Just remembered something from the BTM...

[TRAGChick]

Taken from the FTLOSM re-release - opening page:

"For The Love Of Strange Medicine was my second solo project.

The truth is... There was a project that I recorded before it which was to be my second solo CD to follow Street Talk. Due to a change over that took place when Sony Music bought Columbia Records, ALL the Against The Wall CD (as it was to be called) was shelved by a corporate executive and it was never released. This was the beginning of a serious rift between myself and Sony Music.

The reason I was given by this executive was that he was not sure about the musical direction of the CD. I had NEVER heard any words like this before. Legally there was nothing I could do-Sony Music did not release it."

Does anybody else remember Steve saying something to the effect that he "did nothing after the ROR tour....(he) was tired....had to get back to (his) life" (paraphrased)?

I wonder if the "serious rift" involved Steve being told to keep the ATW Project "hush hush"....

[Carlitto H@kk]

Does anybody else remember Steve saying something to the effect that he "did nothing after the ROR tour....(he) was tired....had to get back to (his) life" (paraphrased)?

I think he was speaking about what he did 'right after' the ROR tour ended (prematurely at that) and, from all the rumors and here-say, I would say that what he said was a nice way of saying "I had to get clean/sober".

[Clasicrockldy]

The music executives didn't know what the musical direction was? They are idiots. Look what those execs are putting out now ! They have collectively lost their minds..........

[TRAGChick]

The music executives didn't know what the musical direction was?

Uh huh....THAT makes a whole boatload of sense...

Thank God, in a way, that TRAG is majorly "Independent"...no two songs sound the same:

One sounds ProgRock; one sounds like ska; one sounds like Blondie; Evanescence; Big 80s, etc....

LOVE IT

[conversationpc]

Thank God, in a way, that TRAG is majorly "Independent"...no two songs sound the same:

One sounds ProgRock; one sounds like ska; one sounds like Blondie; Evanescence; Big 80s, etc....

LOVE IT

There's something to be said for diversity of sound and I love bands like that. Queen is a good example, though thanks to the Brian May guitar sound, they were still identifiable.

Then again, there are bands that have the same kind of sound throughout their whole catalogue, like Boston, AC/DC, Aerosmith, etc. I love those as well.