The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.
Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.
A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.
Usually, a band 20 years into its existence doesn't put out its best records.
That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.
Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.
Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.
It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen.
There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.
It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.