You have to cut 'vintage' performers a certain amount of slack. At one point Joey Molland in essence agreed w. you,. abandoned the BF name, put out a CD and played shows under his own handle. Public response? Zilch. Nobody (except the most diehard fans) recognized his name. Eventually he (and a zillion other artistes in the same boat) had to surrender pristine ethics to practicality. You could make the same argument as regards names much bigger than Badfinger's. How much does the band that made superdupermegabucks as Fleetwood Mac have to do with the bluesband fronted by Peter Green in the 60s? Today there is an entity out there called The Beach Boys. with not one person on stage with the last name Wilson (!!). If it were just called Mike Love and Acquaintances (I'd say "Friends" but I don't think he has any), how many people would go? Back in (I wanna say) the 1990s, Pete Townshend decided that The Who as an entity had run its course, so he mounted a tour promoted as "Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend play Quadrophenia". Nobody went, presumably because (impossible as it is to believe) nobody recognized their names. About halfway through the US tour playing to half-empty houses, ClearChannel intervened and said F#
