Red13JoePa wrote:yes there is a comparison if you allow for sane adjustments. Format changes and remasters add to sales of the catalogue and the current lineup's output has yet to be able to take advantage of that aspect.
EG: I've bought no fewer than 3 copies of Escape now, allowing for original release cassette, remaster cassette cassette '96 and remaster cd '06 and I'd venture a guess I'm not alone in that boat.
Additionally I said "arguably since '83," not "they're every bit as successful now as they were in 1983.
"Sane"? Successful "is in the eyes of the beholder." Let's compare to DLR and Sammy's Van Halen and of course there is no "sane" comparison b/c Sammy created his own "torch." ROR sold over 2 million w/several hot 100 hits and similar TBF platinum, Hot 100 WYLAW and grammy nomination so how can there be a jump back to 1983. Take the copycat Greatest Hits off Revelation and DVD and what kinda sales would there have been. Guess the dismal sales of Eclipse speaks to that. Take out the double counts and you have about 1 million sold for Revelation and Eclipse. Is there a probability of remastering of Revelation (GH out-sales) or Eclipse (colossal flop) for any future sales? Schon tells us "they used to be with Walmart but Walmart no longer in the music business."(UCR 5/2012)
Since the colossal flop of Eclipse, guess they now want to try to recreate the past again ("Motown/R&B" per Schon) as they "throw things at the wall to see what sticks."
Red13JoePa wrote:And they're hanging their heads in shame all the way to the bank as a result.
Steve Perry is very happy with all the "original music" they created together that guides ALL "all the way to the bank as a result." Thanks to Sopranos, Glee, Rock of Ages, Sony, itunes, The Voice, AI..... it seems to keep going "on and on."
Is this where we give'em a big round of applause for "living off past glories" and "flogging the mule." Schon's been at it so long and REALLY WANTS the spotlight so hopefully he's not "hanging" his head 'in shame" with his inability to create something else wanted by other than a handful of people.
