The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part eleven — Page 68

Once again please excuse my spelling, I know there are some errors here

I have always had a suspision that the Civilian that we have now isnt the original CD that was intended to follow Model Prisoner. Just because it took so long. And because all the songs that he sang at the shows like Mesmerized, Hiding her Eyes from Me, and Apology he said were going to be on the "new" record(i think).
He always said to that a new record was in the works, then 9/11 happened, the record took forever to come out and when it did he said that alot of the songs were in response to 9/11.
So with all of my Blues Clues Sleuth skills I think that there is almost 12 songs laying around on the cutting room floor!

(btw, don't you love that he still says record?)

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Yes blame Sh-K-Boom.

Mesmerized not have a place? How dare you...hehe

If we could only be inside that mans brain for one day.

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I really think Civilian would have sounded so much better with more of a stripped down sound. Not an acoustic sound, but just less background noise, especially less noise overpowering the vocals. Even I'm With You sounds overproduced to me in comparison to what I heard live, which was much better.

The first time I heard I'm With You, it was just guitar and piano. And it was so gorgeous. Not that the recorded version isn't, but I always prefered it (and Beautiful Song) that way.

I'm assuming some of the floater songs made it onto Civilian. A lot of them are very clearly post-9/11, but some of them could have been written at any time, too.

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Yeah, the first time I heard it was on a clip of him performing it on The View. I was kind of disappointed with the album version, truth be told. (But we still love love love you, Adam!)

Yeah, Adam, why DIDN'T you record them that way? I demand an answer via your MySpace blog by 8 PM tomorrow.

Really, I wouldn't have felt more than a twinge of disappointment to find out that Adam wasn't going to sign last Saturday. Unfortunately, the issue evolved into a lot more than just him not signing autographs. Yes, some of us are obviously big fans, but I understand and accept the fact that he probably won't sign every single night for varying reasons. What bothered me was how his security and the theatre security handled the situation.

nga, in Adam's defense, he is MORE than kind and gracious on the vast majority of occasions. It's extremely rare lately that he won't sign autographs and pose for pictures with every single last person who asks. In my personal experience, he has been more than kind, and displayed his apprecation much more than any actor should be "expected" to. Also, while I think sometimes the "needs to catch a flight" thing IS used as an excuse, more often than not, it's true. He and his family were moving to LA the day after Rent 10, and he did have like a 6 a.m. flight out, or something. Honestly, forget about the fans who didn't get to see him (this is coming from one who was very disappointed, yet), but he couldn't even go to the party with his friends and costars. Nobody was using it as an excuse Saturday night, either; he really was going home early in the morning. But, the bottom line to me is that... yeah, this is home base, but he signed and posed for pictures at three of the four shows, at least once hanging around later than security and the venue would have liked, and was unable to do it at one because of a flight so he could get home to his family. I'm sorry, but reality sometimes takes precedence over PR, and I don't blame what happened on Saturday on him in any way, shape or form; he is the farthest thing from unkind to his fans, and he only gets nicer every time I see him.

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Updated On: 10/17/06 at 10:14 PM

There are two things going on here, though; security and stuff lying and creating confusion, which is not Adam's fault, and then the simple fact that sometimes he does have flights to catch. He's got a career in the bicoastal industry. It happens; it's not a gesture of unkindness, but just a fact of life. An autogaph is not an inherent right you get just because you support him; no matter how many concerts you go to or how many CD's you buy. I mean, I own two and purchased three copies of Civilian; I don't get three autographs or to have Adam's babies in exchange.

There have been more and more instances where he seems to be going against the will of security, and more power to him for that; but if you're saying that catching flights is bad PR, well, that's not his security guard's doing when it's the honest truth.

Anyway, back to the music. I miss the harmonies in I'm With You, but not necessarily all the extra sound effects and instruments.

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Updated On: 10/17/06 at 10:17 PM

I think what you're saying is that his security guard is a prick... which couldn't be more true, but Adam probably needs someone like that to move the line along, so to speak, while Adam is busy trying to accomodate everyone.

it seems to me that people deal best when they are simply told the truth, right from the start.............

Yes, exactly, and sometimes the truth is that he can't, for whatever reason, accommodate every single fan's wish. It's unfortunate that the Queens Theatre (and his own security, to a lesser extent) f*cked up and lied, but that's not really Adam's fault. I mean, he should tell his own security guard to stop lying, but I doubt he had much to do with the lies of the Queens Theatre workers.

Updated On: 10/17/06 at 10:26 PM

it seems to me that people deal best when they are simply told the truth, right from the start

That's a nice sentiment, but when applied to your arguments about Rent 10, it doesn't work. I was never told that Idina, Taye and Jesse wouldn't be at the Rent 10 afterparty. I dealt. Like I said, why fault HIM when others do the same? Yes, it's the Adam thread and we're talking about Adam, but you're not posting in the Idina thread about how rude and bad it was that she wasn't at the after party. It was 6 months ago. Get over it. The instance we're talking about was only 3 days ago.

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If you were over it, you wouldn't have brought it up in the first place. Don't blame me for being mean when I just reacted to what you clearly stated in your posts. And it is much easier to run away and accuse me of being hostile or whatever rather than reacting to the points I made proving your "argument" wrong, isn't it?

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Updated On: 10/17/06 at 11:21 PM