Dreams got too much respect?

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Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Tony and I have discussed these very same things (ad nauseum), for years.
B/N was good. Sometimes very good, but they flopped for a reason. They didn't have "it" until 1975. The little following they had in Birmingham does not a superstar make.

It's truly about vocabulary and experience. Playing for Peter Green, Spencer, Kirwan, Welch, Walker, Weston, etc. That can't be easy if you're a musician and know what it takes to put things together, (comp wise, and live performance)

Dreams is an example of making something out of almost nothing. And the joke is to give LB all the credit.

My italian grandma once gave me all the ingredients for pasta sauce. Including the meatball that she mixed for me.

I put it all together and everyone told me that my sauce and meatballs were the best. But, I knew. hahahah

Absolutely, John. If you take the vocals off the track, you realize how much music the band is able to make from a very skeletal song. And I mean THE BAND. The John-Mick-Christine combo is so potent here.

And the harmony vocals? Everyone talks about how baleful and devastating the three voices sound. If you listen carefully, it’s the high end of certain phrases that positively aches: that’s Christine. The BN duo combo is bubbly, lively, and even bewitching. I’m thinking of “Frozen Love” and “I Don’t Wanna Know.” But it’s Christine’s voice that makes the difference, that introduces that unusual, irresistible ingredient so evident on “Dreams” and “Rhiannon.”

Just listen to the block harmonies on the title tune for “Heroes” and on “Nightwatch.” Or the chamber choir on “Hypnotized.” There’s a myth that Lindsey and Stevie brought the harmonies. But on wax Christine and Bob were already bringing it.

What Lindsey and Stevie brought was a more commercially viable package—the pretty couple from the west coast with country-inflected voices. They also brought much needed stage dynamics.

But FM were already sophisticated. “Why” is gorgeously orchestrated ON A MOBILE UNIT.