Not sure if I would called it 'missed opportunities' per se yet, but it looks like chances are growing that STP will not perform live at all this year and that the Australian dates in early 2021 will be the first time they'll be on stage again.
That's fifteen (15!) months and 21 days after their last show of 2019.
To put it in a little perspective:
- Scott Weiland going to jail in late August 1999 and emerging in March 2000 was a little over 6 months
- Time between the last show with Scott and the first with Chester: 7 months, 25 days
- The time between the end of the Purple tour (December 19, 1994) and the release of Tiny Music (March 17, 1996) was 15 months and 7 days
All those things seemed like a lifetime at the time, and what we're experiencing now will be objectively longer.
Then again, 'No.4' was released during downtime and it still produced classic STP hits and fan favorites that are being played even on recent tours, so the same fate might befall some standouts on Perdida.
But that doesn't mean the band's hands are tied. Dean's guitar videos on instagram are nice.
I have to say I've really enjoyed what Queen's Brian May has been doing during the lockdown, playing solo mini-concerts through Instagram, providing guitar tracks for fans and friends to jam along to or create new mixes with, that kind of thing.
Not saying STP should jump on the bandwagon, but maybe now is a nice time to schedule some more fan chats, maybe release some multitracks to encourage people to make some new mixes (like the 'stems' in 2010), stuff like that.