The thought of going back to Tate and those later albums would not fill me with optimism. A full reunion with all 5 members might get me a little excited but not going back to what they were before Todd.
I completely understand this line of thought. Trust me, if I was a big fan of modern QR still, I'd feel the exact same way as you. I get it. I think the reason why I have been saying a lot that QR would reunite the way they were before Todd is not because I think it is what the fans want. I don't think that at all. I think for the most part, fans dig what Todd has brought to the band. I think a reunion with Tate would be strictly business if that's what THE PROMOTERS want. If there is one thing I have noticed post-Chris, is that the band does what the band does for one reason, and one reason only - most money, for least work. Period. And I get that, from a business standpoint.
However, if you accept that as how it works, then the writing is on the wall for Toddryche. IF (and I am not friends with a promoter who works with them, so I can't confirm) promoters are willing to give them a decent pay day to reunite with Tate (without Chris) and do some nostalgia thing for Empire, which would then result in Tate, Rockenfield, Wilton, and Jackson making more money than what they do now, they WILL do it if the money is there and significantly more than they make now in guarantees. In a heartbeat. Every decision they ever made was generally based on this post-Chris. It's just how they do things.
But I think the point has been made, that they could have had their cake and eaten too had they put in more work early on in this rebirth in terms of not catering to the hairband pay days with fly-in gigs backing Vince Neil and Great White, and instead took the harder road of going out and slugging it out as metal headliners in clubs on the strength of their new material. Had they done that, they might be in a better position to decide what to do, even if it meant taking less money to do what want to do, as opposed to caving and doing what they think they have to do. Because they took the easier road in 2012-2014, and Scott is no longer in the band (which I think, while not confirmed, is pretty obvious), they are sorta stuck and have to do what they have to do to make ends meet.
Short-sighted thinking. Rinse-repeat.
Sign of the Times got decent play over here as well, and You was pretty big. I also remember hearing Reach on radio, but only once or twice. But yeah...what could have been.
That's cool about Reach. I never heard that one. Just Sign of the Times and You. The Voice Inside and spOOL were also on deck as promotional singles. I think Reach would have been a great single as well.
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