Steven Wright: Difference between revisions

* [[Schedule Slip]]: His second comedy CD was released in 2007, twenty-two years after his last one. A few years earlier, he [http://www.avclub.com/articles/steven-wright,13796/ explained] the long gap:

{{quote|When I made [[I Have a Pony]], I noticed that the material on it became so well-known that I couldn't really perform it anymore. And I didn't know how many things I was going to be able to think of. I knew if I made a second album, I'd have to make a third album's worth of stuff to take out live, so audiences wouldn't just hear the same things they'd already heard before. I didn't know at the time if I had that in me, but I just kept accumulating new material. If I had the business sense of a hubcap, I would have said, "I'm up to the third album worth of stuff, so let's record the second one now," but I forgot about it. I just kept piling more and more material up, and didn't think about albums anymore. See, the album helped me go from clubs into theaters, but I didn't think I needed to make another one, because I'm still in theaters.}}

 

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