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Originally Posted by Becky
RDK isn't pulling the fact of contractual obligations of albums out of his ass. We know for a fact that Burning Bridges was a contractual obligation to fulfill the contract with Universal. Therefore, by logical reasoning we know for a fact that What About Now was also a contractual obligation since they still owed the label one more album (BB) after it. There are timelines involved in those contracts as well. The band had a job to do and a timeline in which to do it.
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Good point, but I still think that we wouldn't have needed to rush that much with What About Now. There were (I can remember one from Tico) statements Jon said they would take a longer break after the 2010/11 tour. Had Jon been obliged to deliver an album by the date of early 2013 he wouldn't have said that. This man knows the business like the back of his pocket and he was trying to convince Tico to start playing on demo tracks in late 2011 (which Tico rejected).
I'm pretty sure a solo album would've done the job at that point as well. They went from 1995 up until 2000 without the release of a band album and it worked with Jon doing DA inbetween. But you can't make that much money from a solo tour and if you want to buy an NFL team really bad, you need to push the next record in order to have an excuse to go on tour.