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ricgough 03:37 am UTC 03/03/08 |
| In reply to: | Meat back on the road.......... - Lordy 05:15 pm UTC 03/02/08 |
| I hope your info is reliable. It'd be a shame to see him bowing out the way he did at Newcastle - no matter how much some on here would love it. I Just hope the marathon tours are a thing of the past. For a man of his age they're just unsustainable, especially the way he performs . For an artist of his stature it's quality rather than quantiy that's important. Both he and Jim should be thinking in terms of legacy now, be it together or in persuit of seperate projects. I just want something of quality that will stand the test of time. I think that's what most fans want of both the Stein and loaf variety. I'm not nescessarily sure a 'jukebox musical' is the way forward, but knowing Jim's work, he'll have something up his sleeve that's a bit special that isn't just 'bells and whistles'. As for Meat, god only knows how he'll produce something 'world class' without the help of his mentor, but it's more important now than ever before, if he wants to be taken seriously that is. One thing though, if Jim was willing to work with Meat 2 years ago, then Meat's ability to record a decent album hasn't deteriorated that much since then, especially with the multi-layering and pitch-corrective techniques that are now available. To then go and tour it may be a different matter but I can't see Jim and his backers thinking it better to promote a 'bat' musical without Meat than with him. After all a lot of 'bat' fans will see Meat as the public face of the franchise, rightly or wrongly. I would suggest that this is good news for the success of that project, but personally I'd like to see Jim have that stab at 'neverland' or a project unrelated to the whole 'bat' saga. It was a flawed plan for Meat to put 'bat 3' in action without Jim and for the same reasons it would be a mistake for Jim to do a 'bat' musical without Meat, after all they're the two elements that make 'bat'. I think the BOOH handle has been used to sell too much sub-standard material in the past and I include the 'bad for good/Deadringer campaigns in that. One truly special album would have sold more than the two combined in that instance, I guaruntee it. A Steinman 'bat 3' would've given it some relevance to to the music of the era as Bat 2 did, with it's imaginative use of electronicly produced sound and the latest production techniques. Both proper 'bat' albums were first and foremost produced for their time; they were very much 'now' albums yet managed to achieve timelessness as well rather than just harking back to the late 80's early 90's as the Child effort invariably does. they might as well have called it 'permenant vacation 2'. The irony is that 'bat's' unique selling point was it was so different to the mass produced stuff that was endlessly churned out in the late 80's. It made Meat sound his age, Bat 2 made him sound ageless. | |
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