Lindsey interview

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Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Seriously, just sing the songs. Quit slowing it down, quit using back up tracks for guitar. Christine please please for the love of God, play something other than a chorded organ part. If she had not done the Hold Me solo I would have sold my tickets.

You're there to perform.. you're paid to do your job.

I'm with you. If it's too physically challenging to play and sing at the same time (it might be--she IS almost 74) then have back-up players play it all live. But play it live.

I am getting the sense that Lindsey is calling all of the shots with regards to the tour, the production, the arrangement. Christine has always generously given him the power to make such decisions, but after I read that he told her one of her SIX songs had to be cut I thought, WTF? So what if she has six and he has five? And, for that matter, why don't you get her to have more audible presence on the five songs you cut BEFORE she rejoined? I know I'm rambling and sort of jumbled, but my complaints are of a piece: Lindsey calls the shots but not all of his calls are the right calls. Stevie pushes back and sometimes gets her way. Christine acquiesces because she is generous, possibly a bit lazy, and still a bit shaky as she remerges from her 16 years of retirement. Interviews reveal that "Feel About You" is HER song, for example. Not a co-write. Lindsey's "strong hand" in production has garnered him a composition credit. Stevie would not have done that, no matter how inventive his arrangement might be. Lindsey calls it "band politics." But isn't the job of the producer to do exactly what he does and be credited AS A PRODUCER--not as a co-writer? Sorry, I ramble.

I'm still ecstatic for the new music and rocked out to it in the car to and from work today.