We have all had a favorite band have it happen to them... Creative differences, either a band member leaves or the whole band implodes because of t, but what does it really mean? And why can't it be worked through?
My favorites are the ones that comes to light years later... The singer slept with someones girlfriend, a drug habit or a player that was added by the record label that no one ever liked in the first place.
But true creative differences... That seems a lot harder to figure out. If your band made it and has retained popularity doing things a certain way then why rock the boat? Yeah that guy writes everything... But if you have a lot of big hits and platinum record sales why would you risk that? And if you are the guy writing everything, why go solo? You are just gonna sound like a clone of your old band....Trust me, you will.
So why do bands do this to their fans? Is it because they are selfish? It always seemed to me that in the CD age that if your favorite band has a couple of guys with song ideas that there is enough room for everyone to have a song on the album. Besides... Who knows? Maybe that song is the big hit, it's been known to happen.... The song no one likes becomes a monster hit.
Even my favorite band, The Beatles did this... Sure Lennon and McCartney wrote 90% but George had a few big songs, even Ringo contributed:
So c'mon guys.... Keep it together for the fans, they will be there if you are. We are tired of our bands not being who we expect them to be, I mean... Who needs 2 different versions of our favorite bands touring? Or a singer who sounds nothing like we expect?
What gets me, is when a band claims creative differences, then the artist that leaves, goes and does the exact same music. That's when you know for damn sure, it was something they just wanted to keep quiet.
ReplyDeleteFor me, it was Anthrax. Supposedly, Joey Belladonna didn't want to sing heavy metal anymore, yet later, he releases a solo CD, and it was just as heavy as everything they did before. And the band continued with Bush, still doing heavy metal too.
At least they have reunited again, and I hope they don't spin off again.
As far as true creative differences, I honestly don't think any thing can be done about that. One of the smartest things I've ever heard said about a new artist is "You have your whole life to write that first record, and 1 year to write the second one"
ReplyDeleteI think alot of acts that make it big share that one common goal on the way up: making it big. And they have years to have small or lengthy arguments about certain aspects of their music. But then once they make it, everyone feels the need to turn around, repeat it and keep going. You might get people with totally different ideas of how to do that.
The thing that bothers me far more is what notman mentioned. When you get these people "going solo" for whatever reason then they end up doing pretty much the same thing they were doing with their main act.