I just want them to stop pissing on their legacy and apparently failure is the only thing that will get them to change their routes. I would love them to see them succeed if they formed something new
This is exactly what I don't understand. I have no concept of how or why you feel like this. You say you want them to be successful, but only if they first throw away everything they worked for for 30 years and try and make it again in a new band, to satisfy some arbitrary standard of integrity you've set for them.
Just seems like risible, childish nonsense to me. YMMV.
They don’t have to throw away anything, their past success has given them a platform. If the only way they are able to release music is because the band name they use then maybe they shouldn’t be doing it at all.
First of all, they aren't throwing anything away. The legacy will, and always has, survive. After everything-- the reunion, the break-up, Scott's humiliatingly bad solo tours, the lawsuit, Chester coming and going, Scott's sad and lonely death outside a fucking mall in Minnesota-- the Core re-issue still charted and I still hear STP on the radio almost every day. The legacy will survive a new album and tour with a new singer.
Secondly, it's not just about selling new records. I don't see how people who claim to only interested in the preservation of the band's legacy are somehow ignorant to the fact that continuing on with a new singer is the best way to do just that. They have 6 LPs and an EP of music that would mostly never be played live if they start a new group. And a new record under a new name, no matter how successful, will not renew interest in the back catalog and potentially introduce a new generation to the original records the way a new successful STP record would.
The point is, the band's legacy has absolutely nothing to lose from a new singer, but it does have a lot it can potentially gain. New album bombs? The band loses some money, but Interstate and Plush are still played on the radio a million times a day for the rest of eternity. New album succeeds? Increased exposure and sales for the back catalog, and maybe even enough notoriety to get the original four members inducted into the RRHF a little earlier.
And besides all that, this way we can actually see them play songs like Glide and Dumb Love live some day. And if you aren't excited by that prospect, maybe you don't actually care about the band's legacy.