Brett Anderson recebeu algumas críticas por estar a tocar músicas dos Suede nos seus concertos a solo.
No ínicio Brett tocava meia dúzia de músicas da sua antiga banda mas o número tem aumentado muito, principalmente nos concertos acústicos.
Alguns fãs perguntaram-se no forum do músico se Brett tinha o "direito" de as tocar já que em algumas, segundo eles, ele apenas escrevia a letra. Anderson respondeu que sim, até porque grande parte delas foi ele sozinho que as escreveu, e as que co-escreveu com outro música, a melodia foi inteiramente escrita por ele, em todas as músicas.
Eu concordo 100% com Brett. Afinal, é muito normal quando um artista, depois de ter uma banda de sucesso, toque músicas da sua banda antiga. Temos vários exemplos como Sting, Dave Gahan, Tim Booth ou Paul McCartney entre muitos outros.
Brett é livre de tocar qualquer música que lhe apetecer.
Ficam aqui as palavras do ex-vocalista dos Suede.
"reading thru the post-gig dust and debris a few comments bothered me..yes, i know i should probably leave it but sometimes a bit of clarity is important. a few people have questioned the validity of me playing songs that they seem to think my only contribution to was writing the lyrics.funny that, i don't remember seeing them sitting there taking notes when the songs were being written . i won't bore you with a monalogue about how insulting this is to me but i feel i should set the record straight here once and for all cos this is something which keeps cropping up.
ok.. as far as i remember this is the absolute truth... do with it what you will. with the anderson/butler songs bernard wrote the backing tracks( chord sequences, basic musical parts, rhythms and time signatures etc) and i wrote the vocal melodies and the lyrics on top.the keys and structures would often change once the song had been written, for example,in the song Breakdown the chorus was originally written as the verse and vice versa. there were a couple of early songs ( he's dead and where the pigs don't fly) which were initiated by melodies and chords i had written but they were anomalies.apart from i think The 2 of Us , where i let the vocal follow the piano line in the chorus, i always wrote the top-line vocal melodies ( which were of course threaded within the pattern of the chord sequences which bernard had written ). as with any band worth it's salt, the rhythm section's contribution is vital and Mat and Simon( although not credited as writers) would always bring something special to the songs as they took on shape and life beyond the state of the simple musical sketches that me and Bernard had conceived.
The format changed with Coming Up and the subsequent albums where i started to write more complete songs and musical parts. apart from the songs credited solely to me as a writer , you might be interested to know that i wrote the chords to the verse of Trash and to the choruses of Beautiful Ones and Saturday Night( and Everything Will Flow) and the songs She and Filmstar were written by me singing the simplistic words and melodies to Richard who fitted the chords around them. i also wrote all of Can't Get Enough except the middle 8 which Neil wrote. oh and while i am on this tip, the song Down was written 100% by me but credited to Anderson /Oakes due to some legal issue with Richard's publishing contract. there are probably others but those are the main ones.
with my solo performances i have been very conscious of not just blithely reproducing the songs on stage as a zerox of what Suede did and where possible i have tried to change keys and arrangements and feels if only as some kind of mark of respect to the people that originally played them.
well now you know. i have always deliberately underplayed my role as a musician but when people start to mis-interpret my modesty as ineptitude i feel i must speak out in defence of my contribution to what i believe is a magnificent body of work."
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