It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.
There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.
The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.
Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.