The smiths

PTH2009

Will they follow the guns n roses model and eventually reform or is the hatred between each other too much ?

Morrissey has struggled with health issues in the past but is getting better and his recent solo stuff was not that great and the exposure of a Smith's reunion tour would make him relavent again plus the $$$$$ him and the band would make

scudzilla

A thread about them in the Rock and Metal forum?? Mods, please move to, errrrrr, i have no idea, how about the depression forum?

Anesthetize

There is already a thread similar to this in the music forum.

scudzilla wrote: »

A thread about them in the Rock and Metal forum?? Mods, please move to, errrrrr, i have no idea, how about the depression forum?

Where do I create a thread on depressive suicidal black metal?

Nailz

PTH2009 wrote: »

Will they follow the guns n roses model and eventually reform or is the hatred between each other too much ?

Morrissey has struggled with health issues in the past but is getting better and his recent solo stuff was not that great and the exposure of a Smith's reunion tour would make him relavent again plus the $$$$$ him and the band would make

Great band.

I can see how you could draw parallels with GNR alright; both lead singers are knobheads and their guitarists are though to be sound in the public eye. I don't honestly know... I'd say the major thing stopping it is Morrissey himself. TBH I can never see it happening.

DrumSteve

The problem was never really between Morrissey and Johnny. The problem was between Morissey and Mike Joyce. Check out the court case to see why the reunion probably won't happen ever.

Anesthetize

DrumSteve wrote: »

The problem was never really between Morrissey and Johnny. The problem was between Morissey and Mike Joyce. Check out the court case to see why the reunion probably won't happen ever.

Joyce and Rourke got feck all royalties, I doubt that both of them would be up for a reunion. Would love to borrow a time machine and see them in their prime but a reunion seems unnecessary to me.

DrumSteve

Anesthetize wrote: »

Joyce and Rourke got feck all royalties, I doubt that both of them would be up for a reunion. Would love to borrow a time machine and see them in their prime but a reunion seems unnecessary to me.

TBH the lads were right.

They got ****ed over.

Nailz

Aye as far as I remember, of the bands royalties the two lads only got 10% each, with the remaining 80% split between Marr and Morrissey. That's unbelievably unfair, regardless of the writing credit.

AllGunsBlazing

Not that unfair or uncommon. Take Nirvana for instance, Kurt had sole writing credit on all but a handful of songs. Some songs like, Teen Spirit, had Novoselic and Grohl as co writers, but even there Cobain got 75% of royalties. With all the others that were in his own name he got 100%.

Clampdown

I thought they took Morrissey to court and won a bigger share. Anyway they would jump at the chance. It's Morrissey who won't do it. He took Marr leaving (though Johnny says he just wanted a break) really badly, almost like a breakup with a romantic partner (not suggesting that this was the case btw), and he will never forgive the other lads for suing him.

Plus Morrissey doesn't need the money at all. You are the Quarry sold really well back when CDs were still popular and Ringleader of the Tormentors was number 1 in the UK. He has no problem selling tickets and is still big in the US, and in Central and South America, Japan, other EU countries. He gets abuse from the UK press but he's rolling in it and he's not going to go do any reunion just cause of his health, he'd sooner die than let the other lads play with him again is how I interpret it from his autobiography.

bnt

Well, Mike Joyce is already booked: he just started D.A.R.K. with Dolores O'Riordan, the former Cranberry and airline passenger from Hell. You can even go and see them in May, they're playing Whelan's in Dublin on the 16th. :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWo-tNkHnOE