Re: Stevie Salas

That could be one of the reasons he turned it down. Believe it or not, Bill
generally won't do a project unless he thinks he can add something to it.

I've never given the group much thought (neither good nor bad...just THERE
as part of my memory of youth - or maybe John Hughes movies...heh...), but
I may have to check some albums out since a few of you have made some
positive comments here.


On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Jonathan Smith <[email protected]>wrote:

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> An interesting  anecdote, thanks.
>
> What would Simple Minds  produced  by Bill Laswell have sounded like?
> Could he have made them good? :)
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> 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.
>>>
>>> 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."
>>>
>>> And in the "thanks" section :
>>>
>>> "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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>> --
>> Dave
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Dave