I know, I know your last tour was difficult. I know you want to go into the studio and get “experimental” now. I know all that. But please hear me out and let me convince you this is a very bad idea.
I suppose I have to admit my first reasons are mais selfish. If you stop touring, you will never again come to all the cities where your millions of adoring fãs await. We will never get to experience being in the same room as you. There will be no hope for us to meet you, or at least get close to you and maybe even touch you, someday. If you lived in the 21st century, with live streaming and Internet, it would be different. We could at least see you perform and leave you comments you could answer, and maybe feel closer to you even if we aren’t there with you. But for the 1960s, when you abandon your tours, you abandon us completely.
I also ask you to reconsider what you are planning to do with your time once you stop touring. Getting “experimental” in the studio. First, I want to tell you that, if you heard today’s music, you would never, never, never even consider putting any effects on your precious sound and giving other musicians ideas. Second, your música is beautiful the way it is! It’s like amor in its purest form, heart-beating, tingly romance set to music. When I hear your music, I hear you gently whispering “I amor you” in my ear a hundred times. You don’t need to experiment with a sound that is already perfect. Yes, I admit, I loved your later music. I have to. It’s you. There will never be a single song you release that I don’t love. But you didn’t have to branch away from that wonderful simplicity you used to use. You’ll never improve your música that way, if that was what you were thinking. It’s simply not possible to improve on perfection.
And lastly, I’m afraid of what will happen to you when you start changing your entire way of doing things, fiddling with something that, much like your sound, was already perfect and needed no fixing. You left your beautiful life of seeing your fãs around the world and playing with one another while creating the most heartrending música ever made, and once you did, you wanted to dress differently, act differently, play different kinds of music, and pursue different interests. Perhaps any of these things, on its own, wouldn’t be such a big deal. But please, look at what this is doing to you. Look before it’s too late. Can’t you see that this decision to stop touring is the first step down a slippery slope, a slope that will end with heartbreak and disaster for all of us?
You’re taking yourselves apart, piece por piece, and I can’t let you do that. Please reconsider this before it’s too late. Think what you’re doing to yourselves, and think how it would affect you, if you can’t see how it would affect us. Please don’t stop touring. It’s the worst decision you could make for yourselves, your fans, and your band.
Believe me. I have the benefit of hindsight. I know.

amor you forever,
Rubyrings