{"id":1146,"date":"2008-01-18T00:41:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T05:41:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-18T00:41:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T00:41:04","slug":"expiration-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/expiration-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Expiration Date?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AHF7b326ydg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWith no disrespect to the deceased, booted, or left of own will, <strong>Mick Taylor<\/strong>&#8216;s RTH birthday celebration got me thinking about whether certain band members left their bands just about the time they were reaching their <strong>expiration date<\/strong>. Did Taylor, for instance, have the good sense to get while the gettin&#8217; was good? What use would the Stones have had for him had he stuck around much longer? Were they already getting a bit stagnant with him when he split?<\/p>\n<p>Certainly this is a ridiculous chicken-and-egg question, but allow yourself to think ridiculous thoughts. We are in the Halls of Rock, you know.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NGtqRPdUzDs?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Brian Jones<\/strong>, from my favorite period of the Stones, is another case in point. Could he have kept up with the <em>Exile<\/em> period? Could the Stones have gone into whatever direction a stronger Jones might have taken them instead? I don&#8217;t think so. Sure, there&#8217;s no <em>Dirty Work<\/em> in their future, but there may be no <em>Exile<\/em> as well. Can you dig it? <\/p>\n<p>These fortuitous splits before the milk turned sour may extend to other bands. Take <strong>Eno<\/strong> leaving Roxy Music. Does the band progress to <em>Country Life<\/em> with Eno, or do they run their brilliant, wild period into the ground, robbing us of some tasty, more mature works? <\/p>\n<p>Take <strong>John Cale<\/strong> leaving the Velvet Underground. The aborted 3rd album tracks that make up <em>VU<\/em> and <em>Another VU<\/em> &#8211; and Cale&#8217;s debut solo album, as <strong>Townsman Oats<\/strong>, I believe, once mentioned &#8211; demonstrate Cale&#8217;s ability to have fit in with the band on it&#8217;s actual third album, the &#8220;couch&#8221; album, but what would Cale have done on <em>Loaded<\/em>? He&#8217;d have bogged down two of the band&#8217;s archetypal rock classics, &#8220;Sweet Jane&#8221; and &#8220;Rock &#8216;n Roll&#8221;. For all Cale&#8217;s strengths with the band and through his solo career, he&#8217;s got no swing and little ease with rock &#8216;n roll.<\/p>\n<p>There are other musicians I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll be more comfortable agreeing with me as having reached their expiration date &#8211; XTC&#8217;s original organ player <strong>Barry Andrews<\/strong> comes immediately to mind. XTC&#8217;s a rock footnote on par with <strong>Delta 5<\/strong> and <strong>Pylon<\/strong> had they gone one more album with Andrews. And this is not to say that I don&#8217;t like some of his contributions to <em>Go 2<\/em>, in particular. It&#8217;s just that he was steering them into a sour milk sea.<\/p>\n<p>As always, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve thought of musicians having left their bands at just the right time to allow a band to take it to a new level. As always, I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With no disrespect to the deceased, booted, or left of own will, Mick Taylor&#8216;s RTH birthday celebration got me thinking about whether certain band members left their bands just about the time they were reaching their expiration date. Did Taylor, for instance, have the good sense to get while the gettin&#8217; was good? 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