Korgscrew
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Posted: Oct. 03 2007, 15:38 |
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Well the idea of the delay is to stop them from conflicting - the idea, so the story goes, was to move the release to a time when it would be more convenient for Mike to make appearances like this. Of course as has already been pointed out, Mike may be being rather optimistic thinking he'll have more time once the baby's born...but maybe he has a plan. He could probably do the concert with just a few rehearsals (in fact, with that many musicians, the fewer rehearsals the better, unless you've really got money to burn). That doesn't mean to say it's likely or sensible, just that it would be possible if he wanted to do it.
I suppose that was rather bad wording in the original post - I don't think there's any indication that they'd consider doing a concert without Mike. Still, the impression I get from all I've heard from Universal is that it's a launch event and not a concert that they're planning (the words were "some kind of launch/unveiling"). I don't think there's really any option for Mike not to appear - it would be a huge non-event if he didn't, and it would defeat the whole point of delaying the album's release. Still, we'll see what develops.
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