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tammy wrote:Wonder if that is the curse of being a successful band? Audience just wants to hear the radio songs, go home & forget about the band until the next time they roll into town. If I were a creative performer (someone who writes as well as plays), I think I would be very, very frustrated & resentful.
tampadave wrote:I think that the majority of Journey fans would see a concert with a cover band singer, just as much as they would with JSS
Matthew wrote:tampadave wrote:I think that the majority of Journey fans would see a concert with a cover band singer, just as much as they would with JSS
Exactly - so why not keep JSS if it doesn't make much difference to the live revenue? It's the name on the Marquee that draws in the casual fans. And what's so hard about recording a few tunes and releasing them as downloads for the hardcore?
This whole JSS business is still puzzling....I still haven't heard a take on it that really explains why it all went tits up....unless of course JSS himself made it clear that he was unhappy with just singing the hits in concert and not recording new material.
I wonder...would he have ended up resigning soon anyway? Just a thought...
ironmountain wrote:You know, unfortunately most Journey fans or so called fans are in their 40's now, consumed with child raising, work, life and looking for an escape (pardon the pun). Folks don't have time or energy to digest new music from the bands of their youth's, they want to hear the stuff that made their heart pound as a teenager or partied to, as a young adult.
MRMUSIC413 wrote:It's time the industry starts using their heads again and convert those ticket sales to the baby boomers into record sales.
StringsOfJoy wrote:Demographics are what they are. The fact is baby-boomers do not drive sales of music and they haven't for a very long time now.
StringsOfJoy wrote:
So long-story short: yeah, the industry's been mismanaged and they've probably missed some of the opportunities in the older boomer market because the industry's run by a bunch of management retards who can't cut it in more lucrative industries.
tampadave wrote:I am glad that my first post ever started a calm, intelligent conversation about the problems in the industry and why a Jouney type band is more interested in hiring a cover band, sound-a-like SP singer, and sell 10K sheds every summer than keep a JSS who can instill new life and new music that will not be near as profitable for the band members.
It is indeed sad that the musicians are being quagmired into becoming a cover band without any of the creativity that made them successful being tapped. This, BTW, has been going on for decades. Look at the 25 traveling Coasters/Drifters/Platters triple bills playing bars and casinos with nothing close to an original member. It has been about nostalgia and not authenticity for decades and, most likely, will continue to be.
By the way, if you really want to look at a screwed up situation with a band, check out the link http://www.chuckthewriter.com/lrb.html. The 3 original members of the Little River Band, who wrote all the hits, cannot tour under the name as the name was bought by an American. That said, they still play, with no original members, 150-200 dates a year and do sound like the originals. If you think Journey is a messed up deal, this one is brutal.
One last interesting point is that many MR Bands now are realeasing CD's of cover tunes from the 70's & 80's (Def Leppard, Tesla, etc.) so even when they do record new material it is still nostalgia driven. It seems like the cycle will continue.
Cheers,
Dave
Ehwmatt wrote: - there's no point in robbing your ears of good music!
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