And he still had some great moments after that. Just would have loved to see him and Karine have a Number 1 with "Braver" and "Not Allowed" for example.
>
> Looking back, the late 90s was such an amazing time for
> Jim. He was really on top of the world. I was only a kid
> then, and couldn't really experience it the way the older
> members did. Remember, he'd just done "It's All Coming
> Back", "Bat II" before that, "Whistle down the Wind" had
> opened in London, "No matter what" was everywhere, "Tanz"
> was winning IMAGE awards in Europe, there was talk of an
> English production, Jim was going to write "Batman", he'd
> produced the theme for "The Mask of Zorro" by the guys who
> wrote "My heart will go on", he even produced a song for
> the cartoon "Anastasia". It was just such an amazing time,
> and that's right as Ravenous is being announced. We know
> he's working on "Garbo" and "Wuthering Heights".
>
> Then "Dance of the Vampires" happens and ughhh. I feel
> like that's the moment where it all went wrong, but hey he
> managed thirty really wonderful years before that.
>
> > Gosh I remember seeing it at the time and having these
> > delusions of grandeur about Jim releasing so many projects
> > on his very own label. It seems he did release a few
> > though, as you pointed out.
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