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 not possible to not activate the radio and listen to one thing like “Outdoors” or “It’s Been A Whereas”, so it was straightforward to suppose the band members had been extremely wealthy.
Nonetheless, that won’t have been the case — at the least 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 an identical scenario 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 obtained any royalties from the hundreds of thousands of albums Staind offered over time.
“Pay attention, 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 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 pay attention, I’m not gonna lie — they gave us massive advances, and that’s why [we still owe them money]. However severely, they must 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 really 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 alleged 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 battle them.”
