Kind of like why Van Halen broke up (or Guns and Roses) . . . too many big egos.
An interesting dichotomy of talented groups breaking up.
With Van Halen, we had all sizzle and no substance David Lee Roth decide that he needed to express himself musically, and the Van Halen brothers wanting to stay with their own style of music. The end result?
Yankee Rose and
California Girls by Roth, which essentially ended his career as a serious rock musician, and Sammy Hagar for the remaining three in VH, which essentially ended their careers as non-sellouts (
Right Now Pepsi ad comes to mind).
With G n' R, we had all sizzle and all substance Axl Rose decide he wanted to become some sort of rock composer, a modern day Jim Steinman, if you will, while the remaining members wanted to stay more rock in their roots. The first result of this creative struggle were rock ballads like
November Rain. As a serious Guns fan, I shudder to think what
Sweet Child O' Mine would have sounded like had it been written and recorded after Axl's power grab, which by coincidence coincided with his banging of supermodel Stephanie Seymour, who he had inserted into GnR videos. Well, enough was enough, and we know what happened next. The supernova known as Axl Rose imploded, finally reappearing years later on an MTV stage with Buckethead and an odd collection of musical misfits; the remaining members of G n' R did various projects (with Velvet Relvolver being by FAR the best, but again destroyed by an egotistical frontman), and likely living off of G n' R royalites to this day.
So, as it pertains to the Blazers, the question is this. Is Paul Allen the diva front man who wants to impose his will on an organization, or is Kevin Pritchard the person out of step in the creative process of the Blazers? If it's Allen, then this cycle is never going to end, but if it's Pritchard, it possibly will end with the next GM.
Or, will this be like Cream breaking up, where the real talent goes on to greatness, and the others go back to mediocrity? Time will tell, won't it.
There is no god damn way Warkentein is in KP's class as a GM/Chemistry Major.
