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?? TikTok videos don’t boost revenue. They lead to meaningless streams by disengaged fans. Pretty much all their revenue now comes from tour sales and they will continue to sell out tours probably for the rest of their lives with little effort. At this stage in their lives/career, the band should b concerned with legacy + potentially maximising earnings from non tour revenue. Hence why they may respond to such a pitch

I agree the band won’t do this of their own voilition. A pitch needs to be made to the band from a producer or production agency, the same kind that got them back together. I’m saying there is a good business case here for a production. Netflix or whoever could make a tonne of $$ from it. As could the band with relatively low effort. Where there is $$ there is a way! There is also a tonne of unreleased UYI footage and a tonne of unreleased backstage footage from this tour we have seen on Instagram and elsewhere. They offered guest spots to Gilby, Matt, Izzy and Steven in 2016. i don’t think they would be close minded to such a production if pitched

we’re talking about a one off special The Last Dance style + a Zeppelin-reunion style single show. Not sure how that is cuckoo land. it’s probably a few months of work for the band and an excellent marketing opportunity for everyone involved it simply requires a motivate producer to make a pitch to the band. It’s less cuckoo land than the pitch that got GNR back at Coachella not a full tour not a “follow them around” situation

I disagree. There still hasn’t been a debut media event about the reunion; a documentary or special or “streaming feature” or similar. And the band doesn’t seem interested in ever doing a biopic. eg Take That’s reunion special was massive in the UK. Explored the drama tension and fights and led to a massively successful reunion eg Straight Out Of Compton biopic or The Last Dance (looser analogies..) I agree the casual fan doesn’t care about the original lineup. But in order to create a compelling in depth streaming documentary / feature there needs to be a “hook” and bringing back the original lineup “for the first time” is enough of a hook. It could explore the drama of the original lineup and end with a big reunion show with all 5 members There is no interesting streaming special without Izzy and the others, particularly given this lineup has been around for ages now.

Ok so Izzy wouldn’t do the reunion guest spots because they wouldn’t “split the loot” However it makes no commercial sense for the band to do that because the addition of Izzy would have a negligible impact on tour revenue.. idea: the band should do a one-off, filmed original lineup reunion special (including a documentary on the band’s history). Stream it on Netflix or Prime or something and sell the rights. The “loot” of that could be split more equally. It’s a win-win: - the band gets a product they otherwise wouldn’t have had, so they are not “giving up” tour revenue but rather making new revenue they wouldn’t otherwise have. Meaning they should therefore be ok with giving Izzy a big share of it as he is key to its success - if successful, band gets more exposure, can tour with current tour lineup for many more years - so should help (not hurt) current lineup - Izzy will get good $$ from the special and won’t have to commit to touring - bring in Matt and Adler too. Probably wouldn’t have to pay them all that much. - fans get to see the OG together one last time! thoughts? hopefully a producer somewhere reads this and makes it happen.