what next for LB?

[jetta07]

Originally Posted by elle

^ and if you listen to GOS 2001 version, that album just holds together so nicely... one of the most perfect albums i've ever heard.

(i know i always say all this, but it bears repeating and keeping in mind - and i also know i'm definitely not the only person who feels this way!)

SYW is not even close to the perfection GOS1 was. whoever's fault it is, and in my opinion it was mostly someone's in WB, every time i listen to that GOS1 from the beginning to the end, i just can't help but thinking they didn't allow us to have one of the best albums ever to see the light of the day. LB is much bigger person that i would ever be since he was apparently able to get over any resentment, chop those songs apart and disperse them over different albums.

I just downloaded GOS I a few weeks ago and was blown away. I don't know how to explain it, but all of the songs just sound so good one right after the other. I think when he split them up to three albums, it just lost some of the excellence of having all of these songs on one disc. I just saw an interview with Mick & Lindsey in 1998 and Lindsey was explaining how he had just finished up a solo album which he was releasing in the fall. It just sounds like the success of The Dance pushed Lindsey into scrapping the release of GOS I and lending the songs to a new FM album. What bothers me is the fact that his album was finished and ready to be released and somehow that was thwarted and prevented Lindsey from releasing a truly magnificent album.

I hope that there are extended dates for the solo tour before the big FM tour in 2013. I did enjoy seeing both of them in '09, though I have to say Lindsey's voice has matured nicely, while Stevie's has gotten a bit too nasally for my taste and it can take away from some of the harmonies. Just my opinion, of course