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It wouldn't have to be this melodramatic one last album if they would just make albums the way normal musicians do. Book some studio space for a month, hire a producer and a sound engineer and whatever other technical staff they need, and maybe bring in a couple of backing musicians, and go at it, accepting that what they come up with is going to be good enough.

That was the way they did this process in the Bob Welch years, and look at the five albums they made during that span of time (which was what? four years?). Fan (and critical) opinions vary on those five albums, but there is no denying they were five albums that accurately reflected the band at the time they were made, and they were all good, solid efforts. (At least one was a masterpiece.) Why has superstardom made it so difficult to just bang out some songs and make an album?