Francis Rossi usually will get “tempted” to make a brand new Standing Quo album.
The legendary rock ‘n’ roll group’s co-founder admits he would like to document new music however he’s adamant there isn’t any cash in releasing information after the group’s final LP, 2019s’ ‘Spine’, was streamed by solely 3.5 million individuals.
Talking to Document Collector journal, he mentioned: “I get very tempted as a result of I benefit from the creativity with the band and making new product, but it surely’s like banging your head in opposition to the wall. Far an excessive amount of will get taken out of the cake earlier than the band obtain something. I feel our final album, ‘Spine’, bought three-and-a-half million streams which is seemingly f***-all. Three-and-a-half-million information would have been, wow, however one thing’s fallacious there, ? So, with out sounding too mercenary, there’s everybody concerned within the recording, manufacturing and promotion and also you simply cannot make that cash again. I grew up in retail and after I speak to my kinfolk about this, they simply suppose it is not good enterprise sense.
He added: “There’s one thing in opposition to the grain about the entire course of: you possibly can’t generate the earnings that the effort and time that go into writing and recording an album ought to get.”
The 73-year-old rocker beforehand mentioned it is “very disheartening” that artists are being underpaid by streaming giants.
He mentioned: “The issue that everybody forgets is that now it is all about streaming. Folks do not buy an album anymore and the business itself is making an attempt to fully do away with the CD so each time somebody performs a stream of ours we get 1 / 4 of a penny!
“That is inconceivable; you simply cannot perform. There’s something very disheartening about that. We are able to make an album, I feel we did presumably 100,000 ultimately [with ‘Backbone’], 3,500,000 million streams, beautiful, however meaning the band did not make any cash on the three.5 million streams.
“Except the Standing Quo store sells what it is bought within the store the store’s gonna shut.
‘It could actually’t not shut and that is the place all people from my technology, from McCartney to U2, the Stones and whomever else are going, hiya, until you do one thing.”
