I read somewhere that michael dempsey wasn't thrilled with the seventeen seconds demo. Now here he's saying that it's his favorite cure album that he didn't participate in.

@@sifugurusensei Oh please, have you read the Robert Smith approved '10 imaginary years' book from 1987? Dempsey was sacked. if you read British music press articles from late 1979 Michael is repeatedly quoted as saying he was fired from The Cure and it's obviously what happened. Even then, Robert Smith already WAS The Cure. He had never been close to non-drinking Dempsey and wanted his good mate Simon to take on bass duties -only Bob didn't want to come across as the bad guy, so he basically made up this story of 'creative differences' over the 17 seconds demo. Now, don't get me wrong, Simon is great and shall remain as the classic Cure bass player. But Smith didn't behave very well at the end of 1979 and Dempsey didn't talk to him for 6 years after that, even when he was with the Associates and Smith was hanging out with Billy Mackenzie and Alan Rankine. By the way, Smith wasn't very nice around 1983-84 either, treating Phil Thornalley as some kind of 'rebound main man' and then discarding him when it was time for Gallup to come back to the fold.

@@WS-fw9jgI read as it was being mutual, Dempsey wasn’t like Lol and Robert, he didn’t like the touring/party life style when he was in the Cure, he couldn’t keep up with it and he wanted out, so he wasn’t to upset. He ended up playing on another band. I read somewhere Hartley and Dempsey visited the cure in the studio during the making of Pornography so there was never any hard feelings. The only thing between Robert and Dempsey is they were never close friends.

no she wasn’t, she was talking about how in 1986, 7 years after he left we was in boys don’t cry video

@@alexsmith5511 you're right. My bad.

Glad you saw you were wrong :) gotta give her props- she actually did her research and asked great questions.