As I said in my post.  "It is about the money".  which is the reasons why these bands change.

I never said I agreed or supported it.

It is simple about the money so most (if not even all) bands adapt and change to meet the demands of the business.

Example:  (Note I am not in the business so these are my assumptions)

#1  Band makes first album sells 10,000 copies - no food to eat, hand to mouth
#2 Fronted $50,000 to make second album.  Sell 100,000 copies - get money for booze, drugs, girls & food.

#3 Fronted $125,000 to make third album.  Sell 500,000 copies - get first sports car, real apartment and more excesses.

#4 Fronted $250,000 to make forth album.  Sell 1,000,000 copies.  Buy house, Fararri and lots of girls.

#5 Fronted $500,000 to make fifth album. Sales Suck.  sell only 450,000 copies.  Indebted to record company even more.  
HAVE to sell more albums to keep up with lifestyle and pay back fronte money.

Need money for excesses that they have become accustomed to.

#6 Company puts even MORE pressure on them to top the past sales and the band concedes.  
They HAVe to; in order to keep up the pattern of growth. 

#7 You know the rest of this story.....

This is the way of the REAL Music world.  
You and I know that many bands start with the intent of putting music first but they get caught in the corporate trap.  

In fact almost no way around it.  


IT IS A BUSINESS!



BTW - I have had a few scotches tonight so sorry for typos........Cheers!





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