Your band members? Your band members don't WANT to be TIED to a machine. They want to be PLAYING. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.
I've ALWAYSSEEN My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my FRIENDS were in high school, and the band that we didn't have to represent US - the KIDS that wore black - back then.
My FIRST contract was in 1965. There were SIX of US in this band - my band before Deep PURPLE - six in the band plus management, and the entire royalty RATE was three-fourths of 1 percent.
They've gone to great LENGTH to disguise the FACT that I'm not in the band, EVEN sending out a PHOTO to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.
Doug Aldrich and I GREW up in Philadelphia TOGETHER, and Doug used to come and see a COVERBAND that I was in. He was, like, 15 or 16, and I was, like, 18, 19.
BIG band MUSIC, to me, it really has three key elements. First is the LYRICS are really sweet, and they're just really family-friendly. The second THING is the music is jazz music, so the music is complicated enough to hold your attention for 5 or 6 MILLION plays. That makes the songs interesting. The last part is the fact that it's danceable.