The saying goes "nothing ventured, nothing gained," right? Here are several instances where bigtime rock and roll artists and bands took chances by going in different directions than the fans were used to, and failed....there's Van Halen, who famously turned to Extreme's Gary Cherone to be their third lead singer after David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar, releasing the Van Halen III album with Cherone, which promptly landed with a thud. The band wouldn't be together working again for 14 more years, when David Lee Roth came back. Then Kiss decided to release a concept album produced by the guy who produced "The Wall" for Pink Floyd, Bob Ezrin--it was about a medieval warrior and was titled "Music from The Elder," which ended up almost universally panned. Even Neil Young, who's known to try lots of different things on his many albums, went too far for most fans when he released "Trans," with tons of synthesizer, and robot sounding vocals....here's more about those releases, and albums that bombed from U2, the Clash, the Stones and more: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/albums-that-almost-killed-a-bands-career/