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re: Left in the dark again...

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Marklbetya 12:58 pm UTC 10/27/14
In reply to: re: Left in the dark again... - Infinite_Victims 01:45 pm UTC 10/24/14

You're forgetting Meat's pre-release comment:

"I'm very proud of this album. It's the best album I've ever recorded."

Then, your post-release comments come.

>
>
> > > If it flops Meat knows he will catch the blame and
> > > probably does not want to stir that idea up until it has
> > > to be. His reaction will depend upon how successful it is
> > > viewed a few months later and he too will cash checks.
> >
> > 'Now, um, Jim's manager is the devil and he hates me. He
> > um, convinced Jim to abandon the recording before we'd
> > really got started, you know. Um, Me and Paul, um, we did
> > the best we could with the songs available. Um, to be
> > perfectly honest most of Jim's songs weren't good enough
> > so, um, we threw them out and started over from scratch.
> > And, errr, the album may sound a bit rough around the
> > edges, but um, the producer we had in mind let us down, so
> > again me and Paul, um, we did the best we could. So, um,
> > none of the problems with this album are in any way my
> > fault. At all.'
>
> A year after release:
> Well, you know I love Jimmy but well um, the record
> company wouldn't pay for the time we needed and um, Jim
> was just letting us use some stuff that he did not really
> write for this album, um and well while it was really good
> um, the record company did no promotion, um and those
> illegal downloaders, um you know records don't sell today
> the way they used to, um and record companies just um,
> won't spend any money and we did the best we could,um
> under the circumstances, then on the tour uh, well I was
> sick and I thought I sang fine um, I listened to all the
> tapes, and Caryl told me it was great you know so it is
> not just me saying that, and those ticketmaster and online
> Vegas reviews well um, the bad ones everyone talks about
> aren't there now, um and I don't know how that happened of
> course and the youtube videos um I had to get Red Pony to
> pull those because um, the crappy cell phone quality and
> the sound quality just gave a wrong impression, uh and the
> AFL sucks and um...oh and the vocals on the album were all
> sung as you hear them no studio tricks were used.


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