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Wilbury 10:22 pm UTC 04/22/11 |
| In reply to: | re: Rumours of New Album - Infinite_Victims 02:25 pm UTC 04/22/11 |
| I agree that on paper Desmond is actually a great choice to make a Meat album. More fool us. And you raise an interesting point: I guess the pressure from the label to have a 'hitmaker' in charge of 'Bat3' was fairly resolute and unwaivering. Maybe Desmond was one of a short list actually offered to meat from the label? Who knows, but it is ironic given how things actually turned out. People I would have preferred over Desmond: • Bob Ezrin • Trevor Horn • Anyone • Everyone > > > > > But my point is that to bitch about Dianne Warren and > > James Michael is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. > > NEITHER of them are the reason TMiL is awful. That falls > > ENTIRELY to Desmond Child, and to Meat for bringing him in > > and giving him free slather. > > > I just don't understand why he made Teddy Bear the way he > > did. If he was feeling disillusioned by TMiL, then he > > should have gone back to the bits that worked on Couldn't > > Have Said It Better and made the album he should have > > instead of inviting in Desmond to piss all over > > everything: James Michael writing it, his band playing it, > > Mokran producing it. > > I agree with most of this. I really expected better from > Desmond, always thought he was a perfect choice to produce > other than Jim or Todd - boy was I wrong. I really think > Meat had a lot forced upon him back then including the Bat > 3 title and for that I blame the record company. I think > Meat signed on for a project that was going to be one > thing then it went out of control and he was stuck with > the deal he'd signed. I wish he'd go back to a CHSIB type > album also, than another HCTB. But I'm expecting something > closer to HCTB, this may even be what was left from HCTB > since it seems ready very quickly. James Michael can > surely out write T. Driggers or whatever his name was, > didn't he use some name supposedly a tribute to his > father? I have a feeling he changed to another name > because he wrote crap. | |
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