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Pudding 01:35 am UTC 08/01/08 |
| In reply to: | re: The Devil's F'n Playground - Smeghead 11:15 pm UTC 07/31/08 |
| When was We're Still The Children written pre or post stroke? You don't need to be a prolific pianist to be a prolific songwriter, which probably explains why he's had Roy Bittan and Steve Margoshes playing keyboard on most of his songs. > Body was pre-stroke. It is my belief that Jim can no > longer play the piano post strokes and therefore will not > compose new music. Jim is not the type of composer to > compose without playing, thus I don't believe he will > write anything new. He could write new lyrics, but to > what music? Old music? This is of course speculation to > a point. We know he couldn't play right after the stroke. > Has he recovered enough to play? I don't know. This I > believe is why he was recycling everything for the Dream > Engine when he was actually interested in that act before > Bat Musical came along. > > > > I think its just been assumed > > > that we won't see new writing from Jim, so people > > > constantly post about what cover they'd like to hear on > > > any rumored new recording. Wouldn't it be cool if Bonnie > > > covered... [Fill in the Blank]? I think most people would > > > still prefer it if new material came to light thought. > > > > Most definitely people would prefer new songs, but since > > we haven't heard much about what Jim's up to or any new > > songs in ages, then for the sake of conversation (because > > otherwise there'd be very little to talk about) it goes > > into a 'who would sing what cover' convo. > > > > The things we do know is, BOOH: The musical is most > > definitely going to have songs from Bat1 + 2 and someone's > > going to be covering those songs. Bonnie Tyler said she's > > going to be working with Jim on a album, sooooo... with > > 2+2=5 we don't have a lot to go on. | |
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