hey so check it out… i’m posting and stuff. how about that?
anyway, i was just doing my thing online… basically what i have done every day for the mostpart while at home…. check xanga, check e-mail, check the forums i talk on… and i came across something interesting on one of the forums…. it was related to Tooth and Nail as a sucky label… so I was reading it.. just to see what was there to learn about them….. anyway, the first thing that I thought was funny was this great quote from Jessie Smith of Zao ;)…. “There are bands on Solidstate that did several tours and made videos but ZAO has sold 200.000 more albums than they did. And we never made one dollar from it. And I am very happy that I have the opportunity to say that I really hate Solidstate and that Brandon Ebel is a thief and a rapist!” “I really mean this! And he makes millions of dollars by raping young bands and using the name of Chirstianity. You can interview any band on solidstate and they will tell you all the same.”
Anyway, then Project 86 was mentioned… and it was a real long post, but, seeing as they are among my favorite bands, I decided it was worth the time 😉 anyway, I found this to be very interesting… so I think that you should read it. I will past the whole thing here (not all is related to T&N, but most is)… at the bottom is a link to the page where it was originally posted:
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| The truth on Truthless Heroes |
| Did you know… 1. That the song “Spy Hunter” is actually about a friend of the band who went to church with Andrew several years ago. The song is not about the friend, but about a quite well-known Pastor who molested him and then covered up the crime through manipulation of the church elder board. 2. That the song “Numb” is Andrew’s reaction to the rape of his girlfriend, which took place during the writing process of their first record. 3. That the irony that is Truthless Heroes runs far deeper than any of you could ever imagine… A. The song “Last Meal” is in fact about Tooth and Nail. When Ebel, Inc. signed the band he discouraged legal cousel and threatened to pull out of the deal if the band sought legal counsel. He subsequently got them to sign for SEVEN records at a royalty rate that the P86 mgmt and legal team would, years later, analyze and determine was bordering on slavery and criminal. The song “Last Meal” is about bringing justice to the situation…see further below. B. The song “Your Heroes Are Dead” is, in fact, about P86s former mgmt team, the supposed “Christian” management team who has singlehandedly taken POD and Blindside from virtual obscurity to what they are today. P86 was politically leveraged out of the equation because said mgmt decided that they were not worthy of the attention necessary to break the band. Money was taken unethically from P86 just prior to the parting of ways, and TH was sacrificed because the band had no manager to work it. This is the main reason that neither TH nor DBL recieved the attention from ATLANTIC it deserved. Yes, management companies have a lot of weight in this business and can actually decide who succeeds, and who fails. The song is about having no support whatsoever from the people who promised it. C. That from the beginning, TH was written as a means to get Atlantic to buy the contract from Tooth and Nail, and thus get P86 out of their horrible scenerio. In many ways the songs, the lyrics, the creativity were controlled by Atlantic. This had an influence on how the songs sounded, the preponderance of melody, and the loss of the “rawness” of DBL. The band responded by writing a record cloaked in metaphor about the powerlessness of being on a major label that controls a large majority of what you do. D. That, ironically, Atlantic did in fact buy Project out their deal after a year and a half of negotiation, sleepless nights, heartache, headache, and betrayal. Said mgmt. almost blew the deal off the day before it was to be finished because they deemed it “not a good enough deal,” though it in fact was a deal that would pay almost double the royalties that they were getting before. Nevermind the fact that said mgmt. had never taken the time to look over the p86 contract for the first three years of their relationship, during which time P86 constantly fought to have their business affairs handled in a timely, ethical, and honest manner, which they never actually were. E. That the reason why P86 will never again tour with POD and Blindside is because said mgmt will never allow it. F. That the hero who dies tragically in the TH story was, in fact, a metaphor for the fact that this record actually WAS sacrificed and killed so that P86 could get out of all these situations. It DID get them out of their mgmt deal and record deals so they could bring the truth, and REAL MUSIC back to you, the fans, where it belongs without all the bullshit. G. That the band cannot expose any of this for legal reasons, threats of lawsuits, and restraining clauses in their former record deals. WHO LAUGHS LAST??? More to come… Before you ask who I am, realize I am not a member of the band, but a very close friend of theirs who has posted this information becuase the truth must be heard. REALIZE IT IS YOU, THE FANS, THAT STAND BEHIND THIS GREAT BAND AND GIVE THEM THE POWER TO STAND FIRM ALONE, WITH YOU, WITHOUT THE INTERFERENCE OF LABELS AND OTHER INDUSTRY WHORES. YOU GIVE THEM THE POWER AND THE NERVE BY SUPPORTING THEM BY ANY AND ALL MEANS AVAILABLE TO YOU. spread this information to all who deserve to hear it… There is a God and he does care about his children when they are oppressed… This will be a day long remembered |
most interesting read. esp. jesse’s comment.
Told you that you would post again
a celebration? sounds good to me… just not tonight, i’m stuck in columbia
anyway, lots of interesting stuff in this post… it really is pathetic how political everything has gotten. oh well. laters
maybe you mom should use her own site to post from.