Say what you’ll about nu-metal and bands like Staind, however they had been completely fucking huge again within the early 2000s (and a few nonetheless are). It was inconceivable to not activate the radio and listen to one thing like “Exterior” or “It’s Been A Whereas”, so it was simple to assume the band members had been extremely wealthy.
Nevertheless, that will not have been the case — a minimum of not from royalties disbursed by the report firm. Throughout a latest interview with The KiddChris Present on the WEBN radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio, Staind guitarist Mike Mushok revealed that he skilled the same state of affairs to that of Chevelle frontman Pete Loeffler, who stated again in 2021 that his band hadn’t made any cash from report gross sales.
Mushok revealed that he additionally by no means acquired any royalties from the hundreds of thousands of albums Staind bought over time.
“Pay attention, I’ve bought I don’t know what number of hundreds of thousands of data, and I’ve by no means as soon as acquired a royalty from the report firm after — no matter — 20, no matter, 25 years. We nonetheless owe them cash. We haven’t been on the label since — I don’t know — 2011 was the final report we put out on Atlantic, and we nonetheless owe them cash. And hear, I’m not gonna lie — they gave us giant advances, and that’s why [we still owe them money]. However critically, they need to be paid off. However anyhow, I believe it’s estimated, I believe we’re saying, like, one other three years it’ll be paid off and I’ll truly begin making royalties on our data.”
If true, that shit sounds prefer it ought to be unlawful on the very least. However apparently it’s not. Mushok stated ultimately the band will get full rights to their very own music, but it surely’s going to take some time.
“Yeah. So supposedly after 35 years, the masters are presupposed to revert again to you. However I used to be speaking to our lawyer about that, and he stated that no label ever permits you to do this. They attempt to purchase you out and offer you cash to allow them to proceed to personal the masters — except you struggle them.”