Seeds We Sow -- First Impressions

[jellyman10]

Originally Posted by Nico

Lindsey makes a lot of sense to me. I'm sorry. He has a vision that is HIS OWN, as Regina eloquently stated. It may not be yours, so it's understandable that you don't have to like it. But to criticize him for not asking sense because he is rather robotic and redundant in his interviews/live banter is being a tad harsh.

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If LB can be criticized for anything on this new album it's that he's basically copying HIMSELF, not others. ..... Also, I don't agree with your summation of his guitar skills, but then I have seen him live far too many times to really let anyone's opinions on something like that get me down- the man is mesmerizing and I know it.

I respect that you are concerned about whatever collaboration Lindsey will do with Stevie, but I personally feel that he is on an artistic and creative upswing in the past few years. He has the energy of someone far, far younger and still the drive of a man who cares. If anything, I'm thinking she's lucky to have such a partner. If others disagree, well, maybe it won't happen and then you all can be happy and wait for Stevie's next project.

I didn't say he didn't make sense because he was 'robotic' or repetitive. I said he didn't make sense because he claims that his solo career is artistically richer and/or more valid than what he does with FM without addressing why he keeps going back to FM at all, except to refer vaguely to the notion that the 'big machine' is what 'allows' the 'small machine' to exist. And I call BS on that, because I simply refuse to believe that he needs the income from FM in any meaningful way in order to make his solo music. He also routinely insults genuinely struggling artists all the time when he says these things about indie film-making and so on. He has been a millionaire since 1976, and a multi-millionaire since quite soon after that. He wouldn't know financial struggle if he found it in his soup. And he - and Stevie and all the rest of them who made tens of millions in the heyday of rock music - should just stop embarrassing themselves by going on about money. They are massively privileged to be in the position they're in, compared with artists starting out today, and yet LB still clings to the fantasy that it's tough for him. He releases an 'indie' record and it still gets reviewed in Rolling Stone! Come on. Stevie is every bit as bad, by the way, albeit in a different sense.

As for copying himself and his guitar skills - I think what I actually said was that, the way I see it, LB's currently in a guitar seam that's narrow but deep, and that if the listener finds that depth to be as interesting as LB does, then that's happy times all round! You are clearly someone who does find it as interesting as he does, so that's great. Not sure why you think we disagreed on that one.

I'm heartened to hear that you respect my concerns about the negative influence of LB on Stevie's artistic freedom - and yet you can't quite bring yourself to not give with one hand and take away with the other. Because you then go on to say that you think she should think herself lucky to have him - which means you think my concerns are without foundation, because you just can't conceive of LB not being an asset. And that's pretty funny for a chiffonhead - that is, for a member of a fanbase regularly accused of thinking everything Stevie does is great because she does it.

But I prefer to be optimistic: what I want, in order of preference, is more new music from Stevie and more new music from an FM that includes Lindsey and Stevie. Adding to my misgivings about them working together again is the fact that I really didn't like Soldier's Angel. However, I at least disliked it in a better way than the way in which I disliked what he did to her songs on SYW. So maybe there's hope!

I agree with you completely, by the way, that LB seems to be on an upswing. He sounds very engaged and productive.

Loz