Boomchild wrote:I am not ignoring anything. You stated that DDY cut short the '97 tour. You do not know how long the tour was supposed to be, if you do please point me to it. I am not giving DDY a pity party. All I said was that it is not difficult to understand that if someone is ill that plans may need to be delayed. I am only stating what is known based on statements by the people who were actually there.
Actually, the bone of contention was 1996. I believe JY or TS stated somewhere that they could have toured into the fall but Dennis had already done more dates than he agreed to initially do or something like that. The 97 tour was only supposed to be a summer shed tour as far as I know.
Monker wrote:No it's not. If you read his early interview, he didn't go all critical over BNW. But, after it was clear he was out of the band, he went all ballistic about it...saying he cried when he heard it, saying how he could have made Witness a big hit...blah, blah, blah.
Did Tommy call What If a piece of shit in 1986? No. When you're promoting your latest project under the auspices of the record company, you tend to want to say it's the best thing since sliced bread. You're right - he was critical after the fact, but not saying nice things about it at the time could have potentially hurt sales (which were not that great to begin with ...). A lot of artists do post mortems years later and trash their earlier work.
