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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You could definitely hear Stewart Copeland’s influence on Peart’s playing in the 80s.
But then there’s the whole relevant vs good thing. Good musicians are constantly learning, expanding. Lot of old farts are no where near relevant, and making some of the best music of their career.
Plus sabotage blood sabbath sold our soul etc with ozzy.
There are the hardcore fans who stick with a band through thick and thin, but I still say in general the 80/20 rule applies, that 80% of the songs a fan will listen from a particular band will fall in a seven-year period.
Take Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon to The Wall? Seven years!
The Who....The Who Sell Out to The Who By Numbers? Seven years!
The Beatles, entire output was 1963-1970, Seven Years!
The Rolling Stones, pretty much from 1965 to Exile on Main Street (1972)......Seven Years!
Yes, there was a time there when they sounded like the Police or even New Wave bands. After they got back together in around 2000 they rid most of their music of the keyboards and went back to their roots.
Below is “Headlong Flight” from their last album. It isn’t heavy metal (I never classified RUSH as heavy metal though) but it sure rocks though imho:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA-yqCCbTF4
I always found that most of their albums took awhile to get used to when they first came out. They were often quite different than their previous ones.
Yeah I guess I am. Vol4 near bored me to tears. BS was clearly in a rut.
Everybody is singing along anyway, so his voice really doesn't matter all that much.
“The Beatles have to be there.”
That’s who immediately came to my mind. It doesn’t break my heart that Led Zeppelin broke up. I just wish they would stop airing them on radio. Never been a big fan, but totally sick of them now. Even Stairway to Heaven.
Beatles broke up at precisely the right time. Things were changing, they would have started to go downhill, judging by the solo stuff, and in general, people just start drifting apart and the cohesion goes away.
It wasn’t until much later without Dio they seem to lose their identity. I’ve 27 of their albums upon count not sure if that’s entire collection. Suggest you check out heaven and hell or dehumanizer to find out where sabbath peaked.
Yeah. I’m one of those obsessive completists, I get whole collections. And that’s where the fun comes in. Pink Floyd was really 4 different bands, that main era you list was version 3, burn version 4 cause it sucked, but the highly psychedelic start is completely different, then there’s the phase over period where they were borderline prog rock. I’m more version 1 and 2 with them. These days. I swap around every few years. But never post Wall, screw that crap.
Stones too. I don’t think you can really cut it off at Exile. Mid 70s was some good stuff, and their peak commercial period was Some Girls through Tattoo You. And Blue and Lonesome is a freaking awesome album.
Maybe Some Girls, is the only album that can compete with their peak. But outside of that, mostly forgettable, except for a few songs.
saw kim and sb like 20 times.
How old is this guy? 82?
he’s still cookin..
Whenever I post an article like that I try to include the list so people don’t have to waste their time unless they want to. Wish the OP would have done that to avoid wasting my time. The only saving grace was that at least it wasn’t one of those articles where you have to click on 7 different links with an ad between each page.
He sure outlived the dudes from Foghat.
When I listen to TV crimes through my Cerwin Vega towers I just go “wow that just plain blows me away both the message and the explosive power”. Fully 2 decades and at least 16 albums after you called it quits. Your loss dude.
I think Neil Peart was 63 on the tour you saw, he died at 67. Bet he would have loved it to make to 73.
Beatles fanboy growing up. Saw the Rolling Stones several times as an adult from the early 80’s on ...i think i’ll have Keef put some Dead Flowers on my grave. They still rock.
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