Archetype wrote:Boomchild wrote:Archetype wrote:
I don’t think it ever would have been a problem if it didn’t turn into a whole big act where everyone had to dress up, say spoken lines, etc. The other guys hated Babe as well, but since it was just one song in the set, they spent four minutes playing it each night and moved on.
If the Kilroy Was Here tour was handled like any of their previous tours in which they just went out and played the music, it likely wouldn’t have been that big of a deal. It was all the acting and whatnot that pushed the rest of the band over the edge. Tommy and JY did trash the project as a whole. They thought it was idiotic to be playing in theaters and acting out parts when they could be playing music in arenas and stadiums.
They didn’t resurrect the whole project, acting and customes and all. They are playing one 5 minute song.
Sure the stage theatrics had something to do with it. But they CLEARLY stated that they were against the project as WHOLE. That the musical direction (semi techno) it was taking the band wasn't something they wanted to do. That they struggled to even come up with material to fit the project. As pointed out in my comment above and the related link, TS to this day "Doesn't understand it". For Christ's sake are people forgetting it was the last straw for TS. He quit because the band wasn't doing what he wanted to do. The song they have chosen to play is the most techno sounding of the bunch. Sorry but this just seems like more spin to try and water down their hypocrisy.
The small venues, idiotic acting, stupid costumes and lost opportunities are what pushed the rest of the band over the edge. The song Mr. Roboto by itself did none of that.
"I couldn't think of songs about robots" - Tommy Shaw
"Mr. Roboto was just not who we were" - Tommy Shaw
"Mr. Roboto really divided our fan base" - James Young
"I just had all these rock songs inside of me and I had to sing about robots." - Tommy Shaw
"We just don't really play anything after 1978 because that was when the band changed for the worse and we are going to focus on the 1975-1978 time period." - James "JY" Young
Go sell your bullshit somewhere else.