Another bit of logic to consider.
Let's assume this June email exists and was the deciding factor or the go-ahead in Mike booking shows for his own band after C50, for the sake of discussion.
Wouldn't that dismiss the notion of a "set end date" in some way?
As in, if as had been reported there was a set end point which everyone knew about going into the C50 tour, Mike could have been booking shows *for* any time after that end date of C50, *at* any time. Mike would not have needed an email from Melinda Wilson in June to confirm a set end date where he could start booking his own shows if such a set end date was already firmly established from the beginning, as has been suggested often.
Exactly! Either the email or the "set end date"but not both, because they're contradictory.
Yes, I'm loving this thread because it's cut quite a few heads off the seven-headed snake that is how self-serving people twist and "edit" words to suit their purposes. If this person and his defenders could just let go of the end of 2012, I think all of us wouldn't be giving it a thought. Like Brian (look at his own successful tours w/o the BB's brand before and since), most of us have moved on.
The same with constant comments about some bad periods for various Wilsons (Carl now, eh?). Why is this an issue decades later? I think if a person still needs to project such issues onto others, they should start looking inward. You'd think decades of meditation would have handled that.