowd. The places were packed with frenzied fans! Perhaps the cost of touring with a huge band (He had an army of guitar players!) had an impact . . . .

I think he said this. Also, I think one of his guitarists said this in the Q&A section on this site.

As for LB and FM - I agree. It has always been a love hate thing. In an way, LB has always given the appearance that he was too good or artistic for FM -- after all he was hesitant to join and La Nicks says she listened to the FM records and concluded they could add to the sound. At the time, LB's career was going nowhere fast. he had just toured essentially as a back up or stand in for the Everly Brothers and BN flopped and Polydor dropped them - though the one Birmingham concert was a success and who knows where that could have gone - but likely nowhere as it was one concert in a financially irrelevant market. Then, FM gives him the vehicle for mega success, but he considers the artistic price too heavy. But, he likes the lifestyle it affords him and I think he also covets the limelight, despite protesting to the contrary. Finally, I think that at least up until and during the SYW tour, he used FM as a tool to be near Stevie. many may disagree with that, but that is how I see it. They are each other's ying and yang.

Will LB go back to FM? I think one more tour is likely. However, I think the draw of being by Stevie is not longer alluring to him for a variety of reasons (never to be - not you, not me) and he no longer needs FM at his age.

Anyway, my $0.02 and no one should ever get from my comments that I do not think LB is a brilliant musician and artisit. He is.