axl79 wrote on Nov 16
th, 2008 at 7:31am:
It's a fu**ing depresing album in a depresing time !
Everything is really awfull with the Dirty Work album, the songs, the cover. Mick didn't contribute at all.
He saved the best songs for his upcomming solo project. That's one reason Ronnie got many credits.
I think even Charlie was in a bad shape, that period. Wasn't that his junkie period ???
And Stu fell down dead .
Wasnt so much a case of Mick saving songs for an upcoming solo project - more a case of him having just finished "Shes The Boss" and having very little left over. (he didnt start recording Primitive Cool until about 18 months after DW was finished). Then again, having listened to Primitive Cool, its not like he hung on to much in the way of quality.
This was indeed the era when Charlie went over to the dark side. He was also incapacitated for a while during the sessions when he broke a leg in his cellar. Thats why there are other drummers on the record at times - Woody, Anton Fig etc.
Mick flat out refused to tour behind it, citing the poor health of the band ('they werent fit enough to cross the Champs Elysees let alone go on the road'). As Charlie's addiction didnt become known for several years afterwards, no one assumed that he was a problem. Mick obviously got a lot of flak for refusing to tour and was cast as the villain at the time, but with hindsight, the band's health issues plus their poor relationships with each other suggests he was absolutely right.