Oh I know they were. And I begrudge than none of it. They made a product and we loved it. I just don’t want to see them destroy it. If they do, it’s their legacy, not mine.
These old bands will not have a legacy to destroy when the last person who remembers who they were dies. I think it is a little like “ publicity”— they say all publicity is good publicity . If one new person takes the time to compare the real stuff with the fake, maybe that puts off the day of reckoning for a while.
Getting old has its downsides...