It sucks when issues get messy, particularly when it’s this form of messy. We’ve been watching Jesus Piece unravel over the previous few days, and it hasn’t been a fairly sight. Final Tuesday (August 26), the band introduced their breakup and never too lengthy after, frontman Aaron Heard mentioned he was nonetheless going to carry out beneath the title Je$us Piece. Heard made a number of different feedback, and now the band’s guitarist John Distefano has determined to answer them.
What made DiStefano chunk the bait was Heard’s accusations that the opposite members tried repeatedly to kick him out—one huge level of competition being one occasion the place the band allegedly needed to offer him the axe as a result of he needed to spend Halloween along with his son. Shitty, if true, however it was instantly put to mattress by drummer Luis “Lu” Aponte. DiStefano’s response addressed different points, together with all of the sacrifices made by everybody else, and why Heard would even need to hold enjoying beneath the Je$us Piece if he has such a goddamn disdain for the remainder of the band within the first place.
DiStefano’s full assertion reads as follows:
“@aaronheard That’s unhappy to listen to you bought no love for me anymore regardless of 10 years of JP and a pair years of HTP collectively.
“Are you able to remind me in regards to the time we tried to exchange you while you bought held on the border and I drove again 3 hours to get you at 4am on no sleep?
“And I assume none of us have any household or family members we sacrificed from being on tour both. I simply have a canine, I do know. I want each band that requested us to tour with them took holdidays and birthdays into consideration too. Anybody that’s ever been in a full time touring band needs the identical.
“I truly keep in mind having a dialog final yr with Dave the place you informed me we needs to be touring extra? Didn’t you additionally point out we should always discover a substitute for Lu now that he’s in France?
I figured the household side of the break up could be your solely angle as a result of it hits the toughest with individuals. Now that you simply lied about all that it’ll eternally be disputed no matter what I or the opposite guys say.
“Nonetheless confused as to why you stop to deal with them and determined {that a} month later you had been going to proceed the band with out us.
“I assume when a label dangles cash on the market it’s onerous to say no. It’s humorous since you most likely may’ve began a brand new band and gotten larger than us however you selected to run with the identical title.
It’ll eternally make me unhappy the band went down this fashion. That’s the worst half about this. We most likely would’ve even completed one thing new collectively.
See you round Philly man”