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Originally Posted by michelej1

I think it was mostly Tom. Before he came in they didn't want Lindsey's solo album anyway. Lindsey said he felt it was a "lame duck" situation and he thought he'd just wait until someone else was in charge. Meanwhile, he worked with FM. Tom Whalley came in as head and he said he liked the album and I think that made Lindsey very hopeful. But did Tom really like it or was he just making nice with Lindsey because he wanted more FM? Hard to say.

When Lindsey actually had an album, Whalley was indifferent to it and said that WB was not going to promote it. So, at that point, I think is when Lindsey felt he'd been stabbed in the back, because Tom did sort of a flip flop. But I think he also felt that WB was in such a state of flux (and the record business as a whole was) that he didn't hold Whalley personally responsible, even though he seems to be the one that Lindsey was having all the conversations with. I think he thought that Whalley was just trying to hang on to his job -- which he lost soon enough anyway.

At one point, it was like Lindsey was almost blaming himself, saying that maybe WB wasn't promoting his album because he'd called it "boutique," as if describing it in a different way to them would have made them roll out the PR department full blast. It wouldn't have.

Michele

interesting. from some things Cavallo said in one of the FM docs (BTM maybe, although not sure which one?), it sounded he was partially working with Lindsey on GOS some time around 1995-1996 (he did co-produce some of those songs with him)... he claimed he said to LB that he has been inactive for a number of years and that if he puts out another solo album after all this time it would make a splash... and that even bigger splash would be a FM reunion (i.e. the Dance), and so LB agreed to wait for FM reunion first... or something like that. seems that Cavallo was trying to transmit some message he received from higher ups to LB at the time. once the dance happened, it would have been a perfect time imo to put out GOS (like in 1998/99), but my speculation is that at the time someone held it back - again... till LB tried to give the updated version to WB again in 2001. i think in 2001 he may have worked with Whalley and that's the period you are referring to?

from various interviews, Lindsey seems to consider both Whalley and Cavallo friends and doesn't really blame either one for what happened. when he was talking about One Take, he described a record company executive that cannot go against the board and general business / stock market / whatever mentality and has limited power if he wants to survive in his position. Cavallo just became what? WB CEO or something equivalent? after Whalley was apparently pushed out. Lindsey also mentions his friend Cavallo who just became a head of WB and cannot do what should be right for the art, just what's right for the business, in one of the SWS era interviews, and says that he completely understands that. he makes it sound like he doesn't condone it and wouldn't do it himself, but completely understands it.