He said he was proud of the fact that they regrouped and remained working for another 23 years. “We got our minds right, and we realized what we have is a very special thing and to treat it with respect.”
“It was probably best for us because it got everyone’s heads back in the right space,” he said. On reflection, he allowed that they should always have seen the split as a hiatus. … They didn’t do anything to help, and we imploded. There was no ‘You’re going to be a career band, and we’re going to stick through with you and encourage you.’ There was no encouragement at all. Wheat recalled that he and his bandmates felt “defeated and deflated because we thought we were all right. . “The people who make money from you saw this new thing called grunge, and they forget about you.” We had four in a row that went platinum, and the fifth one didn’t work … failure.” He suggested it was easier for people in certain positions to think in such simple terms. He added, “That was the mind-set of the record company, our managers and everyone else: that we failed. It was the first album we did that wasn’t platinum … we ‘only’ sold 800,000.” … sold 800,000 copies, which was considered a failure at the time. Then we put out Bust a Nut, which wasn’t the same. People forgot about albums like Psychotic Supper, but we were headlining arenas in America still.
And really, some of our biggest tours were in arenas in ’91, ’92 and ’93. He argued that “we were not slacking for those years leading up to the break.
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