Touring is the one thing that seems to hold up, if priced appropriately. Cook and band are still selling tickets more or less at reasonable price points. Now that they will be moving away from 5-6 shows in any given week, presumably the set lengths can be longer, and those price points will appear even more reasonable.
All the rest of this is interesting, but I'd like some specific examples of where you feel the press and promotion haven't measured up. I think the "I'm very happy not to be the new guy and to pass on the crown" is exactly that distancing without coming off as ungrateful (something that Daughtry-as-band deliberately avoided doing in one of their most recent interviews [they were in fact explicitly appreciative of the Idol base], and frankly, they have the sales and notoriety to get away with it). Choosing to tour at smaller schools and clubs is also not the typical Idol route without being a deliberate snub to that machine. When "fundamentally grateful and generous human being" is part of your branding, the downsides to denting that image outweigh the rewards to making a statement that you are "beyond" or "above" the show, especially when the public at large won't forget that fact no matter what.
I also think the branding based on musical perspective has been given a very nice boost with Permanent, because of its obvious quality, because of its emotive force, and because he co-wrote the thing. I'd like to see that as a sign of things moving forward, because CBTM doesn't really measure up on any of those counts in my eyes, and while stuff might be going on behind the scenes with BBS, the choice not to give it more of an audience (Fallon would have been a perfect opportunity; Questlove agrees!) is frustrating. At least we can say with certainty that all future singles should show some part of him as an artist.
Home » "Less reliance on touring" flies in the face of pretty much every industry analysis I have read.
"Less reliance on touring" flies in the face of pretty much every industry analysis I have read.
Touring is the one thing that seems to hold up, if priced appropriately. Cook and band are still selling tickets more or less at reasonable price points. Now that they will be moving away from 5-6 shows in any given week, presumably the set lengths can be longer, and those price points will appear even more reasonable.
All the rest of this is interesting, but I'd like some specific examples of where you feel the press and promotion haven't measured up. I think the "I'm very happy not to be the new guy and to pass on the crown" is exactly that distancing without coming off as ungrateful (something that Daughtry-as-band deliberately avoided doing in one of their most recent interviews [they were in fact explicitly appreciative of the Idol base], and frankly, they have the sales and notoriety to get away with it). Choosing to tour at smaller schools and clubs is also not the typical Idol route without being a deliberate snub to that machine. When "fundamentally grateful and generous human being" is part of your branding, the downsides to denting that image outweigh the rewards to making a statement that you are "beyond" or "above" the show, especially when the public at large won't forget that fact no matter what.
I also think the branding based on musical perspective has been given a very nice boost with Permanent, because of its obvious quality, because of its emotive force, and because he co-wrote the thing. I'd like to see that as a sign of things moving forward, because CBTM doesn't really measure up on any of those counts in my eyes, and while stuff might be going on behind the scenes with BBS, the choice not to give it more of an audience (Fallon would have been a perfect opportunity; Questlove agrees!) is frustrating. At least we can say with certainty that all future singles should show some part of him as an artist.