REUNION tours rake in the cash but Buckcherry singer Josh Todd isn’t buying the theory it’s a sure fire way to success in the modern music industry.
Oasis fans are estimated to have spent A$2.1 billion on tickets to the Brit Rock legends’ upcoming stadium shows while in the US post-grunge outfit Creed have been watching the cash registers go wild after sometimes-troubled singer Scott Stapp reunited with the Christian rockers.
But Todd flatly rejects the idea it’s a good idea to break up and then come back, surfing on nostalgia and scarcity to make a killing.
“No,” he says bluntly when asked about the “tactic” by Hot Metal.
“I mean, I don’t know a lot about (Oasis). I just know the brothers had their thing. And maybe that’s why people, they want to go see it because they don’t know when it’s going to implode again, I don’t know.
“But I don’t believe that at all.
“I got in this to be a working musician. I want to work. That’s it. If I sit around and do nothing, I don’t know how motivated I’d be.
“I don’t think … when people go away for long periods of time, they don’t make great records when they come back.
“Or they usually don’t even make records because they’re so far our of the rhythm of songwriting and what’s going on in the world, you know what I mean?
“It’s very hard to get your timing and all that back.
“I don’t know, I still love to do this. I love to make records, I love to perform.”
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