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Dave Stewart on Behind the Scenes vs. In Front

Dave Stewart
Dave Stewart is the co-founder, guitarist and songwriter for the pop duo Eurythmics, which he founded with singer Annie Lennox in 1980. As half of Eurythmics, Stewart wrote one of the most enduring hits of the early 1980s – “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” – and achieved great success both on the charts and in the marketplace. Since leaving the group, he has built a solo career as a producer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Jon Bon Jovi), film composer, recording artist and entrepreneur. He is currently part of a new duo, Platinum Weird.
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Dave Stewart, a musician and producer, talks about the importance of ego. An artist needs to be able to think they're material is good enough to share with thousands of people. Stewart points out that the confidence issues generally reside in the singer. Stewart also discusses the significance of the audience. The audience provides a temporary family and feeling of home for artists.



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[Dave Stewart, Behind the Scenes vs. In Front]

Dave Stewart: You see, you need – everybody in the world needs their ego to survive in order to function, in order to even decide, “I’ll be a cameraman,” or whatever you need; something that says, “Well, I think I’ll be good enough to be a cameraman.” And similarly, to go on stage and play stuff, you must think, “I asked if I was good enough that I want thousands of people to come and hear it.”

I’m usually sort of just behind the front person who has to deliver as a singer and they have more problems with their building themselves up into this thing. I’m playing guitar usually. And I feel really, really great on stage partly because I’ve been locked in room for like months and months and months.

But all I like is the fact that it’s a lot of people seem to have felt the same as you have when they’ve heard the songs. And it’s like you’re having a conversation with them that perhaps you can never get with your parents; that they didn’t really understand you or they still don’t understand what you are about, but these people do.

So it’s like, “For temporarily I’ve got a big family and I don’t feel so lonely and empty than I do when I’m not doing that and I’m back to like, “Why did my mom never understand what I did,” which I think most performers have this. They’ve got this kind of void and the void comes from being a child and maybe the parents aren’t understanding them or being from a big family getting left out, whatever. But you are trying to connect with a tribe of people that might maybe feel the same. And when you do and everybody cheers together it is sort of an overwhelming feeling of, “Oh, you’re home.”

I think Dylan said in his early part of his Scorsese documentary, he said, he was just trying to find home for the last thirty years.


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