Rockin' at 60 & recording probably in October

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

Agreed. However, if that did happen, and I'm so very glad it didn't, you know that someone in the Stevie estate cough, Chris, cough would have been raiding the vaults and releasing compilations left and right a la Tupac and Jeff Buckley.

Although the thievery has nothing to do with why Stevie isn't releasing new, official material, I wonder if she is upset about all the demos we circulate amongst ourselves. She knew they were leaked a long time ago, but with the internet, the whole ball game is changed. The demos and unreleased copies spread like wild fire and I'm sure they have been passed around to 5 million people at the very least. I'm wondering if that is what she was complaining about, in her foggy way.

Michele

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Although the thievery has nothing to do with why Stevie isn't releasing new, official material, I wonder if she is upset about all the demos we circulate amongst ourselves. She knew they were leaked a long time ago, but with the internet, the whole ball game is changed. The demos and unreleased copies spread like wild fire and I'm sure they have been passed around to 5 million people at the very least. I'm wondering if that is what she was complaining about, in her foggy way.

Michele

Of course she's upset, but I don't think there is any way that Stevie could understand the sheer magnitude of what has been spread around the internets. I also doubt that Stevie can truly understand how much these demos help to galvanize her loyal fans, which only helps her to sell more official product if/when it gets released. And considering how unprolific she has become, these demos are the only things tiding us over between releases.

[David]

I'd like to hear what Johnny Stew has to say about all this. I'm really confused about it.

[jwd]

Originally Posted by David

I'd like to hear what Johnny Stew has to say about all this. I'm really confused about it.

Good luck! He doesn't have time to post for his fans. He finds it trivial and inconsequential. Rumour has it though that he's off to Europe to finish his story of what it's like to be a gay super-hero on The Ledge!! Stay tuned......

Love ya Brian

[SandyMac]

I wonder if Stevie's last solo record will really be the soundtrack to the Rhiannon movie project. Makes sense I think.

[petep9000]

Originally Posted by jwd

Good luck! He doesn't have time to post for his fans. He finds it trivial and inconsequential. Rumour has it though that he's off to Europe to finish his story of what it's like to be a gay super-hero on The Ledge!! Stay tuned......

Love ya Brian

That's really crude.

[jwd]

Originally Posted by petep9000

That's really crude.

Sorry if you think my admiration and respect for a good friend is crude. I guess we have different definitions of the word.

[David]

Originally Posted by jwd

Good luck! He doesn't have time to post for his fans. He finds it trivial and inconsequential. Rumour has it though that he's off to Europe to finish his story of what it's like to be a gay super-hero on The Ledge!! Stay tuned......

Oh, I hope he's not writing a book. Everybody's always writing a book, & the upshot is that the world is filled with far too many books, the majority of them trash.

But that's too bad about Johnny Stew. I wanted to hear his levelheaded take on these interesting developments.

[David]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Although the thievery has nothing to do with why Stevie isn't releasing new, official material, I wonder if she is upset about all the demos we circulate amongst ourselves.

Hasn't she out & out said that she is, several times? And haven't some of the others, like Celani or Perry-Nicks-Perry-Again, confirmed it?

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by David

Hasn't she out & out said that she is, several times? And haven't some of the others, like Celani or Perry-Nicks-Perry-Again, confirmed it?

Yes, but I mean is that why she went on her latest rant? In the past, she blamed the people who took her recordings, not the people who ended up with them.

If you pinned her down on specifics, when she said fans are stealing songs, which songs would she actually be talking about? Does she think fans copied TISL tracks?

I don't think she thinks anyone stole her SYW songs because she feels no one wants them, thanks to Lindsey.

So, where were the accusations coming from? I think it all goes back to her leaked demos. Other than that, does she have examples of fans passing her commercial releases around rather than buying them?

She could have been at Walter Reed wondering how the troops were enjoying those Ipods she passed out and she looked down and realized they all had 5 different versions of Smile at You on their play list, which is when she decided to call all her hard core fans thieves.

Michele