I’ve literally been in the music industry since I was a teenager. If they had an amazing album with a couple great singles they would be able to find success promoting themselves as a new supergroup featuring former members of stp, especially when they had Chester, that was a perfect equivalent to audioslave in terms of it being three instrumentalists of one band and adding the singer of another. With that HUGE foot in the door you can make an impact with a great record, this the success of velvet revolver and audioslave. Point is, if they have something meaningful to contribute then marketing themselves as a new supergroup featuring stp members would be enough to give them success. But their priority is like many peoples here, keeping stp running as a business. To me, that seems contrary to both the essence of both rock and roll and stp but that’s my opinion
I want new music from the Deleos. STP is the best chance they have of doing that and keeping being able to do it. So I am happy for them to do that, because I am a fan of, you know, music.
You keep saying they have a great chance of making it as a new band, not once have you addessed the fact that Talk Show failed when they were at their most powerful and successful point in the music industry. Why? Because it makes a nonsense of everything you are saying, that is why. I'm baffled at why somebody who claims to be in "the music industry" would continue to make such obviously false claims. Do you work in a record shop, perhaps?
Your argument is the one treating it as a business. You are concerned only with the name, and not with getting new music. You say other people don't have faith in their abilities, implying that you do, but in the next breath you say that anything they create as STP would dilute their legacy, totally contradicting yourself.
If you gave a shit about the music, you'd just want more music.
