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Markus 10:28 am UTC 07/30/07 |
| In reply to: | What if Meat had never lost his voice? - Rob 12:21 am UTC 07/30/07 |
| I donŽt know... But I guess weŽd have even more great official Steintunes out there and Jim wouldŽve made even more money (with Meat) to to what he really wanted to do. I guess they both made some really stupid mistakes in the past (too much touring for example). Markus. > Thought about this a lot lately. > > If Meat hadn't developed his much documented vocal > problems after "Bat...", what sort of career would he and > Jim had together? Jim has said in the past that he would > have happily written specifically for Meat and used him as > the main interpreter of his songs were it not for the > problems around the time of "Bad For Good"/"Dead Ringer". > > So, what would we have had that we don't have now? > > An album called "Renegade Angel" sometime around 1979/80? > Presumably this would have included a lot of the songs > from "Bad For Good", maybe a couple from "Dead Ringer", > but what else? Jim said in the book Phenomenology of > Excess that he envisioned the whole album being tied > together with spoken word pieces (either he or Sandy > Robertson described it as sub-Dragnet stayle narration), > but was unclear as to whether or not he'd actually written > those pieces. Knowing Jim, they were probably a 'work in > progress'. > > But what would have happened after that? Presumably Jim > would still have wanted to work with other artists, so we > might still have had the Bonnie Tyler collaboration...but > then, Jim did describe himself as being "gun-shy" after > "Bad For Good", and not wanting to create an entire album > of his own work until he got the urge to make "Original > Sin". Hence the dalliances with Donna Summer & Diana > Ross. > > If "Renegade Angel" had been a hit, we might never have > had a "Bat...2" in any form, but we might have had a > steady stream of Meat/Jim albums over the next 20 years > instead. Would Jim have been able to cope with the demands > of writing entire albums on demand or would he have gone > down the route of writing a few songs and hand-picking the > 'fillers', like he did with Bonnie? Or would the > discipline of having to write new material been good for > him and lead to a more prolific Steinman than the one we > know and (patiently) love? > > I'm aware that this post contains far too many 'what > ifs...?' and rhetorical questions, but I figured I might > as well try to talk about Jim Steinman. Who knows, it > might catch on... ;-) | |
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