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Originally Posted by Captain_jovi
I debate this in my head all the time. If Jon went forward with a stripped back, songwritery album that we all know he'd love to write, it would tank just as hard the current albums do. But would the shift in sound be able to sell tickets if the tours were in that vein? I don't think they could maintain that level. He would have to strip the whole system down to the bolts if wanted to and I'm not sure he does.
It'd be a different story if he put it out and it was a massive hit and started a new chapter but if they can't sell material sounding like themselves, a complete 180 might be too much.
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To do that, I would need an intermediate album, halfway with what you propose, and then take the gradual leap in the next one. I think that stripped album could have happened after Lost Highway, but now.... is more difficult. Although we have not heard the new album. We know how Unbroken sounds, and Lower The Flag seems to be on the same line. Who knows, maybe this is the intermediate album.