39080, seems like you have painted yourselves into a corner or something... Posted by , Sun Dec-10-06 02:29 PM
you sound like u have no options or something... if image is everything, take people like paul mccartney, eric clapton or bob dylan whos image is their amazing musicians/songwriters... they get by on THAT as an image. or amazing performers...
personally if i can interject, i think the problem with your last album & phrenology is theyre really "white"...
the first 3 were black oriented (and the majority of people here show that)
but phrenology - game theory havent been..
so maybe if we're talking about image that is hurting you and reducint you to college radio/only listen to obscure bohoemian record hipster crowd...
i dont really know, i dotn follow your progress to hard. im sure u know moret han me who your fanbase is.. thats just how i percieve it.
i dont think rick rubin is a bad idea, but in the grand scheme of things it'll probably put u more down the line of that college radio scene.. so if u dont mind that, then id say go for it...
i know the direction EYE would take the next roots record... or i at least have a couple ideas. but at the end of the day its your band and its seemingly your ideas.. so it doesnt matter what anyone else thinks.. so i guess its back to square 1 - the topic line of this post..
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