I find it interesting as to when a band loses it, or if they ever do; has anyone ever not been crap eventually? This is an inherently subjective position, of course. Some think Zappa lost it after he broke up the Mothers, or Status Quo after “Whatever You Want”. Definitely UB40 once they started doing covers. Personally, I felt Siouxie and the Banshees lost it after “Cities in Dust”, and The Clash when they had children on piano doing “The Guns of Brixton”. If “The Who” didn’t release another track after “Love, Reign over me”, I would not care. But they did, and have gone on for another 50 years. Genesis lost it before the end of “Wind and Wuthering” with the last track i now willingly listen to by them being “Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers…/…In That Quiet Earth”, the following “Afterglow” being a pile of limp overblown toss. Over to you. When do you book out of a band you once followed?
Just in case anyone is interested…
…and – if you are – you don’t get our social media updates, the band I’m in with my friend Katy is reasonably active at the mo. We’re rehearsing for some shows in the summer and should be recording album #2 around the same time.
Anyway, all the “how-to” manuals tell us to keep putting stuff out and interacting with our audience, so we’ve decided to start doing little regular video captures of songs in rehearsal. Here’s the first one, from last night. It includes a new song.
As you were.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozoIXTLk2oo
