And their next farewell tour.
After awhile, it got to be like—
Posted on 05/03/2021 2:31:54 PM PDT by mylife
Age is a terrifying thing for a lot of people. Your body is not as nimble as it was before, you start to forget things, and people generally tend to live in the memories of the glorious past rather than creating new ones. When it comes to big rock musicians it hits even harder since artists start losing the very energy that gave them fame and fortune. It’s tempting to just continue riding your name till the very end not releasing anything relevant and just exploiting your catalog of classics, but some bands have the courage to finish while they're still strong and able. Let's take a look at 7 rock and metal bands who called it quits at just the right time.
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Cream, Vanilla Fudge, Chad and Jeremy, Blue Cheer, The Belmonts, Bad Company
And their next farewell tour.
After awhile, it got to be like—
My favorite: The Cars...
Black Sabbath quit at the right time? That’s a joke. They should have quit after Dio left the first time. Calling the band Black Sabbath when Tony Iommi was the only remaining original member was ridiculous.
Rush was/is prog rock. Different animal!
Agreed. It wasn’t Sabbath without Ozzy!
I remember making a hotel res for the '80 US leg (Capitol Spectrum) before Bonham offed himself.
The Beatles called it quits too soon.
Elvis died while on tour. So also BB King (at age 89!). Albert King died two days after a show. And, well, there’s the Stones...
I guess it’s more a matter of creative persistence than “the peak.”
I have the 7 year-theory, that a band is relevant for at most 7 years, before they become a nostalgia act.
“Without clicking yet, The Beatles have to be there.”
I clicked. No mention of the Beatles. LOL
Yeah. In a couple of them a player died. That’s hardly “deciding” to quit. And who ever heard of Dillinger Escape Plan?
Black Sabbath continued on far past it’s sell by date. It should have quit after Masters of Reality.
Oh well. I guess they gotta publish something. There are too many guitar-centric channels now on the interwebs.
Listen to their debut album. The had a different drummer, Neil Peart came after. I don’t know if it was “heavy metal” but it was pretty straight-ahead rock for 1974.
You know a band stayed together too long when everyone gets up to go to the bathroom when the lead singer says, “And now here’s a song from our new album.”
Rush was nothing close to Heavy Metal after Hemispheres, they started sounding more like The Police.
rush is a classic power trio.
Oddly the police started as a quartet
You’ve got to be nuts. Master of reality was 1971 and I’ve loads of albums after that kicking ass including all the Dio stuff.
They were consider progressive heavy metal but I agree that metal could have been replaced with rock instead.
Just watched a documentary based on their final tour which was also their 40th year of touring. Geddy Lee’s voice wasn’t the same as the old days of course. Weaker but he hit the notes for the most part. Neil Peart was 73 that year and not missing a beat. That was 2016 and he died last year from brain cancer.
Alex Lifeson had arthritis that made it hard for him to play.
Peart had shoulder problems for the past several years.
glad I saw them 6 times
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