Re: Stevie Salas

Jonathan Smith <[email protected]> Tue, 9 Jul 2013 11:11:20 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.music.laswell
Message-ID <CAE15v4YoM=HqFWcQW7vRPtjaenz2hUSaDZEHT3X3jUs2aqO+tQ@mail.gmail.com>
An interesting  anecdote, thanks.

What would Simple Minds  produced  by Bill Laswell have sounded like? Could
he have made them good? :)


On 8 July 2013 22:44, Dave Brunelle <[email protected]> wrote:

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> nice post - thanks...there's an article floating around (I'm sure if you
> search google you can find it) talking with SS and Fowler. Apparently
> Nicklebag morphed into a new group name because of the similarity to Nickle
> back. They talk a bit about Bill and how SS and BF met. Also how Fowler's
> worked with the Stones for almost 30 years because Bill called him to ask
> him to come to the UK to work on Jagger's first solo record. Apparently
> Jagger must have really liked him.
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> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:32 AM, haas alain <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> I've just noticed two interesting stories about Bill Laswell in Stevie
>> Salas "The sun and the earth" compilation liner notes.
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>> About "The harder they come"
>> "My first single from Colorcode and perhaps one of my best solo's ever !
>> I wanted to erase it and Bill Laswell wanted to kill me. Thank god he
>> stopped me."
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>> And in the "thanks" section :
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>> "I thank Bill Laswell for turning down 400k to produce Simple Minds and
>> taking my 40k to do Colorcode and also for introducing me to Bernard
>> Fowler"
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