Say what you’ll about nu-metal and bands like Staind, however they had been completely fucking large again within the early 2000s (and a few nonetheless are). It was not possible to not activate the radio and listen to one thing like “Outdoors” or “It’s Been A Whereas”, so it was simple to assume the band members had been extremely wealthy.
Nonetheless, that won’t have been the case — a minimum of not from royalties disbursed by the document 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 an identical scenario to that of Chevelle frontman Pete Loeffler, who stated again in 2021 that his band hadn’t made any cash from document gross sales.
Mushok revealed that he additionally by no means obtained any royalties from the hundreds of thousands of albums Staind offered over time.
“Hear, I’ve offered I don’t know what number of hundreds of thousands of data, and I’ve by no means as soon as obtained a royalty from the document 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 document we put out on Atlantic, and we nonetheless owe them cash. And pay attention, I’m not gonna lie — they gave us giant advances, and that’s why [we still owe them money]. However significantly, they need to be paid off. However in any case, I feel it’s estimated, I feel 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 must be unlawful on the very least. However apparently it’s not. Mushok stated finally the band will get full rights to their very own music, however it’s going to take some time.
“Yeah. So supposedly after 35 years, the masters are speculated to revert again to you. However I used to be speaking to our legal professional about that, and he stated that no label ever permits you to try this. They attempt to purchase you out and offer you cash to allow them to proceed to personal the masters — until you combat them.”
