Quote Originally Posted by BarryL
Yeah, the autobiographical story is hard to take. It's overly pompous and self-serving, but that's his prerogative as an artist.
Then it's my perogative as a customer to not buy it. Whee!

Quote Originally Posted by BarryL
I think of it like Jesus Christ Superstar. If he had claimed that it was a biographical story of redemption about some historical figure, people would have looked at this album in a whole different light. But because it's supposedly autobiographical, he's probably being flamed for all the wrong reasons.
Not a fan of JCSS either . . .

If you want to do a story of redemption, make your redemption story more abstract and open to people of all faiths. Why make it soley about Christians? It implies that only Christians can be redeemed.