John,

What are you trying to get at with this thread?

Here are my opinions for what they are worth.

1. I don't care if anyone is Canadian or not as it pertains to music. I like quite a bit of music that comes out of Canada, if I actually find out that's where it's from. Some radio stations I used to listen to back in Detroit actually were Windsor-based stations. I listened to them specifically because they didn't play the standard pop music that came from the US-based stations. Nowadays, most of my in-vehicle listening is podcast downloads from across the world. If it's interesting music to me, I listen to it no matter where it's from.

2. I don't listen to many of the artists listed as being produced by David Foster as I find them quite boring - excellent songcraft and production from Mr. Foster notwithstanding. This includes Michael Bublé. Of that list, only The Corrs, Seal and The Tubes grab my attention as artists that interest me musically. Many of the rest of them belong to a large group of general pop music that only gets heard by me when I'm at the dentist or in the supermarket and these artists are on the radios there.

Neither of these opinions reflect an attitude that Mr. Foster knows nothing about music. It's quite obvious that David Foster will likely go down in history as one with the Midas touch as it pertains to writing and producing popular music. There are perhaps a small handful of persons alive today that could also be categorized as such.

I quickly breezed through the articles you referred to and I don't believe either of them infer that he doesn't know about music.

All that I can infer from the articles is that Michael Bublé wanted to try things a different way this time - recording 'off the floor' would be a new way of doing things for him. I don't see it any different than when I get an itch to play in a rock band now and then - instead of just doing my solo home-recording experiments. There's a different juice that flows with each. Go without one for long enough and you'll long for the other.

-Scott

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