12-09-2019, 05:55 AM
(12-09-2019, 04:51 AM)admin Wrote: Interesting take.
From what I remember reading many years ago, it was Paul himself who felt like the band should be renamed and repackaged since radio stations would not touch the song. After all, Savatage was a washed up 80s metal band.
Through his genius, TSO would put out an album of all Christmas songs with a hard rock edge and tour with amazing visuals. Savatage fans would know the secret. If you watch the video for "When the Crowds Are Gone", it has some TSO elements.
It’s a take told from the industry point of view (record label/management). It makes a better story if it is marketed as Paul’s idea and genius, I suppose. Just from my own experience, I know many of the elements mentioned in the above essays are true. The TSO PR machine has always spun this as Paul’s idea from day one, and they wrote Krebs out of their history once he and Paul sued each other in 2004. Krebs and his significant other (producer Taro Meyer) were very very involved and key to the early TSO success.