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Originally Posted by shackin'up
You're right Chili, but hey, you get his point. He was talking about how the brand stayed alive by support of the label. In these times impossible. And don't forget: Tusk sold at least as much as all those Post-Green/pre-BN-albums together.
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This sort of ties in with what I asked Lindsey on the website's Q&A (when can we expect some answers, damnit?). With the world we live in these days it doesn't seem possible anymore to keep one great band going, unless they are on top of their game 24/7, which is basically unheard of. All bands go through ruts, and it used to be that the audience would still hang on, knowing there would be better days, but in this day and age, when people don't even take the time anymore to buy a frikkin' album, the audience quickly loses interest and moves on the next thing, so a lot of stuff gets lost in the shuffle. It's all one hits and computer produced now. It's more about quantity than quality and the latter is slowly deteriorating, with bands not feeling inspired to bring out new material because of all these reasons. So I asked him how he sees the future of the music industry and whether in 40 or 50 years people will still remember bands from these days like we remember The Stones or The Beatles.