quick!

In case I forget these thoughts!!

 

America – the band

Mr JAlright… says:

not the country

Jo says:

oohh lol

Jo says:

see im tired too hahaha

Mr JAlright… says:

s;ok!

Mr JAlright… says:

i dunno… they seem to have a done an eagles

Jo says:

 

Mr JAlright… says:

by that I mean

Mr JAlright… says:

decided to be ‘the band that people expect’ rather than trying new stuff

Jo says:

that isnt very good i dont think

Mr JAlright… says:

well, it happens with older bands alot

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look at the stones

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the last few tracks they’ve put out have been ‘Stones and thats that

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just to sell stuff

Jo says:

thats why i like radiohead, i dont think they are like that

Mr JAlright… says:

yeah, they move on

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Blur move on

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The Foo Fighters move on (even though I think theyre about to do that shortly)

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its when the members go off and do new things

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an new bands etc

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when they come back to the old group, its like coming back to an old sweater

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warm, cosy

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but not particually new anymore

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so they just do what they remember doing, rather than experimenting

Jo says:

thats a shame, i suppose its the easy way to do things though

Mr JAlright… says:

well, the band members dont care any more do they?

Mr JAlright… says:

they’re millionaries

Jo says:

true

Mr JAlright… says:

even though i cant stand them and the aura that surrounds them (just a band!!)

Mr JAlright… says:

the beatles did the right thing and quit when they did

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because they would have fallen into that trap

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forever repeating Sgt Pepper

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(which, in a sense, they have done if you read the music press)

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like Paul McCartney forever playing ‘hey jude’

Jo says:

its a shame a lot of them dont care more about music than money

Mr JAlright… says:

well, when youre a millionaire, thats it isnt t?

Mr JAlright… says:

it?

Jo says:

i wouldnt have thought so, u still need something to fulfill u, money cant do that can it?

Mr JAlright… says:

somehow, I cant imagine Mick Jagger calling up Keef at

3am saying ‘ive just heard so-and-so’s latest track! We HAVE to be doing something like that and better!’

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it breeds complacency

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not satisfaction (no pun!) but if you have die hard fans with some sort of sentimental attachment

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you get lazy because you know if you keep on churning out the same old thing, people will still turn up

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and it annoys me because so many of these bands will deny it

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because they’re afraid if losing their audience

Jo says:

thats very true

Mr JAlright… says:

on the other hand,people like Status Quo will say ‘yeah, we LIKE doing this… and we sounded shit when we did the other stuff, so we’ll do this’

Mr JAlright… says:

and then say ‘listen if you want to, if not fuck off!’

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at least they’re open about it

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while the rest claim to be ‘still doing new stuff’ but havent written a decent new song in 30 years

Jo says:

most people dont even notice

Mr JAlright… says:

case in point: people stopped listening to Jon Bon Jovi when he went solo

Mr JAlright… says:

back with Bon Jovi, he started getting richer again