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Originally Posted by Becky
They went into What About Now's cycle knowing that they owed the label two albums (which would usually indicate the band would do two tours) by the end of 2015. So if they had NOT released What About Now, how crammed together would those last two albums/tours have been? Doesn't it make sense to have spread them out hypothetically looking into the future assuming there wouldn't have been a break in the band lineup by releasing What About Now when it was released? Otherwise, the band would have been completely exhausted NOW because they would be on a tour supporting whatever album that quickly came out after a later-released-later-toured What About Now.
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None of us knows Jon's contract and the details, but I don't think they would've needed to do 2 big tours for remaining albums. Since they obviously only had to deliver one record with new tracks (the record company didn't really care about Burning Bridges either in my book), they could've started on What About Now and then have their label release BB while being on tour, maybe incorporate one or two new songs into the set and tour on the back of both. They had done similar stuff with Crossroad leading into These Days, Crush leading into One Wild Night and The Circle leading into Greatest Hits. Each time the lines were blurred and the band just kept on touring on the name of whatever was the current release at each point.